Ben Might've Been One of the First COVID Patients

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🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week, Ben talks about the pre-pandemic days when he (and the whole world) was living care-free and going to conventions like Playlist Live. While there, Ben hung out in close proximity with thousands of people around March 2020, then went back home. Ben suffered from a fever, coughing and basically all the symptoms we associate with COVID-19. He tries to trace back where he got it from and how he even got his mom sick. Tweet your crazy near-death experiences to @benoftheweek using #IAlmostDiedPodcast! Watch the podcast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/IAlmostDiedYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: http://bit.ly/IAlmostDiedPodcast If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be helpful! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/IAlmostDiedPodcast Follow Ben on YouTube Follow Ben on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there! Hello! Uh oh! Uh oh! You'll see the title right? Uh oh! Ben of the week got
0:11.9	confirmed coronavirus. Ben of the week has couldn't know. Well, maybe. Yes. But a long time ago.
0:20.6	Welcome to the I Almost Dad podcast. My name is Ben, aka Ben of the week. And today I'm going to
0:26.1	tell you about how I literally think I was one of the first people to get COVID. This isn't like
0:31.7	some little click-a-bady like, he he, whoo-hoo, like kind of thing. Um, I am 98% sure I got COVID,
0:41.9	but in March of last year. And this is how. So if you don't know, if you're not familiar with the whole
0:49.6	kind of TikTok world, if you've just recently started watching TikToks or like gotten into that whole
0:54.8	that whole world, there is this convention every single year. Um, it's called the, the, it's not
1:02.0	called the, it's called playlist live. And basically it's this huge convention in Orlando, Florida
1:08.9	that I've gone to for two years. Um, last year was like the last time I went. Um, but it's super fun.
1:15.1	It's basically like, think of it like, it's like camp, but like you have, but it's all TikTokers.
1:23.0	Like, like, it's like every person on TikTok and like a bunch of YouTubers also all in one hotel
1:29.1	for a weekend. And it's chaos. It is chaos. It is chaos, but it's fun chaos. It's so fun. Like
1:36.0	actually like maybe my favorite weekends of my life happened at playlist. Um, because it's just
1:42.8	wild. Like you get all these people together. Like everyone knows everyone and we're all just like,
1:47.2	it's crazy. Anyways, let me explain. You might, you might be able to already piece two and two
1:53.0	together. Hmm, a giant convention and coronavirus in March of 2020. Hmm. So let's, let's rewind
2:03.2	back in March. This was like, I think the first day was like the very first day of March. So it started
2:09.6	on March 1st. And this is when like people knew about COVID. I think there was maybe like 300 cases in
2:15.8	all of California, but it was like like everyone was joking about it. Like y'all remember like this,
2:20.6	there was no lockdown, no nothing. People were like, haha, coke, no virus, so funny. It's got,
2:28.9	what's it gonna do? It's not that serious. And like people were making jokes like because it was like,
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