What Would You Tell Your Pre-Pandemic Self?

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🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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It's sometimes hard to know whether to laugh or cry when we think of our pre-pandemic selves, completely oblivious to the public health crisis that would claim more than 2.6 million lives globally and rain down chaos everywhere. We've asked listeners to share the advice they'd give to their blissfully ignorant past selves, and responses have ranged from the philosophical ("things are going to get stranger") to the practical ("get ready for some picnics! Lots and lots of picnics!"). Mina Kim talks to comedian and actor Adrienne Bankert and national correspondent Teresa Puente about what pandemic life has taught us about ourselves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.1	From KQED, Public Radio in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim. Coming up on forum, it's sometimes hard to know whether to laugh or cry when we think of our pre-pandemic selves, unaware of the public health crisis that would upend our lives and claim more than two and a half million people worldwide.
1:13.7	We've asked listeners to share the advice they'd give to their oblivious past selves,
1:18.6	and responses have ranged from the philosophical, things are going to get stranger, to the practical, get your bike fixed.
1:25.9	What's the one piece of advice you'd give your pre-pandemic self? Tell us after this news.
1:59.3	This is Forum. I'm Nina Kim. Today, to mark one year ago this week, when California first went on lockdown in the face of a deadly pathogen, we're asking listeners to share what they tell their pre-pandemic selves.
2:02.7	It's okay to cry, wrote one KQED listener.
2:05.8	No need to watch the groceries. You look crazy, wrote another.
2:11.2	Here's a clip from a YouTube video that went viral last April of comedian and actor Julie Nolke, offering some advice to her January 2020 self.
2:15.6	Okay, it might be a good time to just, you know, get, get that body in tip
2:20.0	top shape. Get, get strong. Get those lungs of pumping, you know, cardio, little aerobic.
2:26.5	The hell is going to happen. Julie Nolke joins me now. Julie Nolki, welcome to forum.
2:33.1	Thank you for having me. Got that advice about exercise
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