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This is our first episode featuring a married couple! Bradley Michaud married our college bestie Jason Moyer, and we love them both so much we wish we were their sister wives. Regarding the topic of illness, one is a delicate flower who has barely had more than strep, and the other has survived two near-death experiences and talks about them as if they were trips to a theme park. Tune in for vivid descriptions of hospital room hallucinations, high school blood donations, and drug use accusations. (Poetry, people!)

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Dion Flynn is a comedian and staff writer on The Tonight Show, where he frequently appears as various outrageous characters who make Jimmy Fallon laugh his bum off. Dion talks to us about one of his early gigs as a standardized patient, which is an actor hired to simulate an illness for the purposes of helping medical students practice their diagnosing techniques. Wait until you hear about a fellow actor who often stayed after hours to endure up to 20 prostate exams at a time in exchange for extra cash. This prompted us to coin the term "prostate-tution", making us feel very clever indeed.

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Wali Collins is an award winning corporate comedian, actor, producer and author. He joined us shortly after his second bout with kidney stones, so the details were fresh in his memory and the stone was fresh in a cup next to his computer. Wali described what the stone felt like as it was passing through his "tube-age", and he and Julia bonded over their shared memory of a childhood game where kids squeeze each other until someone passes out. Charming! Ellie was horrified, but offered information about anal strep - yes it's a thing - along with a hearty suggestion NOT to google it.

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Have you ever been recognized during an extremely vulnerable medical exam? Kit Green has! A multi-award-winning artist from the UK, Kit's work sprawls across theatre, music, broadcast and academia, and her own brand of 'experiential entertainment". She opens up about the benefits of being the only trans patient at a medical practice that mostly serves elderly Greek women, and she and Ellie bond over bizarre old British song parodies about Hitler only having one testicle. This spontaneous sing-off made Julia's day, and we're pretty sure it will also make YOURS.

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Ophira Eisenberg is a Canadian-born standup comedian, writer, and host. She hosted NPR’s comedy trivia show Ask Me Another for 9-years and she now hosts the comedy podcast Parenting Is A Joke where she talks to other comedian parents about how the hell they do it. Ophira has had so many medical interventions in her life that choosing just one moment was almost impossible, so settle in for choice tidbits from encounters with cancer doctors, OBGYNs, radiologists, and more. Looking for an episode with talk of breasts and placentas and passing out from pain? We're here for you!

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Coming to you from Frankfurt, Germany, we have our longtime friend Abigail Paul, a dynamic performer and BBC Writer’s Room Popcorn Award Nominee. Abigail is a self-proclaimed "big baby" when it comes to medical situations, yet she has knack for turning her uncomfortable encounters into highly amusing stories. She regales us with tales of two cysts, one which had to be dealt with on a college trip to NYC when she had no health insurance, and the other when she was living in Germany, which she says is a far more humane and bank-account-friendly system. You'll also learn about self-eating teeth and floobitty-doops. Believe it or not, one of those things is real.

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We are crazy about Kevin Allison, who you may know from The State , a cult classic show that aired on MTV from 1993-96. He is also the creator and host of the hit podcast, RISK!, where people tell true stories they never thought they’d dare to share. On this episode, Kevin tells us how his adult ADHD diagnosis might be the reason for many incidents throughout his life where he asked himself the question, "What the hell was I thinking?" You'll hear delicious details of a rusty nail, a shard of glass, and flushing pickles down the toilet, as well as Ellie's and Julia's experiences with bad blood draws, bloody noses, and a possible carbuncle. Not sure what a carbuncle is? Don't google, just listen.

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Today's guests are the co-founders of Comedy Gives Back, an organization that serves as a safety net for the comedy community by providing financial crisis relief, mental health and chemical dependency treatment sponsorship. Amber J Lawson, Jodi Lieberman and Zoe Friedman have been working in comedy for decades, and as they share their stories of an infected tooth, a car accident, and a skin surgery, co-hosts Ellie and Julia wonder if these are medical stories or plot lines for porn. Listen and decide for yourself.

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