Welcome to Seltzer Squad, the podcast about staying sober in the city with your host, Kate Sander and Jess Valentine.

Hi, Jess. Hi. How are you? Good. Are we on? We're on.

Oh, sick. Hey, squad. Let's catch up. These are weird times.

It's, dude, it's fucking crazy. This is the first time that Kate and I are seeing each other since the whole coronavirus outbreak yeah and we're not hugging or touching no we're wiping everything off um we are our safe distance apart

from each other we're actually farther apart than we normally record at your place yeah i think

we're like a good six feet. Definitely. If not more.

Yeah, this is weird.

Where do you, where do we begin?

When did you start to feel the coronavirus weird?

I don't know.

I think when I started getting all the cancellations, I've had, I mean, I counted the other day and I think I had 25 cancellations. And,

you know, obviously that's fine. Sure. But it's very scary because I, if I don't work, I don't get paid.

If I don't get paid, I have no money. Therefore, I'm slightly freaking out about rent and all that

kind of stuff because I don't really have a lot of savings.

I have a little bit to get me through, but it will not last long if this thing goes forever.

I know. I think that's to me the scariest part is that we just don't know.

And I'm so impatient. So the not knowingness, because I'm a freelancer too. So if I don't work, I don't get paid either. I know. Right now, I mean, knock on what I'm okay, but the company I work for is one of the

companies that's unable to do a business during this time as well.

So I have a feeling it's only a matter of time until a larger cascade kind of happens.

And so, you know, T-J and i have been talking about that and it's just

when did you guys get sent home like to work remotely they sent they gave us the option like the end

of last week okay so right before my birthday actually and we were supposed to go on vacation we're

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