This is a global original podcast.

Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a special lockdown edition of a podcast project originally conceived.

Let me spend more time than is usually available with people who are usually too busy.

Although that doesn't really fit today's guest, Kathleen Moran.

We have crossed paths

before and she is, or rather you are, Kathleen, nothing, if not helpful in these sort of

contexts. You rarely struggle to think of something to say. I'm a willing chatter, let's put

it that way. You can cut off my opinions by the yard.

You tell me you've got 36 seconds left to solve an issue and I reckon I could make a pretty good

fist of it. Let's do this. How, I read you at the very beginning of lockdown, a really interesting

piece about because you were homeschooled, you had some insights and some ideas that the rest of

us would be grateful for. And indeed we were. But now that

things have reached, you know, week 117, how have you found it all? Well, this is still easy compared

to homeschooling. So we were, my parents were hippies and they homeschooled us because they were

quite paranoid people who believed in the end of the world and also quite lazy people who didn't

want to wash and iron school. It takes a lot of energy to believe in the end of the world and also quite lazy people who didn't want to wash an iron, scroon. It takes a lot of energy to believe in the end of the world. Can you be

paranoid and lazy? Yeah, they had a lot of time on their hands. They were both on benefits. As long as

they weren't watching sort of like reruns and minder, they had plenty of time to explain to us that one

day society would break it and that we would be in hand-to-hand combat on the streets fighting over the last rat carcass and to prepare us for the dropping

of the bomb. So this is literally a recreation of my childhood. We're all cooped up a home.

We can't go out and we're slightly paranoid about the end of the world. So whilst other people

have been bugging out, me and all my family whenever we talk to each other on FaceTime. It's just like, yeah, this feels like 1986 all over again. It's back.

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