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Sickboy
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 di...
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951 episodes
The Exorcism Of Rose | Surviving Pediatric Psychosis & PANS
What happens when a routine childhood cold turns your sweet eight-year-old into a full-blown horror movie scene overnight? Sickboy royalty Jessica Sli...
They Fed Him RAT POISON to Win Olympic Gold | The 1904 Marathon From Hell
Jeremie was just looking into the history of performance-enhancing drugs when he accidentally stumbled into the absolute dumpster fire that was the 19...
"No, I'm Not Drunk, It's Cerebral Palsy" | Bipolar, ARFID & 10 other Diagnoses
Surviving eight shots of Narcan at twelve years old is one hell of an introduction to chronic illness, and for Haylee, that was just the tip of the ic...
Cured by a Psychotic Break: Surviving a Trip to Hell & Back
Meet Judy. She’s a real estate agent who inadvertently became an extreme sports athlete in the deadly game of "Halifax Crosswalks". After getting smok...
No Cortisol, No Chill: Navigating Addison’s, ADHD & C-PTSD
What happens when your body suddenly decides to stop making the exact hormone that keeps you alive? Meet Sarah, a badass who trains in Muay Thai, mana...
Reclaiming the Breast: Healing Body Trauma with Prosthetic Nips
How do you convince the CRA that bulk silicone nipples are a legitimate business expense? This week, the fellas sit down with Miranda, affectionately...
Cockblocking Mosquitoes: The Genetic Fight Against Malaria
What happens when a deep-seated thirst for childhood revenge turns into a career in genetic engineering? You get an absolute badass who is plotting th...
Placebos, Psychosis, and Why We Need Human Flesh (Not Like That)
What happens when the doctor treating you is a cold, calculating AI trained on the deepest, darkest, most biased corners of the internet? This week, t...
My Brain Turned Into the Devil at Age 12 | Severe ADHD & Alcoholism
What happens when your internal monologue switches from a storybook narrator to a demonic bully at age 12? Live from downtown Halifax, the guys sit do...
Surviving Cancer Only to Get Decapitated by Wyoming
What would you do if you moved out to LA at 18 to chase your dreams, but got handed a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosis and a 5-year expiration date in...
Breathless: The Impossible Milestones | Cystic Fibrosis
This week on Sickboy we bring you the first episode of the latest season of Breathless. We're proud as heck with how this panned out and feel like you...
The Truth About Hypnobirthing (And Why It Might Be Gaslighting You)
What if you could turn off the most agonizing pain imaginable just by thinking about a waterfall? Or better yet, what if a guy in a purple silk robe c...
One Black Man’s experience in Battling Cystic Fibrosis
What do you do when a life-saving medical breakthrough saves almost everyone in your chronic illness community—except you? If you’re new to the show,...
Arguing With "Dr. Dickhead" At The Transplant Clinic | 8 Autoimmune Diseases
What do you do when your own immune system decides to treat your organs like an all-you-can-eat buffet and drops eight separate medical diagnoses on y...
"Has She Seen You Naked?" & Other Caregiver Confessions
What happens when the person keeping you alive is also the person roasting your life choices the hardest? If you’re new to the show, Brock is our bril...
My Brain Exploded (Twice) | Sunken Bone Flap Syndrome
What happens when your brain is a literal ticking time bomb and nobody tells you until it goes off? Meet Martin. At 16, he was just a normal kid until...
When Running Breaks Your Vagina | Osteitis Pubis
What happens when you think you have a stubborn UTI, but you’ve actually fractured your pubic bone from running too many damn marathons? This week, th...
Why Is a Super Bowl Champ Talking About HPV?
What does a Super Bowl champion know about a virus most men think is "just a women's problem"? Laurent Duvernay-Tardif has spent his life protecting q...
Dating a Psychologist with Cerebral Palsy (It’s a Mindf*ck)
What do you do when you’re born with a brain-body communication glitch?. If you’re Dr. Dan, you don't just "manage". You go out and collect a PhD, a P...
Flying High & Pooping Low: A Flight Surgeon’s Guide to Colon Cancer
What do high-performance fighter jets and a stage four cancer diagnosis have in common? More than you think. This week, we’re joined by Dr. Avishek “A...
15 Weeks Early & 8 Days Apart: The Trauma of a Micro-Preemie Birth
What happens when your body decides to Marie Kondo your entire large intestine, but the healthcare system treats your "vestibule" like an optional ext...
"My Brain is Draining Into My Stomach" | Spina Bifida
What do you do when your spine decides to "leak" before you're even born, leaving you with a "jizzy back rat" and a tube running from your brain to yo...
“I Was Sh*tting Blood and Still Playing” | Ulcerative Colitis Athlete
What happens when you go from a senior spring break in Jamaica to poopin "gallons of blood" in the ER? Meet Taryn: 20 years old, a D1 volleyball playe...
Born Without an Eye | Unilateral Anaphthalmia & The Disability Spectrum
What happens when you’re born with a medical anomaly so rare that doctors treat you like a "cluster of defects," but you grow up feeling completely ab...
Getting Your Back Blown Out | $40K Hernia
It may have started with a joke about getting his "back blown out", but it turned into a wild story of a two-year medical saga involving brutal nerve...
Your Body is Allergic to... Everything? | Mast Cell Activation Syndrome
What happens when the person paid to have all the answers suddenly gets hit with a medical mystery that turns their world entirely upside down? Vicki...
"I Fell 11 Stories and Should be Dead” | Walking Paraplegic
What happens when your paragliding wing folds in half 165 feet in the air, sending you on an 11-story plunge directly onto your ass? (Spoiler: You wak...
16% Diaphragm, 100% Genius: How AI is Saving Cho’s Voice
What happens when your body is slowly losing its ability to breathe, but your brain is busy building the future of technology? This week, the fellas (...
"My Tongue is Shedding" | Refractory Myasthenia Gravis
What do you do when your own tongue starts "shedding" like a snake and your doctor tells you to just "eat a banana"? Imagine waking up and seeing the...
My Spleen Is Where My Lungs Should Be | CDH
What happens when your abdomen decides it's tired of the basement and wants to move into the penthouse suite? This week, we sit down with Jude, who wa...
A Love Affair with the Unknown: How Gill Deacon Beat Long COVID
What happens when a "Professional Knower" gets hit with a disease that has absolutely zero f*cking answers? Broadcasting legend and former CBC host Gi...
My Sister Confessed Her Dark Secret to Me While I was in A Coma | Stroke at 21
Imagine being 21 years old, trapped in a two-week coma, completely unable to move or speak, while your sister leans over your bed and confesses her de...
The "Mindf***" of Long COVID: From CEO to "Currently Disabled"
Briefing the President one day, forgetting how to cook bacon the next. What happens when a high-achieving powerhouse (Harvard grad, Wall Street alum,...
"I Woke Up With No Hands" | The Reality of "Flesh-Eating Disease"
You know that irrational fear that a simple sore throat or a gym injury might actually be something way worse? Well, for Scott, that nightmare became...
Giddy Up: How To Love A Parent Who Is Living In A Different Reality
It’s been eight years since Marnie first sat down with the fellas, and let’s just say… things haven’t exactly slowed down. Back in 2018, Marnie was a...
Something's Wrong With Mom - Paranoid Schizophrenia
This week on Sickboy, we go way back to an episode we originally aired in 2018. We chat with Marnie about an experience that isn't her own but one tha...
Shitting Your Pants at Work (And Other Career Tips) | Crohn's Disease
You’re in a high-stakes meeting. You’re wearing a power suit. And you just shit your ankle socks. What do you do? This week, we sit down with Meg, a l...
"I Identify As Blind" | Blind, Black, and Badass
Lachi thinks the way we talk about disability is boring, so she’s here to make it glam, loud, and impossible to ignore. This week, the boys are joined...
Is Your Mental Illness Real? A Psychiatrist Says... Maybe Not.
Dr. Sami Timimi is a psychiatrist with a bone to pick with his own profession: he thinks we’ve fallen down a diagnostic rabbit hole, and he’s here to...
Targeted: Why We Treat Gun Owners Like They’re Sick
Welp... Jer bought a gun. And let's just say his progressive friend group had some thoughts. This week, the boys are joined by Noah Schwartz, author o...