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Accidental Tech Podcast

523: I Can’t Give Him the Carrot Fast Enough

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 128 minutes

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0:00.0

Hey, so John, how's it going?

0:04.0

I think COVID-19, everyone's favorite disease slash germ, has achieved the ATP hat trick.

0:12.4

We knocked off all three hosts.

0:15.2

Yep.

0:15.6

Apparently, so the way I think this has happened, this is the this is the head canon is that I received it from

0:22.9

Lex via your daily Lex. He infected me, that he infected me. And then I have now infected you.

0:30.1

And hopefully I have not taken down the rest of the people in your house with you. What's the

0:34.5

status there? So far so good. I mean, so I, you know, I've been having symptoms since Monday.

0:40.3

I was negative on Monday and Tuesday and then I was positive on Wednesday.

0:43.4

Were you taking evasive maneuvers within the house on Monday or Tuesday? Or were you assuming

0:48.3

it was a cold?

0:48.7

No, because, I mean, here's why. People are always having colds in the house. And whenever someone has a cold, we give them COVID tests and then come up negative and everything's fine.

0:55.9

So I had a cold and I was giving myself COVID tests like I do.

0:58.1

Anytime I have a code and they're coming up negative.

1:00.1

And then a Wednesday morning, it was positive.

1:02.1

And then I immediately retreated to my room where I have been hiding since then.

1:06.5

All right.

1:06.6

So what have been doing to kill time then? Well, I mean, for the, you know, for the first, you know, three days of this, I just basically

1:12.9

had a fever the whole time.

1:14.2

That's sucky, you know.

1:15.3

I know people had it much worse than I have for sure, but I don't like having a fear of

1:18.6

that.

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