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The 45th

154: You’re Fired

The 45th

Audioboom Studios

News

4.5884 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

May 20, 2020 / Susan and Rabia discuss the latest in COVID19 related news, the Friday night massacre of Inspector Generals, and QAnon bullshit conspiracy theories.
 
Episode scoring music by Broke for Free.
 
Today’s episode is sponsored by Express VPN.
 
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Transcript

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0:00.0

This means that Donald Trump will be the 45th president of the United States.

0:20.0

This is your life now. This is our election now. This is us. This is our country.

0:24.0

It's real.

0:27.0

Hi and welcome back to the 45th, Robia here and as always I'm here with my

0:38.4

colleague Susan Simpson. Hey Susan, hey Robia. How are you doing in week? What is it 12 of lock? I don't even know I lost track but whatever in lockdown.

0:47.0

I mean I don't know about you but I am about ready for this to be over with.

1:03.3

Yeah, well, you know, it's, it's, it's, I got this thing, I mean people, because the question is like how long can you really sustain something like this? But it's like, okay, so Maryland eased up some restrictions last week.

1:06.9

We've seen a jump though when the numbers coming back positive.

1:09.8

Of course that could be because there's more testing.

1:12.3

I just don't know. It just seems like

1:14.1

everywhere the restrictions are being eased, you're seeing these numbers jump and... Well not

1:19.2

everywhere, the jumping is not happening in all places, but the question is once the restrictions are

1:24.7

eased do you go along with it or not because that's two separate issues that economy and the nation

1:30.8

as a whole is going to be facing I think I am firmly in the, I'm not going to say the no relaxing

1:35.9

camp, like there are risks that you can take acceptably, but I'm definitely not going to be in the living life normally camp for a long time.

1:45.0

Yeah, I think that's how I feel too.

1:46.5

I think what freaks me out is I feel like I'd have very little control.

1:49.8

Like yesterday one of my daughters, well my older daughter, she was just like, oh, you know, one of these, one of the malls is like reopening and I miss going to the mall and I realized, oh my God, it's like, she's an adult, I can't stop her from going to that, right? I'm like can advise people around you my husband the other day was like man is a gym open yet I want to go to the gym and I was like even if it's open I do not want to go to the gym but we can't like you can't have you can't control everybody around you and so that it's like what

2:15.4

what's the point of you being careful when everybody around you is probably

2:19.2

exposing themselves anyways I don't know the whole thing's scary, but...

2:23.8

My neighbors had a small party, and I'm still so jealous about it.

2:26.7

What?

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