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  • Episode 71

    Episode 71
    Mar 15 2026

    In this episode, the Sick Man steps onto the ice to talk about one of hockey’s strongest traditions: fighting.

    How it began. How it survived. Who does it. And why the sport that prides itself on speed and skill still makes room for a man whose job description includes punching people in the face.

    Along the way, he examines the culture that produced it, and the enduring legend of the “Polite Canadian.”

    Featuring real-life hockey enforcer Steve Hughes, who explains the mentality, duties, and code of the man who fights… while somehow managing not to injure the Sick Man.

    This is Enforcer.

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    Host: Brad Cartner

    Show Producer: Greg O’Brien

    Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman

    Music: Brad Cartner

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    1 h y 1 m
  • Episode 70

    Episode 70
    Mar 5 2026

    In this Very Special Episode, the Sick Man talks about the summer of 1987, and his very first job working for a printing factory in Toronto’s Financial District.

    Before there was ambition, before there was a crash, before there were podcasts recorded in basements, there was ink. Industrial ink. The perfume of capitalism. And there were cigarettes. Lots and lots of cigarettes.

    A coming of each story about paper, panic, and pretending.

    This is the summer of ‘87.

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    Host: Brad Cartner

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    Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman

    Music: Brad Cartner

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    1 h y 8 m
  • Episode 69

    Episode 69
    Feb 14 2026

    In this episode, the Sick Man talks about childhood myths from the 80s; paying extra attention to one that still haunts him. He also flips the 80s on their head, and presents them from a different perspective.

    TRIGGER WARNING FOR GEN X LISTENERS: I know Generation X doesn’t believe in trigger warnings, but this one is necessary.

    This is the Lost Nut.

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    Host: Brad Cartner

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    46 m
  • Episode 68

    Episode 68
    Feb 5 2026

    In this episode, the Sick Man talks about fear; why it happens, what it does, why we need it, and how it has evolved. He then shares some of his own personal fears, many of which are irrational, contradictory, or just plain weird.

    This is the Fear Episode.

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    35 m
  • Episode 67

    Episode 67
    Jan 27 2026

    In this episode, the Sick Man talks (melts down) about technology.

    Who are these people? What are they doing to us? Why are they doing it to us? Do we have any choice in it? Will there be a Borg appearance?

    Then he traces his own history with technology, detailing his many psychological breakdowns, while suffering several more during the episode.

    This is the Technology Episode.

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    Host: Brad Cartner

    Show Producer: Greg O’Brien

    Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman

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    50 m
  • Episode 66

    Episode 66
    Jan 20 2026

    In this episode, the Sick Man talks about sleep deprivation. What it does, why it happens, and how it feels. He gives a history of his own problems, tracing them back to before birth, and reenacts a scene from a hospital room that just couldn’t contain him.

    This is the Sleep Deprivation Episode.

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    Host: Brad Cartner

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    45 m
  • Episode 65

    Episode 65
    Jan 10 2026

    In this episode, the Sick Man talks about vengeance. He traces it back to Ancient Greece through an old myth, examines its philosophical and legal roots, questions whether it has any place in justice, looks at how it’s portrayed in film, and finally turns inward, confronting his own complicated relationship with it. What does vengeance actually do, and who does it really serve? Does it deliver what it promises?

    This is the Vengeance Episode.

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    50 m
  • Episode 64

    Episode 64
    Jan 1 2026

    In this episode, the Fake Cop returns in the explosive finale of the latest Fake Cop Trilogy.

    Will he find the Toucan Man? No idea.

    Will he continue getting used to his long-lost son? Maybe. Possibly. Temporarily.

    Will he be able to keep his son safe in an increasingly dangerous world? Of course he will.

    He keeps everybody safe around him. Well … kind of.

    And most importantly - will he finally get rid of that body in the trunk?

    Probably not. This … is Forensic Fake Cop.

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    Host: Brad Cartner

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    34 m