Stop Podcasting Yourself · Graham Clark and Dave Shumka

Episode 926 - Kelli Ogmundson

December 16, 2025·1 hr 46 min·8 clips

Kelli Ogmundson confesses she hasn't slept in 20 years because of severe sleep apnea.

Episode 926 opens with holiday business. Graham brings Dave in through a stacked-up Christmas bit, all holly, jolly, and sleigh talk, before the conversation drifts to Vancouver's two all-Christmas radio stations. The church songs get judged. A few carols survive the table read. Others get gently shoved toward the exit for being the ones nobody needs quite that often. Then the lab story takes over. A blood test while sick leads to dizziness, a surprise urine sample, and the awful little panic of needing your body to perform on command. The clinic waiting room becomes its own pressure chamber: repeat trips, too much water, a nurse noticing the delay, and everyone finding the comedy in a problem that is stupidly familiar. The episode keeps wandering in the best way. A loose movie-star gag pops in. A mention of English Teacher turns into bathroom etiquette, which somehow becomes its own nervous side road. The guest keeps pace with the room, and the whole thing stays warm instead of mean. The awkwardness is not the joke so much as the shared recognition that bodies are badly timed machines. Near the end, work circles back. The guest mentions ADR sessions and a play next summer in The Play That Goes Wrong at the Gravel Island stage. The title lands perfectly in the room, then Wicked gets tossed in as another possible lane. The close stays easy: a little more Christmas radio, then the usual come-back-next-week feeling.

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Christmas songs, clinic anxiety, and bathroom panic turn into a loose, happily gross hang.

This Kelli Ogmundson episode of Stop Podcasting Yourself runs on tiny social pressures getting treated like major civic events. Dave Shumka and Graham Clark start with Christmas radio and the risky business of ranking church hymns, then slide into a blood test visit where the…

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You want holiday banter that starts with Christmas songs and drifts into blood tests and pee-related misery.

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