About Dropbear

Michael "Dropbear" Dargie is a creative guy with a spiffy right-hemisphere. He's an award-winning film producer, a writer, director, actor, improviser, musician, emcee and host. He's also a blackbelt in two styles of Japanese Jujitsu, an expert motorcycle rider, kart racer, and scuba diver — a quintessential Leo who likes books and doing cool and weird shit with cool and weird people. @MichaelDargie on all social media.

POD E0007: Unequalled Episode

Season 1 - Episode 7 Holy moly what a week!  We had everything from fires in Greece, to 680 children misplace in the USA, to facial recognition software in Canada, to augmented reality and so much more. We ordered food from Skip the Dishes, Dropbear made good on the World Cup Soccer bet and recorded [...]

POD E0005: Undeniable Episode

Season 1 - Episode 5We're a day late and a dollar short posting this episode because we've been having a grand ol' time hosting and emceeing a hilarious event at this year's Calgary Stampede called "The Meat Sweats Challenge". Yep. It's what we do.We also get into our final picks for World Cup 2018, Trump [...]

POD E0003: Unscripted and Uncut Episode

Season 1 - Episode 3 Dropbear and Panda are at it again and this time we make some predictions on the outcomes of the Top 16 in World Cup Soccer 2018, talk about our travels (including Dropbear trading Hooker Cards in Las Vegas), Fallout 4, the joys of Neebs Gaming, some favourite books, and [...]

POD E0001: Badger Goes to Russia

Welcome to Season 1, Episode 1 of the Dropbear and Panda Save the World Podcast: Badger goes to Russia. Dropbear and Panda sit down with one of Panda's best friends, Scott Picket (AKA Badger), to talk about his forthcoming motorcycle trip from Ireland to Russia. During this episode of DB&P Save the World we shamelessly [...]

SHORT FILM: Happy Hannukwanzmas

Tis the season to buy stuff. Panda needed to freshen her car —the MATRIX —and picked up an all season air freshener. One thing you have to love about Panda is her commitment to a fresh-smelling car, if not her sustainable tree-cutting practices.

SHORT FILM: Dropbear and Panda in 54 Things Scarier than a Werewolf

Halloween is the time of year when all sorts of freaky and scary creatures come out to play. This year was no different. This year we were met FACE-TO-FACE with a young werewolf. Were we scared? Not one bit. Not after the hellish year of 2017. So we decided to educate our [...]

MUSIC VIDEO: Lonely Mind

STORYHIVE GRANT PITCH VIDEO THE MUSIC VIDEO THE MAKING OF VIDEO RECIPIENT 2017 TELUS STORYHIVE GRANT Dropbear and Panda Productionz music video for The Hi-Strung Downers song, Lonely Mind is out in the wild! WATCH IT HERE and WATCH THE MAKING OF VIDEO HERE It [...]

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Scottish Bedtime Stories & CD Release Party

Calum Lykan is as big as a bear, and entertaining as a kilt full of badgers. Please join us in welcoming him to Canada and the release of his first storytelling CD, "Scottish Bedtime Stories", produced by Dropbear and Panda. Scottish Bedtime Stories is an intimate, funny, gory, grisly, hilarious, scary, fanciful, engaging and oftimes [...]

By |2017-10-23T12:15:13-04:00June 9th, 2017|Categories: Events, Recent Projects|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Dropbear and Panda Were Here Pitch

In six stories, across two provinces, Dropbear and Panda are on one seemingly simple quest. Find out where Canada begins. Over six episodes Dropbear & Panda meet new and interesting people who find it in their hearts to help our ridiculous pair in their quest. During their travels, they experience extraordinary wonders of Canada [...]

SHORT FILM: The Final Frontier

On April 7, 2017 at 1900 hours Dropbear & Panda arrived at PIPS Board Game Cafe in Marda Loop to get their secret package. Calgary Expo's 2017 48 Hour Film Challenge! We got our envelope and headed back to Mission Control at L&C Style Productions in Victoria Park. Our rag-tag team of fellow [...]

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