Episode 2: The Sting

Hunting the Suicide Salesman

CBC

True Crime

4.9 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

A string of suicides across the globe seem to be connected to a salesman in Canada. But does he know what he’s selling is being used for? An undercover journalist uncovers a bombshell.

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0:00.0	Hi, Steve Patterson here, host of the debaters, the show where we get Canada's best comics to take on our country's sauciest topics.
0:07.7	Topics like, is no meal complete without dipping sauce?
0:11.3	This episode was recorded in Winnipeg, home of the signature Honeydill Sauce, so we had a live audience of saucy specialists.
0:18.8	This is an episode you're going to want to dip into, so don't miss
0:21.9	the debaters wherever you listen to podcasts. Saucy or not? This is a CBC podcast. Hey, before we start,
0:32.6	I want to make sure you know we talk about suicide in a lot of detail in this series. It might not be what you want to listen to if you're not in the right place.
0:40.1	But I'm also really hesitant to warn you away because I think we do that too often.
0:45.3	And I think we need to have this conversation.
0:47.6	So I'll leave it up to you.
1:02.0	Yeah. There's this one, which is Tom playing football. He's probably 14 in that picture, something like that.
1:08.0	Yeah.
1:09.0	Tom was a ridiculously intelligent kid.
1:14.3	I don't think he ever really understood how clever he was.
1:19.8	Ashton, he was like just this happy-go-lucky boy, you know?
1:26.5	He was always smiling, smiles always really like you know
1:32.4	talkative as long as you started a conversation it's anthony there with a little scarf on his head
1:41.6	oh he was kind he was fun loving kind of quiet a little scarf on his head. Oh, he was kind.
1:44.6	He was fun-loving.
1:46.5	Kind of quiet, a little shy.
1:49.0	You know, but when he wanted to make his voice heard, he could.
1:56.7	Grade 9 and 10 honor rules.
1:59.3	Grade 11 is when stuff started to come apart.
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