Wheely Blind

Susanna Clarke, award-winning author of Piranesi, wrote in July this year that: "Illness brings us up against the limitation of words, reminds us that what we experience will always be greater than the words we have to describe it."
In this episode, Nevé and Sam talk about the monumental impact of stories around illness and the language that we use, with the help of the beautiful words of Clarke and Virginia Woolf.
Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/05/susanna-clarke-i-had-been-ill-for-11-years-i-felt-like-i-was-about-to-fall-off-the-world
 

Today, Nevé and Sam discuss the intersection of disability and beauty standards - breaking down some history, marketing, and how people just generally cannot hold the reality of someone being cute AND disabled.
WID article: https://wid.org/beauty-disability-the-entrenched-history-of-ableism-in-the-beauty-industry/
Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_law
 

A different episode this week, for a very, very special person: Sam's father, Tom.

In today's episode, Nevé and Sam share their experiences dating (each other!?) and consider how different it would all be if they just had a liiiiiittle bit of white man arrogance. Sound effect by EMIRCAN ALP from Pixabay.

In today's episode, Nevé and Sam get angry (no surprises there) about capitalism, and how it disproportionately affects minorities. They talk societal structures, break down the concept of laziness, and at long last: they talk about what their government has taken away from them as disabled women.
 
Charlie Chaplin website (I wasn't kidding): https://www.charliechaplin.com/en/films/4-The-Circus/articles/11-Modern-Times-Synopsis

Today Nevé and Sam talk about absolutely nothing of substance or value. They have made a game out of whispering offensive things people have said to them, to each other. They get it very, very wrong. 

A different tone today - Nevé bares her soul and shares the story of Pia, her guide dog, from start to finish. Not all love stories last forever, but that doesn't mean the love wasn't real. 

Nevé and Sam share and compare their experiences of childhood and adolescence. Things get fun when their journeys - and drinking habits - overlap in high school.

Today comes with a FIRM WARNING for headphone users - we make ourselves laugh a lot and we are not editing professionals. Hey, you guys don’t listen to us for our quality editing and sound engineering. The premise of today’s game is simple: Sam shows Nevé pictures, and Nevé tells Sam what they are. The twist is that Nevé is legally blind, in case you missed that one.WE DON’T OWN ANY OF THESE IMAGES. We don’t even make money from this podcast lmao.Our inspiration/Jenna’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqqyq3IwR_w&t=1s
 

In today's episode, we decided we wanted to cry, apparently. We explore how our feelings about our conditions have changed as we've grown up, the depth to which damaging societal discourse has impacted us, and how damn much we love each other.