Welcome to the Burling Instincts Podcast.

I'm Dr. Stewart Fishbein, community-based practicing obstetrician and long-time advocate for birth choices.

And I'm Bliss Young, a licensed midwife.

Join us in our conversational style podcast where we talk about everything birth.

Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry, but we're happy that you're here. So here we go.

This is a Soul Fire production.

Just start laughing.

Just start laughing.

Well, you said a four-letter word before we even started, which made me laugh.

But I was looking at our podcast on iTunes or whatever on one of the Apple feeds.

And I noticed that we had a couple of not five star reviews. So I went to search and see what that

was about. And one of them gave us a raving review. She loves the podcast, and she gave us three stars because we use foul

language. Some people don't like that, and it's true. Sometimes we say bad words, because you know,

sometimes the state of the world deserves a four-letter word. Yeah, you know, sometimes the state of the world deserves a four-letter word.

Yeah, you know, it's kind of interesting that that that's how we, you know, your ratings get lowered.

You know, some people don't like women.

Some people don't like men.

Okay?

I don't think they should be giving us three stars because you're a woman and I'm a man.

But on the other hand, we can't, you know, we can't please everybody.

We are who we are.

That's right.

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