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Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng is a palliative care & intensive care doctor based in Ottawa and host of the podcast Solving Healthcare. This week he joins the fellas to talk about the tricky discourse surrounding COVID-19 and the controversy surrounding the idea of an eventual endemic. He walks the fellas through the importance of therapeutics and what role they could and should play in the treatment of...

According to the National Organization for Rare Diseases, "Ramsay Hunt Syndrome (RHS) is a rare neurological disorder characterized by paralysis of the facial nerve (facial palsy) and a rash affecting the ear or mouth." According to Jennifer, it's the Satan reincarnate. This week Jennifer tells an incredibly fascinating tale to the fellas all about how a viral disease completely changed her life....

Can you remember the worst date you’ve ever been on? I bet it comes nowhere near the date from hell one woman from China was on during a COVID lockdown. Speaking of COVID, did you know the military is joining the fight? The SpFN vaccine is made with bullets. The lockdown vibes in China are next next level. Finally Ding Dong of the week opens a whole can of worms regarding drinking your own piss. S...

Alex remembers everything about the day a speeding police car killed his fourteen year old brother, but can no longer recall memories from when he was alive. And now, 30 years later, Alex wants them back. In this emotional four-part series, Alex unearths his childhood grief. What happens when trauma and memory collide? Sorry About The Kid is a deeply personal meditation on the losses that define u...

How do you forget your favourite person in the world? Alex remembers everything about the day a speeding police car killed his brother. But his brother, alive? Those memories are lost. And now, 30 years later, Alex wants them back. Sorry About The Kid is CBC's newest podcast and Alex is the host. Alex joins the fellas to talk about his process of unearthing his childhood grief — with help from fam...

Gabby is a nurse living in Nova Scotia. When she was 8 years old, in her hometown (a small fishing village in Newfoundland) she experienced something that would affect her for years to come. Gabby discovered her grandfather deceased. Tune in this week as Gabby walks the fellas through the years of her life where those memories were repressed and what mental health struggles she faced as a result....

Big news in the world of health this week! MDMA and Psilocybin have both been approved for medical use in Canada! A man successfully had a genetically altered pig heart transplanted into his own body, and there is a unisex condom making waves over in Malaysia! The fellas chat about how video games could play an integral role in managing children's emotions from a recent trial coming out of Massach...

Sue Robins is back on the show, this time to talk about the necessary changes we need to see in healthcare. Sue is a healthcare activist, speaker and author. Her latest book, 'Ducks in a Row: Health Care Reimagined,' is for everyone who is unhappy with healthcare. 'Ducks in a Row' offers a scrappy challenge to the established healthcare world. She talks to the fellas about a lack of humanity in he...

While working as a dental hygienist, Emily Rodger decided to pursue her passion for triathlon and cycling. In her full first year of bike racing (let me repeat: FIRST YEAR), she competed in 21 races, which included 17 podiums, 14 first place finishes, a national Masters title, and a world Masters title in time trial. Emily was on cloud 9, until she was violently struck by a car while on her bike....

The fellas are back in the studio and kick off the first Friday of 2022 full of beans. Jeremie is turning 34 and wants an airbag for the elderly for his birthday. Speaking of gifts, move over diamonds there is a new precious gemstone in town — breastmilk jewelry is so 2022. What's scarier than a petri dish full of human brain cells playing pong better than AI? Alexa telling a small child to stick...

Dr. Michael L. Barnett is Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a primary care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His research focuses on high-risk medications and the organization of primary and specialty care. This week he joins the fellas to talk about the opioid epidemic that continues to ravage the United States and wh...

Kelly applied to be on the show to talk about three things: allergies (like, to everything), a severe panic disorder, and her experience of living through domestic abuse. All three of these things are closely related to one another and it made for an incredibly fascinating conversation. From puking her guts out in a fancy office building in Amsterdam, to suffering from panic attacks upwards of 6 a...

Happy Holidays folks! We know this can be a hard time of year for some. If you or someone you know is struggling, the national suicide hotline is open 24/7/365 - 1- 833-456-4566. This week we release a wonderful conversation from the past. “Doctors make for horrible patients”. This week we speak with Michelle, a practicing psychiatrist, who has a history of depression. BUT WAIT?! A psychiatrist is...

Tess is a is a sexuality specialist whose expertise is working in intimacy & sexuality for people with cancer, chronic illness & disability (on top of all of that they're also a sexual occupational therapist). For the past three years, Tess has been fighting stage 3 breast cancer and has personally experienced the severe impacts treatments have on our intimacy, and also, the lack of attention this...

In the final Feel Good Friday of 2021 we bring you the goods. Everything from listener tales of concussions, astronauts with squashed eyeballs, music that is scientifically made to make men vulnerable, a CF mobile health app made by a kid named JET, and a number of Ding Dongs including one maniac who was getting up to 10 COVID doses a day to help the anti-vaxx population. Thanks for an amazing 202...

Known as the Sperminator the inseminator, or perhaps even "America's Dad," Ari Nagel is the biological father to over 100 children across the world. This week the fellas chat with Ari about how he got involved with the unorthodox method of sperm donation outside of the typical method of sperm bank donation. It all started with a Craigslist ad that evolved from word of mouth into Facebook groups an...

Danie was on a second date that seemed to be going well. Next logical step, head back to her place. On her drive home she lost control of her car and flipped off of the highway, leaving her dazed and very confused. Danie suffered from a rather traumatic concussion which led to a long road to recovery. Memory loss, dizziness and vomiting were just the beginning. Danie walks the fellas through her j...

Jer is almost a week into dosing Trikafta. No big purge of mucous like he expected... however he is noticing something different about his willymilk. Speaking of willymilk, turns out Viagra could be the next big breakthrough in Alzheimer's treatment! Turns out there is a 69% decrease in Alzheimer's from the blue pill. And that stat is not a joke. You know what else is not a joke? 3D printed "suici...

Janja Lalich, Ph. D., Professor Emerita of Sociology, is an international authority on cults and coercion. Researcher, author, and educator, she specializes in recruitment, indoctrination, and methods of influence and control. She is a cult survivor herself and has been studying the psychology of controversial groups for over 35 years. She joins the fellas to go in depth about the real meaning of...

We can't begin to describe how sweet of a human Collin Clowes is and boy oh boy has he been through hell and back. At only 17 years old, living in a small township in Northern Ontario, Colin began vomiting totally bonkers amounts of blood. He was rushed to the ER and they determined things were... bad. He needed to be airlifted to Toronto. They concluded that he was suffering from internal bleedin...

In a truly good feeling Feel Good Friday: Jer swallows his first dose of Trikafta! The fellas then speak at length about alcohol abuse and Jeremie's struggle with kicking the bottle in order to prep for this new life-changing medicine. In other news, llamas might be the reason for the newest COVID treatment, a cure for Type I Diabetes could be right around the corner, and some children are injecti...

That's a wrap for Movember 2021! Between the fellas, the moustache and fundraising competition has come to a close and the loser must now step up and get a moustache tattoo. So who lost? Tune in to find out. At the beginning of the month the boys put on a virtual live show and were joined by Mitch Hermansen, Movember staff, to talk about why Movember matters then they transition into a fascinating...

Buckle up this week. Literally. Put on your seat belt. We spend the first 10 minutes of this week's episode connecting with Mack while he's on the road in his souped-up sound-proofed car. Mack was born a double amputee and this guy is the ultimate trooper. During his youth he pushed through multiple surgeries and had an uphill battle with his own mental health, but it wasn't until he discovered hi...

Here at Sickboy we have the sleuthiest of listeners. Shout out to Britt and Hil for spilling the TEA. This week we talk about the future of nanobots when it comes to cancer treatement. Miracle workers or possible human killing mini machines? Speaking of existential events, we chat disability & climate change. Folks who are disabled are being left out of the conversation and will suffer unless some...

You could say this episode has a lot of heart. AYYYOOO! Dr. Eilidh MacDonald holds a PhD in Physiology and Biophysics at Dalhousie University and is now a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. She joins the fellas to talk all things heart! We talk how one tests/studies the hearts of animals, how the h...