Sick Man Talking Podcast

In this episode, the Sick Man talks about the history and psychology of murder.  This is the Murder Episode.  Support the show Host: Brad Cartner   Show Producer: Greg O’Brien   Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman Music: Brad Cartner   Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter     FOR FULL PODCAST DETAILS, NEWS AND DIRECTORIES  visit us on our MAIN WEBSITE at  https://www.sickmantalking.ca/   or visit our HOST WEBSI...

In this episode, the Sick Man man talks about dreams. What they are, why we have them, and the different kinds.   He then risks his personal and professional reputation by revealing several of his own dreams and interpreting them.   This is the Dreams Episode.  Support the show Host: Brad Cartner   Show Producer: Greg O’Brien   Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman Music: Brad Cartner   Officer Wilfert: A...

In this episode, the Sick Man returns to his youth (and first principles) to play a simple, yet incredibly meaningful game.  Grab a ball and find a wall.  Support the show Host: Brad Cartner   Show Producer: Greg O’Brien   Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman Music: Brad Cartner   Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter     FOR FULL PODCAST DETAILS, NEWS AND DIRECTORIES  visit us on our MAIN WEBSITE at  https://www...

In this episode, the Sick Man examines an ancient philosophical question known as the Problem of Evil. In other words, why do bad things happen under a benevolent God? Let’s open up the Book of Job to find the answer. Hopefully we’ll find something. Anything.  Support the show Host: Brad Cartner   Show Producer: Greg O’Brien   Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman Music: Brad Cartner   Officer Wilfert: Ad...

In this episode, the Sick Man plays the role of Prometheus; the Titan who stole fire from the gods and gave it to humanity so we could do stuff (and to piss off Zeus).  Light your inner spark for the Myth of Prometheus.   Support the show Host: Brad Cartner   Show Producer: Greg O’Brien   Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman Music: Brad Cartner   Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter     FOR FULL PODCAST DETAILS,...

In this episode, join the Sick Man as he brings you the shocking, explosive finale of the Fake Cop Trilogy.  The Fake Cop is back from Beverly Hills and back in Newmarket. Prepared to start a new life, a new nemesis steps forward, threatening the Fake Cop’s job and dream, leading to a showdown Newmarket has never seen before.  Some men play by the rules. Some men break them. They will all face the...

In part two of the Fake Cop Trilogy, the Fake Cop goes to Beverly Hills to investigate the murder of a childhood friend.  Froot Loops, fentanyl, bearer bonds, and a fake cop on the edge who absolutely hates traveling.  This is Beverly Hills Fake Cop.  Support the show Host: Brad Cartner   Show Producer: Greg O’Brien   Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman Music: Brad Cartner   Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter...

In this episode, the Sick Man returns with the Fake Cop, film noir-style.   In the first part of this trilogy, the Fake Cop gets mixed up with a washed up hockey player, a powerful gangster, and a very dangerous femme fatale.   A tale of love, murder, the mall, and hockey.    To Love and Die in Newmarket.  Support the show Host: Brad Cartner   Show Producer: Greg O’Brien   Sound Engineer: Derek We...

In this episode, the Sick Man talks about PTSD. He gives a history of it, why it happens, what it does, and who it affects. Then he shares his own experiences, and the experiences of other people.  Support the show Host: Brad Cartner   Show Producer: Greg O’Brien   Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman Music: Brad Cartner   Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter     FOR FULL PODCAST DETAILS, NEWS AND DIRECTORIES  v...

In this episode, the Sick Man talks about the myth of Sisyphus. Punished by the gods to roll a boulder up a hill, only to have it roll back down to do it all over again, for all of eternity. Sound familiar? Relatable? Join the Sick Man as he explores how Sisyphus may feel about his punishment. There’s a chance he may not mind it.  Support the show Host: Brad Cartner   Show Producer: Greg O’Brien  ...

In this episode, the Sick Man provides an addendum (two of them) for his previous episode about his latest hospital adventure(s). He also displays concern that he can’t tell the difference between his show and his real life.  Support the show Host: Brad Cartner   Show Producer: Greg O’Brien   Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman Music: Brad Cartner   Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter     FOR FULL PODCAST DETA...

In this episode, the Sick Man brings back a familiar character to tell the story of his most recent hospital adventure.  Condolences to the Mendoza family. Support the show Host: Brad Cartner   Show Producer: Greg O’Brien   Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman Music: Brad Cartner   Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter     FOR FULL PODCAST DETAILS, NEWS AND DIRECTORIES  visit us on our MAIN WEBSITE at  https://ww...

On a Very Special Episode of Sick Man Talking:  On March 12th 2025, the Sick Man was contacted by a person calling themselves a podcast promoter. Intrigued for several reasons, he hired them. It would lead him down a twisting path of fake ratings, fake comments, fake subscriptions, and fake people. Fakery.   Join the Sick Man as he exposes the dark underbelly of the podcast promotion business. Whe...

In March of 1993,  a 19-year-old Sick Man was recruited onto a men’s slow pitch team, with promises of fortune and fame. It would change his life forever. Money, fame, women, alcohol, cars, gambling, scandals, cigarettes, hotdogs, hamburgers, beer gardens, picnic tables, gardening gloves, injuries, pills, SWAT cops, steroids. Join the Sick Man as he recounts the tragic, true rise and fall story of...

A Sick Man Talking EXCLUSIVE: They tried to erase it from the local history books; now it gets told for the first time.   In October 1990, a 17-year-old Sick Man began working in Newmarket’s Upper Canada Mall selling shoes. It would change his life forever.   Join the Sick Man in this Very Special Episode as he goes back to the mall and inside the events of the most explosive story in Upper Canada...

In this episode, the Sick Man reveals the fate of his missing Dick Pot producer Greg, and has a new message for Jeff Bezos. Then he embarrasses himself by modernizing one of his favourite Greek myths and tragic love stories, Orpheus and Eurydice.  Support the show Host: Brad Cartner   Show Producer: Greg O’Brien   Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman Music: Brad Cartner   Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter    ...

In this episode, the Sick Man gives an update on his war with Jeff Bezos and the fate of his Dick Pot producer, Greg. Then he talks about Vikings, Valkyries, and Valhalla.  Support the show Host: Brad Cartner   Show Producer: Greg O’Brien   Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman Music: Brad Cartner   Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter     FOR FULL PODCAST DETAILS, NEWS AND DIRECTORIES  visit us on our MAIN WEBSI...

In this episode, the Sick Man is too sick to talk. So he presents you with Greatest Hits Vol I: The Early Stuff. This is a collection of some of his most popular recordings from episodes 1-17. Revisit some of your early favorites, or perhaps hear them for the first time.  This is the Greatest Hits Episode.  Support the show Host: Brad Cartner   Show Producer: Greg O’Brien   Sound Engineer: Derek W...

n this episode, the Sick Man talks about his greatest enemy: math. And how a learning disability was ignored by every educator around him.  This is the "I Suck at Math Episode". Support the show Host: Brad Cartner   Show Producer: Greg O’Brien   Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman Music: Brad Cartner   Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter     FOR FULL PODCAST DETAILS, NEWS AND DIRECTORIES  visit us on...

In this episode, the Sick Man talks about a position as old as time. One you’re perhaps caught in right now.   Meet Scylla and Charybdis.  Support the show Host: Brad Cartner   Show Producer: Greg O’Brien   Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman Music: Brad Cartner   Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter     FOR FULL PODCAST DETAILS, NEWS AND DIRECTORIES  visit us on our MAIN WEBSITE at  https://www.sickmantalking....

In this episode, the Sick Man attempts to rescue his dick pot producer Greg, who has been allegedly kidnapped by Jeff Bezos. Then, he talks about a night at McDonald’s in 1996, where he witnessed the greatest practical joke of all time.   Support the show Host: Brad Cartner   Show Producer: Greg O’Brien   Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman Music: Brad Cartner   Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter     FOR FULL...

In this Very Special Episode, the Sick Man goes back in time, and gives you a late-night, 70s-style FM radio program. Join him as he plays all the songs featured on his earlier episodes; Lady Gaga, Elvis, Guns n’ Roses, the Rolling Stones and more. Plus amazing new remixes that you can totally dance, chill, or groove to. This is the Remix Episode. Support the show Host: Brad Cartner   Show Produce...

For this week’s episode, the Sick Man talks about how his life and thoughts (and perhaps yours) differ from conventional tradition. Welcome to the Inverse World. Support the show Host: Brad Cartner   Show Producer: Greg O’Brien   Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman Music: Brad Cartner   Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter     FOR FULL PODCAST DETAILS, NEWS AND DIRECTORIES  visit us on our MAIN WEBSITE at  http...

In the final part of the Newmarket Kids Trilogy, the Sick Man talks about the summer of 1986, when an arsonist terrorized his hometown of Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. Join him as he runs down the dramatic events in chronological order, and tells the story about how he and his childhood best friend tried to catch the arsonist when they were 13.    Support the show Host: Brad Cartner   Show Producer:...

 In this Very Special Episode, the Sick Man brings you part two of his ongoing Newmarket Kids Trilogy. Join him as he leads you on an epic adventure through the Forest, a legendary landmark behind his childhood school Glen Cedar. Leap multiple timelines. Get chased by dogs and bullies. Learn how to win a crabapple war. Down every twist, turn, path, trail, hide, holler, and hill, waits a new story...