Hi, Steve Patterson here, host of the debaters, the show where Canada's best comics battle it out.

This week, we're asking if silence is golden, which is quite the question for two comedians.

And this goes without saying.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

This is a CBC podcast.

Welcome to Sick Boy, a podcast where we talk about what it's like to be sick.

This week's guest is Jenny. She has brittle asthma. Let's talk about it. We are rocking and rolling, and we are going to be talking about this, guys, we are like three for three on shit that I've never heard before.

Again, we've been doing this podcast for like six years now, almost, and we've talked about everything under the sun when it comes to illness.

Apparently not.

I guess not.

Because today we're going to be talking about type one brittle asthma.

Now, I know what asthma is, but Jenny, all the way from fucking just south of Dublin, Ireland.

How was that?

That was a perfect accent.

Perfect.

That was me.

What is type 1 brittle asthma?

So type 1 brittle asthma is the very, very, very rare end of severe asthma. So only 0.05% of people with asthma

have this particular type. So I looked it up earlier and I think it was 105,000 in the whole

world, or 108 or something like so not very many people

but I suppose

the main difference with brittle asthma

...