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Today is Thursday, February 26th, 20206, and this is your host, Stephen Novella.

Joining me this week are Bob Novella.

Hey, everybody.

Kara Santa Maria. Howdy. Jay Novella. Hey, guys. And Evan Bernstein. Good evening, everyone. How are y'all doing? Oh. All, y'all doing fine. Yeah. All y'all. All you all. I love it. Starting to warm up already. It was like 80 degrees outside. I'm like, well, what is? Yeah, there. Yeah. Not here. I know you guys have been buried under snow, haven't you? Yeah, we had like an old school winter. We haven't had no one. Yeah, man. We definitely moved away from like the weather that was typical in the 70s and 80s. But this winter was like when I was a kid.

Cold, cold, tons of snow. Lots of missed school days. My kids missed Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of

this week. Now, Jay, when that happens now, do they try to do online teaching or it's just a snow day?

No, it's just a snow day. There is no indication of any kind of online

anything going on. So they've really just abandoned that. Yeah. I was wondering if that would be a keeper

after COVID. Well, the problem is parents then, it's complicated for parents because they can't help

if they have to work or if they're working from home, you know? Luckily for me, though, I work from home, but I got more done in the last three days from not, you know, having to do my typical stuff. Like, you know, I would have gone to the studio twice. And Steve and I work at my mom's house on Mondays so we could be over there, but also get work done. Steve, I can't tell you how much work I got done.

It's amazing.

Yeah, and you don't have to drive anywhere. We got snowed out of the studio for two days. Yeah. Wow. I was blocked in my house. I couldn't get out of my driveway for three days. Wow. That's nuts. You know, our plow guys, it was so backed up. We ended up getting to our house at three in the morning.

Yeah, they're making money like crazy, though.

Yeah, probably they're in. our plow guys is it was so backed up he ended up getting to our house at three in the morning

yeah they're making money like crazy though yeah this year i'll go for one month the last

this year man not so much yeah they're going to disney world in a couple months after this winter

Evan knows what it's like there to have you oh your annual work compressed two or short

months of time that That's right.

Yeah, seasonal work is tough.

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