Episode 87

In 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 substances for control - the British Opium Wars in China, CIA heroin operations in Marseille and Vietnam, Iran-Contra cocaine trafficking, and the Sackler family’s systematic destruction of North American communities. Then he describes how he got caught in the crossfire.This is a series on how drugs stopped being a problem to solve and became a tool of power.Support the showHost: Brad Cartner Show Producer: Greg O’Brien Sound Engineer: Derek WelsmanMusic: Brad Cartner Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter  FOR FULL PODCAST DETAILS, NEWS AND DIRECTORIES visit us on our MAIN WEBSITE at https://www.sickmantalking.ca/ or visit our HOST WEBSITE on BuzzSprout at https://sickmantalkingpodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Keep up to date and LIKE US ON FACEBOOK at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1113434209965784Join our Facebook Community at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1113434209965784/ and on INSTAGRAM at https://www.instagram.com/luigivampa44/ SUPPORT & DONATE TO SICK MAN TALKING AThttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/sickmantalkinghttps://www.buzzsprout.com/2352199/support QUESTIONS OR COMMENT DROP US AN EMAIL [email protected]

In 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 decided to get into the market. Your host hasn’t slept since 2019. And yet he’s confident this will work on you. Contains totally absurd language, graphic images of cereal, and professional concern.Support the showHost: Brad Cartner Show Producer: Greg O’Brien Sound Engineer: Derek WelsmanMusic: Brad Cartner Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter  FOR FULL PODCAST DETAILS, NEWS AND DIRECTORIES visit us on our MAIN WEBSITE at https://www.sickmantalking.ca/ or visit our HOST WEBSITE on BuzzSprout at https://sickmantalkingpodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Keep up to date and LIKE US ON FACEBOOK at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1113434209965784Join our Facebook Community at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1113434209965784/ and on INSTAGRAM at https://www.instagram.com/luigivampa44/ SUPPORT & DONATE TO SICK MAN TALKING AThttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/sickmantalkinghttps://www.buzzsprout.com/2352199/support QUESTIONS OR COMMENT DROP US AN EMAIL [email protected]

In this episode, Fake Cop returns for the shocking and explosive final chapter of the latest Fake Cop Trilogy, Frontier Fake Cop: Part IIIDead Eye Dolan gets his shot. Fake Cop gets his gun - from a very unconventional holster. Jasper Creed gets… exposed. Karate is involved. So is Connor McDavid. Again.This is Frontier Fake Cop: Part III - Bottoms Up.Support the showHost: Brad Cartner Show Producer: Greg O’Brien Sound Engineer: Derek WelsmanMusic: Brad Cartner Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter  FOR FULL PODCAST DETAILS, NEWS AND DIRECTORIES visit us on our MAIN WEBSITE at https://www.sickmantalking.ca/ or visit our HOST WEBSITE on BuzzSprout at https://sickmantalkingpodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Keep up to date and LIKE US ON FACEBOOK at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1113434209965784Join our Facebook Community at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1113434209965784/ and on INSTAGRAM at https://www.instagram.com/luigivampa44/ SUPPORT & DONATE TO SICK MAN TALKING AThttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/sickmantalkinghttps://www.buzzsprout.com/2352199/support QUESTIONS OR COMMENT DROP US AN EMAIL [email protected]

In 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 with an outlaw. Things escalate. An awkward horse ride is involved. So is a coffin. So is Connor McDavid… Somehow. This is Frontier Fake Cop: Part II - Coffin Break.Support the showHost: Brad Cartner Show Producer: Greg O’Brien Sound Engineer: Derek WelsmanMusic: Brad Cartner Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter  FOR FULL PODCAST DETAILS, NEWS AND DIRECTORIES visit us on our MAIN WEBSITE at https://www.sickmantalking.ca/ or visit our HOST WEBSITE on BuzzSprout at https://sickmantalkingpodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Keep up to date and LIKE US ON FACEBOOK at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1113434209965784Join our Facebook Community at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1113434209965784/ and on INSTAGRAM at https://www.instagram.com/luigivampa44/ SUPPORT & DONATE TO SICK MAN TALKING AThttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/sickmantalkinghttps://www.buzzsprout.com/2352199/support QUESTIONS OR COMMENT DROP US AN EMAIL [email protected]

In 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 1887 - no explanation, no room temperature water, no Froot Loops, no pizza, but somehow a hockey league.  He gets arrested for existing too loudly, and he totally doesn’t use his shoelaces to strangle somebody. Or maybe he does. Kind of. Sort of. Allegedly.This is Frontier Fake Cop: Part I. You ain’t from around here.Support the showHost: Brad Cartner Show Producer: Greg O’Brien Sound Engineer: Derek WelsmanMusic: Brad Cartner Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter  FOR FULL PODCAST DETAILS, NEWS AND DIRECTORIES visit us on our MAIN WEBSITE at https://www.sickmantalking.ca/ or visit our HOST WEBSITE on BuzzSprout at https://sickmantalkingpodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Keep up to date and LIKE US ON FACEBOOK at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1113434209965784Join our Facebook Community at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1113434209965784/ and on INSTAGRAM at https://www.instagram.com/luigivampa44/ SUPPORT & DONATE TO SICK MAN TALKING AThttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/sickmantalkinghttps://www.buzzsprout.com/2352199/support QUESTIONS OR COMMENT DROP US AN EMAIL [email protected]

In 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 scrolls. Centuries of mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, entire plays we’ll never read. Gone, mostly, long before anyone could agree on who to blame. It’s a story about how knowledge disappears - not in one dramatic fire, but through decades of neglect and war nobody thought to stop in time. And about a lifelong, slightly unreasonable love of books that makes losing any of it feel personal. Along the way: a desperate man with an urgent and deeply undignified problem, several centuries of finger-pointing, and the one piece of ancient wisdom we know for certain reached the person who needed it. This is the Library of Alexandria.Support the showHost: Brad Cartner Show Producer: Greg O’Brien Sound Engineer: Derek WelsmanMusic: Brad Cartner Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter  FOR FULL PODCAST DETAILS, NEWS AND DIRECTORIES visit us on our MAIN WEBSITE at https://www.sickmantalking.ca/ or visit our HOST WEBSITE on BuzzSprout at https://sickmantalkingpodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Keep up to date and LIKE US ON FACEBOOK at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1113434209965784Join our Facebook Community at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1113434209965784/ and on INSTAGRAM at https://www.instagram.com/luigivampa44/ SUPPORT & DONATE TO SICK MAN TALKING AThttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/sickmantalkinghttps://www.buzzsprout.com/2352199/support QUESTIONS OR COMMENT DROP US AN EMAIL [email protected]

In 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 misunderstood. Beneath the nightmares, it’s a story about being lost… about the moment the person you thought you were and the person actually making your choices become strangers to each other. And about what refuses to let you stay lost.Along the way, he explores heresy, violence, treachery, greed, other rings, and exactly how far reason can carry a person before it runs out of road. Even at the very bottom of Hell, something is still pulling him upward. This is Dante’s Inferno.Support the showHost: Brad Cartner Show Producer: Greg O’Brien Sound Engineer: Derek WelsmanMusic: Brad Cartner Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter  FOR FULL PODCAST DETAILS, NEWS AND DIRECTORIES visit us on our MAIN WEBSITE at https://www.sickmantalking.ca/ or visit our HOST WEBSITE on BuzzSprout at https://sickmantalkingpodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Keep up to date and LIKE US ON FACEBOOK at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1113434209965784Join our Facebook Community at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1113434209965784/ and on INSTAGRAM at https://www.instagram.com/luigivampa44/ SUPPORT & DONATE TO SICK MAN TALKING AThttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/sickmantalkinghttps://www.buzzsprout.com/2352199/support QUESTIONS OR COMMENT DROP US AN EMAIL [email protected]

In 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 about the moments that divide life into before and after - the experiences that change how we move through the world, even when the world itself appears unchanged. Along the way, he explores grief, transformation, identity, and why some of the oldest stories ever told still understand us better than we understand ourselves. Oh… and Hades finally explains himself.Support the showHost: Brad Cartner Show Producer: Greg O’Brien Sound Engineer: Derek WelsmanMusic: Brad Cartner Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter  FOR FULL PODCAST DETAILS, NEWS AND DIRECTORIES visit us on our MAIN WEBSITE at https://www.sickmantalking.ca/ or visit our HOST WEBSITE on BuzzSprout at https://sickmantalkingpodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Keep up to date and LIKE US ON FACEBOOK at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1113434209965784Join our Facebook Community at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1113434209965784/ and on INSTAGRAM at https://www.instagram.com/luigivampa44/ SUPPORT & DONATE TO SICK MAN TALKING AThttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/sickmantalkinghttps://www.buzzsprout.com/2352199/support QUESTIONS OR COMMENT DROP US AN EMAIL [email protected]

In 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 was more than just a a place to skate. It was a place almost everyone seemed to pass through, and decades later it’s still one of those places people immediately start talking about when it’s mentioned.Along the way he explores the history of roller skating, why the Canadiana became such a fixture of local childhood, nostalgia, school field trips, cruising, moonlighting, first crushes, and the strange social world that existed inside the rink.Also featuring: an unhealthy amount of 80s music.This is the Canadiana Roller Rink.Support the showHost: Brad Cartner Show Producer: Greg O’Brien Sound Engineer: Derek WelsmanMusic: Brad Cartner Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter  FOR FULL PODCAST DETAILS, NEWS AND DIRECTORIES visit us on our MAIN WEBSITE at https://www.sickmantalking.ca/ or visit our HOST WEBSITE on BuzzSprout at https://sickmantalkingpodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Keep up to date and LIKE US ON FACEBOOK at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1113434209965784Join our Facebook Community at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1113434209965784/ and on INSTAGRAM at https://www.instagram.com/luigivampa44/ SUPPORT & DONATE TO SICK MAN TALKING AThttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/sickmantalkinghttps://www.buzzsprout.com/2352199/support QUESTIONS OR COMMENT DROP US AN EMAIL [email protected]

In 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 humans sitting under the night sky making sense of patterns, to ancient astronomy, Greek cosmology, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, telescopes, modern space exploration, and where all of that leaves us now. Along the way he talks about how people assign meaning to the sky, why the universe keeps getting bigger every time somebody invents a new telescope, whether screens have quietly become our modern version of the night sky, and why watching scale-of-the-universe videos was probably a mistake. Also featuring: William Shatner, black holes, mild existential discomfort, and a continued commitment to never personally going to space. This is the Human History of Space.Support the showHost: Brad Cartner Show Producer: Greg O’Brien Sound Engineer: Derek WelsmanMusic: Brad Cartner Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter  FOR FULL PODCAST DETAILS, NEWS AND DIRECTORIES visit us on our MAIN WEBSITE at https://www.sickmantalking.ca/ or visit our HOST WEBSITE on BuzzSprout at https://sickmantalkingpodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Keep up to date and LIKE US ON FACEBOOK at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1113434209965784Join our Facebook Community at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1113434209965784/ and on INSTAGRAM at https://www.instagram.com/luigivampa44/ SUPPORT & DONATE TO SICK MAN TALKING AThttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/sickmantalkinghttps://www.buzzsprout.com/2352199/support QUESTIONS OR COMMENT DROP US AN EMAIL [email protected]