The Pandemic - A Children's Song

The realities of living through a pandemic but for kids... well, sort of...
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[@kanishkatanikonda8384]

After 20 years, this will be the official song for pandemic.

[@julienolke]

we can only hope

[@kanishkatanikonda8384]

@@julienolke we shall rise a petition.

[@HermitsBM]

Probably True, Also Hi Noobmaster737 how is it in 2098?

[@matthias4]

@@julienolke, I slapped, clapped and snapped through the whole song with varying facial expressions.😅 🤨😄😶😳😱😆

[@TrumanSparx]

You mean it hasn’t been 20 years?

[@kristenroxburgh8213]

julies kindergarten reacher voice is surprisingly comforting but it’s giving me such whiplash with the lyrics

[@charlesrowe310]

She does the voice and mannerisms really well. It is spooky.

[@fabiandurr6865]

Julie 'Kindergarten' Reacher. Jack Reacher's annoying bratty sister that became a kindergarten teacher.

[@tomgraham3612]

Lyrical whiplash. That's the dream!

[@tomgraham3612]

@@fabiandurr6865 She'll make Teacher Julie a new character and play her in three or four sketches. Then, from out of nowhere --- Drunk Teacher Julie. And more comedy gold, because everybody loves Drunk Julie.

[@karmen1265]

The cheesy smile, the children's voice, and sitting down all "criss-cross applesauce," it's all too good. The videos just keep getting better and better!

[@shanedaley6236]

She's so fun

[@CraigMCox]

Cross cross applesauce. I see what you did there BL

[@tanyam9853]

And don’t forget the giggle after the choreo explanation

[@bobafettjr85]

@@CraigMCox Later days, buddy.

[@anitam.9582]

If time-traveling Julie isn't humming this distractedly when she visits next time you would have broken my heart... though not as much if we don't have another of her travels again. Pretty sure a lot happen since the last one.

[@mercurielle0]

Yes please all of this do iiiiiiit

[@gryphon0468]

The last one was only a couple weeks ago.

[@wojo4hitz]

@@gryphon0468 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭

[@hcutter]

You know singing while even doing simple hand movements for an entire song is not as easy as it looks. But you got it down pat!! Bravo! 👏

[@AxxLAfriku]

You dislike the stuff that gets uploaded by my fingers clicking upload? Are you just a h8er boi? I say see you l8er, boi. Don't watch the stuff that gets uploaded by my fingers clicking upload anymore. Your dislikes are damaging my good good GOOD reputation. I am a superstar, dear hc

[@spongemonster_]

More like she has it down pat, clap, snap, snap.

[@heartrnpat]

P P

[@boko06]

Ngl I messed up a few times while watching her

[@ryanm9318]

I can’t snap with my left fingers. They just don’t do it.

[@sterlingscott3008]

It’s like being alive when Ring Around the Rosy first dropped

[@elylozada9576]

Oof yeah.

[@thzzzt]

Mucus, mucus, we all fall down.

[@mikegallo2143]

Lol

[@keithfrifeldt9886]

That my friend was good - "When ring around the rosey first dropped"

[@elliaforsyth5638]

It’s almost like this isn’t the first kids song about a raging epidemic!

[@jacobd1984]

This better not be foreshadowing for “Explaining the pandemic to my young self.” Don’t bring that kind of stress into child Julie’s life.

[@jiminfested]

Write that down!

[@chrismorty5802]

Damn. I want this video.

[@gamingimpossibl]

I kinda want to see that

[@eat_pray_porg8450]

It would totally be in the wheelhouse of that recently popular Tik Tok trend of "talking to my younger self". Skit! Skit! Skit! :-D

[@Rocstoneau]

Great idea!

[@runningking1317]

The slight fluctuation between smiling and nearly crying is what sold it for me.

[@cbltblu7]

I know this is satire but your tone/timing/expressions in leading kids on a singalong was spot on. Perfection.

[@kathrynbiglin3124]

FYI, my 3 year old thought this was great! She even waved back at the end of your song! "Mama, let's do another one!" 👍

[@Frellnikky]

You shouldn't expose your child to toxic pessimism. That's a ticket to depression and anxiety.

[@GrandAudio]

The song is the definition of cheerful and depressing mixed in the right amount.

[@julienolke]

haha thank you? :P

[@GrandAudio]

@@julienolke :)

[@lemonbrothers3462]

it's the children song version of the "This is fine" meme

[@BSpinoza210]

"You Are My Sunshine" and "Go To Sleep You Little Baby" would like to have a word....

[@Citadel1974]

@@BSpinoza210 I heard Brady bunch too. :)

[@bobmcl2406]

Wow, our Julie definitely has career options: heavily-medicated children's TV host is right up there! 😆

[@FlorianFahrenberger]

Ah, the age old pedagogical concept of "singing the adultish lyrics so fast that the kids don't really get it". Classic.

[@trinaq]

Indeed, it made the song all the more hilarious, and the way she kept that perky smile the whole time, despite the disturbing lyrics!

[@Vales55]

To be fair, many nursery rhymes going back over the last six hundred years are apocalyptic in content. Ring around the Rosie is about the Black Plague for instance.

[@susanjacobs6461]

Yes!!😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Grassmpl]

Teaching kids to swear is not cool.

[@brookeelle6879]

I was like wow, Julie would be a great kindergarten teacher… then the song started 🤣

[@Mama_Bear524]

😂 same!!

[@mattofthenorth]

Actually this song is pretty optimistic 🙃 Julie is assuming she lives though the pandemic but it’s not done. Surviving to this point is a win 😎

[@matthewaromo10]

The fact that you were able to do all those hand snaps and claps without messing up just makes my brain hurt but I'm impressed👍

[@toriless]

It may ha e taken more then one take but I think Julie once said she usually only does 2 takes.

[@TuckerPearce]

Damn Julie closing in on a million, so excited for you. Ok back to watching the video…

[@julienolke]

thank you!!

[@TuckerPearce]

@@julienolke so well done. I needed this laugh this morning. Ok back to Pandemic life 😬🤣

[@WolfoxBR]

I just wanted to say that yes, times are hard and it might seem sometimes there's no reason for hope, but there are good people out there trying to make the world a better place, and I think you're one of them. So there's hope. I wish you well, Julie.

[@Mama_Bear524]

This was such a kind comment. It made me feel a bit better

[@blairw1994]

Julie you can do no wrong. How does it feel to be an entertaining genius?

[@MarcAdamsDev]

My daughter is only 2, she has no idea what you're saying and so she loved it. On the other hand, I've been curled up in the shower biting my knees from the PTSD this song brought out. Thanks dude!

[@Mama_Bear524]

💯

[@robertadams5221]

PTSD is POST traumatic stress disorder. You don't really think this nightmare has ended do you?

[@christopherb501]

@@robertadams5221 So? It's been long enough and dreary enough that we're nostalgic for different phases of it.

[@montecarlo4294]

Geez...get a grip people. Is Covid gone? Well no. And it never will be. We just have to manage as best we can. We are past the worst of Covid, anyway. Enough people are vaccinated to where we won't see anything like we did in March 2020 again. It is amazing to me how when one person says something to the effect of moving on from this, here comes 100 people to scream about how we are still living in early 2020 and will be forever. SMH....

[@julianrenolfi5017]

I can hear hundred of children calling for their mom or dad . "What is citalopram mommy?" I loved this video!!

[@julienolke]

hehe

[@sammycross9119]

@@julienolke Julie what language are you speaking? Google is translating to Haha... Is hehe, haha in American?

[@neuralmute]

"Citalopram is mother's little helper, dear..."

[@sammycross9119]

@Lèmon Lēe oh my, it was a joke my friend. I'm just confused on what basis the Google translator works.

[@toriless]

Beats me, I will have to google it.

[@mrtylerbrickley]

400 comments at 700 views tells you something about the community Julie has built.

[@selispeks]

Julie is the child show host we didn't know we needed 😅 ever-evolving genius!

[@PkmnMasterHolly]

Let's gooooooo almost a million subscribers!!! Keep going Julie!!!

[@bonolio]

My only regret is that I have but one subscribe to give.

[@UnknownVir]

Hope you're doing well!

[@woodnotemusix]

She got it! I subscribed last night when she was at 999k

[@JadedMax]

1 million now!

[@hermunkulus]

My favorite part of Julie's videos is when she breaks the fourth wall.

[@sohaib_t]

Her voice at the start was a perfect pitch and her words were perfect it genuinely felt like a kids thing at first

[@joshuagingrich3881]

I love how dark the lyrics are, but you're singing them with a massive smile. Such perfect contrast

[@notthesamecc1927]

just like real nursery rhymes and fairy tales. those were pretty darn dark.

[@LetsPlayRez]

Gave me a panic for a moment when she said "This is a swan song" - I was like, wait wait wait- Julie can't be done with KZbin! She's too amazing! Then I realized she was probably talking about the human race and I was suddenly pretty ok with it.

[@Kath-Erina]

If you don't mind explaining, what Das swan song mean? I didn't get that line 🙈😂

[@CarlForde]

@@Kath-Erina swansong is the final performance of a person's career. Generally, going out in a big way.

[@Cyssane]

@@Kath-Erina It's based on an old idea that swans (who are normally silent) sing their first and only song right before they die. It's not true btw, swans don't do that at all. But the idea took hold and turned into a meme, basically. So the saying comes from that old, mistaken concept. It means to end something, such as a career, after a grand public performance. It's often also used ironically (as Julie's doing here), since dying of thirst after singing a song like this wouldn't exactly be a grand way to go out.

[@osmia]

Yeah, my heart gave a little jolt too at that swan song line

[@Peaslepuff]

I feel you. The world can end, so long as Julie keeps posting til the end.

[@Szystedt]

Is it just me that actually clapped along and such? Another hilarious video, Julie!

[@stevej1154]

Nope. Haha.

[@lenochod6]

no...you are not alone in this...

[@Btm10000]

I went for the whole song ^^

[@katiejean6493]

No, I was clapping and snapping too! I even laughed at the same time the laugh track did!

[@toriless]

I just know it was not me.

[@Jason.B.]

Julie makes me feel quite a bit better during these otherwise rough pandemic times. Thanks for your contribution to making the world a happier place.

[@MaybeIMental]

I hear “Do Your Ears Hang Low” with excerpts from “The Brady Bunch” and somehow it’s better than the Wiggles output from the last few years. Congratulations to Julie on her new role in a CBC comedy. 👏 👏 👏

[@alifmuhammadchicago]

Wot? Which one?

[@lemonbrothers3462]

@@alifmuhammadchicago Run the Burbs, set to premiere in 2022

[@830927mjki]

The Brady Bunch! that's what it reminded me of. Thanks :D

[@mfinite689]

I definitely hear The Brady Bunch theme in here.

[@laurenrigby7732]

As an elementary music teacher I thought this was on point and hysterical!

[@sarveshraajganeshraj4517]

The song that i'll sing to my future kids and their kids This song will never die

[@tiiti2003]

This is exactly how I entertain children. They need to learn about negativity and sarcasm young.

[@ShortHax]

To all the kids out there watching this in the future Yeah it sucked...

[@theothersmith9570]

When they get to the pandemic in history classes, I hope they play all of Julie’s videos as part of the lesson.

[@HermitsBM]

True

[@thanesgames9685]

To all the kids watching this in the future - Get back to work! Children who don't make their quota become the overlord's dinner!

[@TheSuzberry]

It sucked long after it had to.

[@camelopardalis84]

Also, you're being lied to about how easy it would be to fix things. "No, we can't give poor people abroad our food - it would be spoilt before it got there". Look at the best before or use by date of all the food in your home. Then look up how long it would take to *walk* to the any given country where people starve.

[@JoelA510]

Hey hey, you hit the 1 million mark: Congrats Julie! Thanks for helping us all to laugh :)

[@NickFisherman]

There was a girl. Her name was Karen. She didn't live through a pandemic. She didn't think it was real, so now she's as dead as a brick.

[@amyt3949]

But not before she had a hissy fit and screamed about human rights. Then there were more Karen's living through the pandemic making it hard to just be a Karen at all.

[@RobMedellin]

Best comment

[@RobertsAdra]

LOL. That should have been the last verse.

[@gregcarlson8438]

She was one of the 0.02% who died

[@NickFisherman]

@@gregcarlson8438 that is millions of people.

[@mysterwhymedia]

Gosh…the feels with this. Everything about the way this was shot and performed sums up what it feels like to make it to October 2021 and somehow still be alive and relatively okay…hopefully. Julie, I thought I should share with you that I used your “Explaining the Pandemic to My Past Self” series as an example of one possibility of filming an unexpected encounter with yourself in the new high school video production class I am currently teaching for the first time. It certainly wowed the crowd…and maybe sent a few more subs your way… :-) Bravo!

[@ydnis8374]

"We can get through this together," said the optimist inside everyone's mind 🤗

[@pondboy3682]

Really? Mine packed a bag for New Zealand and moved out of my mind like 18 months ago! It's probably dead now.

[@ydnis8374]

@@pondboy3682 do not lose hope. Don't comply FIGHT! We are THE PEOPLE 💪🏻

[@pondboy3682]

@@ydnis8374 yeah, fight what today? Congress? Police? KKK? BLM? Illegal immigrants? Media? Voter fraud? POTUS for life? Puppet POTUS? Virus? Masks? Hornets? Hedge funds? National debt? It's all noise, dude. I learned more from my goldfish than from CBS today and that's all the fight I need!

[@pondboy3682]

@No Chance Without Pasta possibly intended as an insult but quite true. If more people realized how much they have in common with goldfish, perhaps the noodly appendage could make the world a better place!

[@pondboy3682]

@No Chance Without Pasta what, because I don't like CBS (or other media less punny)? Or because I named 5% of what people have been fighting about? "It's just noise" isn't me falling for theories; it's just my personal coping mechanism for social insanity, partially fueled by media prioritizing clicks over telling facts plainly.

[@paulcatarino2209]

Thanks Julie, now this song is going to be stuck in my head for days.

[@bullzeyez3236]

Well , Ring Around the Rosie is about the bubonic plague , so Julies song will be forever sung in school yards whiles skipping rope and laughing. Good times, good times. 💛

[@web4639]

This is the pandemic that doesn't end, yes it drags on and on my friend. Some people starting catching it, not knowing what it was, and we'll keep on catching it forever just because... This is the pandemic that doesn't end

[@KyleBrand]

...okay, that was pretty impressive that you could clap and sing like that.

[@e_kychkina9170]

Perfect clapping and clicking through the song without missing any movement says it all. I’m glad that a girl named Julie managed to live through pandemic and didn’t fall sick. I, unfortunately, fell sick a week ago and now I’m not able to concentrate and remember simple things. It’s sad how quickly it can all go away in just a few days.

[@literaterose6731]

This song is my 100% jam and everything I feel and think! The last verse is gonna end up my mantra. Also, to my grandkids: so fucking sorry guys, you deserved better.

[@MargoMB19]

How is this so freaking perfect? The sweet exaggerated 'talking to kids' voice contrasting with the heavy lyrics, plus the slaps and claps... Absolute perfection.

[@830927mjki]

At first I thought it was kinda dark. But then I realised that if it was realistic then there would be at least 20 verses, each one darker than the last. Gonna see if I can think up some more verses.

[@michaeltuz608]

You have such a pleasant way of pointing out that we're _so_ fucked. Thanks, Julie!

[@putnam120]

Finally, a modern song that is appropriate for today's youth.

[@VTimmoni]

I never thought I'd say this but I miss the uncertainty of 2020. I still had hope back in those halcyon days.

[@LtNduati]

10/10 The Kids need to know this stuff, and there's no better medium than music sing-alongs.

[@adequatebus8280]

Once again proving that Comedy and Tragedy, are like french-fries and gravy: each are alright on their own, but are exponentially-better, together. -C

[@toriless]

gross

[@cam4894]

This is the "We Didn't Start The Fire" of 2021. I love it!!!!

[@mombabyinc6948]

🤣🤣🤣 The fact that we identify with all the characters in the song is the scary part

[@Hamuelin]

He definitely wasn’t the first. But big Bo Burnham vibes

[@eat_pray_porg8450]

Oh, Julie. I'm sorry you and so many of us are suffering through this damned pandemic thing. I'm glad you have a therapist and that this video was somewhat cathartic. Your videos have been a great catharsis for me since I discovered you last year. You are helping a lot of people out with your humor, wit, and kindness, and I wish to all the whatever-out-there that you reach your 1 million subs...you deserve it! Thanks for the videos. :-)

[@SrushtiT]

I did the actions with you! This is sooooooo exciting!!! Reminds me of all the nursery songs we did in childhood!😁😁😁

[@julienolke]

hehe

[@Weaklytune]

@@julienolke lol I did it with you too

[@xavierbolivar2390]

BIg comfy couch + cbc kids + a bad trip all bundled up into 3 minutes and 49 seconds. Love it.

[@stevej1154]

The funniest thing is the thought of all the subscribers around the world doing the actions and singing along. 😂 You’ll hit the million soon, I’m sure!

[@JoshBearheart]

You have helped me get through the last year and a half Julie! I found your content last year, the past self videos about the pandemic, and your channel has been a beacon in the sea of craziness. Thank you for this it made me smile!

[@leekessler3995]

Hey Julie, you should sing oh Canada at a hockey game. I know you’re criminally indifferent to hockey, but you can sing. And I bet the exposure will push you over 1 million subs. Lotsa luv from NYC.

[@mashimarojm]

I clapped with the kids at the end. While watching this in public. Bravo.

[@FeVomTee]

Oh, Julie. That was movingly funny and nervous chuckle inducingly real. Makes me very happy to see how you cope and make millions of people laugh in the process. I'm glad we have you.

[@brettwalker8480]

This video should have more views. Highly underrated.

[@captlanc]

Damn you Julie, you are the best at crashing my illusion of safety about the pandemic while blowing me away with your genius and I fucking hate-love you!

[@Laufbursche4u]

Hope in reality you're doing well now. Or recover. One of the things that brought me to the pandemic was and is your humor. So... thanks. I'm really grateful you are somewhere outside.

[@2hief]

I see why you didn’t set this as “Yes, it’s Made for Kids” when uploading 😂.

[@emmacampbell5023]

the grin "there waaaas a GIRL (last verse) her name was JULIE" got me XD

[@chrismcdowell7138]

We need more of these uplifting songs. Excuse me while I go hide in the basement, waiting for your next masterpiece!

[@brittanymarriott6890]

The talents of this wonderous woman consistently blow me away and inspire me and make me proud to share the planet with her.

[@LaughBoys]

Get ready kids and parents, this is gonna be the biggest jam since Baby Shark.

[@cherylcarlson3315]

Really like the format of the skit. So am there with you. Wondering if surviving is going to be that great some time in the future. Like,are the mental scars like burn scars . Some days feel like I have changed into a hermit, scrooge, Grinch... hardly remember what it was like before

[@gaynoradams3596]

She said "Love you, bye" to me. WHOOP WHOOP She loves me, she really loves me.

[@flabreque]

Nuh-huh! She was talking to me.

[@RodneyCurtis]

I can’t begin to explain how much I enjoy Ms. Nolke’s videos. This one is yet another in a long string of self-revelatory pieces that tugs at your heart and yet makes you laugh like you’re somehow part of the whole insanity of the current human condition yourself. Wow. Thank you so so much!

[@OSUBeaver03]

The pandemic helped me find Julie so it’s not all that bad!

[@SyBernot]

Like the energizer bunny, this thing just keeps going and going. It's the way we became the Brady Bunch...

[@mikestaub]

My name is Michael and I approve this message.

[@julienolke]

😝

[@AdAstraCan]

As my grade 5 teacher told me when I made a joke in class, "Funny's a crutch". But it's a mighty sturdy crutch! More songs, please!

[@justincenter4061]

One of my pet peves is to say "X is a crutch" as in you should not do that thing. Guess what, crutches are good and important things. If someone needs a crutch and you take it away then bad things happen. Yes funny is a crutch. Without it we would all fall down into a pit of dispair. We need that crutch.

[@AdAstraCan]

@@justincenter4061 That excellent comment comes 45 years too late for me to use. ;-)

[@chasbodaniels1744]

Oooh, now here’s a fertile trope of “childhood innocence and safety, interrupted by a crazy/scary world outside”. Also, I certainly did not laugh nervously at this vid.

[@snowcreep5458]

Considering all the other children’s songs. I can tell this song will become as well know as “London Bridge” or “ring around the rosy”

[@stephenvincentgiles1306]

You're a treasure Julie.

[@davidnelson4960]

Brilliant rejoinder, elegant answer. Kudos to your brain.

[@anastasiagavrilita6567]

Julie, girl, you're amazing! Your way of beating the universe back helps others "clap" and "sing" along. You're not alone, we're ready to listen and support you!

[@dirtydish6642]

Now if you could just loop this for 10 hrs so I can sit the kid in front of it while I go mow the lawn, thanks!

[@jamielondon6436]

You either have a huuuuge lawn or a really shitty mower. ;-)

[@xevrin5905]

All I could think of at the start was Julie holding up a mirror and doing the whole magic mirror "and I see... mirror Julie. Wait, what the hell." Maybe Julie and mirror Julie should do a kids show episode. Very well done for the feel and great job on the lyrics.

[@bobbirne4983]

High pitched voice: Oh, that was so much fun! 🌈

[@andreipatrascan8491]

This is one of the videos that begs to be rewatched again and again. Somehow it makes things better knowing that we are all struggling:)

[@martyk1156]

This will be one of the great pandemic songs just like ring around the rosie.

[@oneduelist]

Absolutely nailed the singalong voice.

[@stephenwalton7079]

That would have been more authentic if “Drunk Mirror Julie,” did it.

[@samringwald]

DMJ doesn't give a shit about the pandemic though. She'd just laugh at us fools locked in our corporeal forms.

[@bryancampbell9622]

This brings back memories of adults talking to my class in that condescending tone. I bet kids today hate it just as much.

[@alsoknown9881]

The entire point of this video was so Julie could show off her amazing singing

[@hotjanuary]

Yep. Staying on key is really hard.

[@toriless]

It was not that good. It did not hurt my ears though.

[@werbnaright5012]

Your HBC flannel blanket reminds me of the comfort I feot from my grandparents.

[@justinbaker9880]

This made me realise I am the ultimate conspiracy theorist because I think everything is going to be OK.

[@jamielondon6436]

Even for those who died, are still going to die, and all their loved ones?

[@joshuahigbee5709]

"Yay for Thanksgiving!" will be my new random cheer. Still crossing fingers for that last 24k subs. Never lose that comedy spark, Julie!

[@hoibsh21]

Julie: Today's song is about the world and that calls for.... Greta Thunberg: SAY NO MORE.....

[@msjkramey]

Brilliantly executed. It radiates my teacher persona when I pretend to enjoy singing Baby Shark or how I hype myself and the kids up with songs about sounding out words

[@petroniusarbiter9666]

The bit about the anxiety hit close to home... I've been feeling anxious about EVERYTHING for the last three months. Even genuine good news have a hard time to dispell the gloom.

[@heatherglover7789]

*WARNING* - This video contains adult language and topics that some viewers may find troubling - I love how it's titled as a childrens song but before you even click on it you know it probably won't be just because she made sure that the word children was in the title... loved it.

[@stevehunt9051]

I just subbed this evening (binge watched) 90 minutes of your videos. You are HILARIOUS Julie. All the best to getting to 1 million subscribers (Good luck from Alberta)

[@seans.8803]

Hope you're doing better now. I discovered your channel with "explaining the pandemic to my past self," and your videos have really helped me get through this.