COVID Antibody Results & Three Chaotic Internet Quizzes

Three episodes after raising the question, Henrique Couto finally remembers to deliver Michelle’s 2020 COVID-19 antibody-test result: it was negative. The friends immediately turn a medical update into jokes about communism, licking objects and touching one’s face at work. A historical negative antibody result does not prove lifelong absence of infection or immunity, and this improvised discussion is not testing, diagnosis, exposure or public-health guidance.The better reason to celebrate is that This Show Is Awkward has reached its thirtieth episode—roughly twenty hours of Henrique and Michelle talking. They compare that total with Henrique’s much longer early podcast, The Freak Forum, imagine the show as an elaborate interrogation method and briefly discuss gardens and late frost. Then Henrique decides the milestone demands a medically prescribed internet quiz, a phrase that should reassure absolutely no one.The first twenty-nine-question quiz asks about relationships, careers, confidence, pets, money, terrain and contentment before diagnosing Michelle’s problem as “missing a pet.” The comments are substantially darker than the result. A second quiz asks about lottery purchases, dance, travel, entertainment and favorite foods, changes its questions when the page is reloaded and ultimately reveals that it was only collecting answers for friends to compare rather than calculating any result.A final quiz tests how magical Michelle is through telekinesis, phoenixes, cloaks, quests and badly spelled choices. She earns the verdict “somewhat magical,” which feels designed to let her down gently. The episode preserves the sites’ conclusions as absurd entertainment, not psychological, relationship, financial or life advice. Contains profanity, pandemic and medical-test discussion, torture and terrorism jokes, a quiz comment referencing suicide, antisemitic humor, self-esteem and depression references, and repeated inserted social-casino advertisements.LinksEmail the hosts: [email protected]