Sick Man Talking Podcast

Sick Man Talking Podcast

A chronically ill man has been trapped in a room for the majority of his adult life, exploring the limits of agony, sanity, and time. Armed with failing wits, growing pain, Turner Classic Movies, and a variety of recording devices, he navigates his mind and the world as it exists to him. Welcome to Sick Man Talking.

Episodes

March 13, 2025 41 mins

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 Mall history: The Great North Americ...

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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. 

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Host: Brad Cartner

Show Producer: Greg O’Brien

Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman

Music: Brad Cartner

Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter

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February 28, 2025 43 mins

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. 


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Host: Brad Cartner

Show Producer: Greg O’Brien

Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman

Music: Brad Cartner

Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter

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February 16, 2025 66 mins

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. 

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February 6, 2025 35 mins

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".


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Host: Brad Cartner

Show Producer: Greg O’Brien

Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman

Music: Brad Cartner

Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter

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January 29, 2025 28 mins

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. 

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Host: Brad Cartner

Show Producer: Greg O’Brien

Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman

Music: Brad Cartner

Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter

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January 23, 2025 30 mins

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.  

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Host: Brad Cartner

Show Producer: Greg O’Brien

Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman

Music: Brad Cartner

Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter

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January 16, 2025 47 mins

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.

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January 9, 2025 40 mins

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.

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Host: Brad Cartner

Show Producer: Greg O’Brien

Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman

Music: Brad Cartner

Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter

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January 2, 2025 35 mins

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. 

 

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December 19, 2024 38 mins

 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 …

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December 10, 2024 36 mins

In this episode, the Sick Man takes you on an epic adventure through the Southern Serengeti, announces his plans to move to Australia to become a crocodile celebrity, and finally brings his brutal war with Google to a close. 

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Host: Brad Cartner

Show Producer: Greg O’Brien

Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman

Music: Brad Cartner

Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter

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December 3, 2024 33 mins

In this episode, the Sick Man talks about his 25 year battle to keep flesh on his body. This is the Involuntary Weight Loss Episode. 

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Host: Brad Cartner

Show Producer: Greg O’Brien

Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman

Music: Brad Cartner

Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter

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November 28, 2024 19 mins

In this episode, the Sick Man tells a Rocky-style story about a piece of geography he went to war with in the summer of 2009. Then, he releases a classic series of short recordings from a long time ago, and finishes by attempting to sing for the first time in 12 years (he fails). 

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Host: Brad Cartner

Show Producer: Greg O’Brien

Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman

Music: Brad Cartner

Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter

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November 20, 2024 32 mins

In 2006, the Sick Man bought a retired police car.  For the next three years, he went on a reign of terror. This is the Cop Car Episode. 

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Host: Brad Cartner

Show Producer: Greg O’Brien

Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman

Music: Brad Cartner

Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter

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November 11, 2024 35 mins

In this episode, the Sick Man takes you on a psychedelic trip through a car wash, then considers becoming an Instagram influencer. 

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October 25, 2024 57 mins

In this very special episode, the Sick Man celebrates Halloween. Join him as he re-creates scenes from classic horror stories, contacts a spirit in his room, and succumbs to a murderous paranoid breakdown.

Additional credit to Stephen King, Paranoid: A Chant, 1985; George A. Romero, Night of the Living Dead, 1968. 

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October 17, 2024 34 mins

 A Sick Man Talking EXCLUSIVE: A story 37 years in the making. They tried to erase it from the history books; now, it gets told for the first time in its entirety. Join the Sick Man as he goes inside one of the most explosive events in Newmarket history. 

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Host: Brad Cartner

Show Producer: Greg O’Brien

Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman

Music: Brad Cartner

Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter

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October 10, 2024 34 mins

In his Comeback Episode, the Sick Man sits down with America to lecture them about bacon. Then, he tells the strange and tragic tale of an FBI agent named John O’Neill.

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Host: Brad Cartner

Show Producer: Greg O’Brien

Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman

Music: Brad Cartner

Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter

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September 26, 2024 36 mins

In this episode of Sick Man Talking, there is no Sick Man. Instead, fans talk about Sick Man Talking. This is the Fans Episode. 

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Host: Brad Cartner

Show Producer: Greg O’Brien

Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman

Music: Brad Cartner

Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter

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