Hi, this is Josh Marshall. This is the Josh Marshall Podcast. We are, this is our fourth episode doing the show remote but it's it's the fifth week since we have

been working remote as an organization and so and now I know it know it's a funny thing because everybody who is listening to this

podcast, well certainly I guess I would say this, you know, maybe you're listening

five years from now and this is all history and everything.

But everybody who's listening to this podcast right now is in a similar situation in

some sense to us. Maybe you are social distancing at home. Maybe you're an essential worker so your life is the schedule of your life is

somewhat similar but but more stressful and arduous and dangerous but we're all kind of in the same boat.

So we're all experiencing it in our own specific way, but that's one of the things about this crisis that, I mean, I was thinking a few days ago,

again, we all have crises, disasters, things that we have lived through.

And one of the things about living through, one of those

upheaval's, is that you can relate it to other people later, you know, and sometimes it's like, oh, I was there, let me tell you about what happened.

And one of the things about the COVID-19 pandemic is that there's not really going to be that.

Now obviously some people will have very unique experiences, people who, health care workers, working in hospitals, people

who became very ill, all these different kind of things.

But we all experience this. This isn't like, oh, I remember Hurricane Sandy. Let me tell you about how it happened or let me

Or where were you on 9-11 or something? Yeah, exactly like where were you in the COVA? Like, well, I was right where it happened, right?

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