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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.   

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 can’t get your life saving medications and the bewilderment of being at home when you are used to life on the road. Dan doesn’t play for us, but Dave, along with a physically distanced fiddle player, take us out with their pandemy folk rock version of “Old Groundhog!” 

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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 and economics. We are left wondering if the bum gun is something we should culturally appropriate in the west?  Dave started off this episode with a poem, Antibodies With Our Love,  inspired by Dr. Osterholm’s poem on the  Ousterholm Update: Covid from Centre for Infectious Research and Policy IDRAP @ University of Minnesota, but was advised to end with poetry not lead.

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 removal and what the government is doing to combat wildfires. We peel back the many layers of the pandemy onion in this interview and are left wondering, will Megs get to see her Mother and will their dog in BC Canada ever get through?

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 ward of Covid 19.  

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 eradication, so Kiwis can live worry free while their children attend birthday parties in person.

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.   

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