Podcast
Humorist and doctor Carlos Vidal invites Mafalda Ribeiro, who has an imperfect osteogenesis, something that does not define her, defining herself for her mind and ability to do things. They talk about mood in disability, laughter in the face of prejudice, how we should deal with words, and the importance, or not, of the diminutive. Listen here to the new episode of the podcast “The animal that laughs”
Is it laughing to help declare victory before the pain? And will proximity or distance from the subjects have the ability to legitimize, or not, a joke? Where does religion fit adversity? As acceptance or as dependence? A conversation with several unpublished stories, which mirror where laughter is inserted in the different moments of life between humorist and doctor Carlos Vidal and Mafalda Ribeiro.
Humorist, physician and musician, all shuffled and without a specific order, Carlos Vidal is a specialist in General and Family Medicine, postgraduate in Sports Medicine from FMUP, and has as the master thesis the “therapeutic benefits of humor”. He organized the “I Health Days: Medicine and Humor”, combining the two arts and treating them the way they should always be viewed: seriously.
It has been invited to various lectures, addressing humor and medicine topics, such as TEDX Youth Aveiro or lectures at the University of Coimbra. It gave a face to several campaigns, including that of the NHS, and organized Risorius-Humor and Art Festival of Albergaria-a-Velha, which had 8 editions.
In this new weekly podcast, Carlos Vidal will think of humor through the stories that each guest brings. The idea is to speak, think, deepen, study and debate laughter and, if all goes well … not come to any conclusion.
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