The Healing Club
by Bob Morrissey
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.
Episodes
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Hannibal with Burdy-Robb Lauras
Burdy 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...
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Sweet Dreams with Jordan Brady
At 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...
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California Split with Trey Campbell
Trey 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?...
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Smooth Talk with Tess Vergult
Tess 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...
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Sweet and Lowdown with Mairead Dickinson and Shaun Connolly
Mairead 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...
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Good Morning Vietnam with Hannah Abney
Hanna 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...
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Twister with Scabz the Clown and Jacob Calle
At 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…
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Catch Me If You Can with Kate Vance
Kate 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...
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Heat with Drew Hollway
Drew 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,...
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The Bad News Bears with Eddy Aviles
There 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...
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Priscilla with Albert Deleon
Albert returns! The podcast returns! We actually talk about the movie! Albert and I went to the movies to see the new Sofia Coppola joint PRISCILLA. We converse over spoilers and scenes we reveal in the context of our little dialogue that encompasses all sorts of subjects: addiction…
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Another Day in Paradise with Drew Haught from Fly Janet
Musician and raconteur Drew Haught joins The Healing Club for a conversation about his band Fly Janet. We also get into how Bush did 9/11, Covid isn't real and aliens live among us all the time. Plus we revisit some of our favorite memories and experiences from knowing each other for the past ten...
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Night Moves with Nick Palermo
Not a movie podcast about the 1975 mystery/thriller with Gene Hackman and Melanie Griffith. Nick and I talk about what kind of candidacy we'd run together if I ran for president. What I would sound like, what I'd do, why I'd win, and how I'd change everything. I would run a ruthless platform with...
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The Zero Effect with Bob Morrissey
Once again, not a movie podcast. I don't have a guest, so I extemporize alone and go on and on with political theories buttressed by books I've read: DEPRESSION: A PUBLIC FEELING, by Ann Cvetkovich; THE FIRST TYCOON: THE EPIC LIFE OF CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, by T.J. Stiles; INDIGNATION, by Philip...
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Don't Look Back with Grady Pruitt
Grady Pruitt returns for another great dialogue of discourse and discovery. We forget what we're doing and just flow. It's at least good. At the very least, it's good. Watch for Grady Pruitt's upcoming comedy special on YouTube and Spotify etc. Also check out past guest Tre Tutson's hilarious…
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The Long Goodbye with Mackenzie Jewell
We spend the entire episode saying goodbye to each other. I bring up that new Barney AI movie and some other things that don't exist. Violence against real people is bad, we determine. We say a lot of things about Ghostrider 2, Frank Henenlotter films, the World Record Podcast, being sexual…
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Knife in the Water with Ku Egenti
Ku Egenti and I talk about my white privilege and his career as a comedian on this episode. It's a fun ride through our minds as we think about hierarchy and dominance, strategy and intrigue in this gossip-filled chuckle-fest. Ku is one of the best comedians in town and a thoughtful guy with a...
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Summer School with Matt "Jolly" Rogers
We don't talk about Mark Harmon or Kirstie Alley at all on this episode, be we do reminisce over open mic memories. I talk about reading Eudora Welty novels for a long time. I do impressions of some of my drill sergeants from Basic Training. Matt tells funny stories about people we've met at...
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La Jetee with Cody Greenlee and The Big Picture with Emily Peacock
I named the first conversation after the 1962 Chris Marker short film from France because Cody and I talk for only about twenty minutes. Then I acknowledge a shoutout on facebook from Jessi Saldana, who listened to the Scotty Peterson episodes of this podcast on his drive to Mexico. Suddenly I…
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Groundhog Day with Tess Vergult
This is a very patriotic episode in keeping with the themes of celebration and support for the United States which I espouse and hold dear. Tess joins me to talk about the movie Groundhog Day and how it relates to our lives in these wonderful, wonderful times. During the intro I read a few...
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The Hidden with Hannah Philibert
On this one we discuss police officers and movies. We don't talk about the 1987 Kyle MacLachlan horror thriller about what happens when a cop and an FBI agent race for answers after law abiding people suddenly become violent criminals. It's a funny episode about nothing, really. If you like…
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Innerspace with Jordan Brady, Greg Deal, and Sara Deal
This episode tackles the biggest issues and important subjects facing the decision makers and power players of our times: what is gay? How is man? Is that weird? Do we even have a future in this populist hellscape of terror and nightmares? Do I sad? No one knows. It's a conversation with no...
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The Manchurian Candidate with Joe Hanrahan
This episode counts down and dresses down all the worst creeps who've ever existed one by one until we get bored. Then we talk about what would happen if we had a time-phone that could help us travel back in time in order to talk to creeps from the past. What would it take for us to change…
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Hard Eight with Emily Peacock
This podcast is good because I forget what's going on and just trust that my hilarious guest will be as funny as she always is. First episode since Mrs. Kisses died. I think we do a good job remembering her life and celebrating her character. The house feels lonely without a cat. Don't really...
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River's Edge with Adam Radliff
This is a high energy, high octane comedy podcast. We tear it up on this one. Lots of opinions and funny voices and things back and forth. I love the 80's teen crime drama River's Edge, but we don't talk about it. I named this one "River's Edge" because I believe Adam Radliff at some point stole...
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While You Were Sleeping with Tess Vergult
Romantic comedy vibes and discussions of romance abound within this slice of life episode of The Healing Club. Tess and I talk about comedy, life, death, jealousy, misunderstandings, and boundaries (how to cross them, how to defend them, etc.) in this lively and poignant little podcast episode....
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The Hottie and the Nottie with Eddy and Egbert
This is a loud, drunken, stupid podcast with my friends Eddy and Egbert. We all say way too much about what it means to be lonely, toxic men. No mention of the 2008 Paris Hilton comedy bomb that no one's ever watched. If you liked that movie, then you might enjoy hearing all of us deliberately...
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Don't Look Now with Luis DeJesus
Disturbing. Emotional. Spiritual. This podcast is a deep dive into the dark depths of two depraved minds developed and deformed by the deadly serious demesne known as the local Houston comedy scene. Luis talks about getting fired as a teacher and I talk about the movie Sleepless in Seattle. It's...
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Standard Operating Procedure with Michael Vargas
I'm reading the Seymour M. Hersh memoir REPORTER in which he recounts his years exposing scandals and coverups (My Lai 4, Watergate, government surveillance of U.S. citizens, corporate ties to organized crime, secret prisons and assassinations all over the world, the road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib,...
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Alone in the Dark with Bob Morrissey
Creepy, scary, spooky, and thought provoking episode of internal investigation and interiority in this episode. It's just me talking throughout. I talk about books and read old diary entries. It's my internal monologue and subjective self.
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Hell or High Water with Grady Pruitt
Nothing relevant to the Hell or High Water movie, I just know it's one of Grady's favorites. He's here in Houston on a brief visit from New York City, where he's striving to achieve the same relevance I seek here in Houston. Grady's a past winner of the Best Comic in Texas contest conducted by…
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle with Chad Alexander
Not at all a discussion of the 1973 Peter Yates film starring Robert Mitchum as the dirtiest, smarmiest lying dirtbag drunk / double-timing criminal worm from any movie ever--this is a fun talk about loneliness and power dynamics in the rough and tumble world of standup comedy in Houston, Texas.…
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Escape from New York with Will Loden
We don't talk about movies or anything, but Escape from New York is a film I can watch over and over again. I discover something new about manhood and stoicism in the face of tragedy every time I watch that John Carpenter classic. The sequel's not as great, but it's still fun. Anyway, Will…
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Spirited Away with Tre Tutson
I really like the 2001 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, but we hardly talk about it on this podcast. Instead we tell stories about our families and religious beliefs and opinions and so on. It's Tre Tutson talking about ambition and reality and the conflict...
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Mona Lisa with Emily Peacock
The other day I watched the 1986 Neil Jordan film starring Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson and Michael Caine. The best part is when there's a bunch of guys chasing short little Bob Hoskins through a city square. He turns around in the middle of the chase to head-butt one of the guys, knock him down, and...
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Apocalypto with Hannah Philibert and Micah Green
In this episode we talk about everyone we hate and why we hate them. When there's a lull in the conversation I read the lyrics of the ZZ Top song "Rough Boy" in their entirety. Then we talk about how much we love Maria Bamford and Sheng Wang, and also why I should win the Nobel Peace Prize. At…
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Close with Ben Mowbray and Dianne Gallagher
I named this episode after the film directed by Lukas Dhont, a movie that made me cry for an hour and a half at the multi-plex last week. This is a very special podcast dedicated to the memory of the late great Bryan Hurzie. Ben Mowbray and Dianne Gallagher were Bryan's friends and peers in…
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Close-Up with Mairead Dickenson
At no point do we discuss the 1990 Abbas Kiarostami film Close-up, which is about the trial of a guy who in real life tricked a family into believing he was the director of a film starring them. It's a strange little film that is not as action-packed and riveting as this explosive new podcast…
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Shadows with Albert DeLeon
This is a sincere, political, inexplicable, and endearing podcast with one of the funniest people to attempt standup comedy in the scene in Houston: Albert DeLeon: hero, father, mentor, guide, victim, saint, and martyr of many faces and guises. Albert DeLeon's appeared on JFL New Faces and many...
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Animal Kingdom with Abbey Vollman and Jessi Saldana
Unique, powerful, devastating, hilarious conversation abounds in this dialogue that captures the talents and personalities of the three best comics in Houston: me and my two guests Abbey Vollman and Jessi Saldana. I think I refer to the movie ANIMAL KINGDOM in some off-hand way during the…
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The Spy Who Came In From The Cold with Cody Greenlee
Silly energy and big smiles. Happy conversations and joke homilies from two stupid faces on this episode. Nothing mopey. No one delves into deep wells of despair or victim shame on this one. Perfectly goofy and natural as we talk about the songs that reached number one in the charts on our...
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Sing Street with Arielle Isaac Norman
Arielle Isaac Norman returns! This podcast features an elaborate intro with music in the background playing so that my weird upstairs neighbor won't hear every word I say through the thin walls of my tiny apartment! I read a passage from the Dana Spiotta novel WAYWARD, a novel about a depressed...
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Play Misty for Me with Russell Simek
The talk in this one goes sci-fi, philosophical, speculative, and dreamy as we peer into the inner trash can of my soul and my comedy. Russell Simek returns to converse about artificial intelligence, synchronicity, and the changeable nature of human identity. It's confusing and topical, political...
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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie with Joe Hanrahan
During the intro I apologize for how horrible the last episode was in that conversation throughout which I thought I was being funny but was not, actually, very funny. I also read a citation from the Greg Grandin book THE END OF THE MYTH and describe in passing the Camara Laye novel THE RADIANCE…
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A Brighter Summer Day with Will Loden, Jose Pena and Bailey
Cacophony of voices chattering and smattering, describing and delighting with words of nothing at the end of a night of heavy drinking. Irrepressibly irresponsible and stupid as Hell! This is some sort of endurance test or something. If you lose a bet, you should have to listen to this podcast in...
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Love Exposure with Albert DeLeon
Merry Christmas mothers and fuckers! This is a very filthy Christmas episode of the goddamned Healing Club with cock-sucking surprise guest Albert DeLeon returning to talk about Christmas and family and joy and love and rape and ghosts and harmony and magic! Albert's been on Just For Laughs New...
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Kajillionaire with Emily Peacock
Emily Peacock returns to chat about comedy, art, music, movies, childhood, parenthood, teaching, trauma, and Metallica. We don't talk at all about the 2020 Miranda July film Kajillionaire (which was the last movie I saw at the historic River Oaks Theater before it closed), but we do have a good...
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire with Astra Adara
Astra Adara joins the podcast to talk about stars, destiny, sexuality, and poverty in the United States. We make history together as we discuss the meaning of experience and/or love. She reads some Tarot cards for me and diagnoses me as a hopeless person. This is a funny podcast with some serious...
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Jennifer's Body with Eddy Aviles and Tess Vergult
These two recurring guests are back, and if you come to any ComedyHubHouston shows this year you can thank Eddy Aviles for creating these opportunities to have fun. Tess Vergult runs some of the best shows in town every T&A Tuesday at The Secret Group at Ten O'Clock. Every single one of us has a...
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Glass Onion with Mandy Trichell
Mandy Trichell returns to talk about her work as a women's reproductive rights activist, and the conversation careens into other topics such as socialism and the war on drugs. It's politically charged, but also silly and down to earth. We talk about growing older on a planet that feels like a...
About this show
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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