Remembering Brandon Thomas
Sickboy
CBC
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2019
⏱️ 79 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's becoming pretty clear that U.S. President Donald Trump is ripping up the political |
| 0:05.3 | playbook. |
| 0:05.8 | And when it comes to what it all means for Canada, well, as they say, it's complicated. |
| 0:09.8 | But our podcast, two blocks from the White House, is a way to make sense of it all. |
| 0:13.8 | Join me, Willie Lowry, and senior Washington correspondents, Paul Hunter and Katie Simpson |
| 0:18.6 | every week as we break down the headlines from Capitol Hill |
| 0:22.1 | with a Canadian spin. |
| 0:24.2 | Find and follow two blocks from the White House on your favorite podcast app, including YouTube. |
| 0:30.3 | This is a CBC podcast. |
| 0:34.4 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:36.2 | Jeremy here from Sick Boy Podcast. And this week we're going to drop a very, very special sort of midweek episode. But it's actually a repeat episode. This is an episode from a couple of years ago. Excuse me, and it really means the world to us. |
| 0:56.8 | This is the first conversation that we had with our friend Brandon Thomas. |
| 1:02.0 | Now, if you've been listening to Sick Boy for a while, you are probably familiar with who Brandon was. |
| 1:08.9 | But I know that over the last year, we've had quite a few new listeners, kind of hop on the |
| 1:15.8 | sick boy train. |
| 1:17.2 | And so for those of you who aren't aware, Brandon was an early guest that we had on the show. |
| 1:22.6 | He was one of our youngest guests. |
| 1:24.7 | And he came on to talk about his experience in living with an osteosarcoma |
| 1:30.2 | that he lost his leg to when he was about 18 or 19. And we were just completely taken by |
| 1:38.5 | how well spoken and how charming Brandon was. And after that conversation, |
| 1:44.9 | after that conversation, |
| 1:47.2 | we ended up actually becoming very, very close friends. |
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