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Matthew is an actor from Baltimore and currently resides in New York City. He recurs on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon) and New Amsterdam (NBC) and is the star of the new feature film Unidentified Objects which recently premiered at the Inside Out Fest in Toronto! Matthew joins the dudes to talk about being undeniable as an actor, how dwarfism has had an impact on his life and much much more. J...

Taylor brought a 4th co-host to the studio today. Zaya is here, and she just won't shut up. First things first: frostbite. It's gnar-gnar as heck and we have the proof thanks to @medicaltalks on IG. Yuck. Speaking of yuck, according to a scientist (who legit put many many hours into researching this), human flesh is not that nutritious when you stack it up against other animals in the wild. But he...

Guy Standing is a labour economist and Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London. He is also a founder and honorary co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), an international NGO promoting basic income as a right. Guy sits with the fellas to guide them through an incredible conversation about basic income and how it could (and should) work to relieve many of the str...

Long time friend and Patron Sadie joins the fellas and kicks the whole thing off with a top notch roast! Sadie shares how trauma, cultural messages about food and body, lessons from her family growing up, and genetics caused her to be fat starting in my pre-teen years. Sadie had a gastric sleeve weight loss surgery. It was a long, frustrating, and occasionally hilarious process. She also introduce...

This week the fellas kick things off with some classic pee-pee talk. Hypospadias (pronounced hype-oh-spay-dee-us) is a birth defect in boys where the opening of the urethra is not located where it typically should be. Period tracking apps may become hella problematic for folks living in the U.S., but what about people up here in Canada? Ricky, Rocky, Rock… things get confusing when it comes to The...

This week the fellas are joined by Karen Slaunwhite, the executive director at Hope For Mental Health. Through her work at Hope For Mental Health, Karen is committed to breaking down mental health barriers and providing programs and services that support individuals with lived experience and their families and friends. The gang talk about the association's name change and their hopes for the futur...

This week Brian and Jer are joined by Bruce to discuss his life long struggle with crippling depression. Bruce is VERY familiar with mental illness. He's lived with depression and anxiety for more than 45 years. He walks the fellas through the how he got himself through some of the toughest times, how his views on mental health have shifted over the decades, and how he feels a person can live a pr...

Lawn Summer Nights starts this week! Support our team below! Don't be like Taylor. Disability parking spots are for folks who need it! Canada may have found out what is behind Long COVID! CRISPR is 10 years old! Happy birthday! Dangerous drivers in the UK could be facing a life sentence. Juul may be looking at a full on ban in the U.S. Polio is creeping around the London sewers. Finally in this we...

Joyce is a registered nurse who has worked in healthcare leadership positions across Canada for over 30 years. Her clinical work has focused on older adults and those with disabilities. She has been involved in research, education, clinical practice and leadership and has spent time in rural, northern and urban communities in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. She is currently the acting...

If you can’t make cancer jokes when you have cancer, when can you? Well, apparently the answer is never. People don't respond well to cancer jokes, even when you're the one who has it. Still it doesn't hold Kelsey back from cracking the jokes. She was relinquishing control of her body physically, so she was going to hold onto the small amount of control she had over her mental state. This week Kel...

Bieber has Ramsay Hunt Syndrome which is something we covered back in January. It's scary stuff and we hope that it doesn't prevent him from singing, dancing and baking Bimbits for the rest of his life! Don't rub your eyes... Or if you do, don't go watch the MRI video of what it looks like when you rub your eyes. Alopecia is a tough go and there isn't enough access to medication that makes a diffe...

Tiffany is from Tecumseh, Nebraska and works at a local, rural hospital as an infection preventionist. In May of 2021, she graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Disease and Human Health with a minor in psychology. Tiffany currently attends the University of Nebraska Medical Center, where she is studying epidemiology. She shares with the fellas how she got into the work she's passionate about and u...

Christina Helena is a speaker, writer & performer of an autobiographical solo show SCAR in development for an off-Broadway production. At 19, she became one of the youngest pancreatic cancer survivors in the world after having five of her organs removed with a Whipple surgery and her digestive system reconstructed. Today she joins the fellas in talking about her experience with cancer recovery and...

Good news!! Jeremie no longer has to do his nebulizer! Now he's just a puffer boy. Cute. In other news, AI is possibly now sentient. Does this mean the end of mankind as we know it? I wish there was more to say about this week's episode... but really, there isn't. It's just about a puffer and AI... OH! AND horrifying baby MRIs. Happy Friday Y'all!

Sally Guy is the Director of Policy, Canadian Association of Social Workers. She joins the fellas to break down some of the conversation had with the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions from a couple of weeks ago. Everything from the decriminalization of drugs, to social return on investment and more. Here’s the thing — a lack of adequate (let alone GOOD) social supports are a choice in a cou...

Mrs. Crystal Ellingsen is a wife, mother of three, teacher, and growing activist. She is also working on managing a chronic progressive disease that affects 1 in 10 women — lipedema. Lipedema is a condition that is almost exclusively found in women and results in enlargement of both legs due to deposits of fat under the skin. The tricky thing is that lipedema fat isn’t manageable via traditional w...

Taylor has an itchy eye and scientists may have found a future cure to colorectal cancer! Boom! That's what FGF is all about. One lucky lady just received the very first 3-D printed ear implant which was made from her own cells. The world gets more future every day. An unfortunate story of a wheelchair user who was completely forgotten about and left on the plane on the runway at Heathrow. And a n...

Jen and Darren are in love and both navigating life with cancer together as a married couple. Darren was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2009. He's had 3 brain surgeries and 2 rounds of chemo and radiation. In February of 2021 Jen was diagnosed with breast cancer. Together they host the podcast Not Today Cancer. They join the fellas to talk about the dynamics of a husband and wife navigating cancer...

Sarah Edmonson and Anthony "Nippy" Ames are cult escapees and were the whistleblowers featured in the CBC podcast Uncover: Escaping NXIVM and The Vow, the critically acclaimed HBO documentary series on NXIVM. If you are still somehow unfamiliar, NXIVM was an American cult that dabbled in sexual slavery among a handful of other evil crimes. Sarah and Nippy played a major role in locking up NXIVM's...

This week the gang hear from a listener who did NOT have a very fun time with birth control. Speaking of birth control Taylor might get the snip to prevent a future baby. Speaking of babies here is a video of a baby giving CPR better than Brian can. Helmets save lives, regardless of whatever BS studies Taylor is reading. We cover a wild story about a doctor in Newfoundland who uses a janitor's 12-...

Today the fellas are joined by Canada's Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health, Carolyn Bennett. We've seen so much progress on mental health education and shame reduction since the inception of Sickboy...yet it still seems like accessing care in the space of mental health is still very much behind other health sectors. The boys take the time to dig into Minister...

Hilary is a shining beam of light! She drove all the way from Moncton to sit down and chat with the fellas all about some pretty heavy subject matter. Hilary recounts her experience of losing her father when she was only 12 years old and the emotional turmoil that came with it. For 13 years the unresolved trauma led Hilary down a road of struggling with her mental health. As heavy as it sounds, Hi...

This week we kick it off with a story of IUD woes. Brian pretends he’s never heard of TikTok while Jer shows the fellas the latest witchcraft trend “the hanger reflex.” It works on Jer... so maybe he’s the witch. Devotees: the secret world of people who fetishize folks who live with disabilities. It’s a dark subject that the boys take a moment to unpack. As a little palate cleanser, they do a quiz...

In this week's edition of Routine Checkup, the fellas sit down with Maria Santaguida. A Ph. D. candidate and lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Concordia University. She specializes in human sexuality, sexual technology, and substance-related sexual risk behaviours. Most interestingly her work also explores space sexology (the scientific study of extraterrestrial sexuality and intimacy) a...

Kay-Lee’s life turned upside down during peak pandemic! One moment she’s on her bike doing a day trip. The next moment she’s waking up surrounded by strangers and paramedics. The aftermath resulted in a broken elbow and a stage 4 concussion... But the recovery process was nothing short of bonkers. From sleeping every moment of every day, to a long bout of insomnia, Kay-Lee was on a wild ride that...