Friends With Deficits

The passionate live sound engineer "Negative Zero" has lived a life punctuated by sex, drugs, rock & roll, and other loud things that sometimes get in one's way, and sometimes advance one's career.

The first episode of this two-parter evokes his early life in 1970's San Antonio and traverses the years working in discos, radio stations, and rock clubs while braving the changes in the music scene through the decades.

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Wedding and events planner Jessica Ryan hadn't planned for the birth defect that gained her a strange nickname and a heck of a scar. Jessica bears these with good humor as she recounts the past and current challenges of having been born with gastroschisis. Google it—or just listen in (it's not that gross)!

Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase: a gene mutation with almost as many letters as health issues it causes. Artist Jamie Rhodes discusses her history and symptoms of MTHFR, as well as strategies for dealing with it—just short of living in a bubble.

Do you ever dream about a life of security? What about "maximum security"?

In this second half of our two-part interview, Bodhi Prihoda recounts his 30-year journey through the prison system -- facing his fears, and finding his true self and freedom from a life of crime.

Hear part one: https://bit.ly/2Br7Uv7

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In this episode, Austin music legend Kathy McCarty discusses how she came face to face with face blindness (prosopagnosia). How is this well-recognized singer-songwriter, musician and artist unable to recognize faces, even those closest to her?

We talk about coping strategies, being the world's best busboy, mean Southern women, South Park, and of course, music.

Also featured is a sampling of Kathy's musical career over the decades, including her influential Austin rock band Glass Eye, and her solo recordings "Dead Dog's Eyeball" and "Another Day in the Sun". For more on that, check out:

http://www.bar-none.com/k-mccarty/

See her art: http://www.kmccartyart.com/

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Welcome to the Season Two premiere of Friends With Deficits! Dr. Amanda Pollitt discusses living with narcolepsy. We chat about dreams, drugs, and airplanes, as well as work/life balance, being a nap connoisseur, and sleep attacks.

Amanda is a doctoral fellow at UT Austin, where she studies the health and well-being of LGBT people.

This one's definitely not a snoozer—though our guest may be!

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Holly Lorka doesn't have a dick, and that for her is a deficit. Holly used to have a "nice pair of breasts", which she also considered a burden. What happened, and why is it awesome?

Holly is a contributor to a monthly lifestyle magazine in Oxford, England. She's also a reverend available for weddings. She is the author of the upcoming book, "The Captain of Some Ridiculous Ship".

www.hollylorka.com

Some topics and interesting phrases from our discussion:

"Masculinizing a chest"

"Black Market Androgel"

"Taking the gendering out of the courtesy"

"Dysphoria"

"Are we off the record?"

"Seriously, none of this goes on the internet"

"Advice for kids" (ok, maybe trans kids)

Patreon patrons also get "jaguars", "station wagons", "scrambled porn" and "splooge"! For more info, visit www.patreon.com

Shelby Hadden is a writer and documentary filmmaker. Her current animated film, Tightly Wound, explores her challenges living with vaginismus. In this episode, Shelby opens up about this painful pelvic floor condition: what it is, when it occurred, and how she's dealt with it over the years. We also discuss behaviors and attitudes around sexuality, sexual health, and sex education.

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www.tightlywoundfilm.com

From spanker to spanked…What happens when a person suffers a traumatic brain injury in a life-threatening freak accident? And how is his lifelong fetish affected? Our anonymous guest will discuss the details of his journey from being a fixture in the world of kink to the predicament of how to stay alive and relatively the same as before when the odds are stacked against you.

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