Hey everybody, Brian here. This is not a weekend bonus episode so much as this is a feed drop.

Allow me to introduce you to the latest ride home podcast, The Kot Key Ride Home.

Let me explain because this one has a bit of a backstory.

Remember at the beginning of the lockdown when actually about a week before lockdowns actually started.

We launched the coronavirus morning report.

Yeah, that was just us trying to give people a resource to stay on top of an exploding news story that seemed to change by the hour. And we figured

that's what we're good at, right? Staying online all day and reading all the

things to catch you up on what happened? Well it actually worked out. We

literally had tens of thousands of listeners 48 hours after

launch and we did nothing. We just turned it on. At first I was involved in writing and

recording and producing that show at the same time that I was

producing the tech meme ride home. I would do the coronavirus podcast in the morning and the

tech meme podcast in the afternoon. I was working 20 hour days and I was

able to keep that up for about two months but it was exhausting.

Jackson Bird helped me write that show

because right before a coronavirus hit we had hired Jack to launch a new

podcast for us but with COVID suddenly being the only thing on anyone's mind we put

his podcast on the back burner and he helped us get the coronavirus show out the door every day.

When I threw up my hands and said I can't do this anymore, he agreed to take over hosting duties,

so far so good. But the thing was the show is gradually bleeding about a thousand

listeners a week which I understand I mean how long can anyone listen to a daily

podcast about COVID.

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