Even If You Just Think About It

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So today (and you'll hear more about it later), we're kind of just going with the flow and letting me talk into this mic, which is a little scary but before we get to my explanation for why, a few things I just want to put on your radar.

First thing: Animal Crossing is out! Very excited about this game-- lots of people are talking about it. If you know what it is, I'm sure you're playing right now. If you don't know what it is, someone you know, knows what it is and they can tell you all about it! But um, I'm very excited to play it and will definitely give you an update on how that is going in a future episode, but Animal Crossing: New Horizons is out!

Second thing: If you are able to donate money to people in need during Covid-19, please do. But I urge you to not only look into big organizations like Red Cross or your local hospital, but to also look locally and within the communities and bubbles you live in. People in the service industry, people with hourly jobs that work on weekends, people that have been laid off or been told that when work resumes they will be contacted, so they are not making income now... If you know somebody in that situation you're making just as big a difference giving them money directly then giving it to a gigantic organization to help with the health crisis part of it. You can also help with the local, human, financial situation part of it. I urge you to look through your Twitter and Instagram feeds, think about the people in your rolodex, in your cell phone address book. Oh, I know this person works retail. Oh I know this person is a waiter, let me reach out to them, see if they've got something on their Twitter page that says they're collecting money and if I can donate there.

Number three: And this is just sort of a little bit of a warning. I know everybody's using conferencing apps right so that we can video chat with your friends or do business if you're working from home. I've never been a fan of Zoom because I worked at a company that used Zoom and it was a pain in the ass. But, I just read today that Zoom is actually having some trouble. The fun articles are calling it zoombombing, but the serious articles are saying Zoom has security risks that everybody needs to watch out for. Also these others like third-party, fun apps that you're finding on your phone and in the Google Play Store and and things like that, let you talk with your friends and put stickers up-- the fun apps that your kids might want to use be. Be wary of those apps, please. You never know what exactly they're doing on the backend, and a lot of this stuff is sort of just being overlooked because everyone needs apps to video conference with and we're not really thinking about it, we're just using them.

And lastly there has been some really, really great creative stuff coming out of people's brains lately that is Coronavirus related. Lots of songs and musical parodies and dances and poems and things like that. I've been reposting stuff on the Creative4evr Instagram page and I encourage you to jump in and enjoy that content. It's a relevant, healthy way to engage with what's going on in the world. There's so much bad about Coronavirus because it is bad, but if you pepper in a really clever song parody, you know, it will help, I promise. There are a lot of people out there doing some pretty inspirational work based on this tragedy, you know, bringing us laughs when we need them most. Check them out on the Creative4evr Instagram page, and a lot of other people are posting these items too.

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