Episodes

Welcome to the Season Finale Welcome to the What’s The Matter With Me? Podcast, Episode 33: A Scrap Of A Dad Is Still A Dad. It’s the NBD season finale. My name is John, I’m 38 years old, husband, father of two, small business owner, radio DJ, podcaster, and I have multiple sclerosis so I made this podcast to share what I’m going through. What’s The Matter With Me? is a MS podcast and it’s also about other things. I am not a medical professional and you should not take this for medical advice. ...

Episode 23 Thank you for tuning in to the What’s The Matter With Me? Podcast. In Episode 23 Roll With The Punches I fall asleep at the KFJC meeting, hang in the yard, experience intense Trigeminal neuralgia pain, and read an old song lyric I wrote called “Roll With The Punches.” Fatigue I fell asleep at the KFJC weekly station meeting and that was distressing. I woke up and everyone was looking at me. It shook me and later in the evening I fell off the station couch awkwardly. I go to KFJC to...

Welcome to What’s The Matter With Me? Episode 21, “Complicated feelings about Federal Disability, Falling, Nasty Tracksuit” In this episode: Qualifying for Federal Disability Pt. II — Two Falls, One Painful, and The Other With Wine — Going Shopping and buying a tracksuit with filthy pictures on it that my wife asked me not to wear around her or our children

Welcome to What’s The Matter With Me? Episode 20, “Disabled dad struggling to build my business and my life” In this episode: I Fell — Sweating — Boathouse Hike — Secretary of State — Hot Sauce Business — Disability Hand rails are useful for people with MS and other disabilities. I took this photo outside my dentist’s office in Santa Clara, California.

Welcome to What’s The Matter With Me? Episode 19 Wild Fires Wildfires are burning close to my family’s home in Santa Rosa. The hill behind the house is Annadel State Park, currently on fire, and the fire department is bivouacked in the otherwise-evacuated neighborhood. Accessible music I’ve been making music to meditate and feel and comfort my body, accessible music using the computer and MIDI. I am getting used to making “muzak” on the computer, and pushing my own boundaries. Houseguest I...

Welcome to the What’s The Matter With Me? Podcast, Episode 18 In this episode: Fight/Cook Cycle — Spare rib recipe — Artist Statement An artist statement is hard to write — it requires you to believe in your own importance.

Welcome to What’s The Matter With Me? Podcast,Episode 17 Nurse Practitioners — BBQ — Sunday date blowup — Cognitive wall — Foot Wound — Radio — I’m proud to be disabled

Welcome to What’s The Matter With Me? Podcast Episode 16 Lamp destruction – Cognitive Exercises – Best American Sportswriting 2015 – Electromagnetic sock sales – The importance of this podcast

Welcome to What’s the Matter With Me? Podcast Episode 15 I start the episode off with the handicap space for the third episode in row. My garden gives me room to breathe from the grasp of disability — but I supplement with physical therapy and mindfulness practice. I’m teaching my son to watch birds and he made a correct identification. Handicap space Part 3 — Falls — Tomatoes — Gardening — Socks — Disability — Bird ID

Hot Sauce On An Oyster, photo by Brook Lane. What’s the Matter With Me? Podcast Episode 14: Autistic son I read the NY Times Disability column about an autistic son finding purpose. Hot It was hot: 114F! Fell and hit my head I fell hard and cracked my neck on dining room table. 20th High School Reunion I looked for acceptance at my 20th HS reunion.

I took this picture with my wife at the home of the Japanese Consul General in San Francisco. What’s The Matter With Me? Podcast Episode 13 Figs growing in the garden — Charcot’s Triad — Feedback — 109 Degrees — Friends — Defending the handicap space

This is a photograph of Hoffee’s Auto Body Shop in San José, California on the last day of business before closing. David Li owned the place and was my family’s mechanic for over 20 years. Episode 12 Figs — Gruesome Fall — Charcot’s Triad — Controlling Emotions — Burn at the BBQ I’ve been falling and hurting myself. I need to slow down and be safe. Hurrying makes accidents. At the same time, I need to control my emotions and manage my MS therapy for the sake of my family and my business.

Birthday Party — Steak — Cognitive Disability in the Dressing Room — Fish Oil — Garlic Season — The Deaths of Ted and Larry — Stone in the Ocean

What’s The Matter With Me? Podcast Episode 10 Purpose — Ep. 9 Recap — John John Sick — Ballgame Fiasco — BBQ — Crying, Pressure — Rose Trimming

We left, we went to a beautiful wedding in Boonville. They had an oyster bar and I ate there with a couple friends. That was a really nice activity. The food was wonderful. The wedding was beautiful. One of the brides wore a leather wedding dress made by Valentino. The wedding had caviar on a runcible spoon and a fine Italian wine at the meal. Begin Transcript What’s the Matter With Me? Episode 9, “Wedding In Boonville.” Yeah, it’s What’s the Matter With Me? Episode 9! My name is John. I’m 3...

What’s The Matter With Me? Podcast, Episode 8: “Big Week” My name is John, I’m 38 years old, husband and father of two, radio DJ, podcaster, small business owner and I have MS (Multiple Sc;erosis). I made this podcast to share what I’m going through. Recap Episode 7: “Bread Moment” It was very hot, and now it’s rather pleasant. I’ve been having a peaceful week with my wife because when it’s hot I am grouchy. I also told the story of being afraid of Chad Robertson, my bread hero. I baked bread ...

Bread Moment My name is John, I have MS, I’m 38 years old and I started this podcast to share what I’m going through. Recap Episode 6 Episode 6: “Overwhelmed” was short but impactful the way short things can often be. Like Mike Tyson said, “Everybody has a plan, until they get hit in the mouth.” Last episode was basically nothing but a long recap, and then I got distracted telling how I made tomato sauce. I gave up and I just stopped the whole thing after like two and a half minutes. It’s v...

Overwhelmed In Episode 6 I get overwhelmed and hang up the headphones in the middle of the episode. On the one hand, it’s a pretty terrible episode because of that, but on the other hand, it is good to know that I can feel bad and recover. I certainly don’t feel this way anymore. It’s hard to slur your words on the mic. Books / Can’t do what your parents do A listener wrote in to correct me about some books that I touched on in the last episode and I took this opportunity to set the record st...

Welcome to Episode 4 of the What’s The Matter With Me? Podcast In this episode, I continue to think about how to ask for help with the shower safety changes that I need, do some physical therapy, and finally pick up the phone and ask for help. Recap Ep. 3 Recap – last episode was about asking for help. It was hard to record because I didn’t know that’s what I needed to do before I began recording. I figured out while I was on talking about it that so many of my great friends and family would ...

Welcome to the What’s The Matter With Me? Podcast Episode 3: Asking for Help Recap – last episode we talked about being in control of my emotions. Episode 3 revolves around asking for help to install shower handles so I can get in and out of the shower. The are a lot of complicated feelings that go with that. I need help, but I don’t want to ask, and I especially don’t want to ask my Mom for help. Transcript JOHN HOPPIN: Back to Business, episode three. Last episode, we talked about stuff i...

Welcome to the What’s The Matter With Me? Podcast Episode 2. In this episode, I struggle to control my emotions due to damage in my brain stem. What’s The Matter With Me? is a podcast about multiple sclerosios, and many other things. Recap – should I be on disability? My philosophy. I said I can’t – in violation of my philosophy, which is that I generally can do things. I can work. This podcast is about trying, and I’m not afraid to try and succeed and achieve. I believe that I can achieve r...

Trying What’s The Matter With Me? is a podcast about Multiple Sclerosis and many other things. In this episode, it’s the month of Mayhem at KFJC, and I go to in for an Occupational Therapist Visit, where I share about Hot Sauce R&D and my Workforce Vision. Droll It’s the month of Mayhem at KFJC, and DJs do special programs all month long. Droll pre-empted my show to do a special about music in odd time signatures. Occupational Therapist Julie I went to Stanford to visit the occupational the...