""When life give's you cancer, get rid of it"" - Brandon Thomas

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Episode two in memory of Brandon Thomas. This is the second time Brandon came on the show to talk to us about his cancer coming back. We love you dude. Thanks for all the laughs. **** When you beat cancer only to have it resurface less than a year later, is the battle any easier? For Brandon Thomas the battle is no different. He kicked cancers ass once and he’s ready to do it again. This week the boys sit down with their first repeat guest Brandon Thomas. He gives us an update on where things are at since last recording with us including how his cancer has reared it’s ugly head once more. The boys chat about new secret test treatments, losing your butt hair, King Joffrey Baratheon, and a new Sickboy drinking game.

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0:34.2	This is a CBC podcast.
0:38.3	Hello, everyone.
0:39.8	Jeremy here from Sick Boy Podcast of the E1 Podcast Network.
0:45.1	And we're going to throw a little midweek episode up this week.
0:52.4	And it's going to be the second recording that we did with Brandon Thomas.
0:58.0	I know we said we were going to do it for the, you know, this current Monday and next Monday,
1:04.7	but we figured it would be best just to put it up today because yesterday was Brandon's
1:10.2	memorial. It was an absolutely beautiful service.
1:16.5	It was held at a funeral home here in Halifax, and there were so many people that showed up
1:25.4	that they literally had to shift people into the overflow rooms.
1:32.9	And I believe that there was standing room only in two separate overflow rooms and standing
1:39.9	room only in the hallway of the funeral home.
1:44.9	There were many people who were there because they were touched by Brandon in some way.
1:53.2	He was very loved, and it was a really special service.
1:56.9	Actually, David McGinley, the chaplain, who we had here on Sick Boy for episode 100, our big 100th episode,
2:07.5	David McGinley actually officiated the funeral.
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