February 20, 2024 • 27 mins
In "Wheelchair Dig," a dinner party, shout outs and a family trip to the record store.
Amidst discussions on music finds, including Eminem and Taylor Swift covers, touching on the disappearance of People's Park, radio's outreach to marginalized communities, and the place of 'inspirational' content in disability culture.
Canvas for hot sauce
We had our neighbors over for dinner last night and we made pulled pork sandwiches and coleslaw. The kind of thing just perfect for hot sauce.
All-KFJC Shouts
Shout out to the sandman who wrote in for a fresh fish recommendation in the South Bay. So I gave up all my spots to him?
Shout out to Jersey girl and Max level
There's only one way
Subscribe and get the selfie
Wheelchair dig
https://www.flickr.com/photos/caltex98/46968846481/
Amoeba Records Berkeley
Went record shopping at Amoeba in my wheelchair with the family
Finds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3_SPhBqG2w
I found a 3cd set of Codona on ECM used / don cherry nana vasconcelos and collin wallcott. It's proto-'world music'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5KiSu1-2ko
my son got eminem's "Marshall Mathers 2". he is having emotional problems, so I see why he is connecting with this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JgvVfOfoWI
My wife and my daughter went in on the taylor swift covers cd taylor's version - electropop, powerful music - the frequencies are on blast, it peels your eyelids back and curls your eyelashes. plenty rizz, more drip than expected, pretty obvious why she's a spectacular pop star
people's park is gone - three cops guarding the shipping containers blockading it - bad vibes
Inspiration to who?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K9Gg164Bsw
Is There A Healthy Place For ‘Inspirational’ In Disability Culture? Andrew Pulrang
Disabled people have complicated relationships with a lot of words. But the one word other than “disability” itself disabled people feel most intensely about may be the word “inspirational.”
Andrew Pulrang
Broadcast
Digging in the crates
The radio and other broadcast media is egalitarian in the way it approaches disabled people and unpopular people. The voice on the radio is the companion that they have. Homeless people, weirdos, prisoners, anyone who tunes in can listen
On that note, email me
Digging in the crates
Chapter List
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:01 - We had our neighbors over
00:01:30 - Hoppin Hot Sauce Jingle
00:02:03 - Shout outs
00:02:10 - south bay fresh fish market recommendations
00:03:35 - Jersey girl and Max level
00:04:23 - subscribe and get the selfie
00:05:31 - record shopping at amoeba Berkeley with the family in my wheelchair
00:08:00 - i found codona trilogy on ecm 3cd set used
00:10:54 - my son got eminem
00:13:25 - taylor swift taylor\'s version cd
00:18:11 - people\'s park is gone
00:20:20 - being inspiring is a drag
00:24:25 - voice is on the radio
00:25:46 - outro
People's ParkBerkeleyDisability cultureInspirationalAndrew AngElla YoungRadio broadcastingAmoeba Berkeley (record store)Hoppin Hot SauceRecord shoppingMultiple sclerosisTrigeminal neuralgiaEminemTaylor SwiftJazzHip hop
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(00:00):
- Check, check.
Yeah. Okay. We got the thing working.
You are tuned into what'sthe matter with we podcast,
the God the Dad podcast,the fishing podcast.
We went on a family record
(00:22):
shopping expedition.
More on that in a moment.
Meanwhile, you are tunedinto the what's the Matter
with me podcast.
My name is John. I'm 44 years old.
Husband, father of two smallbusiness owner, radio DJ
(00:45):
podcaster, and I have multiple sclerosis
trigeminal neuralgia.
And I made this podcast toshare what I'm going through.
It's have a lot ofmultifaceted narratives.
We had our neighbors overfor dinner last night.
(01:06):
We had pulled porksandwiches and cold slaw.
Every time I make a pulledpork sandwich, I'm like
the thing hopping hot sauceneeds hopping hot sauce.
I put it on it.
I put hopping hot sauceon my, on my sandwich
and it was the jam.
(01:28):
Speaking of the jam
- Hopping hot sauce.
It's the best hot sauce hopping on sauce.
It's the best sauce in the world.
The world, I'm telling you.
- All right. It was the jingle.
A lot of people say,
(01:49):
I wish the jingle justplayed all the time.
All the time. Everywhere Iwent, I have to go places.
And they aren't playing the jingle.
And I'm like, you shouldn't go there.
You're going places you shouldn't go.
(02:10):
It's the jingle.
Check out hopping hot sauce on Amazon.
Wanna give some shout outswhen just to get us rolling.
Get this thing on the road.Shout out to the Sandman.
He wrote in for fresh fish market
(02:30):
recommendations in the South Bay.
So I gave up all my spots to him.
Not really, not really atthe place on 13th Street,
there's a place out on 13th
where it becomes oldOakland Road in San Jose.
(02:51):
It's like a wholesale fish market.
You go in there, there'sjust plastic tubs.
It is not like a grocery store.
It has no a acument.
It's the floor is wet,there's drains in the floor.
(03:11):
There's tanks with craband fish and lobster.
It's pretty hectic.
I told them Whole Foods wasthe best in the South Bay.
It kind of is that thedowntown Whole Foods on, um,
the Alameda, they have apretty good fish market.
(03:33):
That's not really likegiving up your spots
to be like go to Whole Foods.
But I was like, go to theSecret Wholesale Fish Market.
Shout out to the Sandman.
Shout out to Jerseygirl and Max level two.
(03:53):
They, they wrote meabout a mayhem special on
KFJC.
I think I do want to get involved in it.
They sent me emails, shoutouts. They sent me emails.
john@hopinworld.com.
Jhn at at H-O-P-P-I-N-W-O-R-L
(04:17):
d.com.
You send me an email,I'll send you a shout out.
Possibly, possibly. Come on. You know it.
Possibly the best shoutout anyone's ever had
or anyone will have
or anyone could have go to.
What's the matter withme.org? Hit subscribe.
(04:42):
Subscribe to the podcastand get the selfie.
You get it in your emailbox. That's really all it is.
I'm just trying to propagate the selfie.
So subscribing.
You'll get the selfie everytime there's a new episode,
you'll get an email.
(05:03):
And in that episode it'll be a selfie.
I, I reminder, I gottatake the selfie right now.
Can't forget to takethe selfie. Let's see.
Here we go. How welooking? How we looking?
I know I take the selfie here.
(05:23):
I should bring my comb out here.
I know there's going to be a selfie.
Let me get myself all together.
Can comb my hair with this stick?
Yeah, let's get that selfie.Its time. Yeah. Okay.
Mission accomplished. So shout outs.
(05:44):
I went record shopping withmy family on the weekend.
I'm always, every weekend I'm like,
let's go record shopping.
What do you want to do? Iwant to go record shopping.
So I went record, recordshopping at Amoeba Berkeley
with the family in my wheelchair.
(06:06):
Not for anything inparticular, just to kind
of browse, you know, Iwanted to just go out,
see the people.
Telegraph Avenue. We went to Telegraph.
It was a scene. It smelled like incense.
Where did we park? I thinkwe parked on this street.
(06:30):
Yeah, we parked on thisstreet. We street parking.
We took the wheelchairwith the wheelchair lift.
So all that worked out.We got into amoeba.
It's kinda, they, they shoppingamoeba isn't great because,
and record shopping inthe wheelchair just isn't
(06:53):
that great because the stacks are
above your eye level.
So you can barely peek into the CDs
and see what it barely.
And I need help seeing what's in the back
of the, I, you know, I canonly shop like the front half,
(07:18):
front two thirds of thestack, what's in the back.
I am kinda out outta luck.
But they have the featured records
and the featured CDs featured stuff is
above those stacks kind of in the back.
(07:38):
And I can see that. So a little bit.
I get to, and that'swhere I've been shopping
for quite a while now.
'cause I like to go to the record store
and see what the people
who work there are like pulling out
and amoeba the jazz section.
(08:00):
It's a lot like my JohnColtrane, miles Davis, they,
they take out, it's like there's no other,
no other artist you canfind except those two.
But actually I found, Ifound it Dawn Cherry cd
and it was up there
(08:21):
before the, all the Coltran kicked in
and Dawn Cherry.
And the thing that caughtmy eye was it had Nana
Vasconcellos, who's a
Brazilian percussionist.
Um, he plays Barba
and like all the Brazilian percussion
(08:44):
instruments are pretty in.
Interesting. I think hedied a couple years ago.
I think it's fair
to say he's like a master percussionist.
So I was like, okay, cool. Dawn Cherry.
Dawn Cherry is amulti-instrumentalist horn
and reed player, atrumpet flute, you know,
(09:09):
he's like in it with Colin Walcott,
who's like a dude, whitedude playing sitar.
That's like an easy wayand gongs and stuff.
So it's like proto worldmusic. They were all into that.
Dawn Cherry, none of us, Conello
(09:31):
and Colin Walcott, they'regetting together kind
of jamming with this expanded
world music kind of instrumentation.
So the band is called Kona, which is like
Colin Don Nana
(09:53):
Kodo Kona.
And it's, it was a three cd, three CD set
and it was on ECM, which islike, they have a lot of euro
jazz and kind of froggy jazz and stuff.
So interesting label.
(10:15):
And the artist that nana gon sold me,
and it was a three CDs that used, so the
Kona Kona trilogy
and it's um, out ofstock outta print at ECM.
They have seven copies of it on dis cogs
(10:39):
and the cheapest one is $37.
I think I got the thisfor 26 bucks at Amoeba.
So I was like, okay, I'm getting a deal.
So I was like, okay, I'll pick that up.
ECM three CD set, Brazilian percussionist.
(11:00):
I'm in code.
Maybe I can find a a, a YouTube video.
My son was all into hip hopas soon as we got there.
He wanted, you know,
and I, I told him whenI was a kid, my parents
didn't buy hip hop for meif he had had a parental
(11:23):
advisory label on it,which is all of them.
When that's when he told me.
And I'm like, yes, you'reright. Like I remember that.
So we got around it.
We're always kind of havinglegal work around in my family
to make things work.
You gotta kinda fudge the edges sometime.
(11:47):
He didn't buy it. I bought it. Okay.
So I got the Marshall Mathers to
CD by Eminem.
He picked that out.That's what was available.
Used for like seven bucks.
It wasn't really aboutwhat you could, it was,
(12:07):
I told him, you gotta look at what's used.
That's what you can get.
You make a dollar 50 a week.
So I bought it for him, you know,
because I, I had alreadypreviously said that bit about
won't get it if it's gotthe parental advisory
(12:27):
and you know, I was like,how do I get it out of that?
Having said that, so I gotit for him. He was happy.
I think it probably has some adult themes,
but as far as rapper rappers go,
Eminem isn't as bad as it as it could be.
(12:51):
That's, uh, the way I looked out at it
and I was like, okay, atleast there's some level of
straight honest dealing here with Eminem
that you might not getwith like Nelly, right?
I don't wanna have talk bad on Nelly,
(13:12):
but it seems like Eminem might have
less pop.
I'm not sure where I'm going here.
I'm trying to justifywhy I bought this record.
I did it to make my son happy.
He was happy briefly.
And then a an hour
(13:34):
or two later he was freakingout about something.
Okay. So my wife and my daughterwere all, were also there
and it's like, I got a cd.
My son got a cd so my wife
and my daughter went in on
and I, you know, they, I I am not sure
(13:55):
how they negotiated this.
I was busy dropping the jazz
and hip hop sections.
My wife and my daughterwent in on the Taylor Swift
cover CD Taylor's version.
She does a bunch of covers
and then in parentheseswrites Taylor's version
(14:19):
after each one.
And you know, she's been allover the TV and the media.
It's like, don't you
remember when Cat Powerdid a covers record?
She called it the covers record,
but it's not like every song she was like
Cat Power's version.
(14:41):
Like that's kinda understood.
So I thought that was somethinga little odd to insist upon
writing that it was your version.
Maybe there's more to that.
And also I didn't wannahit on Taylor Swift
(15:01):
because of the propensity of men
to tear down women, uh,
in every aspect.
So a little bit, maybe I'lljust let her go away with it.
Get away with it. And soTaylor's version, who cares?
(15:21):
I put it on the CD player onthe way home, we listen to it.
It's like electro pop.It's powerful music.
That's what I thought.
The frequencies of the movie,of the, the frequencies
of the song, the way it's mastered,
they're just like on ahundred percent blast mode.
(15:46):
They're very strong, very loud.
It's pop music, but it likepeels your eyelids back
and curls your eyelashes.
It's powerful. And so I thoughtthat was something cool.
Like I think that peoplewho listen to that kind
of music and inhabit thatspace and feel powerful
(16:10):
and like I said about men constantly
tearing down women inevery aspect all the time,
that's probably good to be powerful.
And it probably, I can'texperience what that feels like,
but I was like, dang,this Electropop is like
(16:32):
take no prisoners.
Electropop not looking back.
We're gonna have a dance party
and we won't look back powerful.
Join us in the dance party
or we'll rip your bodyto shreds when I say it.
It'll peel your eyelidsback and curl your eyelashes
(16:54):
or else get the hell out of here.
It's Taylor's version. Taylor's version.
Plenty Riz.
I was trying to like throw around
young people slang at my Super Bowl party
and everybody was like, we'rejust going to ignore you.
So I'll do it here where it'sa one-sided conversation.
(17:18):
Taylor Swift has Riz
and she has more drip than I expected.
And I think guys thataren't feeling Taylor Swift
or Sus alright, alright.
Enough, it's, it's obvious,pretty obvious why she's a major
spectacular pop star Taylor Swift.
(17:44):
I was nervous,, I wasnervous about that segment
because if I screwed upmy Taylor Swift review,
the internet would kill me.
I'm pretty sure. I wonder if there
are people who will listen to this just
(18:06):
to make sure I don't talkany smack about Taylor Swift.
Well the thing is, I can, I liked it.
I thought, I thought dang,
but I did think, dang, this is powerful.
And it made me think how menare always tearing down women.
So we turned up the block from Telegraph
(18:29):
right after Rasputin.
We turned up the block and like it's hard.
I, I spent a lot of time on Telegraph,
but I hardly recognize it andI realized what was going on.
People's Park was gone.
I didn't even know what sideof the street people's park was
(18:52):
'cause I don't recognize rec.
Why do we keep saying that?
I don't recognize things,the things they built
across the street from People's Park.
So people's park is gone,
but whatever's across thestreet it's different.
(19:13):
And they have these shipping containers
blockading the sidewalkwhere people's park was
and there's cops hanging out.
There were three cops guardingthe shipping containers,
blockading Peoples Park.
And it had bad vibes. Like Iwas over there a little bit.
(19:36):
We didn't go all the way,I didn't say anything.
We didn't go up the blog.
We went part of the way
and then I was like, someone'sgonna throw like a Molotov
cocktail and I'm in my wheelchairand I'm going to get burnt
and pepper sprayed.
Like definitely the personin the wheelchair is getting
(19:57):
pepper sprayed 'cause it's musty tv.
I didn't hang out in people's park.
People's park was already like
homeless people were living in the trees.
There was kind of thestage we, we really used it
(20:18):
just to cut across.
We would, that's Peoples Park was useful
for cutting across, but not anymore.
It's a bad scene.
Bad vibes, BV Berkeley, bad vibes.
Being inspiring all thetime is kind of a drag
when you are a disabledperson, everyone is like
(20:43):
expecting you to give some angle.
That's like inspiration.
I kind of was thinking about that,
about disability inspiration
and I, I googled that idea.
I came up with this article from Forbes
from April, 2022 by Andrew
(21:07):
Andrew Ang.
He writes, in 2014,
disabled Australiandisability activist Ella Young
gave a TED talk titled,I'm Not Your Inspiration,
thank you very much.
It has become an essentialtext of disability culture
(21:32):
and a touchstone forpeople with disabilities
struggling to describe their experiences.
Young's presentation
and even just the title
put into tart succinctwords, something people
with disabilities all overthe world instinctively feel,
(21:56):
but often can't explain.
Disabled people havecomplicated relationships
with a lot of words,
but the one other, the disability itself
disabled people feel most intensely about
maybe the word inspirational.
(22:19):
Skipping down about whythe word inspirational
is a problem rather than conveying
admiration and respect.
Inspirational tends tosuggest condescension,
condescension and sentimentality.
(22:40):
It's not just the word itself,
but the tone of voice so often used
to articulate it.
Vague, dreamy, childish.
It seems to offer disabled people's lives
to supply emotional satisfaction
(23:00):
for non-disabled people.
Why do people continue to use the word?
There are good reasons too.
Sometimes they literally meanit. It's a word they know.
In order to compliment adisabled person, instead
(23:20):
of calling a disabledperson inspirational,
use more specific adjectives that refer
to the person's uniqueand positive qualities.
Not just broad stereotypes ofdisabled people in general.
If you find inspirational on the tip
(23:43):
of your tongue when discussing people
with disabilities, stop and think.
You don't necessarilyhave to censor yourself,
but be aware that rightly
or wrongly, the wordis at best problematic
and it worst toxic formany disabled people.
(24:06):
And then maybe think ofsomething more specific, personal
and original to say.
So I'll put a link to thatkind of interesting thinking.
Is there a healthy place for inspirational
and disability culture by Andrew Pol?
Rang
(24:27):
April 21st, 2022 in Forbes.
Yeah, that can be a drag.
But I was thinking about the radio.
You know, I was on the radio
and it, I really connectedwith the listener
in the radio, it's four disabled people,
(24:50):
unpopular people.
The voice on the radio, you're talking
and the listener is hearing you.
It's like a one-on-one.It's just like this.
It's broadcasting.
It's a one-on-oneconversation with the listener
and for disabled people, unpopular people,
(25:11):
weirdos, homeless people, people in jail,
anyone who tunes in can listen.
That's kind of the same with this podcast.
If you're able to, you can listen.
It's democratic in that way.
And anyone who wants to, you can listen.
(25:35):
Whoever you are, you canlisten. You're welcome here.
It's in the equal space.
With that said, I gottaput it in here. Email me.
I'll give you a shout out. The best.
Shout out john@hopinworld.com.
Huge shout out JH Agent at
(25:55):
H-O-P-P-I-N-W-O-R-L d.com.
Thanks for tuning in.
I went record shopping,a family record shopping
expedition, an incursion in Berkeley.
We had our neighbors over forover for dinner last night.
(26:17):
It was pretty good.
Pulled pork sandwicheswith hopping hot sauce.
Shout out Sandman jersey Girl Max level.
Subscribe, get the selfie.
I went record shopping at Amoeba
with the family in my wheelchair.
I got Kona, my son got m and m.
(26:39):
My wife and daughter got Taylor Swift.
There's no more People's Park,but the bad vibes are there.
Being inspiring. Kind of complicated.
The radio broadcasting, it's democratic.
Everyone is welcome.
Pull up a chair, gatherround, send me an email.
(27:01):
Thanks for tuning in
to what's the Matter With Me podcast.
I'll check you next time.
- Check, check.
Yeah. Okay. We got the thing working.
You are tuned into what'sthe matter with we podcast,
the God the Dad podcast,the fishing podcast.
We went on a family record
(00:22):
shopping expedition.
More on that in a moment.
Meanwhile, you are tunedinto the what's the Matter
with me podcast.
My name is John. I'm 44 years old.
Husband, father of two smallbusiness owner, radio DJ
(00:45):
podcaster, and I have multiple sclerosis
trigeminal neuralgia.
And I made this podcast toshare what I'm going through.
It's have a lot ofmultifaceted narratives.
We had our neighbors overfor dinner last night.
(01:06):
We had pulled porksandwiches and cold slaw.
Every time I make a pulledpork sandwich, I'm like
the thing hopping hot sauceneeds hopping hot sauce.
I put it on it.
I put hopping hot sauceon my, on my sandwich
and it was the jam.
(01:28):
Speaking of the jam
- Hopping hot sauce.
It's the best hot sauce hopping on sauce.
It's the best sauce in the world.
The world, I'm telling you.
- All right. It was the jingle.
A lot of people say,
(01:49):
I wish the jingle justplayed all the time.
All the time. Everywhere Iwent, I have to go places.
And they aren't playing the jingle.
And I'm like, you shouldn't go there.
You're going places you shouldn't go.
(02:10):
It's the jingle.
Check out hopping hot sauce on Amazon.
Wanna give some shout outswhen just to get us rolling.
Get this thing on the road.Shout out to the Sandman.
He wrote in for fresh fish market
(02:30):
recommendations in the South Bay.
So I gave up all my spots to him.
Not really, not really atthe place on 13th Street,
there's a place out on 13th
where it becomes oldOakland Road in San Jose.
(02:51):
It's like a wholesale fish market.
You go in there, there'sjust plastic tubs.
It is not like a grocery store.
It has no a acument.
It's the floor is wet,there's drains in the floor.
(03:11):
There's tanks with craband fish and lobster.
It's pretty hectic.
I told them Whole Foods wasthe best in the South Bay.
It kind of is that thedowntown Whole Foods on, um,
the Alameda, they have apretty good fish market.
(03:33):
That's not really likegiving up your spots
to be like go to Whole Foods.
But I was like, go to theSecret Wholesale Fish Market.
Shout out to the Sandman.
Shout out to Jerseygirl and Max level two.
(03:53):
They, they wrote meabout a mayhem special on
KFJC.
I think I do want to get involved in it.
They sent me emails, shoutouts. They sent me emails.
john@hopinworld.com.
Jhn at at H-O-P-P-I-N-W-O-R-L
(04:17):
d.com.
You send me an email,I'll send you a shout out.
Possibly, possibly. Come on. You know it.
Possibly the best shoutout anyone's ever had
or anyone will have
or anyone could have go to.
What's the matter withme.org? Hit subscribe.
(04:42):
Subscribe to the podcastand get the selfie.
You get it in your emailbox. That's really all it is.
I'm just trying to propagate the selfie.
So subscribing.
You'll get the selfie everytime there's a new episode,
you'll get an email.
(05:03):
And in that episode it'll be a selfie.
I, I reminder, I gottatake the selfie right now.
Can't forget to takethe selfie. Let's see.
Here we go. How welooking? How we looking?
I know I take the selfie here.
(05:23):
I should bring my comb out here.
I know there's going to be a selfie.
Let me get myself all together.
Can comb my hair with this stick?
Yeah, let's get that selfie.Its time. Yeah. Okay.
Mission accomplished. So shout outs.
(05:44):
I went record shopping withmy family on the weekend.
I'm always, every weekend I'm like,
let's go record shopping.
What do you want to do? Iwant to go record shopping.
So I went record, recordshopping at Amoeba Berkeley
with the family in my wheelchair.
(06:06):
Not for anything inparticular, just to kind
of browse, you know, Iwanted to just go out,
see the people.
Telegraph Avenue. We went to Telegraph.
It was a scene. It smelled like incense.
Where did we park? I thinkwe parked on this street.
(06:30):
Yeah, we parked on thisstreet. We street parking.
We took the wheelchairwith the wheelchair lift.
So all that worked out.We got into amoeba.
It's kinda, they, they shoppingamoeba isn't great because,
and record shopping inthe wheelchair just isn't
(06:53):
that great because the stacks are
above your eye level.
So you can barely peek into the CDs
and see what it barely.
And I need help seeing what's in the back
of the, I, you know, I canonly shop like the front half,
(07:18):
front two thirds of thestack, what's in the back.
I am kinda out outta luck.
But they have the featured records
and the featured CDs featured stuff is
above those stacks kind of in the back.
(07:38):
And I can see that. So a little bit.
I get to, and that'swhere I've been shopping
for quite a while now.
'cause I like to go to the record store
and see what the people
who work there are like pulling out
and amoeba the jazz section.
(08:00):
It's a lot like my JohnColtrane, miles Davis, they,
they take out, it's like there's no other,
no other artist you canfind except those two.
But actually I found, Ifound it Dawn Cherry cd
and it was up there
(08:21):
before the, all the Coltran kicked in
and Dawn Cherry.
And the thing that caughtmy eye was it had Nana
Vasconcellos, who's a
Brazilian percussionist.
Um, he plays Barba
and like all the Brazilian percussion
(08:44):
instruments are pretty in.
Interesting. I think hedied a couple years ago.
I think it's fair
to say he's like a master percussionist.
So I was like, okay, cool. Dawn Cherry.
Dawn Cherry is amulti-instrumentalist horn
and reed player, atrumpet flute, you know,
(09:09):
he's like in it with Colin Walcott,
who's like a dude, whitedude playing sitar.
That's like an easy wayand gongs and stuff.
So it's like proto worldmusic. They were all into that.
Dawn Cherry, none of us, Conello
(09:31):
and Colin Walcott, they'regetting together kind
of jamming with this expanded
world music kind of instrumentation.
So the band is called Kona, which is like
Colin Don Nana
(09:53):
Kodo Kona.
And it's, it was a three cd, three CD set
and it was on ECM, which islike, they have a lot of euro
jazz and kind of froggy jazz and stuff.
So interesting label.
(10:15):
And the artist that nana gon sold me,
and it was a three CDs that used, so the
Kona Kona trilogy
and it's um, out ofstock outta print at ECM.
They have seven copies of it on dis cogs
(10:39):
and the cheapest one is $37.
I think I got the thisfor 26 bucks at Amoeba.
So I was like, okay, I'm getting a deal.
So I was like, okay, I'll pick that up.
ECM three CD set, Brazilian percussionist.
(11:00):
I'm in code.
Maybe I can find a a, a YouTube video.
My son was all into hip hopas soon as we got there.
He wanted, you know,
and I, I told him whenI was a kid, my parents
didn't buy hip hop for meif he had had a parental
(11:23):
advisory label on it,which is all of them.
When that's when he told me.
And I'm like, yes, you'reright. Like I remember that.
So we got around it.
We're always kind of havinglegal work around in my family
to make things work.
You gotta kinda fudge the edges sometime.
(11:47):
He didn't buy it. I bought it. Okay.
So I got the Marshall Mathers to
CD by Eminem.
He picked that out.That's what was available.
Used for like seven bucks.
It wasn't really aboutwhat you could, it was,
(12:07):
I told him, you gotta look at what's used.
That's what you can get.
You make a dollar 50 a week.
So I bought it for him, you know,
because I, I had alreadypreviously said that bit about
won't get it if it's gotthe parental advisory
(12:27):
and you know, I was like,how do I get it out of that?
Having said that, so I gotit for him. He was happy.
I think it probably has some adult themes,
but as far as rapper rappers go,
Eminem isn't as bad as it as it could be.
(12:51):
That's, uh, the way I looked out at it
and I was like, okay, atleast there's some level of
straight honest dealing here with Eminem
that you might not getwith like Nelly, right?
I don't wanna have talk bad on Nelly,
(13:12):
but it seems like Eminem might have
less pop.
I'm not sure where I'm going here.
I'm trying to justifywhy I bought this record.
I did it to make my son happy.
He was happy briefly.
And then a an hour
(13:34):
or two later he was freakingout about something.
Okay. So my wife and my daughterwere all, were also there
and it's like, I got a cd.
My son got a cd so my wife
and my daughter went in on
and I, you know, they, I I am not sure
(13:55):
how they negotiated this.
I was busy dropping the jazz
and hip hop sections.
My wife and my daughterwent in on the Taylor Swift
cover CD Taylor's version.
She does a bunch of covers
and then in parentheseswrites Taylor's version
(14:19):
after each one.
And you know, she's been allover the TV and the media.
It's like, don't you
remember when Cat Powerdid a covers record?
She called it the covers record,
but it's not like every song she was like
Cat Power's version.
(14:41):
Like that's kinda understood.
So I thought that was somethinga little odd to insist upon
writing that it was your version.
Maybe there's more to that.
And also I didn't wannahit on Taylor Swift
(15:01):
because of the propensity of men
to tear down women, uh,
in every aspect.
So a little bit, maybe I'lljust let her go away with it.
Get away with it. And soTaylor's version, who cares?
(15:21):
I put it on the CD player onthe way home, we listen to it.
It's like electro pop.It's powerful music.
That's what I thought.
The frequencies of the movie,of the, the frequencies
of the song, the way it's mastered,
they're just like on ahundred percent blast mode.
(15:46):
They're very strong, very loud.
It's pop music, but it likepeels your eyelids back
and curls your eyelashes.
It's powerful. And so I thoughtthat was something cool.
Like I think that peoplewho listen to that kind
of music and inhabit thatspace and feel powerful
(16:10):
and like I said about men constantly
tearing down women inevery aspect all the time,
that's probably good to be powerful.
And it probably, I can'texperience what that feels like,
but I was like, dang,this Electropop is like
(16:32):
take no prisoners.
Electropop not looking back.
We're gonna have a dance party
and we won't look back powerful.
Join us in the dance party
or we'll rip your bodyto shreds when I say it.
It'll peel your eyelidsback and curl your eyelashes
(16:54):
or else get the hell out of here.
It's Taylor's version. Taylor's version.
Plenty Riz.
I was trying to like throw around
young people slang at my Super Bowl party
and everybody was like, we'rejust going to ignore you.
So I'll do it here where it'sa one-sided conversation.
(17:18):
Taylor Swift has Riz
and she has more drip than I expected.
And I think guys thataren't feeling Taylor Swift
or Sus alright, alright.
Enough, it's, it's obvious,pretty obvious why she's a major
spectacular pop star Taylor Swift.
(17:44):
I was nervous,
because if I screwed upmy Taylor Swift review,
the internet would kill me.
I'm pretty sure. I wonder if there
are people who will listen to this just
(18:06):
to make sure I don't talkany smack about Taylor Swift.
Well the thing is, I can, I liked it.
I thought, I thought dang,
but I did think, dang, this is powerful.
And it made me think how menare always tearing down women.
So we turned up the block from Telegraph
(18:29):
right after Rasputin.
We turned up the block and like it's hard.
I, I spent a lot of time on Telegraph,
but I hardly recognize it andI realized what was going on.
People's Park was gone.
I didn't even know what sideof the street people's park was
(18:52):
'cause I don't recognize rec.
Why do we keep saying that?
I don't recognize things,the things they built
across the street from People's Park.
So people's park is gone,
but whatever's across thestreet it's different.
(19:13):
And they have these shipping containers
blockading the sidewalkwhere people's park was
and there's cops hanging out.
There were three cops guardingthe shipping containers,
blockading Peoples Park.
And it had bad vibes. Like Iwas over there a little bit.
(19:36):
We didn't go all the way,I didn't say anything.
We didn't go up the blog.
We went part of the way
and then I was like, someone'sgonna throw like a Molotov
cocktail and I'm in my wheelchairand I'm going to get burnt
and pepper sprayed.
Like definitely the personin the wheelchair is getting
(19:57):
pepper sprayed 'cause it's musty tv.
I didn't hang out in people's park.
People's park was already like
homeless people were living in the trees.
There was kind of thestage we, we really used it
(20:18):
just to cut across.
We would, that's Peoples Park was useful
for cutting across, but not anymore.
It's a bad scene.
Bad vibes, BV Berkeley, bad vibes.
Being inspiring all thetime is kind of a drag
when you are a disabledperson, everyone is like
(20:43):
expecting you to give some angle.
That's like inspiration.
I kind of was thinking about that,
about disability inspiration
and I, I googled that idea.
I came up with this article from Forbes
from April, 2022 by Andrew
(21:07):
Andrew Ang.
He writes, in 2014,
disabled Australiandisability activist Ella Young
gave a TED talk titled,I'm Not Your Inspiration,
thank you very much.
It has become an essentialtext of disability culture
(21:32):
and a touchstone forpeople with disabilities
struggling to describe their experiences.
Young's presentation
and even just the title
put into tart succinctwords, something people
with disabilities all overthe world instinctively feel,
(21:56):
but often can't explain.
Disabled people havecomplicated relationships
with a lot of words,
but the one other, the disability itself
disabled people feel most intensely about
maybe the word inspirational.
(22:19):
Skipping down about whythe word inspirational
is a problem rather than conveying
admiration and respect.
Inspirational tends tosuggest condescension,
condescension and sentimentality.
(22:40):
It's not just the word itself,
but the tone of voice so often used
to articulate it.
Vague, dreamy, childish.
It seems to offer disabled people's lives
to supply emotional satisfaction
(23:00):
for non-disabled people.
Why do people continue to use the word?
There are good reasons too.
Sometimes they literally meanit. It's a word they know.
In order to compliment adisabled person, instead
(23:20):
of calling a disabledperson inspirational,
use more specific adjectives that refer
to the person's uniqueand positive qualities.
Not just broad stereotypes ofdisabled people in general.
If you find inspirational on the tip
(23:43):
of your tongue when discussing people
with disabilities, stop and think.
You don't necessarilyhave to censor yourself,
but be aware that rightly
or wrongly, the wordis at best problematic
and it worst toxic formany disabled people.
(24:06):
And then maybe think ofsomething more specific, personal
and original to say.
So I'll put a link to thatkind of interesting thinking.
Is there a healthy place for inspirational
and disability culture by Andrew Pol?
Rang
(24:27):
April 21st, 2022 in Forbes.
Yeah, that can be a drag.
But I was thinking about the radio.
You know, I was on the radio
and it, I really connectedwith the listener
in the radio, it's four disabled people,
(24:50):
unpopular people.
The voice on the radio, you're talking
and the listener is hearing you.
It's like a one-on-one.It's just like this.
It's broadcasting.
It's a one-on-oneconversation with the listener
and for disabled people, unpopular people,
(25:11):
weirdos, homeless people, people in jail,
anyone who tunes in can listen.
That's kind of the same with this podcast.
If you're able to, you can listen.
It's democratic in that way.
And anyone who wants to, you can listen.
(25:35):
Whoever you are, you canlisten. You're welcome here.
It's in the equal space.
With that said, I gottaput it in here. Email me.
I'll give you a shout out. The best.
Shout out john@hopinworld.com.
Huge shout out JH Agent at
(25:55):
H-O-P-P-I-N-W-O-R-L d.com.
Thanks for tuning in.
I went record shopping,a family record shopping
expedition, an incursion in Berkeley.
We had our neighbors over forover for dinner last night.
(26:17):
It was pretty good.
Pulled pork sandwicheswith hopping hot sauce.
Shout out Sandman jersey Girl Max level.
Subscribe, get the selfie.
I went record shopping at Amoeba
with the family in my wheelchair.
I got Kona, my son got m and m.
(26:39):
My wife and daughter got Taylor Swift.
There's no more People's Park,but the bad vibes are there.
Being inspiring. Kind of complicated.
The radio broadcasting, it's democratic.
Everyone is welcome.
Pull up a chair, gatherround, send me an email.
(27:01):
Thanks for tuning in
to what's the Matter With Me podcast.
I'll check you next time.
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