As much as it feels selfish to say this, I'm not going to pretend right now that I don't want all of this to be over right now.

And I don't mean the podcast. I mean the pandemic and the quarantine and the lockdown and everything else like that right now.

I'm ready for it to be done. I want it to feel like a test that we were trying to play and get through and that we've passed the test somehow.

Every couple of weeks I think when the state designated state of

state emergency is about to end. I think, you know, maybe this was all just a test and if, you know,

if you know that phrase, like I know that phrase, you're probably familiar

with with this old standard here.

This is a test.

This station is conducting a test of the emergency

broadcasting system.

This is only a test.

And then that terrible sound would sound and you'd have to listen to it for a minute or so. I don't miss that.

But you know, if you grew up in an era when everybody was trying to convince you that the world was literally about to end at any given point

You know what I'm talking about you know as a kid you know that sound was sort of terrifying and eventually it became background noise to my life because even as a kid I had a hard time believing that my elementary school was going to end up being bombed by the Russians and that we would end up in a situation to where my school desk was supposed to save me from a nuclear bomb.

I learned that growing up in the 80s as a kid and I learned that there are things out there that are going to try to kill you.

But some of them give you a fighting chance to escape.

I mean, we can run away from hurricanes, we can run away from wildfires.

But there are other things like nukes and earthquakes, and as it turns out tornadoes that it takes a lot more serious work to escape.

I will tell you this that I grew up in southwest Missouri and once we all got to April, we started listening for the tornado sirens and we had the

planes of northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas to worry about I was talking with

my cousin R.J. today we were talking about this one particular sound and it's very local to where I came from.

If you grew up where we did, when the weather was coming, you turned on a country station called

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