Pandemic Lockdown Life, Working From Home Routines
The hosts discuss their personal adjustments during the March 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns. One host describes the transition to working from home as a "white privilege" upgrade while managing children who are rediscovering board games like Uno and Scrabble. They reflect on the loss of daily routines, such as ironing clothes, and the blurring of days during the quarantine period.
lockdown· pandemic· white privilege· social media· board games· wake-and-bake
00:01 Mo Facts with Adam Curry for March 21st 2020. This is episode number 30 under lockdown pandemic 2020 Hey, mo how you doing? I'm doing pretty good out of my much so I'm good You know it's it's kind of weird this all started about a week ago and the last Mo facts I was number 29 and You know for me much Much hasn't changed because I kind of live my life at home anyway, so it's not that different for me going out once a day to get something. How about you though? You got the kids at home what's going on how is it in the fax household
00:44 Well, the white privilege has been bestowed upon me. I'm working completely from home now! Yes you're still on the white team? No you weren't on the white team were you in the yellow team? No i wasn't...I've been upgraded now Oh after a little bit of complaining on this show all of a sudden we see results huh Yes, here we are. Yeah and if you don't mind me asking just how the kids are they going stir crazy or they occupied where they doing? They're doing pretty good oh we're letting them out of house, going for walks on a leash or in the yard yeah we're not gonna shut her up we're not gonna shutter him in
01:26 We are kind of careful around playgrounds. We're not taking them to the playground But I mean being outside running around doing the ball around it Are they bored with social media and their phones yet? Is this I've been seeing some of that and I'm quite delighted by it actually they are um, we're down to plant back to playing board games uno Sorry those kinds of things isn't that interesting exactly the same two of our girls are in one Christina's in Holland and Ellen's in in Chicago But Elyse is in Austin and she comes over, we play Scrabble. And of course she's a little bit older so she's bringing over margaritas it's yeah it's been an interesting family time I think this is in a weird way as helping because you have to lean on your family at this time So positive that may come out the situation
02:17 Yeah, yeah I'm not too hopeful of that but we'll see if something positive comes out of it. Anyway so we're doing a regular MoFax on scheduled time our kind of new scheduled time on Saturdays and I will admit your call came in and actually saw you called earlier dude I was so...you know I'm watching the The coronavirus updates the briefings, the teams, the president every single day. I'm taking notes and doing research and honestly I didn't know what day it was! It could have been Saturday could have been Tuesday... I completely-I didn't even connect it when you called like hey oh crap now I know why your calling so I do apologize for that but that's how weird it can get. No worries
03:03 I've had that same experience during this week. Oh, yeah? Because my work routine is...I actually miss it! I get up in the morning ironing clothes and you know that whole routine now when you're working from home You just kind of like roll out of bed brush your teeth and light up the first joint! And there's the first wake-and-bake okay everybody Maybe you go iron your clothes and they'll have that joint So I did not even look at the clips. I am prepared for everything so i think we should unless you have something else moe, just spin the wheel
