The House of Pod

Kaveh is joined by guest co-host Dr. Jason Rosenbaum to interview comedian and actor Walter Masterson, whose hugely popular videos satirize anti-vaccine advocates and far right wing fringe conspiracy theories.Send your questions and comments to [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Replay of episode from May of 2022: Kaveh is joined by world leading expert in colorectal cancer, TR Levin and author Dr. John Chuck who discusses his new book on getting the most good stuff out of a life in medicine, despite all the reasons not to.Send your questions and comments to [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by public speaking coach Misty Scachtell-Megia to discuss tips and strategies for managing the fear of public speaking.Send your questions and comments to [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by Will Poole (aka Kristi Yamaguccimane) and military historian/author Myke Cole to discuss his book the Bronze Lie, the truth behind the spartan myth, and how it’s misused today.Send your questions and comments to [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by John and Zoe, from the band Portugal The Man to discuss their daughter's rare neurodegenerative disorder and they're joined by Dr. Stan Crooke, who's started the n-Lorem foundation to help find treatments for ultra rare genetic diseases just like this. Take a listen to hear about the struggles of navigating health care for patients and families and the exciting new world of treatments opening up with ASOs (Anti-Sense Oligonucleotides).Send your questions and comments to [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the annual Halloween episode, Kaveh is joined by Marc Gasway and Doctors Stephen Sample & Tyler Black to discuss horror films set in psych wards or with psychological themes. Send your questions and comments to [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by ethicist/pediatric anesthesiologist Dr. Alyssa Burgart & podcaster/cousin Sanam Skelly to discuss cases of doctors sexually assaulting patients and how some perpetrators were allowed to continue for years.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by Dr. Arghavan Salles to discuss the surgeon Robert Liston who helped revolutionize surgery and is famously known for a surgery with a 300% mortality rate.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by author Rax King and toxicologist Ryan Marino to discuss addiction and the impaired physician.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by Urologists/Sex Health experts Ashley Winter and Justin Dubin to discuss treatment of sexual dysfunction, cock rings, and more!Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by comedian Turner Sparks and Hepatologist Elliot Tapper to discuss Fatty Liver Disease, what causes it, how to treat it, and why it’s being renamed.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by Rebecca Watson (Quizotron, Girls on Boys) and Robert Evans (Behind the Bastards) to conclude the story of Lucy Letby, the worst nurse ever.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by Rebecca Watson and Robert Evans (Behind The Bastards) to discuss the case of Lucy Letby, the nurse in England convicted of murdering infants in her hospitals NICU.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by comedian/podcaster Dave Anthony (The Dollop) and Dr. Jonathan Howard (author of We Want Them Infected) to read and review some of the best/worst COVID tweets and quotes of the past 3 years. Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by med school classmate Bobby Davari and world class shit-poster Kristi Yamaguccimane (Will Poole) to discuss Epidemiology with Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz and to discuss what happens when research goes bad.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh and psychiatrist Dr. Sulman Mirza chat with The High Priestess of Wrestling, Dark Sheik (Sam Khandaghabadi) about professional wrestling and how a trans Persian story teller started the accidental Bay Area phenomenon known as Hoodslam.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by co-host Ryan Marino to discuss acts of violence in the healthcare setting with Dr. Alison Huckenpahler and medical student Yousof Fawzy, who have studied the rise in attacks.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by Ed Niremberg and Dr. Gavin Yamey to examine RFKs disastrous impact on the measles epidemic in Samoa and how the history of COVID is being rewritten. Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by musician Marc Gasway and molecular pathologist Jason Rosenbaum to learn what it is that pathologists actually do, why autopsies are important, and why we're doing less of them these days. And also, cow vaginas.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by intern Ali and psychiatrist Tyler Black to discuss the online bullying of Peter Hotez and what life is like in college in 2023. Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a special team up, Kaveh is joined by James of “It Could Happen Here” to learn more about delivering health care to the Native American population. Guests include medical student Victor Anthony Lopez-Carmen and Dr. Molly Hallweaver.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh and Wei chat with comedian and actor Dan Ahdoot about Undercooked, his new book on obsession with food, learn how to return food at restaurants, and how being pre-med can prepare you for a career in entertainment.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh and co-host Parker James are joined by Dr. Jonathan Howard to discuss his new book on the failed quest for herd immunity that led otherwise reasonable doctors to embrace the anti-vaccine movement.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by Ryan Marino, Tyler Black, and Kristi Yamaguccimane to discuss whether American children are being “hypersexualized” and discuss conservative beliefs about homosexuality and pedophilia.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by Shauhin Davari and Comedian/Actor Maz Jobrani to chat about performing comedy around the world, the protests in Iran, and the psychological impact on the Iranian diaspora.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by Rebecca Watson and Dr. Dan Freedman to discuss anti-vaxxer and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the Florida Surgeon General’s fraud, and those post-vaccine injury videos.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by college professor Shauhin Davari and sleep doctors Seema Khosla and Chris Winters to talk about what happens when you don't get enough sleep, how to get more, and how alcohol and marijuana may be affecting it.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by hepatologist Elliot Tapper and musician Marc Gasway to discuss what the liver does, the latest in liver grifts, and how to actually help your liver.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by Ryan Marino and Kristi Yamaguccimane to discuss the strange week in medicine, the reaction to Stanford's incoming surgical interns, vulva gatekeeping, and medical grifts.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh speaks with ER doctors Jeremy Faust, Ryan Marino, and Lauren Westafer about The Match - what it is and why the emergency medicine spots went so under-filled this year.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh reads listener emails, tells a story he’ll probably regret, and explains Persian new year. Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh and producer Nadeem chat with transplant surgeon Juliet Emamaullee and medical anthropologist/ethicist Meghan Halley about the challenges and excitement of studying rare disease.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by guest cohost Dr. Raja Jagadeesan and captain/physician Niall Downey to discuss the similarities and differences between medicine and flight as well as how to manage stressful situations. Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Comedians Johnny Taylor and Turner Sparks join Kaveh and psychiatrist Tyler Black to discuss why hecklers do what they do and how to manage them.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by toxicologist Ryan Marino and infectious disease doctor (and flight surgeon in training!) Sanjiv Baxi to discuss the tripledemic, grade Fauci and the World Health Organization on their management of Covid, as well as discuss the future of ID, including whether or not medical trainees still want to pursue it!Views of the guests do represent the views of the DoD or the Air Force.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh speaks with Dr. Arghavan Salles and Dr. Montreh Tavakkoli about the protests in Iran, what they've learned about the casualties suffered, and what we can do in the United States to help.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by psychiatrist/TikToker Sulman Mirza and 2nd year medical student Bone Wizard to discuss serial killers and America’s fascination with them.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by friend of the show and graduating medical student Tema Fudge, to chat with Dr. Trebach about toxicology, the residency match, and calling consults.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by Sharky Laguana to chat with Dr. Ashley Winter, a urologist and sexual health expert, about the G-spot, female ejaculation, and more fun stuff that’ll make you uncomfortable listening to in front of your in-laws.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by Ryan Marino, Tyler Black, and Cody to discuss doctors in horror films and depictions of mental illness on screen.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by Ophthalmologist/satirist Dr. Glaucomflecken and screenwriter Michael Weber to discuss two classic films: The Hospital and Doc Hollywood. Why they love them, what they got right, what aged well and what didn’t.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh takes a deep dive on the first bivalent COVID booster to learn what "imprinting" is, if you can take meds to help with the symptoms of the vaccine, and answer a bunch more questions we all have about the new booster! With Edward Nirenberg, Dr. Neurofourier and Dr. Jeff McLeroy. Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh talk to his mentor Dr. Dennis Low and his colleague Dr. Santhi Lingamneni about physician burnout, and the negotiations between the primary care doctors at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center and Santa Clara County.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by friends, communications specialist Kristin Flanary, political science professor Miranda Yaver, and ER doctor Stephen Sample to discuss the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act, and if it's a bigger deal than people think it is.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh chats about monkeypox with CDC global health and pandemic technical advisor Dr. Neurofourier, San Francisco ER doctor Graham Walker, and ER doctor and writer of Inside Medicine Jeremy Faust. Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by Psychiatrist/Suicidoloigist Tyler Black and Toxicologist/ER doctor Ryan Marino to discuss psychedelic medication and studying their use for refractory depression and other psychiatric illness.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by Dr. TR Levin to chat with family physician and author John Chuck about not waiting to find happiness and finding joy, even if things look awful (and they do look awful).Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by political science professor Miranda Yaver and ER doctor Stephen Sample to discuss the leaked draft opinion on Roe vs. Wade from the Supreme Court of the United States, what comes next, and how the language of the opinion will be used in other cases. More cursing than usual.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by adolescent psychiatrist Tyler Black and graduating medical student Josh McGough to discuss advice on being a doctor. They are also joined by a high school student to discuss the stresses on youth during COVID times and what life is like for young people.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaveh is joined by Ryan Marino as they chat with Laura Bukavina and Alberto Castro Bigalli, two fellows who volunteered their medical services at the Ukraine-Poland border. They discuss what the scene is like, what we aren’t hearing, and why they went.If you’re interested in volunteering as well, contact [email protected] for more information.Send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.