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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.
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- Episode 89 · 1 h 2 min · Episodul 89In this episode, the Sick Man talks about drugs. In the first of a three-part series, he traces the arc from ancient poppy fields and shamanic rituals through empires weaponizing…
- Episode 88 · 42 min · Episodul 88In this episode, the Sick Man puts you to sleep, Sick Man style. Guided meditations for sleep are everywhere these days - millions of people listen to them every night. Now he’s…
- Episode 87 · 52 min · Episodul 87In this episode, Fake Cop returns for the shocking and explosive final chapter of the latest Fake Cop Trilogy, Frontier Fake Cop: Part III Dead Eye Dolan gets his shot. Fake Cop…
- Episode 86 · 54 min · Episodul 86In this episode, Fake Cop returns for Part II of the shocking and explosive new Fake Cop Trilogy: Frontier Fake Cop. Fake Cop is on the run in Devil’s Kettle, 1887. He teams up…
- Episode 85 · 44 min · Episodul 85In this episode, Fake Cop returns for Part I of the shocking and explosive new Fake Cop Trilogy: Frontier Fake Cop. Fake Cop wakes up in a Wild West town called Devil’s Kettle in…
- Episode 84 · 56 min · Episodul 84In this episode, the Sick Man goes looking for the greatest library the ancient world ever built - and finds out how little of it actually made it to us. Hundreds of thousands of…
- Episode 83 · 49 min · Episodul 83In this episode, the Sick Man descends into Dante’s Inferno. Nine circles. Demons. Fire and ice. It’s one of the most famous stories in literature - and one of the most…
- Episode 82 · 26 min · Episodul 82In this episode, the Sick Man returns to ancient Greece to tell the myth of Demeter and Persephone. On the surface, it’s a story about the changing seasons. Beneath that, it’s…
- Episode 81 · 34 min · Episodul 81In this episode, the Sick Man talks about the Canadiana Roller Rink. For a generation of kids growing up in Aurora, Newmarket, and the surrounding area, the Canadiana Roller Rink…
- Episode 80 · 51 min · Episodul 80In this episode, the Sick Man talks about space. He follows the history of how human beings have looked up and tried to figure out what exactly is going on up there - from early…
- Episode 79 · 31 min · Episodul 79In this episode, the Sick Man examines an old Chinese parable called “We’ll See”. If nothing else, this is a great episode for sleep therapy. What started off as a powerful…
- Episode 78 · 1 h 6 min · Episodul 78In this episode, Fake Cop returns in an absurd satire of the 1976 film Taxi Driver. Working nights as a deeply unqualified Uber driver in Newmarket, Ontario, Fake Cop descends…
- Episode 77 · 55 min · Episodul 77In this episode, the Sick Man returns with the shocking and explosive finale of the latest Fake Cop Trilogy. The Toucan Man is still on the loose and Fake Cop can’t find him. So…
- Episode 76 · 52 min · Episodul 76In this episode, the Sick Man returns with part two of the shocking, explosive, new Fake Cop Trilogy. Will Fast Bobby return with information about the Toucan Man? No idea. Will…
- Episode 75 · 56 min · Episodul 75In this episode, the Sick Man returns with part one of the shocking, explosive new Fake Cop Trilogy. Will Bobby find information on the Toucan Man? Probably not. Will Fake Cop…
- Episode 74 · 36 min · Episodul 74In this episode, the Sick Man talks about a story we all think we know; Pandora, the box, and the moment everything went wrong. But instead of telling it the usual way, he slows…
- Episode 73 · 36 min · Episodul 73In this episode, the Sick Man talks about the ancient Greek concept of hubris; an excess of pride that distorts judgment and pushes individuals and systems beyond their limits…
- Episode 72 · 49 min · Episodul 72In this episode, the Sick Man talks about the invisible choreography of modern life. Navigating bureaucracies has reached the level of an Olympic sport. Government agencies…
- Episode 71 · 1 h 0 min · Episodul 71In 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…
- Episode 70 · 1 h 7 min · Episodul 70In 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…
