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Knock knock. A surgeon, a scrub tech, and a stand-up comedian walk into a podcast and somehow we end up talking about the duodenum with way more passion than anyone expects. We kick things off by turning a common medical term into a real, listener-friendly anatomy lesson: what the duodenum is, where it sits in the digestive system, and why surgeons treat it with extra respect when ulcers or perforations show up. Then we play “What The Heck?” with actual operating room instruments, and Brando...
19 Oct 2026
Surgery Slang Showdown: Rules, Tools and Patient Safety
“Jump room.” “Sterile field.” “Hemostat.” “Mayo scissors.” “Bovie.” If those words sound like a weird mix of hospital drama and nonsense syllables, you are exactly the person we made this for. We take real operating room terms and surgical instruments and hand them to a comedian with one job: pronounce them, define them, and commit to the guess with confidence. The results are laugh-out-loud wrong in the best way and unexpectedly helpful if you have ever wanted to understand how surgery...
9 Oct 2026
Sterile, Fast, And Funny
Surgical jargon can sound like nonsense until you realize it’s describing real, high-stakes work. We bring on operating room tech Herb Coleman alongside comedian Marianna Barksdale and turn a simple guessing game into a surprisingly useful tour of how the OR actually runs, with plenty of punchlines along the way. We unpack flash sterilization, what it is, when it’s used, and why “we need that instrument flashed” is not as dramatic as it sounds, but still seriously important for infection pre...
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