What About Ye

By: Joanne McCabe
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  • What does being human mean to us? Do we have more that connects us and unites us than divides us and makes us different to each other? How will we know, unless we share our stories?


    When I ask What About Ye I’m not so interested in what your job is, what kind of car you have, or where you’re going on holiday this year. I want to know about this one time you had a dream that you woke up from crying. This other time when you stared at a tree for 45 minutes because of how the sun’s rays were landing on its leaves and branches. About this wee sad bee you picked up from the pavement on the way home from the shop one day because it broke your heart how sad it looked, and you gave it some sugar water and a rest and eventually it flew strongly and whole-heartedly back to life. How these things made you feel, and how they inform how you live and make your decisions and take your actions.


    Maybe you'll realise you're not the only freak out there who smiles at trees and talks to bees (IT RHYMES, that was such an accident).


    Image credit: Karsten Winegeart


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Episodes
  • Granda Walter: The Original Gangster

    Granda Walter: The Original Gangster
    Aug 12 2024

    Walter Pancott, my mother's father, was a legit war hero and I'm proud to say his blood flows in my veins.


    Today, 12th August, is his birthday. In Earth years he would be 106 now. Not an age he'd have been too bothered to reach, since he'd already crossed out all his dead pals in the phone book. 'Last man standing'.


    This episode is to honour my grandfather and his fortitude, which I call on every day to sustain me through my own tribulations. It features some of him, some of me, and some of my mum.


    There is generational trauma, afflicting us all. And there is generational resilience.


    Generational curses and generational blessings.


    The choice is ours, every single day.


    Read more on my wee bloggo.


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    31 mins
  • Abandoned, Rejected and Neglected

    Abandoned, Rejected and Neglected
    Jul 4 2023

    For the sins of your fathers you, though guiltless, must suffer - Horace, The Odes


    Pastor Ross Barrett is a husband, father, chef, fight coach and missionary. He is also my brother from another mother, as I found out earlier this year.


    He was born in 1970, the year before my parents met. In his own words, Ross is 'nobody's dirty little secret'.


    In this episode, we discuss his illegal 'adoption', his decision to trace his origins, and some of the grimness and gold in between and beyond.


    My brother's blog can be found at Bad Boy Turned Good.


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    1 hr and 41 mins
  • Farewell Warhol Mansions

    Farewell Warhol Mansions
    Jun 10 2023

    This episode is a Podcast Polaroid, if you will.


    A capturing of a moment in time that was an ending but also, as ever with endings, a beginning.


    The episode cover photo features me and my friend from many lifetimes, Shay. You can see some of his art in there, and also some of the ethereal lights that danced around us every time we talked and laughed and cried while we lived together in separate wings of a glorious but cursed house in east London.


    All of life was there, and quite a bit of it is in this episode too.


    Farewell, Warhol Mansions. WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE FLEETWOOD MAC *fist pump*


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    45 mins

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