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Dave 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 al...

G’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, P...

The 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 pan...

Dave 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 tec...

Dave 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 phys...

Dave 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...

Dave 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....

Dave 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 o...

Dave’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 ca...

Rebecca 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.   

Mo 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.

Magda 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 dar...

Eric 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 era...

Jamie 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 war...

Megs 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 r...

Thomas  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 an...

In this prologue episode Dave explains the origin of the Pandemy Show. Come together at the Pandemy Show. All are welcome.

Meredith, 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.