Sickboy

CBC Health & Sport
CBC Health & Sport

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 dive headfirst into the uncomfortable, the hilarious, and the heartbreaking. We talk to people living with everything from chronic disease to catastrophic injury, mental health struggles to medical miracles - and we do it with radical empathy, zero BS, and the kind of unfiltered jokes that get us kicked out of support groups. If you’ve ever felt weird, broken, or like no one gets it, welcome. New episodes drop every Wednesday. Pull up a seat; it’s gonna get real. Follow Sickboy on Instagram & TikTok!

  1. 5 hr ago

    How Do You Breakdance When You Can Barely Use Your Legs? | Lazylegz

    Luca “Lazylegz” Patuelli has built a career blowing people’s minds on the dance floor. He also gets congratulated for returning a shopping cart. Sometimes, he’d really appreciate a little help with the damn cart. Born with arthrogryposis, which affects his legs, feet, and shoulders, Luca developed his own style of breaking and founded ILL-Abilities, an international crew of dancers with disabilities. He joins Jeremie and Brian to talk about the surgery that made skateboarding painful, the friends who helped him find dance, and a first battle that took the “breaking” part a little too literally. Luca also gets into the cost of constantly proving himself: refusing assistance, pushing through pain, and feeling pressure to maintain the inspirational image people have of him. Now a father of two, including a daughter who shares his disability, he’s figuring out how rest and asking for help fit into his “No Excuses, No Limits” philosophy. Explore Luca’s work - https://www.lucapatuelli.com/ and ILL-Abilities - https://www.illabilities.com/ Get your tickets to see Sickboy LIVE in Vancouver: https://admitone.com/events/vancouver/pro/other/biltmore-cabaret/artist/sickboy-a-live-podcast-experience/6ad8efc38a576a0d17e3b3b8 Follow Sickboy: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SickboyPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sickboypodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sickboypodcast Discord: https://discord.gg/expeUDN

  2. 4 Nov

    You Don’t Have to Be Good at Grief | Grief & Family Loss

    Laura Jaye Cramer makes print magazines for funeral homes. In 2026. Naturally, the guys suggest adding AI and boobs to help with the investor pitch. Extremely useful input, as always. After losing her father and brother to suicide about three months apart, Laura started making a zine to keep herself company in grief. That became Candlelight, one of the magazines she now publishes through Waiting Room Publishing for funeral homes, hospice, and palliative care spaces. Laura joins Jeremie, Brian, and Taylor to talk about the guilt that can follow suicide loss, why so many people think they’re grieving wrong, and learning that enjoying your life and desperately missing someone can happen on the same day. They also get into what actually helps when someone’s grieving, including a check-in text that doesn’t come with homework. Also: Jeremie explains why coffee breath and cigarettes smell like love, and a scratch-and-sniff grief magazine becomes a surprisingly serious proposal. Explore Candlelight at Waiting Room Publishing. Follow @waitingroompublishing and @candlelightmagazine. Content note: This episode discusses suicide, suicide bereavement, and grief. If you need support in Canada, call 988 or text 988, available 24/7. Get your tickets to see Sickboy LIVE in Vancouver: https://admitone.com/events/vancouver/pro/other/biltmore-cabaret/artist/sickboy-a-live-podcast-experience/6ad8efc38a576a0d17e3b3b8 Follow Sickboy: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SickboyPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sickboypodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sickboypodcast Discord: https://discord.gg/expeUDN

  3. 28 Oct

    Sex, Trauma & a Vibrator That Learns

    For Morgan Hewett, faking orgasms was a way to stay in control. After surviving an abusive relationship, the vulnerability of letting go didn’t feel safe. Morgan joins Jeremie, Brian and Taylor to talk about therapy, taking a break from dating, and learning what she actually wanted - including becoming her own best boyfriend and discovering that dating herself isn’t cheap. She’s now developing Devin, a vibrator designed to respond to your body and sync with AI-generated audio erotica. The conversation gets into pleasure without performance pressure, men feeling threatened by sex toys, and the privacy and consent questions that follow AI into the bedroom. Morgan also explains why measuring an orgasm doesn’t tell you everything about the experience. Jeremie, meanwhile, finds a way to compare sexual vulnerability to a dog taking a shit. Somehow, the comparison holds up. Follow Morgan: Instagram | TikTok Get your tickets to see Sickboy LIVE in Vancouver! Have a story you want to share? Apply to be a guest here. Follow Sickboy: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SickboyPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sickboypodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sickboypodcast Discord: https://discord.gg/expeUDN

  4. 21 Oct

    Sickle Cell, Medical Racism & a Life-Changing Transplant

    Gabriel Badejo has broken bones and been in car accidents, but he says none of it comes close to the pain of a sickle cell crisis. The filmmaker joins Jeremie, Brian and Taylor to unpack a lifetime with a disease that can make even describing the pain feel impossible. He opens up about medical racism, including a near-fatal crisis where he says he was treated as though he was seeking drugs rather than desperately needing help. The conversation follows Gabriel’s experience with a stem cell transplant that transformed his health and his decision to document that journey in the CBC documentary 'The Sickling', determined that others should have access to the same opportunity. Along the way, Jeremie finds striking parallels with his own experience of chronic illness, while Gabriel shares why finding joy was never something he was willing to put off until he got better. When tomorrow isn’t guaranteed, there’s a pretty compelling argument for spending today laughing.  Continue Gabriel’s story beyond the podcast: watch his documentary, The Sickling, on CBC Gem: https://gem.cbc.ca/the-sickling Get your tickets to see Sickboy LIVE in Vancouver! Have a story you want to share? Apply to be a guest here. Follow Sickboy on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Discord.

  5. 14 Oct

    Second Opinion: Foreskin Panic, Sidewalk Poop & Family Kidney Drama

    A date is going great until someone’s foreskin refuses to cooperate. In the second edition of Second Opinion, Jeremie, Brian and Taylor return to Reddit for a sex accident that turns a promising night into an emergency-room bonding exercise. Then, a nursing student gets kicked out of clinical after pooping on the hospital sidewalk. Was it a bodily emergency, bad judgment, or both? Finally, a woman is pressured to donate a kidney to the sister who made her childhood hell—and the guys find themselves on very different sides of the argument. Does family loyalty extend to your internal organs? Where does generosity end and obligation begin?  Got a medical mishap, healthcare horror story, or health-related moral dilemma that needs a Second Opinion? Send it to info@sickboypodcast.com Sickboy has a NEW YouTube channel! You can catch this episode of Second Opinion and all future episodes of the series at: https://www.youtube.com/@SickboyPod Follow Sickboy:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sickboypodcast Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sickboypodcast Discord: https://discord.gg/expeUDN

  6. 7 Oct

    Blood Sugar at 200 km/h | Racing With Type 1 Diabetes

    What does managing type 1 diabetes look like at 200 km/h? Chase Pelletier started karting at ten and received his diabetes diagnosis about a month later. Now a championship winner and race engineer, he joins the guys to unpack the physical demands of racing, the preparation that happens before he ever straps in, and why his mechanic can follow his blood sugar from the pit wall. Chase shares how technology has changed his confidence behind the wheel. He also gets into the sponsorship costs that forced him to step away from driving, the engineering career that brought him into Formula One, and the joy of returning to racing after twelve years away. Have a story you want to share? Apply to be a guest at https://www.sickboypodcast.com. Follow Sickboy: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SickboyPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sickboypodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sickboypodcast Discord: https://discord.gg/expeUDN

  7. 30 Sept

    My P**is Tried to Kill Me | Sleep-Related Painful Erections

    James started waking up with painful erections. Then it happened again and again up to five times a night. Pelvic floor therapy, sleep apnea treatment, medication, and prostate surgery failed to end the pain. With little sleep and few answers, James reached a frightening point in his mental health. James joins the fellas to talk about the urologist who kept searching, the treatment that finally stopped his nighttime pain, and the tradeoffs that came with it. They also discuss sex after treatment, the support of James’s boyfriend, and Kuma, the teddy bear that helped him through his hardest nights. It’s a candid, funny, and deeply personal conversation about genital pain, shame, and finding room for joy again. Have a story you want to share? Apply to be a guest at https://www.sickboypodcast.com. Follow Sickboy: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SickboyPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sickboypodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sickboypodcast Discord: https://discord.gg/expeUDN

  8. 23 Sept

    War Zones Were Easier Than Worrying About His Lungs | Cystic Fibrosis

    What happens when the drug that saves your life is still out of reach for thousands of people just like you? Will Cathcart is a journalist, writer, war correspondent, and producer who worked on Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown. He also lives with cystic fibrosis. Growing up believing his life would be cut short gave Will what he calls “Carpe Diem syndrome” - a drive that pulled him toward coups, conflict zones, and risks most people would run from. When his lungs began to fail, a groundbreaking CF modulator changed his future almost overnight. It also left him carrying survivor’s guilt for the friends who never got the same chance. Now, Will is turning that second chance into action. He tells the fellas why he travelled to Bangladesh to publicly take a generic version of a CF drug priced at roughly $360,000 a year, how pharmaceutical patents can determine who gets to live, and why a medical miracle means very little when geography and money keep it out of reach. The conversation also gets into parenthood, mortality, the strange burden of receiving a future you never planned for, and Will’s darkly funny novel, This Is How People Die. Have a story you want to share? Apply to be a guest at https://www.sickboypodcast.com. Follow Sickboy: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SickboyPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sickboypodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sickboypodcast Discord: https://discord.gg/expeUDN

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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 dive headfirst into the uncomfortable, the hilarious, and the heartbreaking. We talk to people living with everything from chronic disease to catastrophic injury, mental health struggles to medical miracles - and we do it with radical empathy, zero BS, and the kind of unfiltered jokes that get us kicked out of support groups. If you’ve ever felt weird, broken, or like no one gets it, welcome. New episodes drop every Wednesday. Pull up a seat; it’s gonna get real. Follow Sickboy on Instagram & TikTok!

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  • Channel
    CBC Health & Sport
  • Creator
    CBC
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2026
  • Episodes
    962
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    Copyright © CBC 2026

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