This is Joe Wong. Welcome to the Trapset.

Life has slowed down as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, so we're using the extra time at home as an opportunity to create and release a new episode of the trap set every day until further notice.

We'll record by phone and by necessity experiment with a more raw and immediate production style.

It's my hope that these daily episodes will give you a sense of community amidst a backdrop of

social distance. Today's guest is my friend Laura Veers. Laura's a singer-songwriter with over

10 albums to her name, both as a solo artist and as a member of the

supergroup, K-slang Veers. Laura lives in Portland, Oregon, and I spoke to her from Trapset H.Q.

in Pasadena.

Hello.

Hi. How are you feeling? I feel fine.

I got over some kind of weird bug last week, and my kids are healthy, and I have a babysitter

who lives with us who's healthy and is helping me with the kids who are out of school.

So we're hanging in there.

It's definitely a bizarre time, though, since we're pretty much under total lockdown,

as I assume you are as well. Yeah. How old are your kids now? They're almost seven and

ten. So they're both out of school. Is the seven-year-old in first grade? Yes. Oh, that's an awful

time to get pulled out of school, huh? Yeah, I mean, but we're, they give us like a mini curriculum and my babysitter and I are kind of structuring the days so that we're keeping up with their studies and getting them outside and playing in the park and stuff a little bit.

But yeah, it's a weird time for them for sure. And their social life is so important to them. And they're like, why can't we have play dates? I'm like, well, soon we

will be able to. But right now, I've been having to explain why we're all doing this and what

the isolation is about. And they're definitely getting stir crazy. And we're doing a little more

screen time than is probably advised, but you just got to get through the days.

Like how much screen time? So right now I'm letting them have an

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