Whiplash

Katlin and Candice discuss their favorite movies and tv shows with disability and illness representation.

About a year and half ago Indianapolis, IN announced they would be getting public transportation in the form of a red line, and that's when Indy all of a sudden became like an episode of Pawnee. Many in the city were protesting cheap, effective public transportation. Katlin talks to Candice about the evil forces (the Koch Brothers) behind things like this happening in cities in the US. They then chat with Seth Johnson of NUVO about how the red line in Indianapolis has drastically improved his life as someone with a visual impairment.

Continuing with their season of disability and illness, Katlin and Candice discuss disability within the WWE, what wrestlers, ballet dancers, and people with cystic fibrosis have in common, and the movies The Wrestler and Black Swan. They then talk with their friend Joe Bates to hear his experience getting a really severe concussion during a football match that resulted in instant memory loss and confusion.

Katlin and Candice take a break for Christmas and introduce the topic for season one of whiplash.

After five years of trying to conceive, Katlin’s parents paid a down payment to have a child through IVF, only to discover that she would be an androgynous kid with a speech impediment and a lung and bowel disease called cystic fibrosis. This combination made elementary school bathrooms tough for Katlin. She talks about this as well as her overall journey with cystic fibrosis recovering via the new break through medication called trikafta.

Daniel was the very first cystic fibrosis patient with covid, ever. Katlin and Candice talk with him about his experience with that, and also his experience as a trans man with cystic fibrosis.

Do you get calls from Elizabeth Warren on your birthday? Abigail Hays does, and she deserves it. Abigail was on the team that worked to turn Pennsylvania blue this year, and helped Biden win the election. Katlin and Candice talk with her about what that experience was like. Since Abigail had the nation's future handled, Katlin spent her time on a similar noble cause: figuring out why white Jake from State Farm all of a sudden got replaced with white Jake from State Farm.

Candice and Katlin sit down with their old pal Zain Zaidi for this episode. In 2016 Zain travelled the RNC to play the role of "muslim in a dunk tank" in the Triumph Election special because, well, he really needed $500. As he shouted insults at republicans who are hurling baseballs at him, he could hear the likes of Alex Jones in the far distance yelling about trump, gay frogs, and who else knows. He talks about his experience at that RNC as well as growing up muslim and being a comedian in a traditionally muslim family. The three of them put their brilliant(?) minds together in this episode and finally answer the age old question of: What's worse? Pork or lesbians?

Indianapolis journalist Ariana Beedie (of FAF collective) talks about the journey that created the person she is today including stories about being called an "oreo", finding out at 16 the man who raised her was not her biological father, and jumping through too many hoops in journalism before deciding to start her own publication. Katlin talks a little about her own path that included dealing with gender identity.

Fellow comedian, Courtney, is a doctorate student of psychology who works in correctional facilities with sex offenders. She talks about the nature of her work, as well as her own heart warming (yes, heart warming) daddy issues she developed through the years as she helped her father through mental illness, divorce, and coming out.