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Hey there folks, welcome to another episode of the Cracked Podcast. The podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is.

My name is Alex Schmidt. I'm also known as Schmidt to clam. I'm also known as Schmidt the tram. But I am also also bringing back a friend from last week.

Yeah, once again, my cat, his name is Watson is joining us and saying hi because we are taping from home once again as, you know, basically all podcasts are right now as they should be for safety.

And once again, I am wishing you all the best health and safety and everything else wherever you are, whatever you're doing, hang in there. And, you know, right up top. I think it's very, very important, especially if you saw the title of the episode to ground this episode in a very clear statement that the novel coronavirus, this COVID-19 is a huge piece of shit.

It's just awful. It has no redeeming qualities, no positive elements as I taped this intro on April 8th, the Guardian reports over 81,000 deaths from coronavirus worldwide.

So it's for real and it's not funny. It's something that we do take very seriously. It's also something that I have less expertise on than a journalist or a medical expert.

So I don't think our show is built to provide you with the latest tips on getting through it. Right. You have other resources for that other ways to get that information. And I'm really glad you do.

On today's episode of this show, we're going to do something that's much more in our wheelhouse and we're going to explore what I would not call good news because again, can't be clear enough about this. The virus is a huge piece of shit.

Hate it. But the virus has impacted all of the world's standard operating procedures. Right. Many, many events and practices and other things have been shut down.

And I think we are qualified to cover that because today's topic is stuff that's been canceled by coronavirus that can stay canceled.

One more time that is stuff that's been canceled by coronavirus that can stay canceled.

Because every year or every two years of the world does a standard set of things. Some of those things are foolish or inefficient or or just straight up bad like they should not be happening.

A pandemic is an insanely shitty way to interrupt anything. However, while we're here making a podcast and thinking about the world, why don't we think about whether there are certain institutions and practices and other things that maybe we should stop having around for reasons that would benefit everybody.

We figure we can keep that light and be a comedic and enjoyable podcast without making light of an incredibly serious virus.

And so that's the needle we're threading today. That's the way we're going about it. And I hope you enjoy it.

And for threading that needle, I am joined remotely by two of my very favorite people taping in separate locations in California.

And I'm Todd Brown is the host and creator and more of the unpopular opinion podcast network. He's also written for MTV Playboy and other fine places.

Also, you heard him on this show just two weeks ago in one of the very last episodes that we taped in what's been called the before times.

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