Oh, I think, yeah. Thank you. This is hell.

Hell.

capitalism is the virus and this.

Capitalism is the virus and this is hell.

This week on the show it's This is Hell, The Lost Pandemic Tapes, volume to a hand-picked collection of interviews never aired before on our home station,

Chicago Sound Experiment, W-N-U-R-89.3 FM.

The conversations you will hear are from the early months of COVID-19 back in 20-23 years ago

when we are all being told the best way to protect ourselves from the virus which had

suddenly become a pandemic and was

killing untold numbers of people worldwide. To best protect ourselves from the virus, we should

isolate and limit contact with the rest of humanity as we all awaited a vaccine,

all of which kept us from having access to WNUR as Northwestern University where WNUR is located was on lockdown. So we never had the chance

to share this week's featured discussions over the air on NUR and as a sign of our appreciation

for the support of all of you who have been listening over the

year every Saturday morning dating back as early as 1996 and who couldn't hear our show at the beginning

of the pandemic.

This week it's this is hell the lost pandemic tapes

volume two. We played volume one back in late January and got a lot of positive

response from listeners who were taken back to a time that is

oddly already forgotten by so many of us including me. Back in early May 2020

less than two months into social distancing and isolation guidelines being

implemented by public health agencies there was still a lot of talk about

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