Brantt Myhres has done something no other professional NHL athlete has ever done. He received a lifetime ban from the league. Not an accomplishment he is proud of. This week the fellas chat with Brant all about his tumultuous history of drug and alcohol addiction that ended his career as an athlete. The pressures of being an enforcer and using substances to mask the anxiety of having to show up night after night with the expectation to go to battle. Though his story ends with a strong beam of hope. Brantt now works as a "sober coach" in the NHL. Be sure to check out his new book, Painkiller, available now.

Competitive accidents and medical nightmares are what we're bringing to the table to send you off into your weekend! Everyone knows MMA is violent, but no one was expecting Canadian fighter, Khetag Pliev, to lose his finger during a fight last week! A family in the U.S. was also not expecting to lose a loved one to a taco eating competition in 2019. Then in our latest segment of "What The Hellth!" we cover a case report about a gentleman who didn't take his diabetes medications, leaving him with high levels of "triglycerides" in his blood. Basically so much fat content in his blood that it came out milk white! Buckle up folks.

Dr. Gaibrie Stephen (Dr. Gabe) is an emergency physician with an interest in health inequity and improving emergency medicine care. This week the gang chat about the importance of paid sick leave and how Canada seems to be dropping the ball on a no-brainer! We go into the details of paid sick leave, how it would work, who it would benefit, and how COVID has shown us how important this type of social program can be!

Anbrea.. damn-it. ANDREA has dyslexia. Has that stopped her from excelling academically and professionally? Hell no. Just means that she has to put a whole hell of a lot more work into what she is doing and find ways to cope with the challenges she's been dealt with. The fellas get schooled on all things dyslexia, in what turns out to be an equally fun and fascinating conversation with their new pal, Anbrea... er... Andrea.

Who wouldn't want to have a viking warrior send-off? Maine may make open air funeral pyres a reality! We talk about the ins and outs of receiving a hero’s send-off. Is it safe to roast marshmallows over a burning corpse? Brian seems to think so. Then Jer introduces the gang to a hilarious yet horrible story of an elderly woman who mistook a massive wad of wasabi for avocado. Spoiler alert: She wasn't okay.

MKULTRA was the code name for a top-secret mass-scale series of psychological human experiments performed by the CIA in the 50s, 60s and 70s. Experiments on humans were intended to weaken the individual and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. Although it sure sounds like some tin-foil hat conspiracy, it's true and it's horrifying. This week we have an in-depth and fascinating conversation with Michelle Shephard, investigative journalist and host of CBC's Brainwashed, a podcast all about the CIA, LSD and the victims of one of the most bizarre social experiments ever conducted.

This week we do something a little different! We explore how the very relatable and common life experiences of grief and mental illness can be used as an effective narrative tool in providing spooks in film and television! The gang chats with Madison Walsh and Michael Musi, the co-stars and co-creators of the CBC Gem series Something Undone. The series follows Jo, who goes home to settle her late mother’s estate, where she discovers a dark family secret and becomes obsessed with finding the truth. Check out Something Undone on CBC Gem for free!

Sperm. Ever wonder what would happen if you injected it into your veins? Spoiler alert: the results aren't desirable. Speaking of sperm — ever wonder what would happen if the global sperm rate fell to zero? Spoiler alert: the results aren't desirable. This weeks episode is basically a SFW bukkake special. The whole episode is drenched in sperm talk. On top of that we talk about the beauty in pleasuring one's self with one's deceased lovers ashes. Yeah... this week is a lot.

This week the gang hear from past guest and mental health advocate Mark Henick all about the implications of Bill-C7 on people with mental illness. MAID (Medical Assistance In Dying) has been available to those who were staring death in the face, living with an incurable and end stage illness. Now Canada has opened the doors to allow folks suffering from mental illness the same access to end their life in the name of ending suffering. Although according to Mark, this seems to be an easy out. Instead of offering people with mental illness the very much needed resources to care for their mental health, the government has decided to allow them to take the route of assisted death. Does it boil down to money? Lack of public education? Lack of will? We get serious this week and tackle something that deserves quite a bit of attention.

On April 6, 2018, Kaleb's life changed forever. It was like any other day, traveling with his team on their way to a game when all of a sudden everything went black. When Kaleb finally woke up in the hospital four days later he was told about the tragic incident that took the lives of 16 of his closest friends. The Humboldt Broncos bus crash is a tragedy that shook the entire planet and Kaleb shares with us how he has used the power of a positive attitude to beat the odds and strive to live the best life he can live. Be sure to check out Crossroads, his new book.