Daddy Issues Podcast

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?

When meeting and getting to know Shannon, Katlin discovered she was walking in her footsteps, making all of the same mistakes. So she invites Shannon to drink tequila with her and Candice to do a "fun" podcast. Instead of becoming a fun person as she gets drunk, Katlin just gets more intense and asks fun questions such as "are you happy"? Shannon tells her story about getting "invited to leave" both her sorority and internship. Katlin shares her own story about a mental breakdown during an internship. Katlin and Candice talk about their past serious relationships and how it lead them to their friendship and comedy. All three of them discuss regrets, the biggest one being not acknowledging Candice's puns throughout the podcast.

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.

Columbus comedian Amber Falter tells her story about her roommate brother who has recently discovered red pill on reddit. Katlin tries to analyze her brother despite only having one psychology class. Then Amber and Katlin bond over dirt. Yes, dirt.

Meredith Scalos and Katlin went to the same school from Kindergarten to 12th grade. Katlin went on to obtain a science degree and tell jokes in bars, while Meredith went on to do much more important things. Things such as studying politics at the University of Oxford, working for the Kentucky House of Representatives, and working for several different political and issue campaigns. Meredith shares her personal experiences of being a female in the political field, and then discusses her feelings on the recent election while Katlin and Candice listen and learn very much. Meredith and Katlin also briefly discuss elementary school and how a gender confused Katlin appeared from the outside.

Comedian Gwen Sunkel talks about her first period aligning with her mother being out of town. Followed by Candice and Gwen sharing tinder stories while Katlin talks about her vagina being the black hole that is the center of the universe.

Jess Hemesath (DJ Little Town)of Shame Thugs talks about being assumed as a merch girl and being shamed on the internet.

Indianapolis comedian Leslie Dinsmore discusses her feelings on traditional wedding customs, purity balls, and the struggles that come with being a female comedian.

Chicago comedian Melissa Richelle shares her stories that led to her virginity loss at the mature age of 25. One of which includes putting her virginity for sale on craigslist. Katlin and Candice also share their odd stories about losing their own virginities.

Daddy Issues gets a bit more casual. Katlin, Candice, and comedian Evanne Offenbacker pile into the back seat of Katlin's car. This Issue is only 30 minutes, but is jam packed (like the multiple tampons inside Candice) with topics like test tube babies and menstrual mishaps. Katlin learns from Candice and Evanne that she knows hardly anything about periods except for the fact that she barely has one, and they don't let her forget it.

Rachel Peacock of General Public Collective (GPC) talks about her first time in a sex club in Berlin, GPC's upcoming art show Goodbye Cruel World, and gives her take on the changes happening in Fountain Square, a neighborhood both her and GPC are at the heart of.