Podcast
The Healing Club
Hosted by Bob Morrissey · EN
Houston comedian and visual artist Bob Morrissey interviews his friends. Bob is a US Army combat veteran of the 2003 invasion of Iraq who's worked as a cab driver, book seller, coffee barista, food server and strip club DJ. He is gay. The conversations here are about sex, politics, status anxiety, and pop culture. Every episode is named after a movie which may or may not even be mentioned at all. Bob likes movies, books, music, art, and drama in his life. His friends are mostly other obscure Houston comedians and artists.
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Episodes
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Hannibal with Burdy-Robb Lauras
Mar 26, 202400:52:58Tap to summarizeBurdy skateboards over to my house to talk about Abraham Lincoln, porn-hub's demise, being single, and friends we both know from standup comedy. Burdy has chill vibes, and never tells lies. He's never deliberately hurt anyone, but he's pulled pranks and told lies every now and then. This one has some big laughs about dreams and hookups and gay people in Houston, where Burdy runs the Burd-Call show with Joe Navarro at Equal Parts Brewery. He's an artist and a man about town. We get political and interesting. Not everything is meant to be taken literally. Have fun! Listen!
Transcribe →Sweet Dreams with Jordan Brady
Mar 20, 202400:56:01Tap to summarizeAt one point during the course of the 1985 Patsy Cline biopic starring Jessica Lange and Ed Harris, Patsy Cline tells a guy: "Yeah? Well people in Hell want ice water. That don't mean they get it!" At no point during this podcast do we discuss that movie or that subject or anything else of any value or substance. This is another pointless, silly, stupid podcast with no moral center. Jordan talks about doing a drum solo on the Kill Tony podcast and I fumble with a huge stack of note cards that supposedly contain jokes. This is not a movie podcast and this is not a self-help podcast. There are some funny moments, though. Hopefully it's what you want, but maybe it isn't. People in Hell want ice water, but that don't mean they get it.
Transcribe →California Split with Trey Campbell
Feb 22, 202401:15:51Tap to summarizeTrey Campbell talks about standup comedy, sports radio, autism and more. We say nothing about the Robert Altman movie California Split, but we do get to know each other a little bit. I sometimes wonder whether I'm autistic. The spectrum is widening, so maybe I'm within the new range. Who knows? Does it matter? What is life? Learn all this and more on the new Healing Club Podcast.
Transcribe →Smooth Talk with Tess Vergult
Feb 15, 202400:51:15Tap to summarizeTess returns to The Healing Club (the podcast that was almost named YOU THINK YOU'RE BETTER THAN ME?) to discuss our upcoming STASH AND BURN visual art gallery show at Baskets Books and Art: 115 Hyde Park Blvd in Houston, TX. Go there to see the work we have on display through March. This episode was filmed and will be on YouTube. We get into serious philosophical issues regarding freedom and the construction of race. Also Tess flat out declares herself to be better than me in every way. We don't discuss the movie SMOOTH TALK, starring Laura Dern and Treat Williams.
Transcribe →Sweet and Lowdown with Mairead Dickinson and Shaun Connolly
Jan 6, 202401:07:22Tap to summarizeMairead returns with her husband Shaun Connolly, who makes his first appearance here on The Healing Club. There's an unforgettable story about a school bus plus some talk about survivor guilt, sexual trauma, Woody Allen, Mairead's dad's job, and whether or not Sean Penn is hot. I think Sean Penn was and is a very hot man, but some people disagree. Like and subscribe.
Transcribe →Good Morning Vietnam with Hannah Abney
Dec 30, 202300:59:00Tap to summarizeHanna Abney makes her first appearance on The Healing Club. We have a slick, cool conversation about Houston and beyond in the standup comedy environment we call home. It's a wild ride and a fistful of laughs as we dissect world events and pop culture with insight and empathy. This one is chock full of surprises you will never forget for the rest of your life. Like and subscribe.
Transcribe →Twister with Scabz the Clown and Jacob Calle
Dec 20, 202300:53:55Tap to summarizeAt some point we discuss the movie TWISTER. Most of this is high energy prank talk. Good vibes. Jacob Calle says that JURY DUTY is the best movie ever made. We all have different opinions. It's a performance. Scabz is a clown. It's a pointless conversation, but infectious fun. If you'd like to get infected by fun, check out this one.
Transcribe →Catch Me If You Can with Kate Vance
Dec 7, 202300:56:44Tap to summarizeKate and I talk comedy, music, movies, dreams, and nightmares on this meandering ramble of language and stories. It's a fun time with a nice message: Kate has a relative who knows someone who got a letter from the real life Frank Abagnale whom Leonardo DiCaprio played so well in the Steven Spielberg classic Catch Me If You Can. Very fun and very good. Like and subscribe.
Transcribe →Heat with Drew Hollway
Nov 30, 202300:53:52Tap to summarizeDrew Hollway returns to Houston from Austin to talk to me about suicide and other edgy things. He does wonderful impersonations of Al Pacino and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Also we talk about how scary it is when people conditioned to accept only rejection or humiliation suddenly feel loved, appreciated, and/or desired by the world. We try our best to be inventive and ingenious together without bad vibes or arguments ruining the mood. It's a total departure from the previous times he's been on the podcast.
Transcribe →The Bad News Bears with Eddy Aviles
Nov 22, 202301:05:38Tap to summarizeThere is a lot of drunk tension and bitter banter during this episode in which the comedy gets serious. All artifice shatters as we stab each other mercilessly in an attempt to relive terrible moments and learn the real truth about each other. Warning: not a fun one to record, but sometimes those turn out to be the best ones. This is two friends criticizing each other and speaking through conflict. The whole thing has an "intervention" feel that may or may not purvey unintentional humor and "cringe laughs" in the form of schadenfreude. I talk about the 1976 Walter Matthau comedy THE BAD NEWS BEARS.
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