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This week on The Richard Crouse Show Podcast we are joined by Sam Roberts who joins us via Zoom from his home in Montreal. His band, the aptly named Sam Roberts Band has been nominated for fourteen Juno Awards, they\u2019ve won six, including Artist of the Year twice. They\u2019ve been very busy since the world pressed pause back in March.\xa0 The band\u2019s song \u2018We\u2019re All in this Together\u2019 became an anthem of sorts for various promos featuring frontline workers and Canadians alike.\xa0They put the finishing touches on their new album and played a part in each and every charitable opportunity they could to help artists and Canadians across the board.\n\nSam Roberts Band have a new album called \u2018All of Us\u2019, the first in 4 years\n\nThen, Ethan Lou is a journalist whose work has appeared in in the Globe and Mail, the Guardian, the Toronto Star, the Walrus and the Washington Post.\n\nHe has broken stories about the Canadian spy agency\u2019s secret briefing to parliament, the snubbing of Sri Lanka by the country\u2019s prime minister and the possible non-depiction of the future King Charles on Canadian bank notes.\n\nThis year was supposed to see the publication of his first book, "Once a Bitcoin Miner: Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West" but the pandemic pushed that release date into next year\u2026 but he still has a book in stores right now. It\u2019s called Field Notes from a "Pandemic: A Journey Through a World Suspended" and was inspired by two articles he wrote for MacLeans magazine after a January visit with his ailing grandfather in Beijing allowed him to witness the very earliest stages of a COVID-19,\xa0 a virus he says, will forever change the world as we know it.\n\nThe book says that over decades, globalization has crafted a world painfully sensitive and susceptible to shocks such as this pandemic\u2026 and examines the virus's beginnings and how it spread and the unprecedented measures to contain it.\xa0 He also looks at past pandemics in other crises and how they shaped the world--and has an argument for why this one's different.\n\n"Field Notes from a Pandemic: A Journey Through a World Suspended" is a timely look at how the virus has transformed the world.