This week, amongst other things, Queenie and TT land on a core problem: modern medicine is fantastic at keeping people alive and not particularly great at keeping them *living*.

The discussion end with an impromptu spoken word piece about the morbidity gap — trading lines about pills for the knee, stents for the artery, being saved from the dying but not from the living. It’s part blues, part comedy roast of American healthcare, and it works. “They’ll save you from the dying but they won’t save you from the living” is just a line, delivered between two women riffing.