Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan, here as always with.

Luke Savage, hi everyone. It's a whole new era of the podcast because on our Patreon last week

we did our 200th episode where we returned to Roger and me. I'm saying this partly to plug

the Patreon, which we don't always do on the free episodes. But this is episode 201.

You know, it's a whole brave new world.

It's really exciting, isn't it?

Yeah, there's a new presidential administration,

a whole new 100 episode terrain of the podcast.

And in Ontario, we're going into a state of emergency over COVID.

Whole new measures are being introduced. I believe they're closing schools. So all of these things are very exciting, you know? Just so it's a whole new,

it's a whole new year, whole new podcast. Well, on the on the lockdown, I was just reading about that.

And yeah, I mean, I suspect a lot of our american listeners in particular won't realize how kind

of strict things are here i was talking to a friend in new zealand recently you can guess which one

but uh he says life is just completely normal there like he can go to movies concerts things like

that i'm not sure what you know the kind of impression of the state of things in Canada is

down south or indeed elsewhere. But in Ontario, it's, it's pretty bad. Although I was just

reading about the new lockdown measures. And I guess they've refrained from doing a curfew, but what

are they calling it, like a stay at home order? That more heavy-handed than a curfew. But when I was

looking over it, it says, you know, you can go out for medical appointments, groceries, for

exercise. You can't gather in groups of bigger than five. And I don't know, there's, I think,

some changes to, you know, certain stores have to close at 8 by 8 p.m.

And they can't open until 7.

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