Listen to Courtney Martin talk about working in-person in San Diego, California throughout 2020 and 2021, while living with his wife and two elementary-school-age children and having backyard-outdoor gatherings with a diverse group of close friends with children. During the Covid-19 pandemic he discovered Twitch as a place to virtually enjoy live music with DJs all around the world. He shares about the process of buying a car during the pandemic, when car prices were on the rise, due to a chip shortage and a used-car shortage. Courtney talks about catching Covid-19 and quarantining in his bedroom and playing videogames and watching Netflix and Hulu and Letterkenny. He recounts how his wife and children found a black kitten at an empty school playground and they named the cat Rosa Parks (after the school). Sadly, Courtney lost a close family-friend to Covid-19 during the pandemic.
He and I are both alumni of Prep 9. He attended Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts and I attended The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut.
