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Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Dad podcast.

We've been doing interviews lately with my writing partner,

Neil's Parker.

The short meditations during the week,

and then we kind of go in depth on some topics here on the weekend.

Niels and I both have young kids.

And I don't know when people will be listening to this, but,

Niels, I was, I think I can safely say the pandemic will not be better when they are listening to this.

Things will have gotten worse for what is now, I guess it'd be the third straight new year, which is kind of insane

if you think about it, right? Because it's like, we go into 2020 at the beginning with this thing

looming. Then we think, okay, we're almost out of it, but the belief is on the horizon.

Then we go into 2021 and here we are, you know, 2022.

Just getting wall up to this time.

Deja vu all over again, as they say.

But with an extra dose of FU, like it's even worse than last year, just in terms of magnitude.

Yeah. It's like, kind of. It's so hard. I mean, it's so hard.

Volume, I should say, not magnitude. It's just so hard to calibrate, you know, like panic,

no panic. You got people on one side who take it who literally think the sky is falling and the world is ending.

And then you've got other people who have been in such consistent denial from the beginning that you can't take that seriously either.

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