The first episode of my NPR-style disability parody news podcast (hopefully the first of many because boy did I have fun making this).

Special thanks to the Squeaky Wheel for rejecting my pitches for these stories so I could use them here. To read some excellent disability-related satire (including, starting soon, some written by me), visit them here:

https://thesqueakywheel.org/

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Today’s music: “Please Not an Infomercial” by Andre Louis

The podcast art and other Substack graphics are by Will Cheung

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In today’s episode:

- My toddler’s voice acting debut

- I might be a powerful wizard

- I comb the streets of New York City in search of precious gold

- I am emotionally comforted by an infant

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In today’s episode:

- I raise awareness about the perspective of disabled people through sarcasm

- I maybe threaten a stranger with mace, but I can’t be sure

- Four separate people yell at me in public

- A mysterious figure in the night appears silhouetted in the glow of headlights and with a bloodcurdling scream places a death curse upon me

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In today’s story:

- I take no one’s hints

- I catch no one’s drift

- I get no one’s message

- I do not read between any lines

- I pick up nothing anyone is putting down

- I never get the picture

- I connect no dots

- I am not on anyone’s wavelength

- I read no rooms

- I fail to smell what anyone is cooking

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In today’s episode:

- Theater kids annoy everyone

- A teacher encourages me to attack other children

- I try to placate denizens of the netherworld

- I traumatize Gen Z readers by describing people speaking to each other using telephones

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In today’s story:

- I say nothing related to DEI that anyone in the government needs to prosecute ME FOR; don’t worry about it

- Canadian bureaucracy makes EVERYTHING easier

- Security agents investigate me for terrorism, or drug trafficking, or something; it’s not clear

- People watch, apparently for entertainment, to see how well I get around without a guide or cane

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In today’s episode:

- Dr. God

- Learn the magic words that never fail to summon miracle-working religious devotees to your side

- A stranger whispers tenderly into my ear in a subway station

- The spiritual significance of marshmallow pizza

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In today’s episode:

- I weigh in on the controversy surrounding International Podcasting Day

- You question my moral integrity

- I give a theatrical performance in the lobby of a courthouse for $35

- You meet my trash butlers and find to your surprise that you are one of them

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In today’s story:

- I do a choreographed dance in an airport

- I openly lie to airline employees

- Robots patiently wait for the right moment to revolt

- I am complimented on how well I use a bathroom

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In today’s story:

- I chastise you for being juvenile

- I harness extensive neurological research and sophisticated psychoanalysis to explain the behavior of sighted people

- A stranger yells at my wife and me about sex

- I meet Jesus

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