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129 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 months ago -Stories of the Pandemy, for the People of the Pandemy. No one is alone on the Pandemy Show, where we find solace in shared experience and rediscover our common humanity. The Covid 19 global pandemy has many people feeling isolated, but from our perspective, we are all in this together, we’re all humans, trying to figure out life in 2020 and beyond. Whether you are a rat licker, sheeple, or somewhere in between, all are welcome at the Pandemy Show.
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02-0C Songs to Battle Nature Deficit Disorder – The Sugar Shack is Just Awesome and Birds Are Everywhere. Sean McCammon, Waterloo Moraine, Grand River Watershed. 3/13/21
March 25, 2021 06:00 - 7 minutes - 5.05 MBG-day and welcome to the Pandemy Show. Thanks for joining us as we unite humanity through stories of hope, connection, arts, and community in the face of the global pandemy. Dave transcends time and space to have a musical snack with Sean McCammon on the Waterloo Moraine in Kitchener, Ontario. Sean pandemy rawks with two of his classic tunes, “The Sugar Shack is Just Awesome” followed by “Birds Are everywhere Man”. Today we celebrate the Sugar Bush and Maple Syrup with a tune of his Sugar Sh...
02-13 - Online: Outside with an Outdoor Educator - Sean McCammon, Waterloo Moraine, Grand River Watershed 03/13/21
March 22, 2021 22:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MBG-day and welcome to the Pandemy Show. Thanks for joining us as we unite humanity through stories of hope, connection, and community in the face of the global pandemy. Dave transcends time and space to talk with Sean McCammon on the Waterloo Moraine in Kitchener, Ontario. Sean shares how he has been working with his squad to teach outdoor education virtually. Sean and the nature squad have been running virtual bird counts, monster tree hunts, and milk week hunts for butterflies. He shares w...
02-12 Cities are Pandemy Petri Dishes. Michael Leung. Peterborough, Ontario. 03/07/21
March 14, 2021 13:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBG’day and welcome to the Pandemy Show. Stories of the pandemy, for the people of the pandemy. Dave transcends time and space to talk with Michael Leung in Peterborough, Ontario. Michael expects the variant strain numbers to increase and take over the original virus interms of infection rates. Our communities are becoming petri dishes, where every new infection becomes an opportunity for a new variant which could potentially evade the vaccine. They discuss the potential impacts of vaccine ...
02-11 Pandemy Uniting UK while Brexit is Teething. Kate Manktlow. London, United Kingdon. 02/28/21
March 08, 2021 02:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBDave transcends time and space to talk with Kate Manktlow in London, United Kingdom. Kate shares what it’s like living in a high density global city during the pandemy. She shares how the pandemy has reawakened the country’s Blitz Spirit and discusses its impact on pub culture. Brexit is another factor affecting people in the UK right now, Kate shares that the exit deal has entered the painful teething stage. Londoners are demonstrating resilience in the face of the pandemy relying on Victor...
02-10 – The Many Faces of the Pandemy: Music. Eric Alper, Toronto, Canada. 02/20/21
March 05, 2021 01:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MBG’day and welcome to the Pandemy Show. Stories of the pandemy, for the people of the pandemy. Dave zooms to Toronto to talk with Eric Alper about the many faces of the pandemy and Music. Yeah, that Eric Alper. There is no perfect substitute for a live show, like in before times. Eric and Dave discuss the meaningful substitutes that musicians have industriously employed to connect with us. They fantasize about attending indoor shows as they discuss the obstacles that the pandemy has put in...
02-09 - Trying to Get Married During the Pandemy While Living on Different Continents. Ryan Chen-Wing. Terrace, B.C., Canada. 02/20/21
February 28, 2021 23:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBG’day and welcome to the Pandemy Show. Stories of the pandemy, for the people of the pandemy. Dave zooms to Terrace, B.C. to talk with Ryan Chen-Wing about the trials and tribulations of being kept from his family. Ryan’s partner, and Mother to their son, live in the UK. Covid has prevented them from getting married not once, but twice! Ryan misses his partner and son, but finds strength in his family history. Once in the heart, never apart. Thanks Giant Value for letting us know that e...
02-0B - This ones for Wiarton Willie, Old Groundhog. Carmen Hanna. Grand River Watershed
February 26, 2021 00:00 - 3 minutes - 2.67 MBToday’s musical snack is from Carmen Hanna from Carmen and the Whistle Pigs as she sings the folk classic, Old Groundhog. The pandemy has brought many changes to our lives. It’s also changed how we celebrate. Groundhog Day 2021 was no exception. Lucy the Lobster cancelled her show in Nova Scotia. Sam, Phil, and their handlers predictions were online for the public to consume. No one has seen Wiarton Willie, although a weather prediction was proclaimed. This ones for Willie, hope you are...
02-08 - Making Sure the Arts Aren't Another Covid Casualty. Lisa Humber, Downtown Toronto, Ontario. 02/16/21
February 22, 2021 00:00 - 40 minutes - 28.2 MBDave zooms to downtown Toronto to talk with Lisa Humber about her pandemy experiences as a member of the Arts Community. The pandemy made her realize all time is precious as life can change so quickly. Lisa passed through the Hong Kong airport in January 2020 and her gut told her the world was about to change. The pandemy has stopped Lisa from working in live theatre and made arts workers another casualty of covid. Lisa encourages everyone to be brave and not to get lost in the fear and anx...
02-07 Looking Forward to the Music in Montreal. Hal Jaques, Montreal, Quebec. 02/04/21
February 17, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBDave zooms to Montreal to talk to Hal Jaques. Hal shares with Dave that when the pandemy started he heard it would be 12-19 months before a vaccine would be in play. He did the Math and knew things wouldn’t be getting back to normal until fall 2021 or later. Hal notes people are demonstrating resilience in the face of pandemy adversity. He misses making music with his band and feels like parts of his life are on hold. Hal sees the light at the end of the tunnel and like all the people of t...
S2-06 Supporting an Aging Parent and Ontario's Energy Mix. Angela Bischoff, Toronto, Ontario. 02/02/21
February 14, 2021 09:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBDave celebrates Groundhog Day lockdown style by zooming with Angela about how she has adapted to lockdown in Toronto. Angela shares how Queen Street is a ghost town with an increasing number of closed store fronts. Angela and her partner have navigated the pandemy caretaking for her Mother. They talk about how the province appears to be using the pandemic as cover for furthering their agenda of allowing development within sensitive areas of the Greenbelt, neutering conservation authorities p...
S2-06 Supporting an Aging Parent and Ontario's Energy Mix. Angela Bischoff, Toronto, Ontario. 02/02/21
February 14, 2021 09:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBDave celebrates Groundhog Day lockdown style by zooming with Angela about how she has adapted to lockdown in Toronto. Angela shares how Queen Street is a ghost town with an increasing number of closed store fronts. Angela and her partner have navigated the pandemy caretaking for her Mother. They talk about how the province appears to be using the pandemic as cover for furthering their agenda of allowing development within sensitive areas of the Greenbelt, neutering conservation authorities p...
S2-0A- Bonus Song for Wiarton Willie - Carmen and the Whistle Pig singing Donovan's Changes 02/11/21
February 12, 2021 02:00 - 4 minutes - 2.82 MBG’day and welcome to the Pandemy Show. Stories of the pandemy, for the people of the pandemy. Today’s episode is a musical snack from Carmen Hanna from Carmen and the Whistle Pigs as she sings Donovan’s, Changes. The pandemy has brought many changes to our lives. It’s also changed how we celebrate. Groundhog Day 2021 was no exception. Lucy the Lobster cancelled her show in Nova Scotia. Sam, Phil, and their handlers predictions were online for the public to consume. No one has seen Wiar...
S2-05 - What’s a Querdenker? Gabriele Elsaesser Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany 01/29/21
February 09, 2021 10:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBThe Pandemy Show zooms to mainland Europe to talk with Gabriele in Baden-Wurttemberg Germany. Dave and Gabriele discuss being under employed, missing traveling and attending film festivals, and the German Querdenker Movement. They worry one of the costs of the pandemy may be reductions in funding for education, the arts, social justice issues and combating climate change. She is hopeful the pandemy will help us learn to live together more peacefully.
S2-04 Couch community technologies bring us together, apart. David Hayes, San Francisco, California. 01/21/21
February 01, 2021 12:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MBDave talks to Dave about the changes in his tech industry lifestyle as they celebrate talking on 01/21/21 during the 21 hour, the 21 minutes, and the 21 second. Dave moved from an apartment to a small house as the pandemic marched on and although the pandemy hasn’t changed his workaholic lifestyle much he is loving backyard birding. His techie background enlightens us to the great embrace of technology that started 20 years ago with the dot com bubble. People who have never zoomed, are zoo...
S2-03 The grim reality of being forced to coexist with covid deniers. Barb Doddington, Aylmer, Ontario, Canada
January 27, 2021 11:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBDave talks to Barb, a fellow feather fancier about how she misses travelling, attending shows, and is looking forward to getting her dog breed after the pandemy. She shares how vaccines and antibiotics are one of the reasons humans can live in such large populations. While some people gained a lot of weight and drank more in the pandemy, not Barb. She has changed her diet and increased her physical activity and lost 55 pounds! Barb, sadly, lives in an area where the pandemy has given loc...
S2 -02 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Arts, Covid 19, and PTSD. Sukh Champa, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 01/11/21
January 24, 2021 17:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBDave talks with Sukh about how the pandemy triggered his PTSD from a near death experience with meningococcal meningitis. He identifies the pandemy of loneliness. Sukh, a front line worker, discusses the importance of art and how he hopes we can collectively log off and seek human connection as we get through the pandemy and beyond. Sukh hopes opposing view points can listen to one another and be heard. At the end of the show Dave read’s Pandemy Blossom. A new poem inspired by Sarah Harmer...
S2 - 01 - The Era of Pandemies? Talking trees with Urban Orchardist, Novella Carpenter. Oakland, California 01/09/21
January 18, 2021 05:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBDave talks with Novella about how the pandemy lead her back to the land, homesteading, and urban farming. They discuss how everyone has to draw their own boundaries to feel safe, the importance of making connections with plant communities, long lines at food banks, and basic income. They also discuss how low quality food leads to heart disease and diabetes, and make us more susceptible to Covid. Novella shares that the Capital Hill Insurrection may not have occurred if people hadn’t been ...
10 - Improv Actor Quarantines and Forages on the Land - James, Toronto, Ontario - 12/29/20
December 31, 2020 18:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MBDave talks to James about getting off a plane in Toronto before it takes off for Los Angeles on March 17, 2020. He shares how LA’s toilet paper shortage foreshadowed Toronto’s 5 days later. James ended up going to LA in July and shares the stark differences between Canada and the US. She also shares his experience quarantining off-grid in the bush for 14 days. James shares an obvious observation of the pandemy, it’s easier to survive with money. Which makes us hope for and wonder about how m...
06 - From Life on the Road to Life of Uncertainty - Dan Walsh, Southern Ontario, Canada
December 27, 2020 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBDave’s talks to his favourite slide guitarist, Dan Walsh, about what may be the weirdest year in generations. Dan talks to us about what’s happened since the NBA postponed their season and shows started getting cancelled in March. They talk about the impact of the pandemy on society’s soul -- the music and hospitality industry. They discuss serious implications of the pandemic, like what if you can’t get your life saving medications and the bewilderment of being at home when you are used to ...
07. - “My birthday is in March in the before times we went for sushi” - Rebecca Lippert Yellot, Northern California, United States - 10/8/20
December 27, 2020 13:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBRebecca talks to Dave about what it has been like living in Rural NorCal as a Bay Area transplant. We hear about what it’s like on the front lines as an essential worker. Balancing work and keeping one’s family safe is precarious balance. Especially in a pandemy plagued by wildfires, structural inequality, and the politicalization of the virus.
08 - The Many Faces of Pandemy - Mo Markham, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada - 10/21/20
December 27, 2020 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBMo doesn’t mince words, while talking with Dave about the many faces of the pandemy. She connects the dots between climate change, human exploitation of the natural world, inequality and covid 19 to illustrate the many faces of the pandemy. Mo and Dave debate the merits of his ethical meat project, Buttercup, and discuss the importance of protecting the wild places for future generations.
09- The City of Brotherly Love - Magda Konieczna, Philapdehia, United States
December 27, 2020 13:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBMagda shares with Dave what it's like raising baby Stefan in a pandemic. Physical distancing in parks with a young family is one thing, what will winter be like? We discuss working online, child care, bubbles, and looking forward to summer. Philly missed the July spike but numbers are trending upwards as the next wave comes in. The power of community and creating, shines hope during these dark pandemy times. Caught in the pandemy with the rest of us, Magda and her family find comfort in meal...
02 - From Sudan to New Zealand - Eric Jeffery, Auckland, New Zealand - 8/24/20
December 26, 2020 02:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBEric talks to Dave about coming home from camping with his family in the North African desert after March Break to a very different reality as a result of the Covid 19. He started working remotely, eventually making his way back to New Zealand with his wife and three children. The island state of New Zealand has been able to take a different approach from North America, an ambitious policy of eradication, so Kiwis can live worry free while their children attend birthday parties in person.
03 - Back to the Land in Cambodia - Jamie Lauckner, Phnom Penh, Cambodia - 8/25/20
December 26, 2020 02:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBJamie talks to Dave about how separation from family and friends can take its toll during the pandemy. Jamie lives with his wife in Phnom Penh at the confluence of the Basak, Sab, and Mekong River system. He shares how masks are normal wear in Southeast Asia, he identifies that our dependence on technology is changing our socialization, and how families in remote areas are using Scarecrows to ward of Covid 19.
04 - Have you ever seen an armadillo walk? - Andrew Thomas, Vietnam - 8/28/20
December 26, 2020 02:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBThomas talks to Dave from his family’s home in Hanoi about the importance of contact tracing, the power of collective action to address a public health issue, the bum gun’s roll in preventing toilet paper shortages, the role of government and industry during a global pandemic, politicization of the pandemy in the west, how Vietnam learned from SARS, having a 9 month old newborn, cyber security and economics. We are left wondering if the bum gun is something we should culturally appropriate ...
05 - Great White North to the Land Down Under - Meg Lowe, in Quarantine in Sydney, Australia
December 26, 2020 02:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBMegs talks to Dave from Quarantine with her family of four having just moved from Ontario, Canada back to her country of origin. Megs shares the challenges and tribulations of the expensive move to during the start of a global pandemic! Like mandatory covid tests, mouth swap and a 3-4 second swoosh, the cost of travel and quarantine, Australian Covid-19 app, the rise in calls for poisonous snake removal and what the government is doing to combat wildfires. We peel back the many layers of the...
05 - Great White North to the Land Down Under - Meg Lowe, in Quarantine in Sydney, Australia
December 26, 2020 02:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBMegs talks to Dave from Quarantine with her family of four having just moved from Ontario, Canada back to her country of origin. Megs shares the challenges and tribulations of the expensive move to during the start of a global pandemic! Like mandatory covid tests, mouth swap and a 3-4 second swoosh, the cost of travel and quarantine, Australian Covid-19 app, the rise in calls for poisonous snake removal and what the government is doing to combat wildfires. We peel back the many layers of the...
00 - Pandemy Show Origin Story - Dave, Southern Ontario, Canada - 12/25/20
December 26, 2020 01:00 - 4 minutes - 3.01 MBIn this prologue episode Dave explains the origin of the Pandemy Show. Come together at the Pandemy Show. All are welcome.
01 - Hope in the Pandemy - Meredith Warren, Sheffield, United Kingdom - 8/7/20
December 26, 2020 01:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBMeredith, in Sheffield U.K. by the River Don, talks to Dave about having a Quarintino Bambino at the start of a global pandemic, raising a newborn without extended family, Toronto Raptors, NHL Bubble, covid curls & long hair, and pub culture. Hearing baby Andrew chortle reaffirms the hope that this too shall pass.