Chasing Death With George Kourounis

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week on Sickboy, we sit down with George Kourounis. He is an adventurer, explorer, storm chaser and defier of death. George has made his living by going to the most dangerous places on earth, and catching it all on camera so people like you and me can experience it all from the couch. We talk life, passion, fear and death with one of the most interesting men on the planet.

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0:00.0	Every language is a note.
0:05.0	In the symphony of our heritage,
0:10.0	together they create a harmony
0:16.0	that cannot be silenced.
0:24.7	Discover your voice on the APTN Languages TV channel.
0:31.3	This is a CBC podcast.
0:34.3	Welcome to Sick Boy, a podcast where we talk about what it's like to be sick. This week's guest is George Carunis. He cheats death for a living. Let's talk about it. Thank you. George, you can come right up on the mic.
1:04.5	It can be rather, like, uncomfortably close.
1:07.4	Uncomfortably close.
1:09.4	This is really cool.
1:12.4	We, you know, we could, so, oh, I guess we should let the list of them know.
1:15.6	We're still in Toronto.
1:16.8	We haven't left.
1:19.8	And we're at the Movember offices here in downtown Toronto.
1:23.6	It's having a great time.
1:24.7	And we were setting up all these interviews to talk to, you know, a plethora of people living with disease, living with illness.
1:32.7	And somehow we got set up with what I don't think many would argue against this.
1:43.5	An interview with one of, if not the most interesting man in the world.
1:48.5	We were just talking about this, of Drew out there.
1:50.1	And he was like, you are the most interesting man in the world, George.
1:53.4	We should tell everyone, we're sitting here with George.
1:56.6	And I don't want to butcher your last name like Drew just did.
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