Laughter Heals with Comedian Craig Shoemaker

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4.1 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2016

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Comedian/Author Craig Shoemaker (LaughterHeals.com) shares an emotional story about a terminally ill friend and the laughter they shared that kept him hanging on. Here's a few links to help you get the most out of Story Worthy- if you're listening on an iPhone, all you need to do is tap the cover art while the show is playing, and you'll see the episode notes, including the links. There is one to subscribe, http://bit.ly/2eSlJZw please do! There's one to our Facebook page and to our email address. We'd love to hear from you, either there, or on our survey at wondery.com/survey. You'll also find some special deals courtesy of our sponsors like Hello Fresh (promo code STORY30) Casper Mattress, and Audible (promo code STORYWORTHY). It's good karma guys! See our Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and our California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Storyworthy Media, the best in story-driven content.
0:07.3	Hi, it's Craig Shoemaker. They want me to do lay-miz because I'm a lay-miz freak.
0:21.8	You are listening to Storyworthy.
0:27.2	You will love it.
0:28.7	Oh, yes, you will.
0:31.3	Be here this week and next week, too.
0:35.3	I'll be here and here for you
0:39.3	Welcome to the story worthy podcast
0:52.5	Here are your hosts Christine Black Blackburn and Hannah Spine.
1:06.4	Welcome to Storyworthy. My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with
1:09.9	Hanas Finney, and we're coming to you from the Healing Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Oh, they have one of those here. They have many healing centers, but yes, yes. And this is to heal people who've eaten too much Bratworths. No, no, it's to heal people who need healing. Oh, okay. Here at the Healing Center in Milwaukee. Well, I can get behind that.
1:28.6	Healing is good.
1:29.5	I think we're here because we want to heal tonight because our storyteller tonight is Craig
1:35.6	Shoemaker and he brings forth the topic laughter heels.
1:39.3	Laughter heals.
1:40.4	Well, when I think that laughter heals, I think about Patch Adams.
1:43.7	I automatically go to that.
1:45.9	Which was a true story. Yeah. And so that's encouraging. But sometimes I get, I have that a little bit of a
1:51.5	fear of clowns. So I never really thought that would heal me. I thought that, right, you, the clown
1:56.0	creates psychic scars. And then you need the laughter to heal those those scars when i hear the topic laughter
2:02.7	heals of course i think about what i went through and when i went through cancer and had surgery
2:08.5	and went through chemotherapy and i had a lot of people tell me you, to cheer up.
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