{"podcast":{"title":"Funny Medicine Podcast","slug":"funny-medicine-podcast-6411675","podcast_index_feed_id":6411675,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/funnymedicinepodcast/feed.xml","website_url":"https://linktr.ee/funnymedicine","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/funnymedicinepodcast/20230602_070652_1946961ccebcb63f04f6b69b49839967.jpg","author":"Julia Brunet and Yvette Gonzalez, D.O.","episode_count":144,"summary":"Funny Medicine Podcast – The Cure for Boring Medical Talk! Get your dose of medicine— but funny! 🤣💊 Join Dr. Yvy and medical researcher Julia Brunet , two science-loving besties who break down medical mysteries, health fads, and the weirdest wellness trends with wit and sarcasm. From anti-aging disasters to bizarre medical history and the latest in medicine and health, they serve up expert insights with a side of sarcasm. Each week, they dissect trending health topics, viral medical news, and those too-weird-to-be-true medical cases—so you learn and laugh along the way. Whether you’re a healthcare pro, a curious hypochondriac, or just here for the comedy, Funny Medicine Podcast is your prescription for hilarious medical banter. 💉 Laugh. Learn. Repeat. 🎧 🎙️ New episodes every Tuesday! Hit Follow for your weekly dose of comedic medicine. 🔎 Search “funny medical podcast” and start streaming now! #MedicalComedy #FunnyMedicinePodcast #HealthHumor #LaughAndLearn","last_synced_at":"2026-07-09T04:20:25.357240+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/funny-medicine-podcast-6411675"},"episode":{"title":"Mumps The Chipmunk Cheeks Virus Parents Forgot About","slug":"mumps-the-chipmunk-cheeks-virus-parents-forgot-about","published_at":"2025-12-02T12:01:18+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/funny-medicine-podcast-6411675/mumps-the-chipmunk-cheeks-virus-parents-forgot-about","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/funny-medicine-podcast-6411675","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/funnymedicinepodcast/2349821","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/212833/2349821/funnymedicinepodcast/2025_11_26_18_52_35_d64ed8f1-4379-4938-825a-32811e706ba8.mp3","summary":"Cheeks puff up, jaw aches, and your group chat starts talking about mumps. Plants and Facts EP 123 breaks down the chipmunk cheeks virus with real science and unfiltered millennial commentary. Pediatrician Dr Yvy and medical researcher Julz explain what mumps is, how it spreads in dorms, teams, camps, and households, and why vaccines dropped yearly cases from hundreds of thousands to a few hundred. You also hear wild history from Hippocrates to World War I barracks, how Maurice Hilleman built the MMR shot from his daughters infection, and why online vaccine myths keep dragging this virus back into the news. What you learn in this episode • Classic mumps symptoms in kids, teens, and adults, including parotid gland swelling, fever, jaw pain, and fatigue • How the virus spreads through droplets in dorms, sports teams, schools, prisons, and households, plus how long you stay contagious • Real risks, orchitis, oophoritis, meningitis, encephalitis, hearing loss, pancreatitis, miscarriage, and why severe outcomes stay rare in the vaccine era • Why some vaccinated people still get mumps, what waning immunity means, and why third dose MMR shows up during campus outbreaks • How to tell mumps from regular swollen lymph nodes, plus simple comfort tips for pain, fever, and soreness • Clear, no nonsense talk about MMR safety, the debunked autism study, RFK Jr sound bites, Tylenol panic, and how misinformation hurts real families. If you are a student, parent, teacher, health worker, or vaccine hesitant friend who likes medical facts with sarcasm and millennial chaos, this episode is for you. Hit play, subscribe to Funny Medicine Podcast here on YouTube, then find the show on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and every major podcast app. New episodes drop every Tuesday, plus extra Plants and…","meta_description":"Cheeks puff up, jaw aches, and your group chat starts talking about mumps. Plants and Facts EP 123 breaks down the chipmunk cheeks virus with real science…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3973,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/funny-medicine-podcast-6411675/episodes/mumps-the-chipmunk-cheeks-virus-parents-forgot-about/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/funny-medicine-podcast-6411675/mumps-the-chipmunk-cheeks-virus-parents-forgot-about.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}