Hey there, beautiful people. Welcome to Fantaida podcast for all those complex and complicated

conversations about the gray areas in our lives. I am the iconic, wow, the legendary

adeclaration without merit, uh, Jared Hill. And I am entertainment journalist and editor

Anderson coming up on the show. We're going for the next two weeks. Starting this week and next

week, we're going to dive deep into award season conversations talking about these award shows.

Should we be invested in them? Et cetera, et cetera. This week, we're focusing on music with a very

special, special guest. But first, we've got a tough question for you. All right. So a tough question

for those of you who are familiar is our opportunity. Jared and I, you know, we'd be grappling with

some questions every now and again. And we want to bring it to you all or bring it to each other

for some conversation. All right. And today's tough question comes from yours truly. So we've been

talking about this vaccine situation. Okay. Um, for the last, you know, year. And we are now in this

moment where vaccines are being distributed. They're going through, you know, the different phases of

all of that Biden came out last week and said that he's encouraging, right? All states to

open up eligibility for every American by, um, was it April or May 1st? May 1st, I believe. May

1st. Um, and so, you know, one of the things that's been presented to me, I've had a number of

people that I know in various ways in community who have basically reached out with like the hookup

meaning, you know, they know somebody who knows somebody or they are the person to know, right,

in order to get me vaccinated, get me help me to jump the line in order to get vaccinated before,

you know, I, at least here in LA County, it am, um, uh, I don't want to say qualified, but what's the

word? Uh, eligible, uh, eligible. There we go, eligible for it. And I literally have had like four or

five people reach out to me with these connects or with these, you know, ways to go about it, right?

And we've seen all the reporting on it, but for me, I just, I just, I have this consternation,

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