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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
  • 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
  • New Hope For Argumentative Life

    New Hope For Argumentative Life
    Oct 8 2025
    Saying My Age — Conversation With My Brain — Mortal Husk (Canto XIII) — Fell Against The House — A Place For Us, By Us — Argumentative Life — New Hope For Patients With MS and Other Neurological Disorders — My Son’s Resolution

    Shout outs

    To Rocky, Sandman, Jersey Girl

    A Place For Us, By Us

    ‘A Place for Us, By Us’: San Francisco’s Disability Cultural Center Breaks New Ground

    KQED Story about a first-in-the-nation disability community center in San Francisco, featuring Deborah Kaplan, Alice Wong, and others.

    New Hope

    Crossing the blood-brain barrier

    Wheelchair Breakdown

    My son’s resolution for a perfect world

    This Week’s Selfie

    “New Hope For Argumentative Life” Selfie New Hope For Argumentative Life

    Chapter List

    • 00:00:11 – Saying My Age
    • 00:01:39 – Conversation With My Brain
    • 00:02:36 – Mortal Husk (Canto XIII)
    • 00:04:44 – Fell Against The House
    • 00:06:40 – Shoutouts
    • 00:07:34 – “A Place For Us, By Us” KQED Story
    • 00:13:07 – Argumentative Life
    • 00:14:47 – New Hope For Patients With MS and Other Neurological Disorders
    • 00:22:10 – My Son’s Resolution
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    25 mins
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