Good morning, everybody. Hello there. Welcome to the morning sickness. It is around 5.45. I assume my name is John Holmberg. I am all alone in the Larry H. Miller Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram 2013.

Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Studios. That's right. I am once again quarantined from the building COVID exposure in the building. We had some folks we talked to on a regular basis come down with COVID in the building. So we are on super overkill hard core quarantine, even though the entire show got tested by Dr. Nancy gains and we have to thank her yesterday. We got tested and everybody came up negative. So we're all COVID free. But

protocols and all sorts of stuff say we can't come to work just in case there's some sort of a hibernation period or so I don't look I don't understand any of this stuff. I'm just doing what I'm told. I'd much rather be in that studio. I know I get a job I actually want to go do. But yeah, so all of us are negative and stuff and and you know that doesn't seem to matter as we have to just be super duper careful in case over the next couple days after exposure you get it later. I don't know. They're telling me something. I don't know.

I don't understand. I'm just happy. My negative sign came up. People call me negative for years though. But yeah, so we're all at home and we got another hybrid best of show coming your way right now and I'm sitting in a car in the garage. You might remember I had to do this last summer when we got quarantine from this goofy silly thing and the whole thing comes back to this. Now I'm not one to encourage what I'm about to say, but I'm going to bring it up because it's something that's on your mind.

There's really this is going to get me in trouble. There's really no incentive delicate delicate. There's really no incentive to be truthful to your bosses when it comes to COVID. Sorry, Trip, if you're listening. That's not saying I'm dishonest to you. But there's no incentive for my boss to be honest about this stuff so much of your life can get shut down.

When you have the sniffles like in our case, the guy who ended up with the COVID. Again, minor sniffles and said, I don't know. Maybe I should get a test or he didn't even feel bad turns out he has it. So the other option would have been is to say I got the sniffles. I got to take a couple days off work or whatever turns out you don't have it, but you've put the whole place into a panic.

So it's better to just kind of be quiet. In our case, none of us have it. And we were honest to people about when we last spoke to the person who has it.

And then that starts the ball rolling down protocol avenue. Now it's caused nothing but trouble for people at work.

And I feel like I'm a bad guy and the guys on the show, Brett and Brady and Toledo. We're all kind of bad guys for saying, well, yeah, we talk to them on Thursday.

So then you get your test and that day's day early. The truth of the matter is it would have been a lot easier for me to just go, oh, none of us talk to the person in question for the last six days. So we're good.

And then you're right back at work because you don't got symptoms, but you want to be responsible. And yet that's the right thing to do in a humanitarian sort of way.

But in a, I just want to go to work and make money sort away. You want to kind of lie about all the stuff that will make it so you can't go to work.

It's a, it's a really bad thing because then when you lie, you're a bad guy for lying about it, especially if you get busted.

But if you, if you tell the truth, you're a bad guy, because then you got to cause all the dominoes to start to fall about that. I feel for everybody. And I've been that person who wakes up with a sore throat and thinks, what do I say anything?

Or is this just going to cause everybody a bunch of heartache? And what if it's nothing? I'll feel like a fool. Let me tell you from personal experience and having to deal with this.

I understand the dilemma of feeling like, well, if I just don't say anything, it's probably nothing. I know it's annoying. Assume it's something.

And your boss might get a little jumpy and mad and say, ah, you should have never blah, blah, blah.

None of us know what we're doing here. This is all brand new and even we're a year into it. And it still kind of throws curveballs at us.

So if you're feeling stuffy, if you're feeling sick, take it very seriously, because these dominoes that we've had to deal with definitely affect lots of people and some who work hourly.

And that's detrimental. Fortunately, none of us on the show were hourly employees, but you just don't know. Then it starts messing around with other people's jobs and the hourly employees that have to come in or not come in.

Yeah, it's just not fun. This is just no fun. I would much rather be in there doing this live and sitting in my car, but we're trying to play it safe.

So here's the word that we've got, even though we're all negative, even though we seemingly have no outbreak protocol according to our company and everything else is to sit this one out for a few days.

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