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  • Boxing and Drumming to Battle Parkinson's & The Hands & Hearts Food Program Feeding Families

    Boxing and Drumming to Battle Parkinson's & The Hands & Hearts Food Program Feeding Families
    Jun 30 2026
    "Send us a text about this episode!"LISTEN HERE: Why You Should Listen to This Episode: Doug Pickard has spent more than 13 years proving that boxing gloves and conga drums can push back against a disease with no cure, turning rhythm itself into therapy for people living with Parkinson's. Virginia Worcester is making sure no child in School District 69 goes hungry on the weekend, building a 100 percent volunteer program that now feeds nearly 100 families a month. This Episode Features:(06:47) Virginia Worcester, founder of the Hands & Hearts Food Program, joins the podcast. What began in 1997 as a Christmas hamper drive for five or ten families has grown into a fully volunteer-run program delivering weekly food hampers to nearly 100 families across School District 69, all of it funded entirely by donations with zero administration costs. Virginia explains how the program partners with the school district to keep families anonymous and dignified, why she insists on purchasing every item rather than accepting donated goods, and how the need has grown from 75 to 98 families in just the past year. Find out more about the Hands & Hearts Food Program.(20:35) Doug Pickard of Parksville joins the podcast. A coach, advocate, and drum circle leader, Doug has spent more than 13 years helping people with Parkinson's fight back through exercise, from his Rock Steady Boxing affiliate to his own drumming program, Dopa Beats. Doug walks through how a single client in a now-closed Parksville gym led him to become one of the first Canadian ambassadors for the Davis Phinney Foundation, why large purposeful movement and rhythm can cause real-time changes in the brain, and what it was like presenting his work to 170 people at the Movement Fair in Las Vegas. He also talks about Pedaling for Parkinson's, his Zoom cycling program now reaching participants as far away as Paraguay. Learn more about Dopa Beats.Episode Quotes:“When you give me $100, you know that $100 is going directly to buy food for the kids in our community.” - Virginia Worcester“If you don’t learn about the disease, if you don’t learn about Parkinson’s, you can’t be as effective as possible. You have to learn how to be empathetic and understand what they’re going through.” - Doug PickardVoice message The PULSE and be part of the podcast!You'll find all episodes of The PULSE Podcast on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeart, TikTok, and YouTube, as well as ThePulseCommunity.caClick here to learn how to Support the showEpisode Sponsors: Ian Lindsay & Associates, Thrifty Foods Parksville, Fireside Books & Parksville BeachfestCheck out Skookum Kid's Stories on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeart, and YouTubeSign up for our weekly newsletter of new podcast releases and contests!“Like, Share & Listen!”#DougPickard #DopaBeats #RockSteadyBoxing #Parkinsons #HandsAndHearts #VirginiaWorcester #SchoolDistrict69 #VancouverIsland #ThePulsePodcast #VancouverIslandPodcast #ParksvilleNews #QualicumBeachSupport the show
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    50 min
  • Airplane! - The Funniest Movie Ever Made?

    Airplane! - The Funniest Movie Ever Made?
    Jun 30 2026

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    What happens when you gather two Gen Xers who worship a comedy classic, two Millennials seeing it fresh, and one very unimpressed holdout? You get the most hilariously divided episode of Too Old or Movie Gold yet.

    Hosts Olan VanderLinden and Matthew Stockton of the Comox Valley are joined by comedian Will Corry, Debbie, and Sean to revisit the 1980 comedy classic Airplane! - written and directed by the legendary ZAZ trio (Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers). The verdict from most of the panel? Pure gold. But Sean has entered the chat, and Sean is not having it.

    The episode digs deep into what makes Airplane! a masterclass in comedy - the wall-to-wall gags, the genius of casting deadpan dramatic actors like Leslie Nielsen (whose career was almost finished before this film revived it), and the sheer rewatchability that still reveals new jokes decades later. The panel shares their personal favourite bits, debates how many jokes Millennials actually catch, and marvels at a movie that earned $83 million on a $3.5 million budget and landed a 97% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes.

    There are also some remarkable behind-the-scenes facts: the film was pitched to the studio as "Animal House on a plane," the rights to the source material were purchased for just $2,500, and the directors legally changed their names so all three could get directing credits. Oh - and MythBusters confirmed a regular person actually could land a plane using only instructions from the tower.

    And then there's Sean - who gave it a two out of ten and would rather rewatch Escape From New York. Surely he can't be serious. Don't call him Shirley.

    “This is my favorite type of humor. This is one of a handful of comedy movies that actually makes me laugh out loud every time I watch it.” - Olan VanderLinden

    “When being random is your hook, if that's all you got, you got nothing.” - Sean, the lone dissenter

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    51 min
  • Pam Botterill - The Importance of Belonging

    Pam Botterill - The Importance of Belonging
    Jun 30 2026

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    Pam Botterill joins Cindy Thompson on A Resilience Project to share what she calls a good-news story of adoption. An Indigenous woman from the Wei Wai Kum First Nation in Campbell River, BC, Pam was adopted at nine months old and raised by a non-Indigenous family in Powell River, BC.

    In this episode, Pam reflects on the unexpected threads connecting the Celtic music of her upbringing to the drumming traditions of her Indigenous roots, finding a common rhythm between the two worlds she belongs to. She shares the emotional experience of meeting her biological mother and siblings for the first time, and how that reunion deepened her understanding of family and identity.

    Pam’s story is, at its heart, about belonging - belonging to a family, a culture, and a community. That sense of belonging carried her through her battle with cancer, where the people around her became a source of strength and resilience.

    We invite you to listen to this conversation about identity, reconnection, and the many forms belonging can take.

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    42 min
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