Thursday marks five years since much of America began shutting down over what was then the new Coronavirus. How has our work and home life changed over the past five years – and are Americans now homebodies? National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL joins us in telling the story.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on your Morning show with Michael dil Choonho.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Two NASA astronauts are still stuck in space. Uh. I'm
going to preempt Rory's main story for this hour and
start right here. Rory, you told me it was a go.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Well clamps sometimes they're not going to clamp or unclamp,
as the case may be with a hydraulicti issue. Isn't
this the same hydraulics leak we've been dealing with, No
different company, different ship, different different This was ground.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
This is a ground item, not a not an item
on the rocket itself. So okay, but it does reinforce
the idea that there are hydraulics everywhere and.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
They all got to work at the right time. So
I'm reading the story thoroughly, and you know, nowhere in
it does it talk about scrapped till or when the
mission may continue. Just hydraulic issue with the clamps. Uh.
And the mission was so was scrubbed. So when do
we think they're going to take another shot? They're going
(01:03):
to try again?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Friday night seven oh three is a launchtime that's on
paper for now, depending on if they can get this
hydraulics issue resolved.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Quickly enough.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
There's some bad weather and today, which is why they
kick the can, so won't have a launch attempt today.
If we go on this two plus two model that
we've been looking at in terms of the timeline, that
means that they might come start to come home on Tuesday,
butch and sunny maybe if this thing goes off on Friday.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
But yeah, don't write that down an ink. Yeah. Times
a funny thing. The younger you are, the slower it goes.
The older you are, the faster it goes. So I
suspect for our older listeners it seems like yesterday. For
our younger listeners, it seems like forever ago. But it
is kind of like nine to eleven. It is kind
of like Pearl Harbor. It is kind of like for
(01:55):
New Orleans people would relate to this Katrina. There's there's
a pre Katrina and post Katrine. You know, there's pre
nine to eleven, post nine to eleven. It's that way.
Five years now since COVID and here we are. It's
pretty crazy.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah, And there's some interesting research that finds that since COVID,
that really accelerated what was already a trend of us
being home bodies.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
We just don't go out as much anymore.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
That was something we could measure going back the last
twenty years, I decline in our time out of the house.
But then since COVID and everyone started to being able
to work from home, we do more of our shopping
from home.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
We don't go to the movies like we used to.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
All these different things are adding up, so we're spending
more time in home, and then that changes the demands
that we have of our living space. You know, we
want more space then, right, we don't if we're going
to be here all the time, I don't want it
to be in five hundred and fifty square feet.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
So yeah, interesting changes. It's changed temporarily. A lot of
things changed forever. How much time do we have real quick? Uh? Yeah,
we're good. Yeah, someone had to cancel today, so oh good.
All right, So think about this. I have an issue
with clothes. It's kind of fifty to fifty. But they've
(03:13):
come a long way with making returning easy. But I'll
give you an example. I have a shaving mirror in
my bathroom. It fell and broke, which gave me seven
days of bad luck. I would have normally just run
up to home deepot and picked one out. I got
right on Amazon. It was here the next morning, you know.
I mean there's certain things like when you brought up earlier,
I think that's the I always said, COVID revealed more
(03:34):
than it did quite frankly about all of us, and
then it sped a lot of things up. I don't
know if COVID didn't happen, if I still go to
home depots. Some things have changed and changed forever. But
all the changes, if you add them up, point to
staying at home more. I mean, I think you nailed it.
I mean, that's that's just really And then for the
longest time we couldn't go anywhere. Then we could and
(03:56):
the workers wouldn't go back, And now we've just kind
of settled in into a less than we used to
leaving home well.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Right, And there are also technology changes as a result.
You know, I mentioned not going to the movies. I mean,
whoever dreamed twenty years ago of not going to Blockbuster
on a Friday night to pick out your movie?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Right?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
So now you have every movie ever made available in
five different streaming services. But that we now just click
and don't get off the couch and then you could
even have dinner delivered more than ever before, so that
you just don't leave the house. And that's going to
require some long term planning changes as well. If we
do start to see more and more companies shed their
(04:37):
office space, well do we turn it all into residential?
That's much easier said than done. And then how do
you redesign urban living if everyone.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Is just at home all the time. Well, I think
that's you know we were seeing prior to COVID, we
had one or two here in my city. You know,
these concepts of your there's your neighborhood, there's all your stores,
there's all your restaurants, it's all self contained. Even the
school is there. You know that kind of a concept. Yes, yeah,
(05:07):
And then COVID happened, and you know, we used to
do we had one little family tradition. We'd take a
family drive. I mean, what else could you do during
COVID and we go look at at the time, the
girls were I think sophomores in high school or whatever
they were, and so we would drive by boys houses
or whatever the crazy thing was. And you know, but
other than that, we didn't do anything. And then all
of a sudden COVID ended and I started driving around.
I thought, and I was finding these little areas. I
(05:29):
found three of them that were built, you know, self contained.
One was themed after Chicago. It happens to be a
place now that resides maybe five of our best restaurants,
and of course Saint Concept. You know, you live there,
you shop there, you play there, you get you coffee there,
everything all in one. And I think that's perpetuated. But
if we made a list, it would be interesting and
(05:49):
we'll never know. But would grub hub or I don't
want to start doing all the oub How many people
just stopped going places? Well? Where are you at right now? Right?
Where am I at? Right now? I mean we were
How many years have you been in radio? I've been
in radio of forty two years something. It was inconceivable
(06:10):
before COVID you would do your show from home unless
you are Russia and baugh, you know, is something exactional,
And now it's very commonplace and working great and executing great.
But I don't know that if we had to make
a list today, I don't know if we could, and
I don't think we'd have everything covered. That's how many
things have changed that we don't even think about or perpetuate.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
But then there are also the psychological impacts of this
in terms of, well, that means that we're not interacting
with people as much. I think we're more selfish, as
you can see when people are out and about what
jerks they are. And then the problem of loneliness and
isolation also pops in there as well. So there are
a lot of dominoes that can fall here as a
(06:53):
result of this, and I don't think we know what
the heck the real impact is.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, this is the longest we've ever spent together, and
maybe I should pick up that mirror seven years. But
here's the final say, I was at Christmas in America.
It's a production done by the Public Square, and they're
doing the generation of the Great Depression. And I don't
(07:18):
know that I would have ever connected the dots. I mean,
we would just say, well, that was a really bad
time in America, but no, it was a really necessary
time because that depression created the children that would later
liberate the world, the toughness that it would take to
liberate the world. It was the children of the Depression
that fought World War Two. And so there's always like
a response or a reaction to these kinds of things,
(07:41):
and I wonder if that's still coming. In other words,
the most fascinating part of COVID may be the response
to COVID eventually, where we prioritize family, prioritize real relationships,
not social media relationships. I don't know. It may not
be written yet, but as it stands at five years,
it has certainly been one of the more influential things
(08:03):
in the history of the world, let alone this country.
Something we all share and it has yet to change
back that we can agree with it.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
And there was just a Gallop survey that came in
my inbox fourteen minutes ago that just started looking at
the impact on children. Most parents think their kids really
face some significant psychological sociological impacts as a result. Half
the parents said that their kid has since rebounded, but
there's about a quarter of them that are still concerned
(08:31):
about the long term developmental issues that COVID created.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And what it did to the divide of this country.
Where he's gonna be back again in the third hour
he gets the final story of the day. It'll be
much shorter than this, after all, he's already had his share.
You're done right. Will the thirty days ceasefire between Russia
and Ukraine? Is it on the horizon? More with Rory
in the third hour.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Miss a little, miss a lot, miss a lot, and
We'll miss you. It's your morning show with Michael el
Truno
Previously on your Morning show with Michael dil Choonho.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Two NASA astronauts are still stuck in space. Uh. I'm
going to preempt Rory's main story for this hour and
start right here. Rory, you told me it was a go.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Well clamps sometimes they're not going to clamp or unclamp,
as the case may be with a hydraulicti issue. Isn't
this the same hydraulics leak we've been dealing with, No
different company, different ship, different different This was ground.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
This is a ground item, not a not an item
on the rocket itself. So okay, but it does reinforce
the idea that there are hydraulics everywhere and.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
They all got to work at the right time. So
I'm reading the story thoroughly, and you know, nowhere in
it does it talk about scrapped till or when the
mission may continue. Just hydraulic issue with the clamps. Uh.
And the mission was so was scrubbed. So when do
we think they're going to take another shot? They're going
(01:03):
to try again?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Friday night seven oh three is a launchtime that's on
paper for now, depending on if they can get this
hydraulics issue resolved.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Quickly enough.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
There's some bad weather and today, which is why they
kick the can, so won't have a launch attempt today.
If we go on this two plus two model that
we've been looking at in terms of the timeline, that
means that they might come start to come home on Tuesday,
butch and sunny maybe if this thing goes off on Friday.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
But yeah, don't write that down an ink. Yeah. Times
a funny thing. The younger you are, the slower it goes.
The older you are, the faster it goes. So I
suspect for our older listeners it seems like yesterday. For
our younger listeners, it seems like forever ago. But it
is kind of like nine to eleven. It is kind
of like Pearl Harbor. It is kind of like for
(01:55):
New Orleans people would relate to this Katrina. There's there's
a pre Katrina and post Katrine. You know, there's pre
nine to eleven, post nine to eleven. It's that way.
Five years now since COVID and here we are. It's
pretty crazy.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah, And there's some interesting research that finds that since COVID,
that really accelerated what was already a trend of us
being home bodies.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
We just don't go out as much anymore.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
That was something we could measure going back the last
twenty years, I decline in our time out of the house.
But then since COVID and everyone started to being able
to work from home, we do more of our shopping
from home.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
We don't go to the movies like we used to.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
All these different things are adding up, so we're spending
more time in home, and then that changes the demands
that we have of our living space. You know, we
want more space then, right, we don't if we're going
to be here all the time, I don't want it
to be in five hundred and fifty square feet.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
So yeah, interesting changes. It's changed temporarily. A lot of
things changed forever. How much time do we have real quick? Uh? Yeah,
we're good. Yeah, someone had to cancel today, so oh good.
All right, So think about this. I have an issue
with clothes. It's kind of fifty to fifty. But they've
(03:13):
come a long way with making returning easy. But I'll
give you an example. I have a shaving mirror in
my bathroom. It fell and broke, which gave me seven
days of bad luck. I would have normally just run
up to home deepot and picked one out. I got
right on Amazon. It was here the next morning, you know.
I mean there's certain things like when you brought up earlier,
I think that's the I always said, COVID revealed more
(03:34):
than it did quite frankly about all of us, and
then it sped a lot of things up. I don't
know if COVID didn't happen, if I still go to
home depots. Some things have changed and changed forever. But
all the changes, if you add them up, point to
staying at home more. I mean, I think you nailed it.
I mean, that's that's just really And then for the
longest time we couldn't go anywhere. Then we could and
(03:56):
the workers wouldn't go back, And now we've just kind
of settled in into a less than we used to
leaving home well.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Right, And there are also technology changes as a result.
You know, I mentioned not going to the movies. I mean,
whoever dreamed twenty years ago of not going to Blockbuster
on a Friday night to pick out your movie?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Right?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
So now you have every movie ever made available in
five different streaming services. But that we now just click
and don't get off the couch and then you could
even have dinner delivered more than ever before, so that
you just don't leave the house. And that's going to
require some long term planning changes as well. If we
do start to see more and more companies shed their
(04:37):
office space, well do we turn it all into residential?
That's much easier said than done. And then how do
you redesign urban living if everyone.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Is just at home all the time. Well, I think
that's you know we were seeing prior to COVID, we
had one or two here in my city. You know,
these concepts of your there's your neighborhood, there's all your stores,
there's all your restaurants, it's all self contained. Even the
school is there. You know that kind of a concept. Yes, yeah,
(05:07):
And then COVID happened, and you know, we used to
do we had one little family tradition. We'd take a
family drive. I mean, what else could you do during
COVID and we go look at at the time, the
girls were I think sophomores in high school or whatever
they were, and so we would drive by boys houses
or whatever the crazy thing was. And you know, but
other than that, we didn't do anything. And then all
of a sudden COVID ended and I started driving around.
I thought, and I was finding these little areas. I
(05:29):
found three of them that were built, you know, self contained.
One was themed after Chicago. It happens to be a
place now that resides maybe five of our best restaurants,
and of course Saint Concept. You know, you live there,
you shop there, you play there, you get you coffee there,
everything all in one. And I think that's perpetuated. But
if we made a list, it would be interesting and
(05:49):
we'll never know. But would grub hub or I don't
want to start doing all the oub How many people
just stopped going places? Well? Where are you at right now? Right?
Where am I at? Right now? I mean we were
How many years have you been in radio? I've been
in radio of forty two years something. It was inconceivable
(06:10):
before COVID you would do your show from home unless
you are Russia and baugh, you know, is something exactional,
And now it's very commonplace and working great and executing great.
But I don't know that if we had to make
a list today, I don't know if we could, and
I don't think we'd have everything covered. That's how many
things have changed that we don't even think about or perpetuate.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
But then there are also the psychological impacts of this
in terms of, well, that means that we're not interacting
with people as much. I think we're more selfish, as
you can see when people are out and about what
jerks they are. And then the problem of loneliness and
isolation also pops in there as well. So there are
a lot of dominoes that can fall here as a
(06:53):
result of this, and I don't think we know what
the heck the real impact is.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, this is the longest we've ever spent together, and
maybe I should pick up that mirror seven years. But
here's the final say, I was at Christmas in America.
It's a production done by the Public Square, and they're
doing the generation of the Great Depression. And I don't
(07:18):
know that I would have ever connected the dots. I mean,
we would just say, well, that was a really bad
time in America, but no, it was a really necessary
time because that depression created the children that would later
liberate the world, the toughness that it would take to
liberate the world. It was the children of the Depression
that fought World War Two. And so there's always like
a response or a reaction to these kinds of things,
(07:41):
and I wonder if that's still coming. In other words,
the most fascinating part of COVID may be the response
to COVID eventually, where we prioritize family, prioritize real relationships,
not social media relationships. I don't know. It may not
be written yet, but as it stands at five years,
it has certainly been one of the more influential things
(08:03):
in the history of the world, let alone this country.
Something we all share and it has yet to change
back that we can agree with it.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
And there was just a Gallop survey that came in
my inbox fourteen minutes ago that just started looking at
the impact on children. Most parents think their kids really
face some significant psychological sociological impacts as a result. Half
the parents said that their kid has since rebounded, but
there's about a quarter of them that are still concerned
(08:31):
about the long term developmental issues that COVID created.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And what it did to the divide of this country.
Where he's gonna be back again in the third hour
he gets the final story of the day. It'll be
much shorter than this, after all, he's already had his share.
You're done right. Will the thirty days ceasefire between Russia
and Ukraine? Is it on the horizon? More with Rory
in the third hour.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Miss a little, miss a lot, miss a lot, and
We'll miss you. It's your morning show with Michael el
Truno
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