A lot has happened since our last episode.

Many things have happened, I'm sure, as you all know.

And the first thing I want to say is about, oh, maybe a month and a half ago.

So right now it is early April. About a month and a half ago,

I was at work. I was talking to my coworker Joey. And Joey happens to be someone who's helped us out

on editing our podcast. So he's actually been here with me as, you know, we record our podcast. And he's been

helping for about two, three episodes. And I see him at work every day with our day jumps

unrelated to the podcast. And we were talking. And I think just about current events and the economy, the stuff that you see in the news.

And he said to me that he thinks that there's something more to this coronavirus.

And at the time it was still happening, but mainly in Asia, it hadn't come over to the United States.

It hadn't happened around the world yet.

But he basically said something to the effect of, I think there's more to this than what people are

saying. And it's going to be a lot worse than what people think it will be. And not only that,

but it's going to hurt the economy. It's going to really change everything. And, you know,

the economy, generally speaking, the news had been good. And he basically said that that was going to

change. And me being, you know, the humble history guy that always talks about, oh, how, you know,

you shouldn't think you know the future. I basically scoffed at him.

I said, oh, what are you even talking about, Joey?

There's no way that could happen.

That's ridiculous.

Lo and behold, it has happened.

Joey is a prophet.

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