Episode 11: Dr Ian Hesketh & Noreen Tehrani, Black Humour

**⚠️ Content Warning:** This episode contains confronting discussions about trauma, death, dark humour, and the lived experiences of emergency responders. Listener discretion is strongly advised. Episode 11 goes straight into the places most people never see the moments behind the uniform where humour becomes a pressure valve, a warning sign, or the only thing keeping someone upright. Dr Ian Hesketh and Dr Noreen Tehrani don’t tiptoe around it. They talk openly about the smell, the shock, the split‑second decisions, and the kind of dark humour responders use when the alternative is falling apart. It’s raw, honest and unfiltered. And understanding this topic matters because if we don’t recognise how responders cope, we miss the human cost of the work they do and the support they actually need. This conversation will change the way you think about the people who carry the unbearable so the rest of us don’t have to.