Fake Cop
Originally featured on Brad Cartner’s pod show Sick Man Talking, these episodes are now appearing here in a dedicated companion series focused entirely on Fake Cop.
In 2006, Brad bought a retired Ontario Provincial Police cruiser under questionable circumstances from a used car lot that shouldn’t have existed. Brad became Fake Cop, and the ongoing decline of Newmarket, Ontario is widely considered to have started that day.
Part surreal crime saga, part fractured mythology, Fake Cop follows an escalating chain of disasters stretching from suburban Canada to Los Angeles and beyond. A darkly comic fever dream where every decision could’ve been avoided, but wasn’t.
Episodes
14 episodes
12 Uber Driver
In this episode, Fake Cop returns in an absurd satire of the 1976 film Taxi Driver. Working nights as a deeply unqualified Uber driver in Newmarket, Ontario, he descends into obsession while battling unleashed dogs, a collapsing Uber rating,...
11 The Mendoza Line
In this episode, the Sick Man returns with the shocking and explosive finale of the latest Fake Cop Trilogy. The Toucan Man is still on the loose and Fake Cop can’t find him. So he does something he hates more than anythin...
10 Warning Label
In this episode, the Sick Man returns with part two of the shocking, explosive, new Fake Cop Trilogy. Will Fast Bobby return with information about the Toucan Man? No idea. Will Fake Cop finally confront his role in the de...
09 The Last Breakfast
Fake Cop returns in the explosive first part of the third Fake Cop Trilogy. Will Bobby find information on the Toucan Man? Probably not. Will Fake Cop confront his role in the death of his son? Probably not. Most importantly, will he finally...
08 Forensic Fake Cop
Fake Cop returns in the shocking, explosive finale of the latest Fake Cop Trilogy. Will he find the Toucan Man? No idea. Will he continue getting used to his long-lost son? Maybe. Possibly. Temporarily. Will he be able to keep his son safe i...
07 The Fruit Loop Files
Fake Cop returns in the explosive second part of the latest Fake Cop Trilogy. Newmarket is dealing with a Froot Loops epidemic. Fake Cop may be responsible. Will he fix it? Probably not. Will he take responsibility? No. Will he manage to sav...
06 - Fake Cop Family Ties
Fake Cop returns in Part 1 of the explosive second Fake Cop Trilogy. He learns he has a long lost son - and for the first time in his life feels rattled. How does a corrupt, immoral, anti-social man built on lies, intimidation, and bad decis...
05 Newmarket Heat
In the shocking and explosive finale of the first Fake Cop Trilogy, Fake Cop is back from Beverly Hills and back in Newmarket. Prepared to start a new life, a new nemesis steps forward, threatening his job and dream, leading to a showdown Ne...
04 Beverly Hills Fake Cop
In the explosive second part of the first Fake Cop Trilogy, Fake Cop goes to Beverly Hills to investigate the murder of a childhood friend. Froot Loops, fentanyl, bearer bonds, and a Fake Cop on the edge who absolutely hates traveling. This ...
03 To Love and Die in Newmarket
Fake Cop returns film noir-style, in the explosive first part of the first Fake Cop trilogy. Fake Cop gets mixed up with a washed up hockey player, a powerful gangster, and a very dangerous femme fatale. A tale of love, murder, the mall, and...
02 Guess I Had It Comin'
In this episode, a kidney stone sends Fake Cop to the hospital, where he helps a rookie police officer through a dangerous situation, frames an innocent man with heart problems, and leaves with a new partner. Condolences to the Mendoza famil...
