Sickboy
CBC
Sickboy is the only place where terminal diagnoses can peacefully coexist with jokes we probably shouldn't make. Hosted by three best friends, Jeremie, Brian, and Taylor, this show smashes taboos around illness, death, and everything in between. Inspired by Jeremie’s life with Cystic Fibrosis, we dive headfirst into the uncomfortable, the hilarious, and the heartbreaking. We talk to people living with everything from chronic disease to catastrophic injury, mental health struggles to medical miracles - and we do it with radical empathy, zero BS, and the kind of unfiltered jokes that get us kicked out of support groups. If you’ve ever felt weird, broken, or like no one gets it, welcome. New episodes drop every Wednesday. Pull up a seat; it’s gonna get real.Follow Sickboy on Instagram & TikTok!
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Dec 9, 2022 • 1h 8min
Closed Captioning AR Glasses For Deaf Folks?! Feel Good Friday
Brian may or may not be with us any longer. This week Jer and Tay break down a new pair of AR/AI glasses that provide real-time closed captioning so that they can communicate easier with those around them! Listening to podcasts provides folks with social connection according to a recent study. A naturopath in the U.S. is facing time for providing hundreds of false vaccination cards during the pandemic. Tay talks about a sad interaction with someone who is struggling with drug addiction. A woman in the UK will be the first person to have their body dissected on national television! The first public dissection in over 200 years!
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Dec 7, 2022 • 51min
Equipping Patients with Health Literacy and Empowerment: Patient Empowerment Network
This week the fellas are joined by Aicha, Senior Director of Programs at Patient Empowerment Network! PEN’s mission is to fortify cancer patients and care partners with the knowledge and tools to boost their confidence, put them in control of their healthcare journey, and assist them in receiving the best, most personalized care available to ensure they have the best possible outcome. Aicha breaks down the benefits of shared decision making, health literacy and health equity and how those things have a direct result on improving treatment outcomes for cancer patients.
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Dec 5, 2022 • 1h 10min
Diagnosed and Undiagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis?! With a Broken Back For Good Measure
Emily has been sick for her entire life, but no one can seem to figure out why. Some doctors believe it's Cystic Fibrosis. Some doctors don't. She's been diagnosed with CF several times, and she has been undiagnosed with CF just as many. CFTR-related illness is complicated to say the least and Emily has been through the wringer trying to get to the bottom of it. The struggle gets even more real after Emily falls through a roof of an abandoned building and breaks her back! On the plus side, she got some pretty beautiful photos in the process.
Dec 2, 2022 • 1h 11min
Smuggling Loved Ones' Ashes in a Buttplug - Feel Good Friday
Finding new and innovative ways to do meaningful things with the ashes of our loved ones is something Sickboy has always been fascinated with. Smuggling your partners ashes around the world inside your bum hole is a new one though. Speaking of new, the ESA has just signed on the first-ever disabled astronaut to their program! We live in the future and it's awesome. Speaking of the future, scientists kept a premature lamb alive in a "biobag" for weeks. Could humans be next? Motorcycle rallies could be the key to the organ donation shortage! To appease Brian and his need for TikTok content, Jer explores a top 8 list of bizarre medical practices from a bygone era.
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Nov 30, 2022 • 53min
Attachment Styles and Romantic Partner Attributions w/ Professor Angela Rowe
Angela Rowe is a professor of social psychology at the School of the Psychological Science, University of Bristol. Today she joins the fellas to chat with them about something they've been curious about for weeks - attachment styles! Angela breaks down how biologically we attach, for survival. Humans are unique in that we need to have attachments throughout our lives, but what happens when our childhood experience of attachment influences how we relate to others as an adult? Angela breaks down the four adult attachment styles and how they may have an effect on our romantic relationships.
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Nov 28, 2022 • 56min
Making Porn & Fighting Diabetes
Slava Siderman is an award-winning and hall-of-fame adult and horror filmmaker. He joins Taylor and Jer today to take them through his very gnarly experience with diabetes and the months-long stay at the ICU where he almost lost his entire leg. Just like a quality body horror film, this episode is full of nasty descriptions including needles in the eyes for a procedure to prevent ocular decay. Slava uses the traumatic time he spent in the hospital as inspiration for future spooky sexy movies and has been on the road to much more self care after failing to take care of his body properly over the years.
Nov 25, 2022 • 1h 2min
Sperm Rates Plummet Amid Reaching Population 8 Billion - Feel Good Friday
Twins have been born from embryos that are almost as old as the guys. Does this technically make them '90s babies? Millennial Zoomers? The earth has now reached 8 billion humans! It’s also been discovered that sperm counts worldwide have plunged 62% in under 50 years. One man needed healthcare that he couldn’t afford, so he got arrested to get the care in jail. RNIB reminds us how the everyday shopping experience is much different for those that are blind. Finally, one nurse in Wisconsin is looking at hard time for a joke that no one thought was funny except her.
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Nov 23, 2022 • 51min
It’s Okay To Decay - Terramation (Human Composting)
Brie Smith is chief operating officer at Return Home, a service that is providing families access to inclusive, gentle, transparent death care that continues the cycle of life. This week the fellas speak to Brie about the state of current death care in the U.S. and its impact on the planet. Brie explains the beautiful alternative being practiced at Return Home. 'Terramation' is where your last act on earth is one that gives back to it by returning life-giving soil to the earth (AKA human composting).
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Nov 21, 2022 • 1h 7min
One in Six - A Story of IVF
Jen and Neil are a happily married couple in their thirties. From the outside, life is picture-perfect. But behind their smiles lies a heartbreaking secret: they can’t get pregnant. Today Jen and her husband Neil join Jer and Tay to discuss their years-long struggle with fertility — a journey filled with hormone injections, transvaginal ultrasounds, tears, anxiety, shame, laughter, love and hope. One in Six is the podcast that tells their story and is available now on CBC Podcasts!
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Nov 18, 2022 • 30min
Chainsmoking While Running a Marathon - Feel Good Friday LIVE in Ottawa
The fellas are finally back together and this week they come to you LIVE from Ottawa at Algonquin College! Uncle Chen couldn't look more cool. Smoking like a chimney AND crushing an absolutely bonkers marathon time. Speaking of smoking, one study out of Ottawa is saying that smoking weed could very well lead to more lung disease than smoking tobacco. By the way, do you have Crohn's disease? Well if you do, you should thank your ancestors. It's likely your autoimmune disease is a direct result of your ancestors surviving the black death. Lots of speculation in this weeks episode, but here is something that needs no speculation whatsoever - how horrible it is for the body to chug 12 energy drinks in 10 minutes.
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