Open Up and Say HA!
Have you ever had a bizarre encounter with a medical practitioner? An ER visit gone awry? A weird thing you found on your foot that turned out to be a rare species of parasitic insect? Welcome to Open Up and Say Ha! - Stories from Underneath the Paper Gown. Medical mishaps, misunderstandings, weird bodily functions... our guests are sharing it all. So get ready to laugh so hard you snort your coffee out of your nose, and if you happen to singe your nostrils, head to the doctor and tell us what went down. If laughter is your medicine, open up and say HA!
Episodes
11 episodes
Glittery Lube and Leprechauns (with Jason Moyer and Bradley Michaud)
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 h...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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41:24
The Real Money's in the Prostate (with Dion Flynn)
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 i...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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33:00
My Kidney Stones Look Like Granola (with Wali Collins)
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....
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Episode 8
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37:21
Can it Wait Until You've Finished the Swab? (with Kit Green)
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 entertainme...
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Episode 7
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33:33
Unicorn Fantasy Radiology World (with Ophira Eisenberg)
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 ...
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Episode 6
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40:05
A Tale of Two Cysts (with Abigail Paul)
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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37:28
Now I Know How Jesus Felt (with Kevin Allison)
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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31:43
Sounds Like a Porn Plot (with Zoe Friedman, Amber J Lawson, and Jodi Lieberman)
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 de...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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39:08
Ass Faucets (with Mike Dressel)
It's our first "poopisode", and we can't promise it will be our last. Everybody poops - it's universal - so it was inevitable that our longtime friend Mike Dressel would relax us enough to let loose (literally). Mike Dressel is a writer, editor...
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Episode 2
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35:16
Bad Fish and Good Farts (with Ellie Dvorkin Dunn and Julia Granacki)
It's the very first episode of our brand new podcast! Co-hosts Ellie and Julia decide to save the guests' experiences for future episodes and instead, share their own bizarre medical encounters with each other. Even though they have been friend...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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