I'm closing my door and becoming even darker in here.

This is so weird.

So this is the pandemic, huh?

All of us just hiding in our closets and basements.

Yes, and we're on a Skype call now with Jack Hitt, and he seems prepared for the apocalypse.

He's sitting in an old Jesuit wine cellar with, I have to say, dwindling supplies, it seems, behind you.

You know, I'm going to say, dwindling supplies, it seems, behind you. Welcome to the well. I am Brandon Edgons.

And I'm Anson Mount.

And this is part two of our interview with Jack Hitt, who looked into his crystal ball along with us and prognasticated the future post-Corona world.

He had a lot of very interesting insights, and we're going to bring you some more right now.

Hey, do you remember when we met his college roommate at Swanee?

No.

So we were there, I think we were there for one of our reunions.

And you and I decided to go over and see Dr. Carlos, who is an interesting man in his own right,

retired fine arts professor at Swanee.

He was probably your advisor, I would imagine.

Yeah. Yeah. And while we're there, another alum, a bit older than us, stopped in,

and we found out that he was Jack Hitt's roommate from college. I forget his name. He lives in

New Hampshire. Really nice guy. But I'll never forget what he said about Jack. He said, that guy,

you know, he could sit down and read a book. Like, I don't mean sit down to read a book.

I mean sit down and read an entire book that he would have to do a paper on or be tested on.

And the next day, he could quote you from that book.

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