Hey everybody, welcome to The Fizzle Show. I'm your host, Corbett Barr, and this is our podcast

about earning a living independently doing something you love. And today is a special kind of

interview, because as we record this, it is early April, and personally, I'm stuck in Mexico

because there are no flights returning home

and on the phone with me today I have Justin Jackson. Justin's an old friend of the show and

Justin you reached out because you felt like there are some things we should talk about. On this show so far, we've just been

like airing interviews that I've had in the can. We haven't done anything super live recently,

but we've all been trapped indoors for at least a few weeks now, I think. And this is a really

scary time for a lot of people, especially people who are self-employed, people who

work for small businesses. And I know that you've got a lot to get off your chest today. So say

hello. Welcome. Oh man. Yeah. Can we just start by saying coronavirus sucks? It does suck.

It just sucks. I think we could all agree that this is not

a great time. You know, there are people getting sick and dying. That's stressful enough.

And then you have the other kind of major collateral damage here is the economy. Most

of the world's economy, we've never done this before. Most of the world's economy has

really slowed down. Some people say, you know, it's stopped. It hasn't stopped completely,

but it has really slowed down. What's it like in Mexico, actually?

Is it, are restaurants and cafes and stuff still open? Yeah, things here were maybe a week or two

delayed versus what we were seeing from friends back home in the States, but they did eventually

close down schools. They closed down non-essential businesses and restaurants are all closed.

And the big thing here is they essentially canceled the biggest holiday of the year, which is

Samana Santa, the Easter holiday, which is typically starting this week.

...