So this is the pandemic, huh? All of us just hiding in our closets and basements?

I've been a freelancer all my life. I have worked out of my own solitary office, but I will say that this is a new and advanced form of isolation where the whole week has become this kind of liquid moment that just doesn't seem to end in any way.

It hasn't become the shining yet, not yet.

No, but I will say that I have, I now have the cleanest cellar in the neighborhood, which is saying something because we all have clean sellers now.

Welcome to the well. I am Brandon Edgians. Anson Mount will be joining us directly.

Our guest today is American author, Jack Hitt. He's a contributing editor for Harper's Magazine, New York Times Magazine, and for This American Life, he's written for Wire, GQ, Rolling Stone.

And we are very, very, very, very honored to have him join us again two years. and for this American life. He's written for Wire, GQ, Rolling Stone.

And we are very, very, very honored to have him join us again.

Two years since he was last on the show where we made some predictions about how the next two years we're going to be.

And he's back with us today to, well, see how we did.

It's two years later, Jack, and how is your basement now?

Well, it's back to its usual clutter.

So, yeah, that was a brief moment of sort of like after a wild weekend, you end up cleaning up your room or something.

And then the things kind of just degrade back to where they were.

And that's, yeah, I'd say seller-wise.

I'm back to, you know, pre-2020.

How about y'all?

Well, I didn't, I don't have a seller, so it's nothing changed.

Anson, how is your organization?

Well, we had just moved to Connecticut, so we hadn't had time to develop any real clutter.

And, you know, we're spending half our time in Toronto right now. So we've managed to, manage to keep it somewhat clean.

But I'm remembering back to that moment of us recording. I cannot believe that it was two years ago.

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