Shows

Special thanks to Girling Health Care for providing excellent attendant care and their sponsorship of The Gene and Dave Show.

Gene and Dave venture out to get healthy at Milk and Honey. With interviews from physical therapist, Michele Harris, Austin’s Wheelchair Fitness Center, Larry Turner, and Kitchen Korner with Mikail Davenport. This episode also features a classic Actual Lives Austin skit where Dave’s wife, Terri, convinces him to be Richard Simmons.

Assistive Technology focuses on the gadgets and services that improve the lives of people living with disabilities. In this episode Gene and Dave have conversations with Jamie Judd-Wall about augmentative communication devices, Britt Sitz on durable medical equipment, and Chris Hyatt talks about service dogs.

After half a day of filming the introductions for the Assistive Technology episode, Dave has his camera rolling as Gene discovers the tape in his camera was at the end.  The entire day of filming was lost, but Dave feels it was worth it to catch Gene admitting that he is a “Dumb Ass!”

Accessible Information Technology takes a close look at accessibility from the web to multimedia. In this episode Gene and Dave interview Sharron Rush, Desiree Sturdevant, and Kate May.

Gene does most of the video editing for the show. This clip was filmed and edited by Dave. The Kevin MacLeod Royalty Free music Dave adds makes Gene’s daily roll out of his apartment both dramatic and funky.

Politics deals with the adventurous lives of people dealing with accessibility as it pertains to the government. Gene and Dave spend some quality time with Patrick Rose, Dennis Borel, and Bob Kafka.

Having more fun with the technology at Channel Austin, Gene tells Dave about his extra-large laptop that will do extra large print to satisfy one of the requirements for accessibility.

After interviewing Dennis Borel at CTD, Gene and Dave thought the only way he could top sending people with disabilities to Mount Everest would be to send a group to the moon. This clip is Gene and Dave having fun with the technology at the Channel Austin studio and making a plea to Dennis. “Send [...]

Who Works Monday is the first video Gene and Dave did together. While working with Gene on an Actual Lives show, Dave had a dream in the middle of the night about the confusion of which attendant was coming to help him the next morning. He woke up wondering, “Who works Monday?” Saying it over [...]