Hi.

Hi.

Here's what just happened.

Janie,

welcome to stay of Homekins.

Hi, I'm Paul F. Tompkins.

I'm Janie Hadad Tompkins. We're married couple living in quarantine.

I'm an actor, he's a comedian. Okay, what?

We were just about to start, this is our fourth episode we're just about to start

Janie controls the Zoom recorder.

Zoom not to be confused with the video app that we're all using these days

this is this was the first Zoom that came into our lives.

And so it's a little recorder used for a lot of people using for podcasts.

And Janie asked me if I was ready. I said yes.

And then she had her finger over the button and she

nodded at me like I'd start I said hello that she she admitted to me she had not

actually pressed I was it my nod was more like

here we go and I wanted it to be returned and then. Oh I said like you want to have

did you want to have a little ritual?

I don't know.

Or do you want it to be like pilots, like the space program?

There's a lot of visual cues when you kind of talk so that everybody knows that you're fine.

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