September 5, 2025 • 23 mins
The iconic line, "It's alive! It's alive!"
is spoken by Dr. Henry Frankenstein (played by Colin Clive) in the 1931 film Frankenstein. This famous line is actually an addition to Mary Shelley's original novel, where the creator reacts with horror and flees from his creation.
Birthdays
Mom, Freddie Mercury, Gordon Harrison Hull
Put It On The List (House shows)
Polka band, Ghast,
Bard with lyre
we need a bard with a lyre to compose a theme song about foot wars that occur over the middle thing on the nook with the bridge about 'can you stop?'
Man-O-Sphere Alternate Names
Shipping Fraud Odyssey
Seemingly endless meaningless Sisyphean conflict
Animated Representation
"It's alive! It's alive!" is spoken by Dr. Henry Frankenstein (played by Colin Clive) in the 1931 film Frankenstein. This famous line is actually an addition to Mary Shelley's original novel.
Outro
00:00:17 - Birthdays
00:04:25 - Put It On The List
00:09:50 - Man-O-Sphere Alternate Names
00:13:57 - Shipping Fraud Odyssey
00:17:11 - Animated Representation
00:22:32 - Outro
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
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(00:00):
Yo. Yo.
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the micro is happening.
Testing one, two, check. Micro, one, two, check.
What's the matter?
We're back. It's my mom's birthday.
(00:22):
Today, it's my mom's birthday.
It's Freddie Mercury's
birthday,
and it's Gordon Harrison
Hall's birthday.
So happy birthday mom, happy birthday Freddie Mercury,
and happy birthday Gordy.
My mom is a twin,
(00:44):
so happy birthday, aunt Jean.
An identical
twin. That's that is weird.
Just in case
you're wondering, it's weird and complicated.
No one really knows
anything,
honestly, about anyone.
I'm the son of an identical
(01:06):
twin mother, and the twins,
No one knows
what's going on exactly.
No one knows.
There's been a lot, a ton of
research into twins and the result
is inconclusive,
no one knows.
(01:29):
So happy birthday mom.
Freddie Mercury, I had
some Queen CDs.
Another one bites the dust.
You know, Freddie Mercury, much respect.
What was Freddie Mercury's
origin? He was, like, Lebanese
or something.
Let me check that out.
(01:51):
What is the origin of Freddie Mercury?
Let's see his Wikipedia
page.
Global fame.
Lead vocalist
and pianist
of the rock band Queen,
Zanzibar
to Parsi
Indian
parents.
(02:12):
They're a Zoroastrian
ethnic group of the Indian
Subcontinent
descended from
Persian
refugees
who migrated to the Indian Subcontinent
during and after the Arab Islamic
conquest of Iran in the seventh
(02:33):
century
when Zoroastrians
were persecuted
by the early Muslims.
That's a mouthful.
So
he's Parsi,
he's from, born in Zanzibar
to Parsee
Indian parents. So that makes sense, but, man,
(02:54):
he's like a multi
Freddie Mercury happy birthday. You're a multi hyphenate
Parsee Indian.
Much respect to you. Another one bites it
does Freddy Mercury, man,
and Gordy,
Gordon Harrison
Hall
was like
an descended
(03:16):
from up state New York apple growing.
He,
he's a painter and artist and creative
person
in New York City. John Santos
introduced
me. I met
him upstate
in the yard
(03:37):
between Jane Virga and Anthony and John's house.
He was a New York hypno zombie. That's
kinda how
he came on my role, but he's like
an artist from New York, and
I've been following him since we were we're
(03:57):
New York since we were New York Hypno
Zombies
upstate.
So happy birthday, Gordy. Man, I could do
minutes on
on the ethnic origins
of Freddie Mercury, the apple growing
origins
of Gordon Hall,
(04:17):
and the twin
origins
in 1948
of my mom and aunt Jean. Happy birthday
to you all.
Put it on the list.
Happy
birthday. Shout out. Happy birthday, Freddie Mercury.
(04:38):
Yeah. Put it on the list. My wife
is into Tig Notaro
because she's repressed.
My wife is repressed
probably.
And so she watches Tig Notaro and she's
like, my life could have been different.
(04:58):
Put it on the list. It's
a thing on the Handsome pod. They come
up with ideas, and they're always telling their
producer to put that on the list.
So it's like ideas,
but things they'll never do.
I like that. So I wanted to put
something on a list. We're always
(05:21):
talking, my family.
And we're like, we need to have a
party with this kind of band, so
and they'll play in in the,
underneath the tree in the backyard.
And,
so the different bands were saying, let's have
a barbecue, we'll invite people over,
(05:44):
we'll barbecue
and we'll have a band.
And what band? So we'll have a folk
band
playing
waltzes, and or the the British
heavy metal band,
Ghast,
from Swansea,
that was originally
(06:05):
named Soul Dust.
They're like an extreme
so from the metal
encyclopedia,
the metal in
Encyclopedia
Metallum
from The UK, from Swansea
and Wales,
They're split up. They were formed in 02/2007.
(06:27):
They record
terrible
cemetery
that I bought for my wife to commute,
listen to some doom
metal.
So let's have them play. We'll have a
poker band playing waltzes
and then Ghast.
Discog says Ghast is the black
(06:48):
doom metal band from Swansea
in Wales,
United Kingdom.
Not to be confused with the Doom Noise
experimental
group, Gassed
from Canada.
So we'll have them play with a polka
band playing like Oompa Loompa,
(07:09):
Polka,
and Doom medal.
And they can do alternating
short sets, like twenty minute sets.
Just to give everyone a break
from the polka or from the black metal,
depending.
Put that on the list.
Another thing that's on the list, we need
(07:32):
a bard with a lyre
to compose
a theme song
about foot wars
that occur over the middle thing on the
nook.
This could be a bard that came by
when we were eating breakfast,
And, because the kids get into an enormous
(07:53):
foot fight
over who gets to put their foot
on the Nook table.
Like, the Nook has one of these, like,
built in tables, and then the
the table comes out of the seat. You
know, it's like
a a diner
booth,
kind of. And so it's like who gets
(08:14):
to put their foot things on the metal,
that comes out of the built in seating.
Our kids
fight over it, like, very often in the
morning.
And so they have foot wars.
So the bard could come by with the
lyre and sing the theme song about foot
(08:36):
wars
that occur over the middle thing on the
nook.
Like an epic,
like, they're wars, like,
you know, like,
ancient
wars
in Europe.
They they they could tell an epic tale
about foot wars, and then the bridge
(08:58):
can be about
can you stop? Because often they'll
the kids will just be at each other
being like, can you stop? Can you stop?
No.
So that could be a bridge
for the Bard.
Okay, so put it on the list. We
need a party with a polka band with
(09:19):
waltzes
and doom
black metal band Ghast,
alternating short set,
and then we also need a bard
that comes over during breakfast or when we're
eating lunch
at the nook and the kids are fighting
over
(09:39):
the metal thing and the bridge is about
can you stop. Okay. Put those on the
list. Musical
shows
at our home.
So put it on the list.
Shout out
to Handsome Pod.
My wife is into it, and that means
(09:59):
I hear it. It's like,
wait, wait, don't tell me,
the thing that I hear.
Speaking of shout outs to female
run podcasts,
and now I'm back on the What's the
Matter with Me podcast, and I don't wanna
be
you know, I was worried about coming back
(10:21):
and being part of something and people being
like, oh, he's part of something.
But now I got an animated
kind of, armor, suit of armor,
And so
now I'm not I'm not I'm part of
something, but I'm also, like, part of something.
(10:42):
Right? Chew on that. Part of something, but
also part of something.
Think about it. I sure will.
So, yeah, shout out to Handsome Pod,
shout out to,
hitting your glasses on the microphone.
It's always a good look. So, yeah, coming
(11:04):
back and being part of something, I didn't
want to be seen
as part
of something. I wanted to be seen as
myself. Like,
I am part of something,
So I came up with,
I came up with some alternatives
for the manosphere.
(11:26):
Manosphere
alternative.
Because we heard a lot about that, the
manosphere.
That it's just really important in our current
American society.
And I was like, who came up with
this manosphere?
Like, and and also we're like the most
(11:46):
powerful
force
is the manosphere.
So I wanted to come with some alternate
names,
manosphere
alternatives.
And now I I gotta give a shout
out to my homie, Joe. I was working
needs up with Joe. Shout outs to Joe.
(12:06):
And, so, Manosphere alternatives.
Who came up with Manosphere?
The NutSac Collective,
the Cock Podium,
The Erection Connection,
The Sausage Party.
How about this?
Community
spelled with two u's, no o.
(12:28):
So it's c u m m u n
I t y, community.
The penis burst.
The most powerful
force in
American
social
discourse.
The Nuttack
collective,
the cock podium,
the erection,
(12:49):
connection,
the sausage
party,
community,
and the penis verse.
Let's hear it for just
some ideas,
some alternate
names.
Shout out, Bridget came up with that community.
(13:10):
That's good.
Bridget is part of
the womanosphere.
Really rolls off the tongue.
Wanna give a shout out to Bridget. She
came up with community.
She has a podcast. She hosts the podcast.
Now Listen Here Woman,
a Murder, She Wrote podcast.
(13:32):
Breaking down each episode of Murder, She Wrote,
deep dive into the worlds of Jessica Beatrice
Fletcher,
renowned mystery
author and infamous
amateur
detective with a rare
gift
for murder.
Now listen here, woman.
Dan Bridgette
(13:53):
hosting a podcast.
Shout
outs.
Woman o Spear.
So one of the reasons I've been really
kinda off, and I'm a I'm even afraid
to really get into this too much,
but I've been the victim of fraud. I
(14:15):
got hacked in one of my shipping providers.
So
I sent a package to my dad in
Florida
in the spring,
and
something happened and my account got hacked.
And
criminals
(14:36):
made $10,000
of fake
shipping charges
on my account.
And, it took me until just
recently
to get an acknowledgement
that it was all fraud
from
the shipper. But so I've been, like,
(14:58):
aggressive once I figured that out and I
had to tease it out of shipping data
and I figured out there was fraud, I
had to really advocate
forcefully,
and I'm still doing it, but I've been
told
that they've cut a check, and they have
(15:20):
acknowledged,
in
in writing that it appears to be fraud.
So
they and that they've closed my account and
got a check
to reimburse.
I wasn't I I paid a couple $100
of fraudulent
(15:40):
stuff, but then I
I realized there was fraud going on, and
there were $10,000
of it
before I could get them to, like, agree
that it it was indeed
fraud. I was, like,
jumping up and down and waving my hands
for months.
(16:00):
And it finally
got forwarded
to a person
who
looking at it, you can obviously see it's
fraud. The shipments
don't have full
name information.
They're these
next day air shipments that I never
use, and so they're very expensive.
(16:23):
And anyway, I'd be I was a victim
of fraud.
I used
the web
to report it,
and it took a long time, but finally,
they've admitted there was fraud
going on my shipping account.
And it it kinda shut down my business
(16:45):
for a while
for, like,
eight months or something,
and I'm still trying to get it back.
But at least I've got
acknowledgment
there was fraud. So that was confusing.
I'm not any sort of expert on that,
but I was like, hey. I didn't send
that.
(17:06):
What's going on? That looks weird, and that
was
how it started.
Something I've been working on for a while
at the same time because, like,
I had a long time to spend on
hold.
Like a lot of people,
I've been seeing
(17:27):
podcasts,
and they're not, like, just audio
files.
They're not just people speaking into mics. What
they are
is
audio,
but they're videos.
You know, I was talking a while back
about video podcasts,
(17:47):
and I I could kind of I thought
that would be a good way to communicate
with people,
and a lot of people are posting on
YouTube
their podcast, and it's really just like a
TV show.
And so I don't really have overhead. I
(18:08):
don't really have people
anyone on my staff. I have no producer.
I do it. It's all DIY.
So I was like, I wanna have video,
but I don't wanna do the lighting. I
don't wanna run the camera.
It would be helpful if I even had
(18:29):
someone to help me produce, but
that's not really what this is about
at its core. What this is is connecting
and providing
representation.
Connecting with
and providing
representation
for
(18:50):
disabled people, and people in wheelchair,
and people who know and love those people.
That's kind of what this is all about.
So
one thing with disabled people, it's when they're
imaged,
when they
they
(19:10):
get put on camera,
they become like a locus
for the viewer
to look at them and kind of project
their values
on them.
And they stop having their own kind of
agency
and, like, you could pity them or you
(19:31):
could say, oh, they're so inspiring
or
and that's called inspiration
porn.
And that's what disabled people
are often
on camera.
So I thought, I wanna my son
is
like really into YouTubers.
(19:54):
You know, at the same time, he's like
watching YouTube like it's TV.
And I thought, there's gotta be a way
to like connect
this.
And I'm an artist.
I went to
CCAC,
California
College of Arts and Crafts,
(20:14):
in the late nineties,
millennium time.
And so I thought I knew a little
bit about
draw like how to use some software.
And I
thought I can make
an an I saw this
software
that called Adobe Character Animator
(20:38):
that you could use your webcam
and
like make yourself
into an animated character.
And I thought, okay this is gonna be
great for my podcast.
This animated
character
can read my podcast
and I don't have to like submit to
(21:00):
the gaze of the camera and the viewer.
I don't have to I can like own
or I can take back ownership
of the way I'm represented
on camera.
And
in using my talent as an artist, my
training really, I'm not super talented, but I
(21:21):
am trained
and supposed to be, I guess. But
anyhow, I
used my training to make an animated
character,
make it work. And now,
the last episode,
starting with the last episode, I'm able to
create
(21:41):
animated
clips where
the character reads my
podcast,
and
that helps me
create
television
like content, which is what kids who are
my son's age watch.
So that's been, like, while I've been trying
(22:03):
to tease out shipping fraud, I've also been
able been trying to figure out how to
be an animator.
And I got somewhere. I made some clips.
Probably, I'll make one of this even. Anyway,
thanks for watching.
Thanks for listening.
It's What's the Matter with Me podcast.
(22:25):
It's like an animated movie
or television
show that my kid watches.
My name is John. You've been listening to
the Whats the Matter With Me podcast. Subscribe
at what'sthematterwithme.0rg.
Send me an email to john@hoppinworld.com,
(22:50):
john@hoppinworld.com.
Send me an email and I'll give you
a shout out.
And you'll
have good things happen in your life.
Yo. Yo.
Testing
the micro is happening.
Testing one, two, check. Micro, one, two, check.
What's the matter?
We're back. It's my mom's birthday.
(00:22):
Today, it's my mom's birthday.
It's Freddie Mercury's
birthday,
and it's Gordon Harrison
Hall's birthday.
So happy birthday mom, happy birthday Freddie Mercury,
and happy birthday Gordy.
My mom is a twin,
(00:44):
so happy birthday, aunt Jean.
An identical
twin. That's that is weird.
Just in case
you're wondering, it's weird and complicated.
No one really knows
anything,
honestly, about anyone.
I'm the son of an identical
(01:06):
twin mother, and the twins,
No one knows
what's going on exactly.
No one knows.
There's been a lot, a ton of
research into twins and the result
is inconclusive,
no one knows.
(01:29):
So happy birthday mom.
Freddie Mercury, I had
some Queen CDs.
Another one bites the dust.
You know, Freddie Mercury, much respect.
What was Freddie Mercury's
origin? He was, like, Lebanese
or something.
Let me check that out.
(01:51):
What is the origin of Freddie Mercury?
Let's see his Wikipedia
page.
Global fame.
Lead vocalist
and pianist
of the rock band Queen,
Zanzibar
to Parsi
Indian
parents.
(02:12):
They're a Zoroastrian
ethnic group of the Indian
Subcontinent
descended from
Persian
refugees
who migrated to the Indian Subcontinent
during and after the Arab Islamic
conquest of Iran in the seventh
(02:33):
century
when Zoroastrians
were persecuted
by the early Muslims.
That's a mouthful.
So
he's Parsi,
he's from, born in Zanzibar
to Parsee
Indian parents. So that makes sense, but, man,
(02:54):
he's like a multi
Freddie Mercury happy birthday. You're a multi hyphenate
Parsee Indian.
Much respect to you. Another one bites it
does Freddy Mercury, man,
and Gordy,
Gordon Harrison
Hall
was like
an descended
(03:16):
from up state New York apple growing.
He,
he's a painter and artist and creative
person
in New York City. John Santos
introduced
me. I met
him upstate
in the yard
(03:37):
between Jane Virga and Anthony and John's house.
He was a New York hypno zombie. That's
kinda how
he came on my role, but he's like
an artist from New York, and
I've been following him since we were we're
(03:57):
New York since we were New York Hypno
Zombies
upstate.
So happy birthday, Gordy. Man, I could do
minutes on
on the ethnic origins
of Freddie Mercury, the apple growing
origins
of Gordon Hall,
(04:17):
and the twin
origins
in 1948
of my mom and aunt Jean. Happy birthday
to you all.
Put it on the list.
Happy
birthday. Shout out. Happy birthday, Freddie Mercury.
(04:38):
Yeah. Put it on the list. My wife
is into Tig Notaro
because she's repressed.
My wife is repressed
probably.
And so she watches Tig Notaro and she's
like, my life could have been different.
(04:58):
Put it on the list. It's
a thing on the Handsome pod. They come
up with ideas, and they're always telling their
producer to put that on the list.
So it's like ideas,
but things they'll never do.
I like that. So I wanted to put
something on a list. We're always
(05:21):
talking, my family.
And we're like, we need to have a
party with this kind of band, so
and they'll play in in the,
underneath the tree in the backyard.
And,
so the different bands were saying, let's have
a barbecue, we'll invite people over,
(05:44):
we'll barbecue
and we'll have a band.
And what band? So we'll have a folk
band
playing
waltzes, and or the the British
heavy metal band,
Ghast,
from Swansea,
that was originally
(06:05):
named Soul Dust.
They're like an extreme
so from the metal
encyclopedia,
the metal in
Encyclopedia
Metallum
from The UK, from Swansea
and Wales,
They're split up. They were formed in 02/2007.
(06:27):
They record
terrible
cemetery
that I bought for my wife to commute,
listen to some doom
metal.
So let's have them play. We'll have a
poker band playing waltzes
and then Ghast.
Discog says Ghast is the black
(06:48):
doom metal band from Swansea
in Wales,
United Kingdom.
Not to be confused with the Doom Noise
experimental
group, Gassed
from Canada.
So we'll have them play with a polka
band playing like Oompa Loompa,
(07:09):
Polka,
and Doom medal.
And they can do alternating
short sets, like twenty minute sets.
Just to give everyone a break
from the polka or from the black metal,
depending.
Put that on the list.
Another thing that's on the list, we need
(07:32):
a bard with a lyre
to compose
a theme song
about foot wars
that occur over the middle thing on the
nook.
This could be a bard that came by
when we were eating breakfast,
And, because the kids get into an enormous
(07:53):
foot fight
over who gets to put their foot
on the Nook table.
Like, the Nook has one of these, like,
built in tables, and then the
the table comes out of the seat. You
know, it's like
a a diner
booth,
kind of. And so it's like who gets
(08:14):
to put their foot things on the metal,
that comes out of the built in seating.
Our kids
fight over it, like, very often in the
morning.
And so they have foot wars.
So the bard could come by with the
lyre and sing the theme song about foot
(08:36):
wars
that occur over the middle thing on the
nook.
Like an epic,
like, they're wars, like,
you know, like,
ancient
wars
in Europe.
They they they could tell an epic tale
about foot wars, and then the bridge
(08:58):
can be about
can you stop? Because often they'll
the kids will just be at each other
being like, can you stop? Can you stop?
No.
So that could be a bridge
for the Bard.
Okay, so put it on the list. We
need a party with a polka band with
(09:19):
waltzes
and doom
black metal band Ghast,
alternating short set,
and then we also need a bard
that comes over during breakfast or when we're
eating lunch
at the nook and the kids are fighting
over
(09:39):
the metal thing and the bridge is about
can you stop. Okay. Put those on the
list. Musical
shows
at our home.
So put it on the list.
Shout out
to Handsome Pod.
My wife is into it, and that means
(09:59):
I hear it. It's like,
wait, wait, don't tell me,
the thing that I hear.
Speaking of shout outs to female
run podcasts,
and now I'm back on the What's the
Matter with Me podcast, and I don't wanna
be
you know, I was worried about coming back
(10:21):
and being part of something and people being
like, oh, he's part of something.
But now I got an animated
kind of, armor, suit of armor,
And so
now I'm not I'm not I'm part of
something, but I'm also, like, part of something.
(10:42):
Right? Chew on that. Part of something, but
also part of something.
Think about it. I sure will.
So, yeah, shout out to Handsome Pod,
shout out to,
hitting your glasses on the microphone.
It's always a good look. So, yeah, coming
(11:04):
back and being part of something, I didn't
want to be seen
as part
of something. I wanted to be seen as
myself. Like,
I am part of something,
So I came up with,
I came up with some alternatives
for the manosphere.
(11:26):
Manosphere
alternative.
Because we heard a lot about that, the
manosphere.
That it's just really important in our current
American society.
And I was like, who came up with
this manosphere?
Like, and and also we're like the most
(11:46):
powerful
force
is the manosphere.
So I wanted to come with some alternate
names,
manosphere
alternatives.
And now I I gotta give a shout
out to my homie, Joe. I was working
needs up with Joe. Shout outs to Joe.
(12:06):
And, so, Manosphere alternatives.
Who came up with Manosphere?
The NutSac Collective,
the Cock Podium,
The Erection Connection,
The Sausage Party.
How about this?
Community
spelled with two u's, no o.
(12:28):
So it's c u m m u n
I t y, community.
The penis burst.
The most powerful
force in
American
social
discourse.
The Nuttack
collective,
the cock podium,
the erection,
(12:49):
connection,
the sausage
party,
community,
and the penis verse.
Let's hear it for just
some ideas,
some alternate
names.
Shout out, Bridget came up with that community.
(13:10):
That's good.
Bridget is part of
the womanosphere.
Really rolls off the tongue.
Wanna give a shout out to Bridget. She
came up with community.
She has a podcast. She hosts the podcast.
Now Listen Here Woman,
a Murder, She Wrote podcast.
(13:32):
Breaking down each episode of Murder, She Wrote,
deep dive into the worlds of Jessica Beatrice
Fletcher,
renowned mystery
author and infamous
amateur
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Now listen here, woman.
Dan Bridgette
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hosting a podcast.
Shout
outs.
Woman o Spear.
So one of the reasons I've been really
kinda off, and I'm a I'm even afraid
to really get into this too much,
but I've been the victim of fraud. I
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got hacked in one of my shipping providers.
So
I sent a package to my dad in
Florida
in the spring,
and
something happened and my account got hacked.
And
criminals
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made $10,000
of fake
shipping charges
on my account.
And, it took me until just
recently
to get an acknowledgement
that it was all fraud
from
the shipper. But so I've been, like,
(14:58):
aggressive once I figured that out and I
had to tease it out of shipping data
and I figured out there was fraud, I
had to really advocate
forcefully,
and I'm still doing it, but I've been
told
that they've cut a check, and they have
(15:20):
acknowledged,
in
in writing that it appears to be fraud.
So
they and that they've closed my account and
got a check
to reimburse.
I wasn't I I paid a couple $100
of fraudulent
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stuff, but then I
I realized there was fraud going on, and
there were $10,000
of it
before I could get them to, like, agree
that it it was indeed
fraud. I was, like,
jumping up and down and waving my hands
for months.
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And it finally
got forwarded
to a person
who
looking at it, you can obviously see it's
fraud. The shipments
don't have full
name information.
They're these
next day air shipments that I never
use, and so they're very expensive.
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And anyway, I'd be I was a victim
of fraud.
I used
the web
to report it,
and it took a long time, but finally,
they've admitted there was fraud
going on my shipping account.
And it it kinda shut down my business
(16:45):
for a while
for, like,
eight months or something,
and I'm still trying to get it back.
But at least I've got
acknowledgment
there was fraud. So that was confusing.
I'm not any sort of expert on that,
but I was like, hey. I didn't send
that.
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What's going on? That looks weird, and that
was
how it started.
Something I've been working on for a while
at the same time because, like,
I had a long time to spend on
hold.
Like a lot of people,
I've been seeing
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podcasts,
and they're not, like, just audio
files.
They're not just people speaking into mics. What
they are
is
audio,
but they're videos.
You know, I was talking a while back
about video podcasts,
(17:47):
and I I could kind of I thought
that would be a good way to communicate
with people,
and a lot of people are posting on
YouTube
their podcast, and it's really just like a
TV show.
And so I don't really have overhead. I
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don't really have people
anyone on my staff. I have no producer.
I do it. It's all DIY.
So I was like, I wanna have video,
but I don't wanna do the lighting. I
don't wanna run the camera.
It would be helpful if I even had
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someone to help me produce, but
that's not really what this is about
at its core. What this is is connecting
and providing
representation.
Connecting with
and providing
representation
for
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disabled people, and people in wheelchair,
and people who know and love those people.
That's kind of what this is all about.
So
one thing with disabled people, it's when they're
imaged,
when they
they
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get put on camera,
they become like a locus
for the viewer
to look at them and kind of project
their values
on them.
And they stop having their own kind of
agency
and, like, you could pity them or you
(19:31):
could say, oh, they're so inspiring
or
and that's called inspiration
porn.
And that's what disabled people
are often
on camera.
So I thought, I wanna my son
is
like really into YouTubers.
(19:54):
You know, at the same time, he's like
watching YouTube like it's TV.
And I thought, there's gotta be a way
to like connect
this.
And I'm an artist.
I went to
CCAC,
California
College of Arts and Crafts,
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in the late nineties,
millennium time.
And so I thought I knew a little
bit about
draw like how to use some software.
And I
thought I can make
an an I saw this
software
that called Adobe Character Animator
(20:38):
that you could use your webcam
and
like make yourself
into an animated character.
And I thought, okay this is gonna be
great for my podcast.
This animated
character
can read my podcast
and I don't have to like submit to
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the gaze of the camera and the viewer.
I don't have to I can like own
or I can take back ownership
of the way I'm represented
on camera.
And
in using my talent as an artist, my
training really, I'm not super talented, but I
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am trained
and supposed to be, I guess. But
anyhow, I
used my training to make an animated
character,
make it work. And now,
the last episode,
starting with the last episode, I'm able to
create
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animated
clips where
the character reads my
podcast,
and
that helps me
create
television
like content, which is what kids who are
my son's age watch.
So that's been, like, while I've been trying
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to tease out shipping fraud, I've also been
able been trying to figure out how to
be an animator.
And I got somewhere. I made some clips.
Probably, I'll make one of this even. Anyway,
thanks for watching.
Thanks for listening.
It's What's the Matter with Me podcast.
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It's like an animated movie
or television
show that my kid watches.
My name is John. You've been listening to
the Whats the Matter With Me podcast. Subscribe
at what'sthematterwithme.0rg.
Send me an email to john@hoppinworld.com,
(22:50):
john@hoppinworld.com.
Send me an email and I'll give you
a shout out.
And you'll
have good things happen in your life.
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