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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Karen, right right, Karen? Yeah, okay, shake the head, yes,
would you? Would you come in here for a second place?
Why does she look concerned? Pull the door? It's heavy.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Come on in, Tyler, got it for you.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
What's wrong talking to that one? Talking to What are
you nervous about?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
You got to get real close to the microphone.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Okay, sorry, yeah, that's okay. Pretend you've done this before. Okay, no,
but you mind to understanding? Have you been on the
radio with me before?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I have?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
And what what was that about?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I was stuck in Dubai a few years ago for
what COVID? I tested positive for COVID and I had
to stay in the hotel.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Wait for how long?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Five nights?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Five nights?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Now, that's it?
Speaker 4 (00:48):
And my husband left me because he was tested negative.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Wait a minute, so what were you doing? How long
ago were you in Dubai?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
It was twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
It was this during like it wasn't even at the beginning.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
No, it was like towards the end. But the UA
was super strict and like I had, we had to
test before we got.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
On the plane to go there.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
To yes, to go there.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That was a whole like, what were you why were
you going to Dubai?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
We have good friends who live in Abu Dhabi.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Oh really yes? Oh no kidding?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeh.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
The and so you were going over there to go
just to go visit?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Oh okay, yeah, so you left here, yes, and you
went to Dubai or Abu d We.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Flew into Dubai, went to Abu Dhabi to stay with friends.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
See what time do you do you remember when you went?
What time did you land there?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
It was the morning.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Was it like like when you say in the morning,
like three in the morning or was.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
It was like it was like a normal morning like
that airport?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
N freaking crazy crazy, right we landed? What time did
we land We landed it like one or two in
the morning.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
It was nuts. What was going on in there? When
did you go?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Why were we there? We were there for the Dubai
Desert Rock Festival.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
With Mew Was it two thousand and eight Flaming Lips?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I think it was before that Revolver, Oh, Velvet Revolve,
that's right, because remember they were worried about Slash and
wilin cussing, and for us, they were worried about Diane
having all those poppy seats in our ara. No, so
we took the show over there and we we got
invited to go broadcast from They wanted a radio station
(02:23):
from America to broadcast during the Dubai Desert Rock Festival. Okay,
so we went. You'll remember our engineer got fired because
he fedexed all the equipment. You probably don't remember that.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I don't, sorry, but but yeah, it was weird.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
It was very weird city. Like on the surface, it
was really nice, but like once you looked like behind
the door, it was really bothersome, like because it's all
built on like slave labor and stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, it was very, very troublesome, very troublesome. So anyway,
none of that matters.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
So you leave and you go to Abu Dhabi to
go or Dubai then to go visit your friends and
so on the way back, though.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
When did you when did you get when did you
get when did you test positive?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Okay, so we went to Oman actually right, also part
of our two week trip.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
And were you over there for two weeks? Yes?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Oh, we went for like seventy two hours. Yes, yeah,
that was.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
The wrong way to travel for seventy two hours no kidding,
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
So we flew to Muscat again part of our vacation,
and that's when I think I got COVID, right, because
we were all masked up on the plane, but this
woman was coughing with her mask down on her chin, right,
And we even changed seats in the middle of the flight.
It wasn't a long flight, and I'm like.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Are you serious, Like you got up and change.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You were like the visual that's gotta be sick and oh,
I thought, it's like flying with Tyler.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
So I and I just got like a cold, right,
you know. It wasn't like a major sickness or anything
like that. And you know we were vaxed at that point,
I think, yeah, so yeah, and then we had to test.
So then we flew back to Dubai, stayed there for
a few nights, and then we had to test before
we got on our flat.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
You get on the flight to come back to the US.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Yes, so, and Mike tested negative and I tested positive
and I had to stay.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Right, so you had to stay. But did Mike have
to leave? Liked did he go first? And he was
like sweet, I'm clear and made it down by the
walkway and you were like, oh.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Mike, Mike, way. No, we decided and I was kind
of like that. We decided it was best for him
to leave so he wouldn't get it and then have
to be quarantined. And you know, so he left and.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah, and so you just went. Did they so they
tell you? Did they tell you? Like, you have to
go to the hotel.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I was in the hotel when I found out my results,
so I had to stay.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Oh they wouldn't even let you out of the hotel.
Oh no kidding. Now, so when did I talk to you?
Were you calling me from the hotel? Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
No kidding? Yeah, since she was bored?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well thanks, thanks, no.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
But I was listening to you guys like every day
because I could. I sorry, normally get.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Up at the crack of ass to write.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
You know, listen if you.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Don't mind, like you seem like very nice lady, but
can you watch your language.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Right?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
So due by time actually works better for you to
listen to the show.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I wish we're still sick.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
But I did tell you on the air that I
left the hotel to go for a walk.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Were you're not supposed to?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Well, I wasn't sure. No one really told me the rules.
So I went for my power walk just to make
myself feel a little better about the world. And I
got back and my key card wouldn't work.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Oh no, so I had to go.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I think they really wanted me to be stuck in
that room.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Oh so they had it set where you leave, you're
not getting but you got.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
To go fess up to the front desk.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
So I had to come up to the front desk
and be like, yeah, I'm in room whatever and my
card's not working.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Oh, you're the COVID lady.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
And they all took a step back like, oh, okay,
here you go, you knowing me the new car.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So you so after five days, were you testing every
day like.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Every two days or so? Yeah, And they would come
up whoever it was, you know it, come to the
room all and you know, sorts of garb ppe right exactly, just.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Go to the balcony and not really thank god.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Wait, but were they putting you up for free or
did you have to pay for that?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
You had to pay for you They wouldn't do free.
Let me out.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I didn't ask to stay here.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
No, but it's it's it was the rule like it was.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, No, that's fine, I understand that, but I didn't
ask to stay here.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
I mean, I guess she could have gone to a
different hotel, right, or could you have?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
I don't even know if I could.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You couldn't go for a walk, Yeah she did? What
are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I know exactly? Do you wonder why they hate Americans?
The So you just sat in there for five days?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Wait? Did was it something weird?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I'm trying to remember for whatever reason of this stands
out to me if you maybe you told the sision,
or maybe you didn't.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Maybe I'm remembering wrong.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
For food, wouldn't they leave it outside your door and knock, yes,
and then like you had to like count to ten
and they would run down the kind of like Mike did,
would just run down the hall before you could get it,
and then you'd eat and you'd have to put it
back outside the door. Yes, I only remember the food issues.
That's the only part that I that I remember. The no,
(07:26):
but I remember you telling us that where like that,
that's all you could do.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
They I couldn't get laundry service, right because God forbid,
they touched my clothes or whatever. So I was cleaning
clothes and saying the sink I had to Yeah it was,
but it was a nice room.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
He paid for it, Yeah, and I paid for it.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Wait, so you were doing your underwear in the sink?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Yeah? What was she was she going to do inside?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
She's got nothing but time.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I guess that's true.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Howard were you? I don't even remember what was the TV?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Good?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
There?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
No, not really the.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I don't even remember watching TV?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Could you? Could you stream?
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I was like watching a lot of movies and stuff,
and I would try to work out. I had my
little Peloton app and I would try to work out.
No like you can do like other exercise programs.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
On your back and pretend you're on a bicycle, strength exercise, workout,
yoga for your hips.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Oh I've never used any of those, no.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Core based stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Oh my god, I would be so bored.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I use my mind. Oh it's like staying at the
even without any of the equipment.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I'd be miserable.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I did ask for weights. I called the front ask
to see if they could bring me like a set
of weights. But I forgot that they're on the different system,
you know. I was like just a couple of five
pound weights and they gave me. I could barely lift
them off the ground.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I was like, Okay, did you only try going for
that walk once?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yes, yeah, I guess because the key.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
What are you going to do that again? But were
you were you?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Were you ever concerned that, like, because we would hear
stories from people who were like, like people had long
COVID where it's like they never stopped testing positive even
though they were totally like a free and everything was fine,
and it would be like you have to like I
don't remember what all the rules were then, but it'd
be like you had to quarantine for like however many
(09:30):
days people would be like, I'm still testing positive and
it's been much you could still be there.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Well, thank goodness, I'm not, or maybe you wish I was,
so i'd be listening to I know exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
It's sleeping princess. Hey Mike, what did you do for
five days? Drank absolutely right on? Yeah, Camelot, you didn't
have to wear a mask. So now I'm assuming you've
never gone back?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:01):
No, no, or will you ever right?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Maybe not?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
The friend's still there?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Are they really did you? But that would have been beforehand.
The airport in Abu Dhabi. They've completely redone, so there's
a whole new airport. Now, Okay, yeah, I only know
that because Menino did the restaurant for him.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Okay, yeah, that's the only reason I know that.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
All right, very good, very good. Well thanks for coming in,
Thank you, Good to see you again.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
You imagine being stuck even fact day, it sounds so miserable.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Oh, it seemed that would seem like a lifetime and
the worst part would be they're telling you can't go anywhere.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Right, But did you see the article that goes back
a couple of weeks or maybe just one week about
the ever maskers who they're not amino compromised, they're not obese,
they're not unvaccinated. There's no reason except for them being
afraid of COVID that they continue to mask and even
(11:05):
avoid is certain indoor activities.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
But like, I'll still see people on planes, I.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
See people in cbs, are in the grocery stores. I
assume they're sick, not always.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
That is what the people, the subjects that were interviewed
for the article were saying, like, we know we're not alone,
but we think we're very alone in our reason for
wearing it. Yeah, and it boiled down from many of
them to two things, one being afraid of COVID and.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Two just o, wait, so they're wearing it just because
they're so afraid of catching it?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Yes, and still and don't ever foresee a future where
they won't have a mask up?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Oh my god, I.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Mean god, bless right, I mean, do what you want
to do, but oh my god, that seems horrible.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
But they also said, listen, there are still people in
the society that do have to wear masks because they
are more susceptible. I get that, and we are all
human beings, and this is my part I can play
in keeping them safe.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
So they do it for a couple of reasons. They
do it out of fear.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Well, their fear of getting COVID for them may not
be that dangerous, but it could then really hurt someone
else if they're a conduit.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
So it was.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
It was kind of a fascinating article for someone who's
made fun of a lot for worrying about it.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
So I was gonna say, have you started back again
wearing a mask?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yeah? No, I want you to go back to not
cutting your hair and grow out there womb broom.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
And wait, what are they called ever masks ever maskers. Yeah,
and again they are not. These are not people that
are advised to still wear a mask.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
No, no, they are choosing to do it.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
But you know what, like, listen, I am never going
to get confused with an ever masker. Now, No, that
won't happen. But I can I can appreciate somebody. Again,
I couldn't do it right, but I could appreciate somebody
that says or well, but they're not around like the
ever masters, don't live with somebody who's like elderly or
(13:01):
immunal compromised.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
It's just they.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Don't want to be around anybody where they could cause
a problem.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
There was someone in the article who said it's kind
of hard to find roommates. Well, no, duh, because they
do present this approach to safety to them and some
are very scared by it.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Because I was gonna say, like I would I get
that if somebody had somebody like maybe an elderly relative
or something compromised, or I mean a real young kid,
where you would go, we're gonna wear masks just so
it doesn't happen.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
But it is.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I mean, listen, it is not for me, but it
is hard to yell at somebody and go oh, they're
just trying to be so overprotective that they don't they
don't want to run the risk of having COVID and
then passing it on to somebody.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I get, I mean I can get it for them.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
The logic is not too far removed from reasons to
get vaccinated for not just COVID but for disease, so
you don't pass it on. And you learn this for
flu shots. Yeah from Doc doctor Die.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
You got very mad at me.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
He said, Elliott.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
You may be fine, yeah, because I never I've never
had the flu.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
But it's who you could make sick, and that's kind
of the ever masacers are an extension of that.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Well, you know what, good look, happy for the flu people,
Sorry for the COVID people.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I won't give you flu.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
You're rolling the dice on COVID.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Yeah, so am I am? I masking up again? No,
I'm going to a beer party tonight.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Yeah, I know, I know. Well they delivered to your
beer party. They delivered to your door.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
They knocked, they run down the hall like Mike, and
then you open the door, you bring it in, you
drink it, and then Mike comes back, picks it up
hours later, and you're good to go.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
No, I've told you before. These are where there's a contest,
everyone brings flight and there's voting. Yeah, that's why it's
called beer party or is not just what people call
hanging out with friends. That's my first time going to
I think is it a a is it a bear?
Or it is a pronounced bar? So yes, No, I'm
(15:14):
still attending indoor gatherings. I've started back up again. There
was a time when I didn't do anything.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
That's when I had a mustache and packages for weeks
in your garage.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Remember when I when I still hadn't shaved the mustache,
but had to go to the doctor.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
But I was masked.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
I warned her, I said I. I said, I don't
think this looks good Like I'm not doing this because
it's a statement that I think I'm making with some
sort of like return to facial hair. No, I'm just
(15:54):
trying to make my longer hair not look so preposterous,
because if I didn't have that mustache, I would have
looked insane.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
No, the mustache helped it, did it?
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Just it kind of looked like I was a hair guy.
M you know what I'm saying, like someone who just.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Like I just love I can't I can't have enough hair.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah, like seventies poor. There was a little bit of
that going on.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, sure, yeah, totally right, all right.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
I'd rather not remember those time.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Now I remember that picture. It's been fantastic, by the way.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
That's the you know what the craziest part of all
that was. Now, this will seem off that it wasn't
that crazy, but during the show, because we came in
every day. Yeah, but during commercial breaks, everybody would scatter
to different spots to eat, like nobody would eat in
the studio.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Well, I didn't eat any of the food.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I was brought in a room more for us.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
That's when I started bringing in sandwiches.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Right, the thing, but nobody would nobody would eat in
the studio.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
We didn't everybody, well we.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Didn't want it brought into the studio, so we had
the table act.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Don't say, we don't say, we don't put me in
that group. They could have cooked in the studio. I
don't care, no, we all but every everybody kind of
like went to their own little corner of the world.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Because we felt that we had all committed to try
from home well, avoiding that but also trying to stay
as healthy as possible to still have the privilege to
come in.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Yeah, because we were told, you guys test positive, that's it,
you can't keep coming in.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I was like, sweet, I'll never test.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Done.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Don't worry about me, and then probably got sick one
hundred times.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
These guy's talking about how he was just on a
flight recently, this ever Masacre, and he saw two people
kiss through a mask. What their faces did? This high
five kind of thing. It just made me smile, said
Dennis No. Five years ago, it felt like everyone was
(18:19):
in this tribe. It felt like all Americans were together
in the fear of the unknown. Now that fear provides
a rarer bond togetherness and eccentricity, the communion of avoiding crowds.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Now you're on board.
It's Karen, right right, Karen? Yeah, okay, shake the head, yes,
would you? Would you come in here for a second place?
Why does she look concerned? Pull the door? It's heavy.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Come on in, Tyler, got it for you.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
What's wrong talking to that one? Talking to What are
you nervous about?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
You got to get real close to the microphone.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Okay, sorry, yeah, that's okay. Pretend you've done this before. Okay, no,
but you mind to understanding? Have you been on the
radio with me before?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I have?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
And what what was that about?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I was stuck in Dubai a few years ago for
what COVID? I tested positive for COVID and I had
to stay in the hotel.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Wait for how long?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Five nights?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Five nights?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Now, that's it?
Speaker 4 (00:48):
And my husband left me because he was tested negative.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Wait a minute, so what were you doing? How long
ago were you in Dubai?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
It was twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
It was this during like it wasn't even at the beginning.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
No, it was like towards the end. But the UA
was super strict and like I had, we had to
test before we got.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
On the plane to go there.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
To yes, to go there.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That was a whole like, what were you why were
you going to Dubai?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
We have good friends who live in Abu Dhabi.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Oh really yes? Oh no kidding?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeh.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
The and so you were going over there to go
just to go visit?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Oh okay, yeah, so you left here, yes, and you
went to Dubai or Abu d We.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Flew into Dubai, went to Abu Dhabi to stay with friends.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
See what time do you do you remember when you went?
What time did you land there?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
It was the morning.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Was it like like when you say in the morning,
like three in the morning or was.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
It was like it was like a normal morning like
that airport?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
N freaking crazy crazy, right we landed? What time did
we land We landed it like one or two in
the morning.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
It was nuts. What was going on in there? When
did you go?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Why were we there? We were there for the Dubai
Desert Rock Festival.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
With Mew Was it two thousand and eight Flaming Lips?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I think it was before that Revolver, Oh, Velvet Revolve,
that's right, because remember they were worried about Slash and
wilin cussing, and for us, they were worried about Diane
having all those poppy seats in our ara. No, so
we took the show over there and we we got
invited to go broadcast from They wanted a radio station
(02:23):
from America to broadcast during the Dubai Desert Rock Festival. Okay,
so we went. You'll remember our engineer got fired because
he fedexed all the equipment. You probably don't remember that.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I don't, sorry, but but yeah, it was weird.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
It was very weird city. Like on the surface, it
was really nice, but like once you looked like behind
the door, it was really bothersome, like because it's all
built on like slave labor and stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, it was very, very troublesome, very troublesome. So anyway,
none of that matters.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
So you leave and you go to Abu Dhabi to
go or Dubai then to go visit your friends and
so on the way back, though.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
When did you when did you get when did you
get when did you test positive?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Okay, so we went to Oman actually right, also part
of our two week trip.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
And were you over there for two weeks? Yes?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Oh, we went for like seventy two hours. Yes, yeah,
that was.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
The wrong way to travel for seventy two hours no kidding,
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
So we flew to Muscat again part of our vacation,
and that's when I think I got COVID, right, because
we were all masked up on the plane, but this
woman was coughing with her mask down on her chin, right,
And we even changed seats in the middle of the flight.
It wasn't a long flight, and I'm like.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Are you serious, Like you got up and change.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You were like the visual that's gotta be sick and oh,
I thought, it's like flying with Tyler.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
So I and I just got like a cold, right,
you know. It wasn't like a major sickness or anything
like that. And you know we were vaxed at that point,
I think, yeah, so yeah, and then we had to test.
So then we flew back to Dubai, stayed there for
a few nights, and then we had to test before
we got on our flat.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
You get on the flight to come back to the US.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Yes, so, and Mike tested negative and I tested positive
and I had to stay.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Right, so you had to stay. But did Mike have
to leave? Liked did he go first? And he was
like sweet, I'm clear and made it down by the
walkway and you were like, oh.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Mike, Mike, way. No, we decided and I was kind
of like that. We decided it was best for him
to leave so he wouldn't get it and then have
to be quarantined. And you know, so he left and.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah, and so you just went. Did they so they
tell you? Did they tell you? Like, you have to
go to the hotel.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I was in the hotel when I found out my results,
so I had to stay.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Oh they wouldn't even let you out of the hotel.
Oh no kidding. Now, so when did I talk to you?
Were you calling me from the hotel? Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
No kidding? Yeah, since she was bored?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well thanks, thanks, no.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
But I was listening to you guys like every day
because I could. I sorry, normally get.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Up at the crack of ass to write.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
You know, listen if you.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Don't mind, like you seem like very nice lady, but
can you watch your language.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Right?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
So due by time actually works better for you to
listen to the show.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I wish we're still sick.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
But I did tell you on the air that I
left the hotel to go for a walk.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Were you're not supposed to?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Well, I wasn't sure. No one really told me the rules.
So I went for my power walk just to make
myself feel a little better about the world. And I
got back and my key card wouldn't work.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Oh no, so I had to go.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I think they really wanted me to be stuck in
that room.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Oh so they had it set where you leave, you're
not getting but you got.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
To go fess up to the front desk.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
So I had to come up to the front desk
and be like, yeah, I'm in room whatever and my
card's not working.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Oh, you're the COVID lady.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
And they all took a step back like, oh, okay,
here you go, you knowing me the new car.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So you so after five days, were you testing every
day like.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Every two days or so? Yeah, And they would come
up whoever it was, you know it, come to the
room all and you know, sorts of garb ppe right exactly, just.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Go to the balcony and not really thank god.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Wait, but were they putting you up for free or
did you have to pay for that?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
You had to pay for you They wouldn't do free.
Let me out.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I didn't ask to stay here.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
No, but it's it's it was the rule like it was.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, No, that's fine, I understand that, but I didn't
ask to stay here.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
I mean, I guess she could have gone to a
different hotel, right, or could you have?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
I don't even know if I could.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You couldn't go for a walk, Yeah she did? What
are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I know exactly? Do you wonder why they hate Americans?
The So you just sat in there for five days?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Wait? Did was it something weird?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I'm trying to remember for whatever reason of this stands
out to me if you maybe you told the sision,
or maybe you didn't.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Maybe I'm remembering wrong.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
For food, wouldn't they leave it outside your door and knock, yes,
and then like you had to like count to ten
and they would run down the kind of like Mike did,
would just run down the hall before you could get it,
and then you'd eat and you'd have to put it
back outside the door. Yes, I only remember the food issues.
That's the only part that I that I remember. The no,
(07:26):
but I remember you telling us that where like that,
that's all you could do.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
They I couldn't get laundry service, right because God forbid,
they touched my clothes or whatever. So I was cleaning
clothes and saying the sink I had to Yeah it was,
but it was a nice room.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
He paid for it, Yeah, and I paid for it.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Wait, so you were doing your underwear in the sink?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Yeah? What was she was she going to do inside?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
She's got nothing but time.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I guess that's true.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Howard were you? I don't even remember what was the TV?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Good?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
There?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
No, not really the.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I don't even remember watching TV?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Could you? Could you stream?
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I was like watching a lot of movies and stuff,
and I would try to work out. I had my
little Peloton app and I would try to work out.
No like you can do like other exercise programs.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
On your back and pretend you're on a bicycle, strength exercise, workout,
yoga for your hips.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Oh I've never used any of those, no.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Core based stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Oh my god, I would be so bored.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I use my mind. Oh it's like staying at the
even without any of the equipment.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I'd be miserable.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I did ask for weights. I called the front ask
to see if they could bring me like a set
of weights. But I forgot that they're on the different system,
you know. I was like just a couple of five
pound weights and they gave me. I could barely lift
them off the ground.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I was like, Okay, did you only try going for
that walk once?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yes, yeah, I guess because the key.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
What are you going to do that again? But were
you were you?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Were you ever concerned that, like, because we would hear
stories from people who were like, like people had long
COVID where it's like they never stopped testing positive even
though they were totally like a free and everything was fine,
and it would be like you have to like I
don't remember what all the rules were then, but it'd
be like you had to quarantine for like however many
(09:30):
days people would be like, I'm still testing positive and
it's been much you could still be there.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Well, thank goodness, I'm not, or maybe you wish I was,
so i'd be listening to I know exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
It's sleeping princess. Hey Mike, what did you do for
five days? Drank absolutely right on? Yeah, Camelot, you didn't
have to wear a mask. So now I'm assuming you've
never gone back?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:01):
No, no, or will you ever right?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Maybe not?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
The friend's still there?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Are they really did you? But that would have been beforehand.
The airport in Abu Dhabi. They've completely redone, so there's
a whole new airport. Now, Okay, yeah, I only know
that because Menino did the restaurant for him.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Okay, yeah, that's the only reason I know that.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
All right, very good, very good. Well thanks for coming in,
Thank you, Good to see you again.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
You imagine being stuck even fact day, it sounds so miserable.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Oh, it seemed that would seem like a lifetime and
the worst part would be they're telling you can't go anywhere.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Right, But did you see the article that goes back
a couple of weeks or maybe just one week about
the ever maskers who they're not amino compromised, they're not obese,
they're not unvaccinated. There's no reason except for them being
afraid of COVID that they continue to mask and even
(11:05):
avoid is certain indoor activities.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
But like, I'll still see people on planes, I.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
See people in cbs, are in the grocery stores. I
assume they're sick, not always.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
That is what the people, the subjects that were interviewed
for the article were saying, like, we know we're not alone,
but we think we're very alone in our reason for
wearing it. Yeah, and it boiled down from many of
them to two things, one being afraid of COVID and.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Two just o, wait, so they're wearing it just because
they're so afraid of catching it?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Yes, and still and don't ever foresee a future where
they won't have a mask up?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Oh my god, I.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Mean god, bless right, I mean, do what you want
to do, but oh my god, that seems horrible.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
But they also said, listen, there are still people in
the society that do have to wear masks because they
are more susceptible. I get that, and we are all
human beings, and this is my part I can play
in keeping them safe.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
So they do it for a couple of reasons. They
do it out of fear.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Well, their fear of getting COVID for them may not
be that dangerous, but it could then really hurt someone
else if they're a conduit.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
So it was.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
It was kind of a fascinating article for someone who's
made fun of a lot for worrying about it.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
So I was gonna say, have you started back again
wearing a mask?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yeah? No, I want you to go back to not
cutting your hair and grow out there womb broom.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
And wait, what are they called ever masks ever maskers. Yeah,
and again they are not. These are not people that
are advised to still wear a mask.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
No, no, they are choosing to do it.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
But you know what, like, listen, I am never going
to get confused with an ever masker. Now, No, that
won't happen. But I can I can appreciate somebody. Again,
I couldn't do it right, but I could appreciate somebody
that says or well, but they're not around like the
ever masters, don't live with somebody who's like elderly or
(13:01):
immunal compromised.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
It's just they.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Don't want to be around anybody where they could cause
a problem.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
There was someone in the article who said it's kind
of hard to find roommates. Well, no, duh, because they
do present this approach to safety to them and some
are very scared by it.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Because I was gonna say, like I would I get
that if somebody had somebody like maybe an elderly relative
or something compromised, or I mean a real young kid,
where you would go, we're gonna wear masks just so
it doesn't happen.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
But it is.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I mean, listen, it is not for me, but it
is hard to yell at somebody and go oh, they're
just trying to be so overprotective that they don't they
don't want to run the risk of having COVID and
then passing it on to somebody.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I get, I mean I can get it for them.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
The logic is not too far removed from reasons to
get vaccinated for not just COVID but for disease, so
you don't pass it on. And you learn this for
flu shots. Yeah from Doc doctor Die.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
You got very mad at me.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
He said, Elliott.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
You may be fine, yeah, because I never I've never
had the flu.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
But it's who you could make sick, and that's kind
of the ever masacers are an extension of that.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Well, you know what, good look, happy for the flu people,
Sorry for the COVID people.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I won't give you flu.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
You're rolling the dice on COVID.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Yeah, so am I am? I masking up again? No,
I'm going to a beer party tonight.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Yeah, I know, I know. Well they delivered to your
beer party. They delivered to your door.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
They knocked, they run down the hall like Mike, and
then you open the door, you bring it in, you
drink it, and then Mike comes back, picks it up
hours later, and you're good to go.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
No, I've told you before. These are where there's a contest,
everyone brings flight and there's voting. Yeah, that's why it's
called beer party or is not just what people call
hanging out with friends. That's my first time going to
I think is it a a is it a bear?
Or it is a pronounced bar? So yes, No, I'm
(15:14):
still attending indoor gatherings. I've started back up again. There
was a time when I didn't do anything.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
That's when I had a mustache and packages for weeks
in your garage.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Remember when I when I still hadn't shaved the mustache,
but had to go to the doctor.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
But I was masked.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
I warned her, I said I. I said, I don't
think this looks good Like I'm not doing this because
it's a statement that I think I'm making with some
sort of like return to facial hair. No, I'm just
(15:54):
trying to make my longer hair not look so preposterous,
because if I didn't have that mustache, I would have
looked insane.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
No, the mustache helped it, did it?
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Just it kind of looked like I was a hair guy.
M you know what I'm saying, like someone who just.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Like I just love I can't I can't have enough hair.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah, like seventies poor. There was a little bit of
that going on.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, sure, yeah, totally right, all right.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
I'd rather not remember those time.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Now I remember that picture. It's been fantastic, by the way.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
That's the you know what the craziest part of all
that was. Now, this will seem off that it wasn't
that crazy, but during the show, because we came in
every day. Yeah, but during commercial breaks, everybody would scatter
to different spots to eat, like nobody would eat in
the studio.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Well, I didn't eat any of the food.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I was brought in a room more for us.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
That's when I started bringing in sandwiches.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Right, the thing, but nobody would nobody would eat in
the studio.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
We didn't everybody, well we.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Didn't want it brought into the studio, so we had
the table act.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Don't say, we don't say, we don't put me in
that group. They could have cooked in the studio. I
don't care, no, we all but every everybody kind of
like went to their own little corner of the world.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Because we felt that we had all committed to try
from home well, avoiding that but also trying to stay
as healthy as possible to still have the privilege to
come in.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Yeah, because we were told, you guys test positive, that's it,
you can't keep coming in.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I was like, sweet, I'll never test.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Done.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Don't worry about me, and then probably got sick one
hundred times.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
These guy's talking about how he was just on a
flight recently, this ever Masacre, and he saw two people
kiss through a mask. What their faces did? This high
five kind of thing. It just made me smile, said
Dennis No. Five years ago, it felt like everyone was
(18:19):
in this tribe. It felt like all Americans were together
in the fear of the unknown. Now that fear provides
a rarer bond togetherness and eccentricity, the communion of avoiding crowds.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Now you're on board.
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