Hi and welcome to Outward for the month of March. I'm Brian Lauter, editor of Outward and I have a cocktail recipe to share courtesy of one of my partner's mothers. It's called the

quarantini. Same ingredients as a martini but with an extra dash of anxiety and

you're allowed to have as many as you need until the stir craziness fades into a stupor.

Speaking of mothers that we should be thinking of, I'm Raman Alum and I'm thinking of

Tammy Taylor. There's a great episode of Friday Night Lights.

It's such a throwaway line, but she's

calming somebody down and she says,

you need some fresh air in your hair.

And I think those are such wise words.

I think we all need some fresh air in our hair.

So I hope you're listening to this podcast strolling down the street with your

headphones on six feet away from all of your neighbors.

Yeah, definitely.

I'm Christina Kotterucci, a staff writer at Slate and host of The Waves,

Slate's Podcasts about Women and Gender. And I am coming to you from my apartment in DC

where I just finished watching what appeared to be a gay landscaping

company apply mulch along the sidewalk across the street. I feel like an old

like shut-in peering through my curtains now every day because it's the only thing I have

That's different every day is what I see through my window so there was a evidence number a

A twink and a cutoff t-shirt, evidence B, another guy in an It Gets Better shirt.

Evidence number C, the company is called Versa Tool.

And number D, I looked it up online and the logo of this

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