How To Tickle Yourself

On the same day in 1985, the following three things happened to Andy Cumming, in this order: He found out that his testicular cancer, for which he’d been undergoing chemo treatments for five years, was gone, for good. He proposed to his girlfriend....

For years we were promised a digital utopia, where technology or the algorithm would allow us to optimize ourselves into a state of permanent satisfaction.  After spending some time being shut in during quarantine with all the digital tools we...

Today’s guest comes to us courtesy of Tinseltown. The funny side of it. The REALLY funny side of it. Owen Burke is a comedian and producer who has worked with Comedy Central’s Drunk History and FunnyorDie.  He tickles people for a living....

For the first part of his life, you would have described Jeremy Down as an artist, musician, and creator. He fronted bands, traveled with the art collective DrawnOnward, and lived a good life. But a near death experience in 2001 - after a canoe...

During almost twenty-three years of teaching, Bob Osborne has mentored and taught well over a thousand kids. He’s taught 1-3 grades, 7-12 grades, and graduate students. Mr. O, as his students call him, starts every year by establishing a basis for...

When Duff was struggling with alcoholism, Joe Schrank stepped forward and offered to help. So don’t let Joe’s gruff demeanor, which you’ll get a full dose of in this episode, deceive you. He’s got one of the biggest hearts around....

If you listened to the audiobook version of TICKLED, you were listening to Sean Pratt’s award-winning voice, which has won him 9 “Earphones” awards from AudioFile Magazine, 5 SOVAS nominations, and 5 “audie” nominations from the Audio...

Our guest today is nothing short of a rock star. Her name is Anna Mernieks-Duffield, and she is the lead singer, banjo player, and guitarist of the Toronto-based band BEAMS, as well as the guitarist and backup singer of the band Ace of Wands –...

This week on How to Tickle Yourself we learn about the Self-Realization Fellowship, an organization that teaches meditation and the philosophy of the Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda. We asked Brother Satyananda, who has been a monk of the SRF monastic...

We invite a special guest on How to Tickle Yourself this week.  His name is Steven Jenkins, and he is director of the recently opened Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  He is the perfect guest to help us explore the unbelievable artistry...