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The week of my 40th birthday a suitcase fell on my head. I’ve Got a Hunch is a podcast hosted by me, Nate Dern, about my funny, obsessive quest to fix my posture, recover from injury and learn to stand up straight again—both literally and figuratively. Each episode has interviews, essays, and research about posture, pain, and surviving midlife. Guests span the worlds of comedy and wellness, from Connor Ratliff (Dead Eyes) and D'Arcy Carden (The Good Place) to chiropractors, posture experts, and more. Tune in and laugh, learn, and leave with your head held a little higher.
Update frequency:
every 24 days
Average audio length:
34 minutes
English
United States
4 episodes
since July 31, 2026
episodic
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In this episode, I explore the fact that as someone who is just shorter than six feet tall, I've always wondered what my life would be like if I were just a little bit taller. Combined with the revelation from the last episode that my kyphosis and scoliosis in my teenage years perhaps stunted me fr…
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After visiting the chiropractor for a few months, I sat down to chat with Dr. Chris Zander of Portland Backsmith Chiropractor (https://portlandbacksmith.com/). We discuss scoliosis, Scheuermann’s disease, kyphosis, and whether, in the pursuit of back pain relief, it's better to focus on improving m…
I interview my sister-in-law, D'Arcy Carden (The Good Place, The Five Star Weekend), about the headspace I was in the week of my 40th birthday, just days before a suitcase was dropped on my head. While celebrating with family, D'Arcy asked me, "What are you proud of in the last year?" – a…
The week of his 40th birthday, writer Nate Dern had a suitcase dropped on his head on a Southwest Airlines flight from Denver to Minneapolis (12/8/2024), causing a compressed spinal injury and revealing a lifetime of bad posture. In this podcast, Nate explores what it means to stand up straight aga…
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