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Quarantine Will Shred Your Relationships

from #212 - Barnyard Creature | The Tim Dillon Show · #212

5 min

Closing riff reflecting on how quarantine exposes fault lines in relationships and friendships, mentioning a staff change on the show (Ben leaving, Lisa joining), before signing off.

In this bit8 moments
  • Tim warns that quarantine will shred any friendship or relationship that isn't rock solid, because people are under unprecedented pressure and handling it differently.
  • Ben is leaving the show next week and being replaced by Lee Syatt because of quarantine stresses and pressures.
  • If things are straining with your significant other or in business relationships, accept it rather than fight it—quarantine has exposed fault lines everywhere.
  • You will not emerge from this period the same person you were when you started; if you do, you've made a huge mistake.
  • Couples listening to the show are uncomfortable right now because they're realizing quarantine is exposing real problems in their relationships.
  • Every relationship has something—somebody's on a diet, somebody wrote an article in the LA Times—stresses and pressures exist in all of them.
  • If you feel things are going downhill because of coronavirus, don't drag it out forever.
  • Steal their money.
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