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Join us as we transcend time and space to Guelph, Ontario to get a Daoist perspective on the pandemy. Bill broadens Dave's understanding of Daoism while they explore the Yin and Yang of the pandemy.  Hold onto the one while we explore doing without doing, the value of having a conscious practical philosophy, and George's Jazz Funeral!  Cloud Walking Owl plays Book Title and Substack Arti...

Join us as we transcend time and space to talk with Dr. Shane Neilson in Cambridge, Ontario.  Shane discusses 3 books. His memoir, Saving: A Doctor's Struggle to Help His Children, a contributor and editor for, The Covid Journals: Health Care Workers Write the Pandemic, and a poem anthology with Roxanna Bennett, The Suspect We.  Shane also plays two of the hottest games in the pandemy! Submis...

Join us as we transcend time and space to Oakville, Ontario to play Poem Title in the Form of a Pandemy Question with Angela Barghese!  The quiet of the pandemy provided her the time and energy to focus on creative writing. She took a course and started writing poems inspired by family, community and before times.   After listening to her poems written during the pandemy she plays Poem Title in th...

Happy global Pride month.  Thanks for joining us as we transcend time and space to rural Australia to play Art Project in the Form of a Pandemy Question with actor Matt Young. Matt began his career in musical theatre in the US and performed across Europe before settling in the Pacific and starting a family.  Matt and Dave discuss the new progressive Pride flag, how his family noticed the sugar gli...

Join us as we transcend time and space to Montreal, Quebec to play Song Title in the Form of a Pandemy Question with musician, producer, and audio engineer Jo Jo Worthington. Jo Jo shares what it was like moving to Montreal in the early stages of the pandemy and writing her pandemy album, Baptism 1.  We listen to her folk rock tune, the Divide, and discuss the importance of building bridges of uni...

Thanks for joining us as we transcend time and space to Toronto to play Book Title in the Form of a Pandemy Question & discuss how we can get to after times with librarian, John Dupuis. Book Title in the Form of a Pandemy Questions, inspired by Nardwuar the Human Serviette: What would Buckminster Fuller think of our pandemy? How is it the Inventor of The Future? Inventor of the Future: The Vis...

We are transcending time and space to talk theatre with Spencer in Chicago.    In 2020 Spencer was in his last year of highschool, now he studies in New York City!!!!!  The pandemy robbed him of his prom and forced him to finish highschool remotely.  Fortunately for the world, Momma Mia, his senior year theatre production closed on March 7.  He attended, What the Constitution Means To Me, on March...

Episode 101, we are transcending time and space to talk with Sonik in London, Ontario.  Sonik was forced to rush back to Canada while touring in the southern U.S. in March of 2020 before the border closed on the 23rd.  He recounts his journey and what it was like being on the world renowned Las Vegas strip before it was closed due to the pandemy (2020).  While moving north through Tennessee his go...

For our 100th episode we transcend time and space to Los Angeles to talk pandemy with singer, songwriter,  director, actor,  cynic, and philosopher, Tim Russ.  Tim shares his thoughts on the Jully Black NBA All-Star Game Anthem controversy (2023).  Something of which he knew nothing about before this historic 100th episode! Dave and Tim talk weather, lockdowns, grand reopening, reintegrating into...

We transcend time and space to Florida to talk with Meredith Moon about her new album, Constellations, and getting back out on the road.  Meredith discusses her pandemy song, Slowing Moving Trains.  Travel restrictions, physical distancing and lockdowns didn't inspire much writing she shares as she plays Song Title In the Form of a Pandemy Question, inspired by Nardwuar the Human Serviette. ...

Harriet Chung transcends time and space to talk with Dave about how she adapted to the restriction imposed on our lives and how vital human connection is.  She discusses her new album, A World Away, and plays Song Title in the Form of a Pandemy Question inspired by Nardwaur the Human Serviette.  Harriet listens while Dave dances to her song, Today and Tomorrow, about the connection between child a...

Emily and Kyle, The Wandering Off, transcend time and space from Calgary, Alberta to share how cleaning their house during lockdown lead to a pandemy album.  When Covid struck they dealt with the frustration by reconnecting with their musical selves, creating a home studio, writing a 12 song album, recording and working to release it  together.  They recognize the pandemy gave them a gift of time....

Kat Van Groove transcends time and space to talk with Dave about how she reconnected with nature, her relationship with music and drumming, what she is doing for Reconciliation, and how Black Lives Matter.  She appreciates the healing power of music and how community music and drumming have an important place in reimagining and recreating a more just and equal world. Kat shares how she survived lo...

This year the Pandemy Show recognizes Black History Month by revisiting what we learned last year, learning more about local Black history, and Dave recites a poem from Earth Magic by Dionne Brand.  Dave shares what he learned in Season 2 from Lisa Humber about reading books and exploring art from artists of different cultural backgrounds.   Below are episodes of the Pandemy Show from Season 2 and...

Dave transcends time and space to talk with and thank Madison Galloway for her Lockdown Virtual Concert Series.  In 2019 Madison released her second album, Moon and Mercury.  In 2022 she had planned to perform in support of her album but  the pandemy struck!  During the first Lockdown Madison started performing virtually for thousands of fans around the world.  In 2022 when the Great Reopening hap...

Happy New Year!  For our Season 4 premier Dave transcends time and space to Woodville Nova Scotia to talk with Harry Posner, editor and contributor in SPIKE: Poems in the Time of Pestilence. Harry shares how poetry, nature and technology are helping us face the existential collective crisis of post traumatic stress disorder  from our sense of loneliness and isolation that lingers into the Great Re...

Dave transcends time and space to talk with business women and global trekker Brenda Beatty.   Brenda travelled with her husband and friends to Africa in March of 2022.  She shares how fortunate her party was that the border between Rwanda and Uganda opened on the day they planned to cross after being shut for 3 years!  Brenda shares her observations of the importance of our connection with nature...

Dave transcends time and space to talk with Daniel about his pandemy passion project, a Sci-fi novella that had been percolating in his consciousness for years, Moon to Mars. A tale of environmental destruction forcing humanity to flee to other inhospitable places for survival.  Initially the idea for a song, Dan used his pandemy free time to explore the themes of equality, justice, environmental...

In Part 2 of our Labour Day Special, George Elliott Clarke  and Dave transcend time and space to play Poem Title in the form of a Pandemy Question, inspired by Nardwuar the Human Serviette in Vancouver, British Columbia. Is there any better time for everyone to get On Basic Income? Many people have been On Calling For An Inquiry into Racism, has the pandemy delivered anything more than public supp...

Happy Labour Day!  In Part 1 of our Labour Day Special, George Elliott Clarke  and Dave transcend time and space and discuss how Mother Nature has forcefully reminded us we are part of creation.   George and Dave explore the challenges of consumer capitalism and how the pandemy has lead to greater inequality. People are responding through a revival of Unionism.  George shares how people are genera...

Robin and Dave transcend time and space to discuss the Pope's, Walking Together, visit to Canada and apology for residential schools.  The Hillside Music Festival brought Robin and Dave together on Sunday, July 24.  The first day of the Papal visit.  The Pope's apology means different things to different people.  The apology wasn't for everyone. But it's important symbolic sign...

Sally and Zach, members of Monowhales, blew the roof off  Hillside Music Festival in Guelph, Ontario in July.  Dave was at the show and excited to talk to them about their pandemy experience.  Sally and Zach play song title in the form of a pandemy question inspired by Nardwuar the Human Serviette from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. During lockdowns many people looked inwards and made change...

Happy Emancipation Day!  Nicola Jane, of Grand River Food Forestry, is currently on the Sankofa 100 Miles to Freedom Tour 2022. Exploring and rediscovering the stories of Freedom Fighters escaping slavery.  She is following the Freedom Trail that so many people used escaping from bondage in the United States to Canada.  Following the Freedom Trails, Nicola Jane has visited numerous important locat...

 Two time Jazz Juno Award winner Andy Milne compared the start of the pandemy to a giant snow day.  As we move into season three gatherings to celebrate and enjoy music are returning. Andy is excited to  welcome Jazz gatherings back to Toronto when be plays the main stage of the Toronto JazzFest June 28!  Andy plays song title in the form of a pandemy question inspired by Nardwuar the Human Servie...

Using embroidery to review our collective history and explore important societal issues, like bitumen, inequality, resource scarcity, & science/technology, Sandra joins Dave to talk about Art in the Age of 'Uncertainty.  Dave was blown away by her work Black Gold Tapestry which is a 67 metre historical account of bitumen.  Sandra followed it up with Age of Uncertainty which was completed...