WEBVTT - Heavyweight Check In 2

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<v Speaker 1>Pushkin. Hello, Khalila, Hi, Jonathan, let me try Stevie Hello, Hello,

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<v Speaker 1>Hi are you guys? Abr?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>What does AVR mean?

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<v Speaker 2>Alex Bloomberg rules always be recording?

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<v Speaker 1>That's right. How are you guys?

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<v Speaker 2>Okay?

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<v Speaker 3>My update I guess is that since we last did

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<v Speaker 3>this is my roommate has left to go be with

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<v Speaker 3>her family. So now I'm in the apartment by myself.

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<v Speaker 3>It's like a weird moment where everything that brought people

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<v Speaker 3>to New York is like sort of gone or on hold,

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<v Speaker 3>and like you're left with only the terrible part, the

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<v Speaker 3>worst part of living in New York, which is like

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<v Speaker 3>paying a lot to be in a very small room.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Stevie, Yeah, I'll ask you the question that is

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<v Speaker 1>on the minds of all American minds of the world. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>these troubling times. How was your blind date?

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<v Speaker 4>Oh?

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, my blind date?

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<v Speaker 1>It was fun.

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<v Speaker 5>It was fun.

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<v Speaker 1>What did you guys do?

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<v Speaker 5>We we we just we actually just like hung out

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<v Speaker 5>and talked for like three hours. And the thing that

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<v Speaker 5>was so nice about it, honestly, yeah, because it was

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<v Speaker 5>like in the context of like a first date and

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<v Speaker 5>like completely getting to know a person and they're all

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<v Speaker 5>the questions. It was like three hours where we like

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<v Speaker 5>essentially didn't talk about the virus. Like I think sometimes

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<v Speaker 5>it's nice to acknowledge that things aren't and word and

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<v Speaker 5>to like hold that in your mind. But there was

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<v Speaker 5>also something really nice about like this semblance of like normalcy, you.

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<v Speaker 1>Know, of which there's you know, so we're getting in,

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<v Speaker 1>we're getting all these emails, and there's been this one guy,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know if you noticed, who's been setting us

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<v Speaker 1>like a poem a day, This guy named Kieran Lennon,

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<v Speaker 1>and he had this line at the end of one

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<v Speaker 1>of his poems that I really liked, which was that

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<v Speaker 1>kind of speaks to what you're talking about in a

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<v Speaker 1>way where he says that, you know, today was more

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<v Speaker 1>normal than yesterday, not because it is, but just because

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<v Speaker 1>it was as strange as yesterday.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I've you know, been spending a lot of time

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<v Speaker 1>with Aggie and which is great. And so I took

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<v Speaker 1>his tricycle out of the garage, and you know, we

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<v Speaker 1>had the whole alley to ourselves. So I thought maybe

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<v Speaker 1>I could teach him how to use a tricycle. He's

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<v Speaker 1>more into making the sounds like motorcycle sounds. He was

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<v Speaker 1>trying to teach me how to to do proper motorcycle sounds,

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<v Speaker 1>which is something that I've never been very good at.

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<v Speaker 6>He's like talking, WHI shound, your mouth opening like this.

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<v Speaker 1>Is that good?

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<v Speaker 7>You're close to do it?

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<v Speaker 1>Like the way that he understands all of like everything

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<v Speaker 1>that's going on is we've been talking about it in

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<v Speaker 1>terms of germs, because he understands that, you know, like

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<v Speaker 1>about how you have to wash your hands before you

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<v Speaker 1>eat because the germs, right and you know, but occasionally

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<v Speaker 1>the last well, you know, why can't he see his

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<v Speaker 1>grandparents And we say, you know, we have to be

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<v Speaker 1>careful about the germs right now, and he says, you know, well,

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<v Speaker 1>we'll see them when the germs go away. And there's

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<v Speaker 1>something just so simple, and I'm confused about it, as

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<v Speaker 1>as always with a kid, you're always like trying to

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<v Speaker 1>meet them on their level, and in this case, it

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<v Speaker 1>just forces a kind of optimism, like there isn't a

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<v Speaker 1>version of the world where things don't work out.

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<v Speaker 3>Everything makes me emotional lately, like it's like my emotions

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<v Speaker 3>are coming out and all kinds of weird ways.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, yesterday, I like I put there's this piece of

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<v Speaker 5>classical music that you guys would know because it's very famous.

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<v Speaker 5>It's this like prelude to this back cello suite that

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<v Speaker 5>I just think is like so beautiful. It's like two

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<v Speaker 5>and a half minutes, and it was sort of like

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<v Speaker 5>stuck in my head on my run, so I like

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<v Speaker 5>put it on to listen to it, and it just

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<v Speaker 5>like made me cry, like just like ball.

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<v Speaker 1>So as as you guys know, so after our last

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<v Speaker 1>check in episode where we asked for people to write

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<v Speaker 1>in and just let us know how they're doing, we

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<v Speaker 1>got so many just really nice, generous emails from all

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<v Speaker 1>over the world. And so you guys started calling a

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<v Speaker 1>few people who you felt especially curious about are connected to,

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<v Speaker 1>and I called a couple of old friends, and among

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<v Speaker 1>them doctor Jackie Cohen.

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<v Speaker 2>Jackie an old standby.

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<v Speaker 1>She's not just like an intro to a show, you

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<v Speaker 1>know what I mean. She's a real person. She actually

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<v Speaker 1>she called me, oh, which was which was kind of nice. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean I had left her a message, but she

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<v Speaker 1>returned it, which you know, and she was even kind

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<v Speaker 1>of nice to me.

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<v Speaker 8>Hi, Junny, Hi, how's it going.

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<v Speaker 1>She's been working at a coronavirus clinic in Montreal, and

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<v Speaker 1>so we talked a little bit about that.

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<v Speaker 8>I take these short histories and then I swaped this

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<v Speaker 8>road and then I swap their noses and that's it,

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<v Speaker 8>and then I tell them we'll call them in two days.

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<v Speaker 1>So there's testing in Montreal.

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<v Speaker 8>There's lots of testing, really started up already a couple

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<v Speaker 8>of weeks ago.

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<v Speaker 9>But what does it feel like, Yeah, it feel it

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<v Speaker 9>feels like it feels like it feels like I'm well, lately,

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<v Speaker 9>we've just ramped up the numbers of swabs that we're doing,

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<v Speaker 9>and so it feels like I'm on an assembly line

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<v Speaker 9>working at McDonald's. I mean, it's just like outcome of

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<v Speaker 9>these trays and you just grab the tray and then

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<v Speaker 9>you go to the next person, and so you just

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<v Speaker 9>have to sort of move it along. They're really trying

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<v Speaker 9>to pick up the speed and you have to gown

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<v Speaker 9>up and down between each patients.

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<v Speaker 8>So the gowning, the gowning process is what takes long.

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<v Speaker 8>The rest is super easy.

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<v Speaker 1>And do people come to you sometimes nervous, worried, anxious?

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<v Speaker 8>Oh my god, they're always really anxious. Yeah, either anxious

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<v Speaker 8>and be when I call them up to tell them

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<v Speaker 8>the results are negative, because I've been calling everybody back

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<v Speaker 8>to tell the results of good negative. It's just if

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<v Speaker 8>they've just like won the lottery. They are so happy,

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<v Speaker 8>like they're they're like this palpable release through the phone.

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<v Speaker 1>Does it feel good to make those phone calls?

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<v Speaker 8>Well, part of me, I mean, part of me feels like,

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<v Speaker 8>you know, happy to tell them the good news. On

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<v Speaker 8>the other hand, I'm thinking, I mean, it shouldn't be

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<v Speaker 8>the worst news to get that you have coronavirus, because

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<v Speaker 8>you know, eventually a lot of us are going to

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<v Speaker 8>get it, and it's just feeling like it's so stigmatized

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<v Speaker 8>at this point. So I'm hoping people are to be

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<v Speaker 8>psychologically be ready for a positive.

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<v Speaker 1>And she even thinks that, like she'll probably end up

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<v Speaker 1>getting it eventually.

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<v Speaker 8>Well, at some point, at some point, I.

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<v Speaker 1>Probably will because of the work you're doing.

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<v Speaker 8>Well, yeah, I mean we're we're healthcare workers, we're frontline.

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<v Speaker 9>I mean, at some.

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<v Speaker 1>Point, and then she had to go make dinner.

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<v Speaker 8>I've got to get dinner on I've got to get

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<v Speaker 8>dinner on the table.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, I've got a life. Before she could blow me

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<v Speaker 1>off the phone, I really wanted to tell her that

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<v Speaker 1>I was just really impressed with her. You know, we

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<v Speaker 1>joke around a lot, but I really do think that

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<v Speaker 1>Jackie is one of the most selfless people I know.

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<v Speaker 1>But you know, of course I said none of that

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<v Speaker 1>to her. Instead, I just kind of said something, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>typically sarcastic, you know, over the top, just to kind

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<v Speaker 1>of grosser out. I would like to be the first

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<v Speaker 1>to thank you on behalf of Canada.

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<v Speaker 10>Stop talking about that.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, you're just embarrassed.

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<v Speaker 8>You're just now, are you?

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<v Speaker 11>So?

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<v Speaker 3>I also talked to someone I have a long standing

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<v Speaker 3>relationship with. I talked to my brother.

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<v Speaker 2>Hello, Kristens, it's Kaylee Holt speaking.

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<v Speaker 4>Hey, what's that? Oh pretty good? It's driving home in

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<v Speaker 4>the rain.

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<v Speaker 3>You know he's still working. He is in Iowa. He

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<v Speaker 3>works at a car dealer. Should he sells cars? Are

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<v Speaker 3>you guys still open?

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<v Speaker 4>We are still open, which I feel I feel two

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<v Speaker 4>ways about. They sent out a memo the other day

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<v Speaker 4>being like, you know, your safety is our number one concern.

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<v Speaker 4>I want to work. It's it's gonna be tough to

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<v Speaker 4>make ends meet if if I'm not working. But don't

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<v Speaker 4>don't tell me your my safety is your number one concern,

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<v Speaker 4>because if it was your number one concern, you'd close

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<v Speaker 4>us down, right, because all non essential stuff is supposed

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<v Speaker 4>to be closed down, but our service center auto repair

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<v Speaker 4>shops are considered essential. So we're using that loophole to

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<v Speaker 4>stay open, and we'll probably stay open until the governor

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<v Speaker 4>herself comes down and personally closes us down. And people.

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<v Speaker 4>The crazy thing is people are still out shopping for cars.

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<v Speaker 3>I was gonna say, I can't imagine anyone as buying

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<v Speaker 3>a car right now.

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<v Speaker 4>Lots of people are lots of people. Are most of the

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<v Speaker 4>people I talk to are still find to shake hands?

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<v Speaker 2>And are you shaking hands those people?

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<v Speaker 11>I am?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, they're like, yeah, media is just blowing this way

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<v Speaker 4>out of a portion, and you know, I'm in sales.

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<v Speaker 4>I can't tell him. They're fucking more on it. You're

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<v Speaker 4>dangering themselves and everyone around them.

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<v Speaker 9>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>The past week is like, Okay, today's the day where

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<v Speaker 4>we're just not going to see anybody, and people just

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<v Speaker 4>keep showing up.

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<v Speaker 3>So I just got really kind of scared for him,

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<v Speaker 3>thinking from shaking all those people's hands.

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<v Speaker 1>Does he have any pure l Yeah, he says he.

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<v Speaker 3>Has hand sanitizer at his desk and I'm like, are

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<v Speaker 3>you doing it? Every time he shakes someone's hand, and

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<v Speaker 3>he's like, yeah, I'm trying to.

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<v Speaker 1>So Stevie, who did you talk to? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 5>So I talked with a woman named Lexi.

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<v Speaker 12>Just to give you a quick head up, I'm just

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<v Speaker 12>having some like pretty heavy contractions that I really wanted

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<v Speaker 12>to talk to you. So if I stopped talking, or

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<v Speaker 12>if my voice sounds weird, or if like I have

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<v Speaker 12>to mute you for a second, it's because I'm screaming.

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<v Speaker 1>Wait wait, Lexy.

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<v Speaker 5>Lexi, she is like forty weeks pregnant right now. Her

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<v Speaker 5>due date is March twenty seventh, which is four days

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<v Speaker 5>from now. That's very yeah, very very pregnant. Like about

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<v Speaker 5>ten minutes into the call.

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<v Speaker 13>I work for this music management company. Sorry, I'm letting

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<v Speaker 13>a contraction.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow. Did did you feel like you were gonna have

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<v Speaker 1>to like guide her through the delivery of her of

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<v Speaker 1>her child over the phone?

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<v Speaker 5>I honestly like listening back to the tape is like painful.

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<v Speaker 5>I was like, you got this, Lexy, Like we can

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<v Speaker 5>do this.

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<v Speaker 1>What do you need?

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<v Speaker 13>Oh my god?

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<v Speaker 1>Are okay?

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<v Speaker 11>Uh?

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<v Speaker 5>You got this?

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<v Speaker 6>So it's fine.

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<v Speaker 12>I'm gonna hang on one second, are you are.

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<v Speaker 1>You sure.

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<v Speaker 5>The terror in my voice, I'm sure was doing a

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<v Speaker 5>lot more harm than good.

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<v Speaker 6>But yeah.

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<v Speaker 5>So the interesting thing about Lexi is she had never

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<v Speaker 5>really like thought she wanted to be a mom. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 5>but it is with this partner, and it was important

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<v Speaker 5>to him and to them and their relationship, and so

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<v Speaker 5>it was sort of like a decision she made knowing that,

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<v Speaker 5>but maybe not a decision she would have made otherwise.

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<v Speaker 5>It's this weird moment where like, already she has so

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<v Speaker 5>much fear around it and complicated feelings, and then like

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<v Speaker 5>on top of it, she's like about to give birth

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<v Speaker 5>in the middle of a pandemic, and it's scary, you know,

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<v Speaker 5>like she's scared. But on the other hand, there's sort

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<v Speaker 5>of been an evolution in how she's feeling about it.

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<v Speaker 13>It's a real weird thing for me to say, because

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<v Speaker 13>you know, a month ago, I would have been terrified

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<v Speaker 13>because I don't know anything about babies and and I

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<v Speaker 13>don't I'm afraid to be alone with this baby. But

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<v Speaker 13>now it's almost like, here's an external thing that isn't

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<v Speaker 13>the state of the world that you have to focus

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<v Speaker 13>all of your time and energy on. It's almost comforting

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<v Speaker 13>and maybe this is a good thing.

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<v Speaker 5>Then I spoke with someone who's already a parent, a

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<v Speaker 5>woman named Rachel, and Rachel and her husband Drew are

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<v Speaker 5>having a really different experience of this period of social

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<v Speaker 5>distancing than I think a lot of us are. So

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<v Speaker 5>Rachel is the mother of three out in Colorado and

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<v Speaker 5>her youngest son, Johnny. He's three and a half years old.

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<v Speaker 6>Johnny is like a major daddy's boy right now, and

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<v Speaker 6>since Drew is working from home, he's very excited about that.

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<v Speaker 5>So Johnny has this very rare condition called ACTA two,

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<v Speaker 5>and it means that he is incredibly immuno suppressed, like

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<v Speaker 5>he's just always getting sick, and they have to be

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<v Speaker 5>really really careful. So like for Rachel, social distancing isn't new.

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<v Speaker 5>Like the first thing you see when you get to

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<v Speaker 5>their front door is this sign that says, like, please

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<v Speaker 5>do not enter if you've been sick, or like around

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<v Speaker 5>someone who is sick. You know, like Johnny can't go

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<v Speaker 5>to preschool because it's just like too much exposure to germs,

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<v Speaker 5>and they often like can't don't end up going to

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<v Speaker 5>like parties they get invited to because it's like just

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<v Speaker 5>too risky, like that's just like the reality of how

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<v Speaker 5>they live. And so like right now with COVID, like

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<v Speaker 5>Rachel says, people have been reaching out and are being

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<v Speaker 5>really supportive, but it's like for Rachel, it's almost like

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<v Speaker 5>frustrating in a way.

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<v Speaker 6>You know, people are like, hey, can I go to

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<v Speaker 6>the store for you? I know it's probably hard right now,

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<v Speaker 6>but I'm like going to the store is always hard

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<v Speaker 6>for me, like all the time, because I'm always weighing,

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<v Speaker 6>like can I go right now? Okay, if I go

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<v Speaker 6>at like seven thirty in the morning, then it's probably

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<v Speaker 6>going to be quieter and I won't have people, like

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<v Speaker 6>there won't be as many people, and the carts will

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<v Speaker 6>be clean and available, and I can have time to

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<v Speaker 6>clean the card even more, and people won't like look

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<v Speaker 6>at me funny and be like super judgmental that I'm crazy.

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<v Speaker 5>And that's the thing that Rachel is sort of like

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<v Speaker 5>hoping that like after people have gone through what you know,

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<v Speaker 5>like what we're going through right now, that there will

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<v Speaker 5>just be like a greater empathy and understanding of not.

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<v Speaker 6>Just our family, but like so many special needs families

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<v Speaker 6>because whenever everybody else turns back to normal, life, Like

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<v Speaker 6>we'll still be doing this.

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<v Speaker 3>The last Callie made, I phone to this woman, Emma,

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<v Speaker 3>who works at a zoo in Arizona, and the zoo

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<v Speaker 3>is obviously now shut down to the public, as most

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<v Speaker 3>things are, but she's continuing to work and like take

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<v Speaker 3>care of the animals.

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<v Speaker 11>The animals have been just behaving differently.

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<v Speaker 1>I can tell.

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<v Speaker 2>They're like, what is this?

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<v Speaker 9>Why? So what's going on?

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<v Speaker 3>You know, Like for the for people right now, it's

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<v Speaker 3>a time of like increased anxiety, but for the animals,

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<v Speaker 3>like it seems like kind of like they're more relaxed.

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<v Speaker 2>And she's seeing the animals like play a lot more.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, because there's nobody there.

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<v Speaker 11>Like, for example, we have a group of painted dogs.

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<v Speaker 2>There are three of them. What is a painted dog?

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<v Speaker 11>A painted dog is a African carnivore. They're also called

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<v Speaker 11>African wild dogs. And so they've just been like romping around.

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<v Speaker 2>In the during the day and playing.

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<v Speaker 11>Normally, they they would kind of hang back and like

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<v Speaker 11>because they can be a little bit nervous around people.

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<v Speaker 2>Man, I got to look up painted dogs after this.

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<v Speaker 3>I feel like, yeah, often like as an adult that

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<v Speaker 3>you like learn about a new animal. So I'm very

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<v Speaker 3>excited painted dogs. Have you guys heard of them?

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<v Speaker 1>No, I haven't.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going to send you guys a picture.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, they really look like they're painted. They look like

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<v Speaker 1>they're like painted by like an abstract expressionist.

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<v Speaker 5>It's like a hyena and a panda bear had a baby.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like a dog that's wearing like one of those

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<v Speaker 1>Mickey Mouse hats.

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<v Speaker 5>Yes, I was Mickey Mouse ears. I was just about

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<v Speaker 5>to say.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, this thing also came up while we were talking,

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<v Speaker 3>Like she was talking about sort of what it's like

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<v Speaker 3>to be a zoo keeper and you have to do

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<v Speaker 3>things to like manage the animal's anxiety, and you know,

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<v Speaker 3>they're in an enclosed space and sometimes they need like

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<v Speaker 3>certain like activities set up for them are like different.

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<v Speaker 3>She had like more zookeeper terms for it, but like

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<v Speaker 3>toys introduced to their environment to like keep them healthy

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<v Speaker 3>and stimulated. And it's kind of like now during the pandemic,

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<v Speaker 3>like that's the situation that we're all in as humans.

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<v Speaker 11>We're kind of in captivity right now. We really don't

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<v Speaker 11>have a lot of choice and control, and so if

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<v Speaker 11>you kind of get lost in that, it can be

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<v Speaker 11>really scary.

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<v Speaker 3>It's like we're the zoo animals kind of where we're

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<v Speaker 3>in some code space and we have to figure out

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<v Speaker 3>the things that are going to make it manageable for us.

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<v Speaker 5>Hello, Hi, Paul hid Uh, you know hanging in there.

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<v Speaker 10>I know, it's it's it's I don't know, it's been

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<v Speaker 10>hard to like to do anything actually, even with all

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<v Speaker 10>this time. I don't know, Like a lot of people

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<v Speaker 10>are on Facebook and they're all like being all productive

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<v Speaker 10>and I'm seeing like what they're working on and stuff,

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<v Speaker 10>and I'm like, man, I just feel like the exact

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<v Speaker 10>opposite of that. Yeah, I just hadn't a whole lot.

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<v Speaker 10>But I'm like all my work got canceled, so I

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<v Speaker 10>don't I don't know what's gonna happen after this. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 10>it's pretty bad.

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<v Speaker 11>I think.

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<v Speaker 10>I think that's sort of I'm like kind of not practicing.

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<v Speaker 5>Sorry to make you practice when you're when you're not.

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<v Speaker 10>It's good, it's it's it's it's really, it's great. Actually

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<v Speaker 10>it feels good. Okay, so are you ready to should?

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<v Speaker 10>I I'm ready, Okay, let me. I'm just gonna speak

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<v Speaker 10>a phone role. I'm just gonna hate record and then

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<v Speaker 10>I'll just play it through. Okay, and here we.

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<v Speaker 7>Go, stop star stuff to boot. If if I can give,

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<v Speaker 7>give give it. If not Bell, give them, and.

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<v Speaker 1>If one give me the

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<v Speaker 7>Bali became