Sick Man Talking Podcast

In 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 philosophical meditation on an old Chinese parable about how good and bad events may not mean what we think they mean, quickly spiralled out of control to the point where the Sick Man’s audio engineer phoned him and literally asked, “Where is this going?”

The Sick Man replied:

“We’ll see.”

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In 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 into obsession as he battles unleashed dogs, a collapsing Uber rating, local politics, hockey players, and his own increasingly questionable grip on reality. 

A tale of loneliness, delusion, civic responsibility, room-temperature water, shoe polish abuse, and a night at the movies that goes terribly wrong, Taxi Driver collides with suburban Ontario in the latest Fake Cop story. 

This is Uber Driver. Five stars or else. Featuring the very popular Steve Hughes as the mayor of Newmarket.

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In 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 he does something he hates more than anything: he gets introspective. 

So he’s going to do what he usually does: double down in the worst possible direction. Going deeper. Not into the streets, but into whatever the hell is going on inside his mind. Trying to track down the Toucan Man the only way left… by meeting him face to face. Inside… his own mind… 

Will that clear anything up? Probably not. Will it make things worse? Almost definitely. Will there be some kind of calm, rational understanding of reality by the end of this? No. Absolutely not. 

And most importantly - will he finally get rid of that body in the trunk? Yeah, actually… that one might get handled. 

This is a Greek tragedy in the cereal aisle. 

This is… The Mendoza Line.

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In 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 Fake Cop finally confront his role in the death of his son? He doesn’t really know how to, so probably not. Will the Bonanza survive the night? Unlikely. Most importantly, will any of this actually lead somewhere … for once? Maybe. Depends on your definition of “somewhere”. 

This … is Warning Label.

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In 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 finally confront his role in the death of his son? Probably not. Most importantly, will he finally get rid of that body in the trunk? Same answer. 

This is the Last Breakfast.

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In 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 it down and looks at what actually happened in that moment. Not just what escaped … but what stayed behind, and why that matters. How does hope actually survive?

From there, he moves into the modern world and the “boxes” we deal with every day - physical ones, social expectations, technology, even the ones we create for ourselves. Most of the time, we don’t even notice them, but they’re always there, setting the boundaries.

And still, something holds on inside those limits. The idea is simple: hope isn’t somewhere outside the system waiting for us; it’s the thing that survives within it, and the thing that helps us keep moving, even when we’re boxed in.

This is the Philosophy of Hope.

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In 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; how certainty can override caution, and how ambition, when left unchecked, begins to reshape reality in ways that can’t be ignored. Using myth, literature, history, and personal experience, this episode looks at hubris as both a personal and collective force, something that appears whenever people or institutions begin to believe they are beyond consequence.

As the episode unfolds, it builds toward a broader warning: hubris carries a cost, even when it’s not immediately visible. When limits are ignored and accountability fades, consequences have a way of arriving on their own terms. And in the end, no matter how far someone believes they’ve risen, there is always the growing inevitability of reckoning.

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In 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, banks, corporate offices, and customer service all insist you follow rules that change while you’re watching. Let’s explore the absurd perfection of these systems and what it means to try to stay human in a world that already assumes you’re not. 

This is Catch-22.

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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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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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