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What's The Matter With Me? Podcast

What's The Matter With Me? Podcast

Written by: John Hoppin
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Hey everybody my name is John, I’m 46, disabled wheelchair user, husband, parent, community radio DJ, small business owner, podcaster with multiple sclerosis and trigeminal neuralgia. I made the What’s The Matter With Me? podcast to share what I’m going through.All rights reserved Art Hygiene & Healthy Living
Episodes
  • War

    War
    Mar 6 2026

    In “War,” remembering my dad as an antiwar veteran and trying to make sense of current international relations. Record reviews: Magic Fig, Wet Leg, and Geese. Reading Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s new book “Your Name Here.”

    Magic Fig, “Valerian Tea” Wet Leg, “Moisturizer” Geese, “Getting Killed” When I saw this a moviegoer died in the middle of the picture Your Name Here War

    Chapter List

    • 00:00:00 – Intro
    • 00:00:36 – Broken Wheelchair
    • 00:02:10 – War
    • 00:02:39 – Melian Dialogues
    • 00:03:39 – Guy Died At Born On The Fourth Of July
    • 00:04:56 – Shoutouts
    • 00:05:36 – Magic Fig, Valerian Tea review
    • 00:08:42 – Wet Leg, Moisturizer review
    • 00:11:29 – Geese, Getting Killed review
    • 00:12:52 – Your Name Here book review
    • 00:18:52 – Outro
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    21 mins
  • X.1: “I Regret Almost Everything”

    X.1: “I Regret Almost Everything”
    Feb 19 2026

    In this episode, the season premiere of Season Ten, the podcast returns from a rather long hiatus with a review of “I Regret Almost Everything,” a memoir by New York City restaurant man Keith McNally, leading us into a little meditation on science and humanity.
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    15 mins
  • Imaging The Disabled Body

    Imaging The Disabled Body
    Oct 28 2025
    Intro — Repeat Prints — Imaging the Disabled Body — Know Thyself — Chair Update — New Hope For Argumentative Life — Kids Dox You — Wife Went To Japan — “The Blue Mask” Lou Reed LP — Dad Time — Dad Food — Mom Called Me — John’s Debut — Outro

    Repeat Prints

    JWHMan Repeat #5 New Hope For Argumentative Life https://youtu.be/kj1EedLqXBI Back on the pod to discuss various topics including Saying My Age, A Conversation With My Brain, the Mortal Husk (Canto XIII of Dante’s Inferno), Falling, A Place For Us, By Us, the Argumentative Life, New Hope For Patients With MS and Other Neurological Disorders, and My Son’s Resolution.

    “The Blue Mask” Lou Reed LP

    Lou Reed “THE BLUE MASK: (1982) Lou Reed and Robert Quine

    Imaging the Disabled Body selfie

    Selfie Imaging The Disabled Body

    Chapter List

    • 00:00:01 – Intro
    • 00:01:03 – Repeat Prints
    • 00:03:25 – Imaging the Disabled Body
    • 00:08:06 – Know Thyself
    • 00:08:55 – Chair Update
    • 00:09:16 – New Hope For Argumentative Life Cartoon
    • 00:10:24 – Kids Will Dox You
    • 00:10:37 – Wife Went To Japan
    • 00:12:06 – The Blue Mask LP Lou Reed
    • 00:14:06 – Dad Time
    • 00:16:20 – Dad Food
    • 00:18:05 – Mom Called Me
    • 00:19:05 – Johns Debut
    • 00:19:49 – Outro
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    21 mins
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