Sickboy podcast tackles illness, disease with humour: ‘I’m not going to stop’
HALIFAX — Jeremie Saunders doesn’t balk at what he describes as his “expiry date.”
The 29-year-old lives with cystic fibrosis, and has made a point of talking — and laughing — about his deadly illness.
Saunders and two friends, Taylor MacGillivary and Brian Stever, host a highly popular podcast, Sickboy, in which everyday people talk candidly about their illness or condition, and its impact on their lives.
The weekly podcast, and Saunders’s own story, are the subject of a new documentary “Sickboy,” set to air on CBC Docs POV Sunday.