From Daring Dreams to Digestive Drama - Crohn's Disease
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CBC
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
This week is all about 4 things. Ambition, Resiliency, Adventure and Poop! Our guest Bradley lives with Crohn's disease and despite facing huge health challenges (including a horrific and lengthy hospital admission) he’s done some wildly impressive things. Bradley crossed the Sahara Desert, swam the English Channel, and even raced 14 dogs in the Iditarod across Alaska. And if that isn’t enough to make you feel like you’ve done nothing with your life, his latest goal is to become an astronaut. Stick around for the wrap up as Jer takes the fellas through one of the most gag inducing medical papers they have come across yet!
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| 0:00.0 | The Powering Politics Podcast is available six times a week, but you might not be. |
| 0:05.9 | If you want to catch up on what happened this week in politics, join me, Laura Dangelow and some of Canada's most tuned-in political strategists to break down the week that was. |
| 0:15.8 | Short on time, the weekly wrap has you covered with a new episode every Saturday. |
| 0:21.4 | This is a CBC podcast. |
| 0:35.8 | All right, folks. |
| 0:37.2 | This week is all about four things. Ambition, folks, this week is all about four things. |
| 0:39.8 | Ambition, resiliency, adventure, and poop. |
| 0:45.4 | Our guest, Bradley, lives with Crohn's disease. |
| 0:48.6 | And despite facing huge health challenges, he has done huge things. Like he's crossed the Sahara Desert. He's |
| 0:58.8 | swam the English Channel. Swam, swam. He even raced 14 dogs in the idiot rod across Alaska. |
| 1:09.6 | The idiot rod? The. The idiot rod? |
| 1:12.7 | The idita rod. |
| 1:18.8 | Stick around for the wrap up as I take the fellas through probably one of the most gag-inducing medical papers I've come across yet. |
| 1:21.3 | But with that, let us dive into this conversation about Crohn's with our new friend, |
| 1:27.8 | Bradford. Music dive into this conversation about Crohn's with our new friend, Bradley. |
| 1:38.1 | All right. |
| 1:40.5 | Well, this is exciting, guys. |
| 1:48.3 | We are joined by Lord Farquhar himself. What's up? Bradley. How often do you get that? |
| 1:54.0 | Well, dude, when I was in Samar's University, I ran for president of my university and my posters was Lord Farquard. So I coined it right back. Well, it didn't really coin it. Obviously, |
| 2:00.5 | Shrek did it, but I accepted it that. I still like it. Did you ever wear the wig? Dude, I had a guy, one of my best buddies, Jeff McDonald, maybe you guys know him. He dressed up as Shrek and ran around the university. Oh, I didn't really wear the way. Amazing. That's amazing. Wait, did you win? Did not? No, I got second place. |
| 2:17.9 | But it's one of those things that, like, if you reflect on your life and you did win President of University, there's like that opportunity cost, then I think I won out. That's right. Yeah. So I was going to say, I mean, like that, like, as far as the campaign, like, if I was going to school and somebody did that. I was a vote before? |
| 2:32.9 | Yeah. |
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