Episode 1: Dave and Dave — A Father-Son Story of Survival, Breath, and Coming Back to Life

In this first episode of How to Be 3D, Gabriel Pickus sits down with Dave and Dave's father — also named Dave — for a raw, unfiltered conversation about the illness that Dave Sr. nearly didn't survive, and the son who saved his life.

It starts with a story that sounds ordinary at first — a cold that wouldn't go away after a family trip in the winter of 2019 into 2020. Except it wasn't ordinary, and it wasn't a cold. Months before anyone had a name for it, Dave Sr. was living through what was almost certainly COVID-19 — at a time when no one watching him get sicker by the day had any idea what they were up against.

Over the course of an hour, Dave and his father — 89 years old at the time of recording — walk throug ...