Hi, James. Ben, how are you?

I'm doing well. How are you? A hold up in San Francisco.

I am hold up in San Francisco. I can't remember if I told you off air or on air that I bought a

freezer like a bit before we recorded the last episode, but I don't know. I've not been going

out of the apartment too much. This is all, it's a lot. And you managed to get the

freezer stocked? The freezer was stocked and I managed to do it before the madness mostly started.

I was out there wearing a mask looking around at Costco thinking, oh my gosh, like all these people

in this line. And I feel like this thing is all around us and everyone's on top of each other

and no one's doing anything. This is really scary. But it's better to do all this stuff early rather than later.

And yeah, I even managed to get to my favorite bakery and freeze a few croissants for comfort

food. So I feel like- Looking you. Look at you. Living the high life. I even got some gym equipment before i'd all sold out on

amazon because again like once everyone realizes the gyms are going to shut it all clamps down i

feel like i'm doing a poor impersonation of will smith in i am legend like stuck in my apartment

ready to live up here for the next however long it's going to be. And I also realize I shouldn't

be complaining. I'm very lucky because there are a lot of folks out there who are really struggling

with this. And my heart goes out to them health and jobs and everything else. Like, yeah.

Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. It's funny you mentioned masks because one wishes everyone had been

wearing them at the time you went

out, which was not that long ago. And yet it's only now after we have completion on the

economy and everyone is stuck at home that suddenly minds are changing. Perhaps this mask idea,

which by the way, every country in Asia did and does, might be a good idea. It kind of blows my mind, like on lots of levels.

Like on one level, you go and take a look at the statistics of the countries that seem to be

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