Welcome everyone. Today we have for you another short bonus show Amanda is joining me.

We're making this available to everyone just to check in with us and to let you know what's

coming in the feed. We're going to have a little discussion, but this is also doubling as sort of

an intro to the rerun that I'm posting this week on modern monetary theory. It's a show from

last year, which shed some light on what powers the government has to spend money and why we should

not be afraid of that and in a time like this. This is particularly the moment when the government

needs to be spending money more than it has already promised to and the debate over how we save

ourselves from a pandemic should in no way be hampered by a fear of an inability to spend money. So

for the entire explanation on that, I recommend checking out the modern monetary theory rerun episode

posting in the show this week. Also, for our conversation, we wanted to talk about the mentally

taxing nature of living through a pandemic. It's I mean, honestly, so I am I've been listening to

as much content or more as I ever do and I have been surprised at how little this is being addressed.

There are coping mechanisms and time fillers and what can you do with your family and what can

you do through kids mental health a little bit mental health and you know, how do you maintain

a relationship with a significant other who you usually spend nine hours away from every day and

now you're in the same place all day like they're all perfectly valid conversations, but

but the the fact that we are living through a pandemic is mentally taxing in a way that I think

needs to be addressed more and and we just need to have that be an everyday part of the conversation

to acknowledge how much of our brain space is being taken up by this. Yeah, we kind of need to cut

people a little bit of slack because like you went from you know, going to your job to maybe still

going to your job, but now it's super super risky to go to your job or you have come home to do your

job at home, but now you maybe have kids running around and you got to make three meals a day and

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