19-Year Podversary!

19 Years Ago, I Accidentally Changed Healthcare Media Forever.

On May 28, 2007, I hit "publish" on the very first episode of The Stupid Cancer Show. No script. No playbook. Just an 11-year brain cancer survivor yelling into the rotary internet from a Gen 1 Blue Snowball USB Condenser Mic.

That little rebellion? It helped kickstart a media movement. It made it okay to say cancer out loud. And it paved the way for Out of Patients—now the longest-running, most trusted patient podcast in healthcare.

Thousands of episodes. Thousands of guests. Countless "wait, did they really just say that?" moments. All because of that one night 19 years ago.

So here's the ask.

If The Stupid Cancer or Out of Patients has ever made you laugh, cry, rage, scream, or feel a little less alone in the bureaucratic hellscape we call healthcare, do me (and the algorithm gods) a solid.

Go leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. No TED Talk is required—no need to call me the Larry David-meets-Howard Stern of advocacy or the Cancer Gandalf. You shall pass. Maybe just a sentence or two, so more people can find the show.

I'm not selling you vitamins, a subscription box, or an NFT of my brain tumor. Just trying to hit 50 new reviews before May 28. Because yes, reviews still matter.

Thanks for sticking with me.

Thanks for screaming into the void.

Here's to year 20.

To infinity and beyond!