Jack is going off to law school. So the gang sits down to reminisce on his time at NDRN, share a few stories from behind the scenes, and hear a joke from Stephanie that gets a good laugh out of us.

Full transcript available at: https://www.ndrn.org/resource/ndr-august25/
Jack Rosen:
Like we have any sort of agenda for today, so just sort of going to get what I get. Turn that into a podcast, I guess.
Stephanie Flynt McEben:
Sure.
Michelle Bishop:
And that's different from any other episode because...
Jack Rosen:
It's not, it genuinely, I guess is not, I suppose at some point we'd have a guest and questions we thought we should ask them.
Michelle Bishop:
Oh.
Stephanie Flynt McEben:
I'm the guest and I have the questions. I don't know.
Jack Rosen:
I'm pretty sure you're not the guest.
Michelle Bishop:
It's fine.
Stephanie Flynt McEben:
I'm pretty sure Jack is the guest.
Jack Rosen:
I'm sort of the guest.
Stephanie Flynt McEben:
What?
Michelle Bishop:
Wait what?
Stephanie Flynt McEben:
This episode is for Jack, isn't it?
Jack Rosen:
It would be very funny if we just made it the Stephanie episode, even though we've done like two of those.
Stephanie Flynt McEben:
No. That would make me feel like such a bad chicken nugget.
Jack Rosen:
Even though we've already done-
Stephanie Flynt McEben:
This is all about you.
Michelle Bishop:
We already did a Stephanie wedding episode.
Jack Rosen:
We did a whole one about you getting married.
Stephanie Flynt McEben:
We've already done a bunch of episodes about me doing chicken-nuggety things like, come on.
Michelle Bishop:
Oh, that reminds me. My mom wants to hear about the legally blind Uber driver.
Stephanie Flynt McEben:
I forgot that I slipped that into an episode.
Michelle Bishop:
Yeah, she's still listening and she has some follow-up questions.
Stephanie Flynt McEben:
I love this.
Michelle Bishop:
Well pack might have to address that at some point.
Jack Rosen:
Well, Stephanie, do you want to address it? I mean, let's give the people what they want, I guess.
Stephanie Flynt McEben:
Yeah, I guess we can give the people what they want.
Michelle Bishop:
Yeah, we have one listener, so we should probably follow up on that for her.
Stephanie Flynt McEben:
Yeah, no, that makes sense. And Carol, thank you so much for being a dedicated, loyal listener to this wonderful podcast. So I will give a slighter Cliff Notes version just so it doesn't take up the whole hour. So I am waiting for a car outside of, I can't remember which Metro stop it was, but I had to go get something, and so I just figured I'd take an Uber home from the Metro because that particular Metro was a lot easier to get a car and it would only be a 20-minute ride. Okay, fine. This is what I'll do. And so I get out of the Metro station, I'm trying to find my driver or whatever, yada, yada, and I can't even remember his name. Maybe we should just call him Bob for anonymity. I am bad at saying that too. But yeah, so Bob pulls up in some sort of Toyota of some sort and I get in the car and we start driving and I noticed that I'm hearing a lot more horns, but I'm just not thinking about it because it's rush hour DC traffic.
And then we started, he was like, "You know, I'll be honest with you, I'm legally blind. I can only see out of one eye." And I was like, "Oh, okay." And I'm just trying to think of some of the things that he said, but he said different things that were essentially low vision, blind hacks or what have you.

We wrap up our series on the battle for the passage of the ADA with none other than Senator Tom Harkin. Senator Harkin was the lead sponsor of the ADA in the Senate and has spent his career being a steadfast ally to the disability community.

On part two of our series commemorating the fight for the passage of the ADA, we have on long time activist Jim Dickson.

To kick off our series highlighting the fight for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act we have on NDRN's founder and former Executive Director Curt Decker.

After three years, Jack has finally gotten Stephanie and Michelle to do an episode about sports. And not just any sport, but golf. On this episode we sit down with Josh Basile, Andrew Mitchell, and Kate Strickland to talk about AdapTee Golf.

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This we had on Taylor Easley for Social Work Month. Taylor talks about her experiences earning a social work degree and how social work overlaps with the disability rights movement.

Friend of the pod and NDRN colleague Monica Wiley joins us to talk about the role models that inspired her own activism. 

Friend of the pod and NDRN alumni Ian Watlington get's back on his advocacy horse to talk to us about the impact weather events like the recent DC blizzard can have on folks with disabilities.

The gang celebrates the holidays with a slightly disorganized episode talking about our holiday traditions and how we're celebrating this year. Sort of featuring special guest Quinn McEben. 

We're coming to you live on Election Day for a special episode of National Disability Radio. With surprise guests (even we don't know who they'll be yet!)

In celebration of NDEAM the pod squad is working extra hard! We interview the folks at the FAIR Program at Disability Rights Louisiana, and then we speak to Dr. Josie Badger.

Jack steps into the guest chair alongside Monica Wiley to talk with Michelle and guest host David Card about NDRN's new documentary short "Accessing Democracy"

Paralympic medalist and World Games record holder Sandy Hanebrink joins us to talk about her journey from St. Louis to the 1996 games in Atlanta.

Amy Scherer joins us for her fourth appearance on the pod to discuss her work covering the US Olympic Gymnastics trials, and the accessibility challenges she's faced both at the events themselves and while traveling for them. 

The gang heads to Europe to see how the fight for disability rights is going on the other side of the Atlantic. Michelle interviews Alejandro Moledo the Deputy Director and Head of Policy of the European Disability Forum, and Jack interviews Mercedes Lopez Miranda about her experiences being a person with a disability in Europe.

In this (mini?) episode the gang interviews Stephanie's wife Quinn McEben about their work as a mental health care nurse, and how mental healthcare can better serve the disability community.

This month we're joined by our own Rebecca Shaeffer for a discussion of what people with disabilities experience in the carceral system, how they disproportionately end up there, and what we can do to support returning citizens.

On this episode of National Disability Radio, we sit down with three women leaders in the disability rights movement, Marlene Sallo (NDRN), Maria Town (AAPD), and Robin Troutman (NACDD).

On this episode of National Disability Radio we sit down with author Jules Sherred, who wrote the cookbook "Crip Up the Kitchen" about how he rediscovered his love of cooking after finding a way to make it accessible.