A quick warning.
There are curse words that are unbeeped in today's episode of the show.
If you prefer a beeped version, you can find that at our website, thisamericanlife.org Justina Tedesco knows exactly when she got the idea to leave suburban New Jersey and move to a different state.
It was still at the height of COVID Her second grader was doing remote learning.
The vaccine had barely been introduced.
Most people couldn't get it.
She was working from home, and her son's class took a snack break.
So we would usually go into the kitchen, grab a snack.
And on the TV was, of course, Fox News.
And Desantis was on the TV talking about the pandemic and how he disapproved of how other states were handling things.
And he said, he goes, well, you know, we're handling things so differently.
If you're not happy in the state you live in, come to Florida.
We welcome you here.
If you look at home sales, I mean, it's pretty clear that people are viewing Florida as a landing pad.
But when we looked up the clip, census didn't exactly tell people to move to Florida.
But you can see how just took it that way.
You know, Tucker, it's interesting.
As this went on, I would encounter people, particularly in September, that would move from parts of the country, say, look, they closed our schools.
I want your schools are open.
I'm going to come here because you guys are doing it right.