Mandemic

Mandemic

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Mandemic episodes

  • Feeling sore

    Sideman's got a sore throat after weeks of preaching about social distancing, so this week’s podcast will have to wait a few days. Rest assured, he'll be back with all the week's biggest corona news once he's had some honey and lemon and a little lie down.

    2 min
  • We don't need a sequel

    Sideman is bringing you his first weekly round up. Expect all the week's best stories from carers on Vogue, clown shoes for health purposes and stealing simians. Yes you read that right - thieving monkeys!

    14 min
  • Shookgression

    Sideman is watching everything ease up but he's still shook. He's also just realised a certain Chief Advisor has a naughty name.

    10 min
  • Idiots walk amongst us

    Coronavirus has given Sideman a new way to decipher people. He's also here for tonight being the last 'clap for carers' as the woman who began the movement has said so.

    10 min
  • Brave frontline soldiers against the lack of fun

    Sideman wants other people to test the holiday trips to Spain first to see if it's safe. Then once he knows it's good, he's ready to see a pretty sunset. However, he's not ready to see the cheetah that escaped someone's house in London this week, which turns out was their pet!

    13 min
  • Mast attack

    According to reports around 90 phone masts have been attacked during the lockdown. It's believed that conspiracy theorists are behind it and Sideman is fuming as he wants better wifi.

    12 min
  • Your bank holiday guide

    Sideman gives you a 4 phase guide on how to spend your bank holiday. Plus he's hoping that the government considers giving us an extra bank holiday in October.

    9 min
  • I am a friend!

    A nurse was told off for wearing a bikini under her transparent PPE and Sideman is livid. Shouldn’t we be congratulating her for healing minds as well as bodies? In other news, certificates of immunity are being considered and Sideman wants one (that he can wear as a hoodie).

    11 min
  • Should we sell Big Ben?

    A French businessman suggested that France sell the Mona Lisa to help the country out. Sideman is thinking of things that the UK could sell to help us out now... He's also interested in the dolphin that keeps bringing gifts from the sea bed floor in exchange for food from people during lockdown.

    14 min
  • Don't eat drill

    Lockdown boredom caused Jason Derulo to try and eat corn from an electric drill. Don't try this at home. It's also got families driving to beaches and then complaining that others have had the same idea.

    13 min

About Mandemic

From the publisher's feed

There’s a lot of fear and uncertainty in the world right now, so Sideman’s got just the distraction you need. He’s a presenter and a comedian, but he’s also a fellow ‘isolatee’. Like you, he’s in lockdown – and like you, he’s doing what he can to stop himself from climbing the walls (or if he is climbing the walls, he’s turning it into a wall-climbing game where the winner gets an extra 30 minutes on the walls at the end of the day).

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