Welcome to What’s The Matter With Me?—a podcast where I share what I’m going through living with multiple sclerosis and trigeminal neuralgia. I’m John: disabled wheelchair user, husband, parent, and host.
John talks MS recovery, Section 504 history, naval drones, and media reviews from Fat Joe to David Rodigan. A raw, humorous look at why life is worth living.
23 Sept 2026
Block Party
Hey kids, What’s The Matter With Me? Podcast is back with Episode X.5 “Block Party.”
Yesterday there was a typhoon in Japan. We had the neighborhood block party. The Romanian guy up the street. Mangal grills are Eastern European skewer grills. Yakitori under the train in the Ginza area of Tokyo. Sauerkraut. (More) Recovery from broken ribs, again. Kamasi Washington and Isaiah Collier are each playing at Yoshi’s.
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Block Party
Chapter List
00:00:01 – Intro
00:00:45 – Typhoon Dujuan
00:02:45 – Block Party
00:04:36 – Mangal
00:05:56 – Yakitori
00:08:03 – Sauerkraut
00:08:59 – Recovering
00:09:50 – Kamasi Washington at Yoshi\’s
00:11:49 – Yoshi’s Oakland ADA Seating
00:12:13 – Isaiah Collier
00:13:05 – Wheelchair Community
00:13:38 – Outro
31 Jul 2026
Cooking To Meet Yourself Where You Are
Yewande Komolafe
Pragmatic approaches to accessible cooking in “How Losing My Limbs Turned Me Into a Different Kind of Cook (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/dining/yewande-komolafe-losing-limbs-different-kind-of-cook.html),” an article by chef and food writer Yewande Komolafe and “Cooking at Home: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Recipes (and Love My Microwave): A Cookbook (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57895733-cooking-at-home)” by David Chang and Priya Krishna. Plus, Chris Fleming, Farkle, various and sundry other things.
shoutouts: Rocky, Joe, cousin eric aand tracy, tall john and my mom and to my wife
send me an email and I’ll send you the biggest shout out probably the best shout out
Chris Fleming
chris fleming dance comedy
Farkle
I’m playing a lot of farkle with the family
“By Night In Chile,” Roberto Bolaño
reading with one hand: amazon kindle to avoid damaged book bindings. missing the codex, but reading time is improved
Priya Krishna and David Chang
cooking while disabled – Cooking at Home: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Recipes (And Love My Microwave): A Cookbook by David Chang (Author), Priya Krishna .using no recipe is freeing if the constraints of the recipe are unattainable
Cooking To Meet Yourself Where You Are
Chapter List
00:00:01 – Intro
00:01:24 – Chris Fleming
00:02:00 – Farkle
00:02:22 – Making reading more accessible using a Kindle
00:03:32 – By Night In Chile
00:04:24 – Cooking at Home
00:23:32 – Yewande Komolafe
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YouTube views
3,416
Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
7 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 77 / 100
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Quality
94
Social presence
0
YouTube
68
Engagement
81
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