Hi I'm Isaac Colbert and this is a bonus episode of the ticket politics from the Atlantic. I'm at home in Washington. I've been at home for about two weeks now.

All of us have been encouraged to stay home if we can by

government officials and friends and family by coworkers but there's one person

out there who's taking his own spin on the message.

See the important thing is that you stay at home because there's a curfew now.

So yeah, that's Arnold Schwarzenegger who a few days ago posted a video of himself at his kitchen table,

feeding carrots to his mini horse whiskey and his mini donkey Lulu.

Lulu loves carrots, whiskey loves carrots, I just had my little bit of vegan food.

Oh, that was yummy, huh?

And though it was very jokey and silly in the way that it went, he is encouraging everyone to take this seriously.

See that's what we do. We don't go out, we don't go to restaurants, we don't do anything like that anymore here.

Millions of people have watched this video, and it's certainly weird to have Arnold Schwarzenegger with a mini donkey and a mini horse giving public health advice.

But it struck a chord so he's kept at it.

Yeah, I'm at home, taking a chicuzzi, smoking a little stowgy.

A lot of folks were still out and about, including all these videos that we've seen of kids

out on spring break or out in Disney World that made Schwarzenegger give another

warning here. I still see photographs and videos of people sitting in outside cafes

all over the world and having a good time and hanging out in crowds.

That is not wise because that's how you can get the virus.

I've gotten to know Schwarzenegger from covering him. It was only a few months ago that I sat down with him at his office in Santa Monica for a previous episode of this podcast, which we ran in January.

Those were really different circumstances. But after seeing that first video I reached out to

see if he wanted to talk. He's going through the same stuff we all are, albeit in a nicer

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