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Today's agenda is coronavirus. It's corona time.

Hi you, how's it going? Here we are in the same room. We are. We are in the same hotel room, which I have to say. It's like very cozy today.

It is a shockingly cozy. I mean, I think it's also because you are in Los Angeles and it's a rainy LA day, which I really want my back.

See, this is how it's like if you live here, you're like, a rainy day. I was so excited last night when the rain was blowing in.

I respect your desire for sunshine though. No, it's just one of my first experiences with Gina Delvack, who produces this one very pooh.

Gina Delvack, producer of Call Your Girlfriend, and like a boss lady all around, you should know her. One of our very first, not group interactions.

I remember very clearly I'd been in LA. We had like kind of all gone out like that, you know, like the whole gang. And maybe we had exchanged phone numbers like very recently.

And one of my first two texts from Gina was I was in LA and it rained and it was this perfuse like Angelino apology for the weather and for the rain.

And it really it made me love her even more. And I was like, wow, you feel ashamed about the weather, about her in your city.

Cannot relate, but thank you for that. Oh, man. I feel mostly grateful or apologetic that you came all the way here because it is a difficult time to get on an airplane and fly.

We're talking about coronavirus, obviously. Today's agenda. Just do it. Just do it. Today's agenda is coronavirus is corona time.

As you know, I am a germafob. I'm never ashamed of it, but I know that I like I have behaviors that always make me seem odd. And if the one positive thing never to me, never to me.

One positive thing about coronavirus, I have to say is that now I seem normal. You know, you're see wiping life is normalized.

Yes, I'm like, I, you know, like I get on a plane and I've been like, chloroxing down my seat for years. And now everyone else is doing it. Or you know, the like obsessive hand washing and the whatever. So on one hand to all my germafobes rise up.

We have been we have been training for this for a whole lot. And truly there is a part of it that makes me like I get very emotional. I'm like, oh, finally, normalized. And on the other hand, I'm like, oh, yeah, everything about this is scary and awful.

And I don't feel great as a human being finding out how not to clean my other fellow human beings are as I am finding out now. Even though that's a truth you knew deep within you know it, right? But then you like now I understand it. And I see it. And it is shocking.

The amount of people that do not wash their hands regularly is a, you know, it's shook or people who like come home and don't immediately take their clothes off or people who are their shoes in their homes.

I like I understand this. But now that I see it, it doesn't sit well with me. But also, you know, we're all in this thing together. Yes. The thing that I have been trouble to find out about my fellow humans, which I also already kind of knew is just the level of I'm going to protect myself and my family at the expense of everyone else. And basically the kind of like run on masks, run on industrial size pure.

And I think that's part of this whole story that coupled with some of the xenophobia, the stories like, you know, my friends partner who is of Chinese descent who was like screamed at with like violence slurs because he coughed on a street like things like that that are happening where I'm like, yeah, I understand that we live in a society that is highly individualistic that is super racist.

You know, all of that stuff is there, obviously, but it's like, yes, they're like how how people are handling germs part of it is is like for real, but like that part of it too has been profoundly sad to me like like watching that play out in real time.

It's sad, but it's also not surprising. And also, I think, you know, obviously like coronavirus is spreading very fast. And I think and it's very fluid and it's changing is why we're feeling it very acutely.

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