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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

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

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

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.

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 [email protected] 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

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

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

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

After her first child was born, Andrea Patterson thought she was a bad mom. She was barely sleeping, overwhelmed by anxiety, and afraid to say some of her thoughts out loud. Connecting with other parents through peer support helped her understand what she was going through. Today, she supports families as a perinatal peer support counsellor with Pacific Post Partum Support Society. Andrea joins Jeremie, Brian, and Taylor to talk about intrusive thoughts, the fear of asking for help, the toll of sleep deprivation, and what partners and loved ones can actually do. They also discuss the public reaction to the Lindsay Clancy case without speculating about anyone involved. Content note: Content note: This episode discusses suicidal thoughts, intrusive thoughts, and the deaths of children. When Andrea shares her thoughts on when to get help, it is in relation to postpartum anxiety, depression, and difficult postpartum transitions. Postpartum psychosis is a very different thing and is a medical emergency and requires immediate intervention. If you or someone else is in crisis, seek help now. If there is immediate danger, call local emergency services. In Canada or the U.S., call or text 988 for 24/7 crisis support (Canada, U.S.). For non-emergency postpartum peer support, contact Pacific Post Partum Support Society. https://postpartum.org/contact/ 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

Brian recently joined our friends at Artifacts of Grief to talk about the loss of Alex MacKenzie, his partner’s father, and the complicated experience of grieving someone while also trying to support the people you love through that same loss. In the conversation, Brian talks about learning to make room for his own grief instead of trying to fix it, explain it, or make it go away. It’s about sitting with the uncomfortable stuff, allowing grief to be what it is, and the unexpected artifact that has helped him do exactly that. This episode originally appeared on Artifacts of Grief, a podcast about the objects, rituals, and stories we hold onto after someone dies. We loved the conversation and wanted to share it here with the you guys. Tune into more episodes of Artifacts of Grief wherever you listen to podcasts.

Welcome to Second Opinion — a new Sickboy series where Jeremie digs up wild medical stories, healthcare encounters and morally questionable health dilemmas, then Brian and Taylor give their completely unqualified opinions. This week: competitive suffering gets taken to an absurd new level, an OR team discovers a patient's eyeball has unexpectedly left the building, and a near-death confession puts an estranged wife and current girlfriend in an impossible position. 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

Most people kick off their shoes to relax. For Laura, taking off her shoes drops her spine four centimeters and instantly throws her body out of alignment. This week, the fellas sit down with Laura to unpack Limb Length Discrepancy (LLD). At four years old, Laura was hit by a car, thrown 46 feet, and given a 1% chance of waking up from a medically induced coma. She beat the odds, but her broken femur overgrew during recovery, setting off a domino effect of unaligned hips, shifting ribs, and vertical eye-muscles. Laura gets raw and hilarious about using stacks of books to measure her own legs, getting custom shoe lifts cemented by German cobblers, turning her car accident PTSD into viral TikToks, and navigating the creepy foot-fetish guys cluttering her DMs. It’s an eye-opening conversation about body trauma, medical gaslighting, and finding balance when your foundation is literally uneven. 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

What happens when a routine childhood cold turns your sweet eight-year-old into a full-blown horror movie scene overnight? Sickboy royalty Jessica Slice returns to the show for an intimate, terrifying, and wildly eye-opening conversation about the nightmare her family lived through when her daughter suddenly stopped walking, lost her speech, and entered a state of extreme, violent psychosis. When ER doctors brushed off her daughter's sudden motor tics with a casual "kids are weird" and offered to throw an eight-year-old into an adult psych ward alongside an adult roommate, Jessica refused to take broken systems for an answer. Enter PANS (Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome) - a controversial, deeply misunderstood condition where a basic infection triggers an immune response that crosses the blood-brain barrier and sets off neuroinflammation in the brain. From mysterious motor spasms to stealth trips across the border for IVIG treatment, Jessica gives us a raw, unfiltered look at relentless maternal advocacy, medical gaslighting, and the fight to save her daughter's mind. For physician-vetted resources on PANS/PANDAS or to follow Jessica's writing and advocacy work, check out the links below: https://www.pandasppn.org/ https://jessicaslice.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

Jeremie was just looking into the history of performance-enhancing drugs when he accidentally stumbled into the absolute dumpster fire that was the 1904 St. Louis Olympic Marathon. What follows is arguably the most chaotic, medically irresponsible, and unhinged sporting event ever recorded. Between a racist organizer conducting forced dehydration experiments, clouds of dust causing internal hemorrhaging, a Cuban mailman who took a mid-race nap after eating rotten apples, and a guy who "won" gold after taking a cocktail of rat poison, raw egg whites, and French brandy - only 14 out of 32 runners made it to the finish line alive. Grab a drink (preferably water, not strychnine) and join Jeremie, Brian, and Taylor as they break down how human survival accidentally became an Olympic sport.  Follow Sickboy:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sickboypodcast Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sickboypodcast Discord: https://discord.gg/expeUDN

Surviving eight shots of Narcan at twelve years old is one hell of an introduction to chronic illness, and for Haylee, that was just the tip of the iceberg. Meet Haylee, a master’s student living with an absolute alphabet soup of diagnoses, including Cerebral Palsy, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), ARFID, AuDHD, OCD, and a recent addition of Bipolar disorder. In this raw and intimate conversation, Haylee breaks down what life is actually like when your body and brain are constantly clashing. From surviving a 26-hour leg surgery and an accidental morphine overdose at just twelve years old, to navigating the cold, isolating reality of transitioning out of pediatric care, Haylee doesn't hold back. She opens up about the trauma of medical PTSD, navigating safe-food obsessions, and using music and song-writing to quiet her brain during manic episodes. It’s an honest, eye-opening look at disability, identity, and proving everyone, including her doctors, wrong. Follow Sickboy:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sickboypodcast Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sickboypodcast Discord: https://discord.gg/expeUDN