Okay, so growing up as a kid watching the TV, I figured I learned that the

dealthood consisted of two major problems. Number one, quicksand. Number two, the

Bermuda Triangle. So you can imagine my shock and my horror to discover that the

real concerns are far, far more nefarious than anything this school we do in the

gang ever faced. So today on SnapDudgment, from KQED and Snap Studios, we

proudly present Quagmire. My name is Tom Washington. It's always the thing that

you don't expect. You better expect when you're listening to SnapDudgment.

Here again, with the adventures of an old friend, an old friend of the show, Josh

Healy, you may know him as a SnapDudgment live storyteller. He's an owner, a film maker.

He's making big waves internationally with all of his projects, but Josh recently

sat down. Josh told me the story about something very, very, very close to home, family,

SnapDudgment. So when the pandemic hit back in March 2020, I was already stuck at home.

And not because of a global virus, not because of the CDC mandates, but something far,

scarier, I was responsible for taking care of a newborn child. So I was literally on

my last week of paternity leave with my then three-month-old son, Julius. You met Julius?

You met Julius? Good kid. Good kid. Get's it from his mom. Julius has an older sibling,

Ezra. Ezra was four years old at the time, and I love my kids. Julius and Ezra, or as

we call them by their punk rock band name, the blonde Jews of Oakland. I love them, but I was

supposed to go back to work now. My paternity leave was over, and we all remember how easy it

was working from home with little kids running around, right? Good Lord. Holding every Zoom call,

hostage, like the sweet, precious little terrorists that these children are. We were so sleep-deprived

that it took us a couple days to realize the pandemic was a real thing, and not just another,

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