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 Marissa. She has lupus. Let's talk about it.

All right. Well, this is going to be interesting because we are diving into a topic that over six years of doing this podcast, we've only scratched the surface once, long time ago. And I, like always, don't remember a fucking thing about anything we've ever talked about.

So this is a great learning opportunity for myself. But also, I feel like a pretty great learning opportunity for everybody else listening at home.

We are joined by Marissa all the way from New York, New York City.

West New York, West and New York.

You got it.

Fax, Rochester.

That's the only, that's the only, that's the only, that's the only, that's the only

Nies, I don't even know where Rochester is.

Sorry, Marissa.

Yeah, yeah, please, please, don't mind me.

Marissa, how about we, how will we kick this whole thing off with a, your, your description

of what lupus is.

Okay. Um, well, Lupus is like a shit show and like a dumpster on fire, just rolling down

the street kind of all at once.

Sounds fun.

People, people kicking it and throwing gasoline on top of it as it rolls out of street.

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