The Random Show: Boozy Quarantine Edition! (#426)

Good morning to everybody!
I’m just listening to the boozy edition of the podcast from my home in Germany and I thought this would give you some sort of comfort: we are all in this together.

There are so many similarities between our situations personally and nationwide although you live on the other side of the world.

You are not alone with this, we share all the mixed feelings, the anxiety and the need to adapt to an unknown situation every day; we eat and drink too much, we are isolating and have been stacking up on toilet paper. We watch Tiger King and desperately try to keep our parents and grandparents at home who mainly react like Tony Sopranos’ mother 90% of the time. Since the beginning of all this, we Germans established a new tradition- watching the daily press conferences of our public health institute and debating about r- factors.

Every bar and every restaurant throughout the country is closed.
All big events like festivals, concerts, even soccer games and all other sports, are cancelled through 8/31 nationwide. Playgrounds and almost every school is closed.
This brings up unknown problems. The key is adaptation.
For example, there are two bars in Hamburgs red- light district which haven’t been closed for 70 years. They are normally open 24 hours a day, every day for the past 70 years. One of them, the “Elbschlosskeller” had to put in a new lock in the front door because they lost the key over the years. Soon after they had to close down, they started to use the bar as a storage for food and clothes which are donated every day to the homeless people of Hamburg. That’s one beautiful example of making the best of the situation.

In the end, there is one fear that we all share, too. What if I catch the disease and how will my body handle it, to how many will I spread the virus?
Unfortunately, my grandmother got infected by one of her healthcare workers who comes daily to help her, fortunately she got tested right away according to our nationwide regimen. She is 95 years old. She was born shortly after WW1 in the Weimarer Republik, she watched Hitler rise and survived WW2 and the Nazis. She worked like a maniac and still lives alone in her house.
She had a bad fever for two days and we were worried sick. Since day 3 the fever was gone. She has a little cough, but otherwise, she -and I quote- “feels great but is bored at home”.
After a lengthy discussion I could convince her this week that going to the bank to get her bank statements is probably one of the things that could wait at the moment.

So, thank you for the podcast episode and the many moments I had to laugh and think “Yup. Same here.” This pandemic isn’t isolating us in all perspectives. Spiritually, it unites as more than we think. This is really soothing if you ask me.

Best of wishes,

Vanessa

P.S. I really believe Carole Baskin fed her husband to the tigers.

That was fun. Thanks guys.

Tim, have you talked previously about the supplements you use to mitigate hangovers or your experience with them? I didn’t find much on the web about them and am curious what the science is.

LITTLE,BIG
I have loved this book for 37 years and have NEVER met a person who has read it. I have NEVER heard a mention of it. To hear you speak of it so randomly in your program was so off the wall, I dropped my jaw….it hung there….as I listened….and you went back to it….it wasn’t skimmed over… and you described it just as it is and being the book that is connected to my heart and my life I was mind blown and I fell back in time to when I found the book in 1984 at the age of 17.

I won’t even go in to the magic that has blessed my life, such as when you read a book and it relates so much. But, my first love literally passed through Edgewood(check it out Edgewood,MN) on his way to me. I live in a forest an hour north. I hoped I could be as great an architect as Drinkwater. All I wanted was a tiny house before they were known as such. Instead I lived in a bus.

Anyway, thank you. My heart fluttered and swelled at your mention of my favorite fairy tale.

I was listening to an old ep of JRE (#285) and at about the 1h55m Tim starts talking about his concerns for population density, international travel, and SARS. The podcast was recorded 11/18/2012. Tim called the Coronavirus over 7 years ago!

Wow. Tim, it’s been a long time since I last actively listened to/read your stuff. You definitely seem a lot more relaxed and Austin looks like a wonderful change for you! I can’t believe I have been living in your old stomping grounds and never really realized it until a couple months ago. haha!

As usual, Kevin was a wonderful guest and I love how different you two are and how closely I can relate to that. 😀 What he mentioned about spelling and learning disability, it’s called dyslexia and it is a thing. One in five kids has it and it is usually genetic. There is no cure; there is only work around the issues and structured literacy. My daughter has it. I had to fight the school here in NJ to get some accommodations for her put in place, only to have her on lockdown with me! Can’t explain how ironic that is.

I have been enjoying quarantine actually. Kids, no childcare, work, homeschooling, postgraduate all at once have kept me on toes. Tired and missing ballet! I do go for my walks near the lake and boathouse to get away. I miss writing.

BTW: Love the new site. It goes to show how far I have been! All the best!!

Fear is a parasite. Fear is the mind killer. Fear justifies bad decisions. Well, it doesn’t actually justify them, but it seems like it, when you’re afraid.

What we often, unfortunately, do when we here a language we understand, is we believe what we hear. If someone wants to control us, they just have to say the right things. It doesn’t work very well on me any more because I realized a while back that there’s only one fact I learn when someone tells me something: They want me to believe something. Maybe they want to help me. Maybe they want to control me. How do I distinguish? Critical thinking, that’s how. So I look around when people are wearing masks because of some infectious illness. I’m looking for people suffering from the actual illness, but that’s not what I see. I see the CDC making a new code and encouraging its use if COVID19 “… is
assumed to have caused or contributed to death.” And some government program is paying hospitals to say people died of COVID. Someone made a documentary called “Plannedemic” or maybe it was “Plandemic,” but you get the point. I hope you get the point. Getting the point will definitely help with the anxiety. I’m looking forward to hearing you get the point in a podcast soon. You might want to look up “Amazing Polly” on Youtube and check out her 40 minute video called “The Global Health Mafia Protection Racket.”

Keep up the good work, Tim. Or is it Tom now?

Great show guys! I’d love a followup soon if that could be worked out. I hope you are both staying safe and positive.