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Speaker 1: You're at the beach. Are you wearing plenty of ointment?

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Speaker 3: How are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm good. I had a medical question for you. Our

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Speaker 1: when I pushed him on it, he says that, yes,

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Speaker 1: what I know.

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Speaker 2: What shark?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm gonna tell your picture. Baby shark.

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Speaker 1: Do do do do do do? Baby shark? Do do

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Speaker 1: do do do? Baby shark?

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Speaker 4: Do do do do? Do do do?

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Speaker 1: I'm Jonathan Goldstein and this is heavyweight. Today's episode Victor

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Speaker 1: and Mita right after the break. Depending on how you

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Speaker 1: look at it, the story of Victor in Mitay is

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Speaker 1: either a love story for the ages or not a

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Speaker 1: love story at all. Since first meeting Victor, I've been

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Speaker 1: trying to decide which it is.

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Speaker 5: When she gets into a room, it's like the sun enters,

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Speaker 1: Victor is a painter living in New York, and he's

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Speaker 1: describing Mighty, the woman who first stole his heart thirty

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Speaker 1: five years ago.

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Speaker 5: The truth is, every time I see her, it's the

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Speaker 5: most beautiful that I have seen her in my life.

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Speaker 1: Victor paints huge, spectacular canvases. There are common motifs like

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Speaker 1: rotary phones, skulls, butterflies. But the thing that nearly every

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Speaker 1: is Mita. They first met at a party back home

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Speaker 1: in Mexico thirty five years ago. Mita was eighteen and

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Speaker 1: Victor was nineteen. All these years later and no detail

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Speaker 5: She was wearing a white lace suit which was from

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Speaker 5: her mother's, like a seventies thing from her mother.

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Speaker 4: How can you forget that?

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Speaker 1: Victor, shy by nature, said nothing to Mite at the party,

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Speaker 5: And I asked her if she could model, and she

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Speaker 2: He almost did not even talk that day is my day.

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Speaker 2: He just said, please sit here, and then he started painting.

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Speaker 2: The whole studio smelled of paint, of oil. I was

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Speaker 2: so nervous that I could barely think. My hands were shaking,

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Speaker 1: Victor already knew he was going to be an artist,

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Speaker 1: and it even begun to show his work in galleries.

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Speaker 1: His drive made him seem older than his nineteen years.

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Speaker 4: I was still.

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Speaker 2: I felt that I was in the head and the

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Speaker 1: Sitting there, holding still pretending to Dosteyevski, mighty was falling

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Speaker 1: in love. After several hours, Victor stopped painting. He thanked Mite,

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Speaker 1: told her she could go, but before she left, he

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Speaker 2: I was surprised that there was not much on it,

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Speaker 5: I was to overwhelmed that this completely out of my league,

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Speaker 5: But in the days after, I made from memory thirty

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Speaker 1: After that first meeting, the two started. A couple years later,

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Speaker 5: My nature is very depressive and more introspective and isolated,

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Speaker 2: He was not very fond of me going out with friends,

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Speaker 5: Everyone falls in love with her, men and women. Everyone.

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Speaker 1: In two thousand and three, Victor and miighty mutually decided

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Speaker 1: after their divorce, Mighty is still the face of his work.

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Speaker 1: The hands, the neck, the lips. Scrolling through his portfolio.

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Speaker 4: I'd made more than four thousand.

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Speaker 1: Probably was there for a point after you guys had

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Speaker 4: Yes, of course.

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Speaker 5: When I've had girlfriends, the question always comes, are you

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 5: And my answer is if you have a better idea,

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Speaker 4: That's my answer.

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Speaker 1: And that's the only answer Victor offers, which makes me

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Speaker 1: feel like a kid who won't stop asking. But why,

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Speaker 1: but why why his ex wife? Why might?

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Speaker 5: I don't really know, But I've done experiments. I've had

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Speaker 5: other models, professional models I hire, and the result is

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Speaker 4: I am just describing what it's not.

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Speaker 1: Is Mie your first love.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I had a other girlfriends. You know that I thought

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Speaker 5: that I loved. It's a there, but not like this. No,

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Speaker 5: So the answer might be yes, is.

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Speaker 1: She is she your only love? Or have you found

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Speaker 4: I fell in love since? But something dyed?

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Speaker 5: I don't want to be, you know, dramatic, but it's

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Speaker 1: Victor broke up with Mighty as a husband, and yet

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Speaker 1: But on this point, Victory is clear. He is an

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, I'm.

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Speaker 5: Not trying to conquer her heart and to make her

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Speaker 5: think that I love for No, No, absolutely.

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Speaker 4: Nothing at all.

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Speaker 1: So for you, it's not pining.

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Speaker 5: In my Latin American markets, this is like a full

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Speaker 1: I've been telling myself the very same story that boy

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Speaker 1: by making thousands of paintings. Am I no different than

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Speaker 1: Eventually Mite got remarried, started a new family, and Victor

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Speaker 4: And I ask her can I take some pictures?

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Speaker 1: Over time, however, Persephonie falls in love with Hades. I

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Speaker 1: can't help wondering if Victor carries a shred of Hades's

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Speaker 1: that he said here in talking about you. I think

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Speaker 1: the physical is not even her most attractive quality. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Don't really know what to say.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I I worry about him. I worry about

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Speaker 2: What do you think? How do you see this?

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure how I see this. My day doesn't

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Speaker 1: easy to differentiate. We're enjoying ends Curator Gonzala or take

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Speaker 1: a writes of Victor's work and where an obsessive fixation begins.

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Speaker 1: It's this kind of thing. It's people like me that

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Speaker 1: make Mighty question herself.

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Speaker 2: Do you do you think that I'm if you said,

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Speaker 2: I mean, if someone says to me, this looks like

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Speaker 1: Having talked to Victor about it at length, I don't

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Speaker 1: the arrangement is unconventional.

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Speaker 4: If I try to.

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Speaker 2: Give it too much thought, I could go crazy a

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, So.

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Speaker 2: When I have doubts, it's important to know what Mikhaila thinks,

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Speaker 2: and I feel that she can be my compass.

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Speaker 6: I think it really was for me normal that my

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Speaker 1: This is Victor in my Tay's daughter, Mikayla. She's twenty five,

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Speaker 6: I do remember one moment in high school friend of

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Speaker 6: and I said yeah, he does, yeah, and my friend said, well,

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Speaker 6: he's still in love with her. Then right, he must

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Speaker 6: I think there was a moment of is he.

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Speaker 4: Could he be?

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Speaker 6: Maybe I should ask him?

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Speaker 1: And so I did. I asked him.

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Speaker 4: What did he say?

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Speaker 5: Yes, I have thought how it must feel for her,

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Speaker 5: No, why do you think she comes to your studio? I, Jonathan,

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Speaker 5: I truly have no idea.

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Speaker 1: On a warm Friday in May, I arrived at Victor's studio,

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Speaker 1: Victor is dressed in black, black leather leggings, black boots,

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Speaker 4: Now that must sight I except.

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Speaker 1: But mostly he doesn't say anything.

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Speaker 1: I don't do anything up until now. Myte has been

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Speaker 4: I think we're gone. Okay, I think we're gone.

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Speaker 1: After about an hour, the photo shoot is over. Victor

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Speaker 1: She's teaching a Spanish class this afternoon. She has a

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: I'll be back.

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Speaker 1: My Tay walks out, leaving me and Victor alone. Victor

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Speaker 1: This time? When my Ta walked through the door, did

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Speaker 4: Multiplied by one hundred? You know?

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Speaker 5: I find with her that her beauty or her type

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Speaker 5: Once she had a tooth extracted when we were married,

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Speaker 1: It's like the park contains the whole in micro and

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Speaker 5: I'll go further. If you put ten thyroid glands. I

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Speaker 4: I know. This sounds like this is mad, This is crazy.

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Speaker 5: I know if I present my portfolio in an institution,

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Speaker 4: It's like, hey, do you belong here? Man?

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Speaker 1: Victor has insisted since the moment we met that he

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Speaker 1: I find it hard to If that's not love, albeit

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Speaker 1: word of your I don't know what do you think

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Speaker 1: is the right word? Is adoration?

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Speaker 4: Not?

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Speaker 1: The right word is no?

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Speaker 5: Uh, it's because you're trying to avoid the L word,

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Speaker 5: which is love. Right, Victor pauses, I do feel love for.

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Speaker 5: But to me, the only thing that matters is the

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Speaker 1: This time, though, after having spent the day with them,

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Speaker 1: having a relationship where your love is permissible. Victor needs

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Speaker 1: Miighty to make art. But might Victor's art in some

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Speaker 4: Also?

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Speaker 5: Uh huh, Yeah, the answer is yes. Real love, real

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Speaker 5: love is doesn't stop right, you know, it doesn't. It

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Speaker 1: So you're saying that this is real love.

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Speaker 1: For Victor, real love doesn't require wooing and rings and

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Speaker 1: She told me that even though Victor was always looking

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Speaker 2: It's easier to see someone from afar and idealize the

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Speaker 1: But he was with the every day, you know, for

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Speaker 1: It was like the ideal mite has a point. Real

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Speaker 5: One day, I was going back home in Manouver in

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Speaker 1: Victor had spent the whole day in his studio doing.

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Speaker 4: That was my feeling as a husband. You know what

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Speaker 5: In cave paintings like from fifty thousand years ago. They

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Speaker 4: To depict what happened. And sometimes I think that's my job.

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Speaker 5: I don't go out and have a experience, but I'm

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Speaker 4: I'm a different thing, yeah, yeah, a different thing.

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Speaker 6: In college, I didn't really know how to be alone

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Speaker 1: This is Victor and my Day's daughter, Mikayla again.

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Speaker 6: Every time I was alone, I felt like I was

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Speaker 1: As it happens. Mikayla is a social psychology doctoral student,

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Speaker 1: Victor's alone, but not lonely. He's not with somebody, and

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Speaker 1: Victor couldn't handle being with Mita in her three dimensions,

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Speaker 1: ask Victor what I always ask people on Fridays. Do

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Speaker 1: you have weekend plans?

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Speaker 5: You know what I don't. I don't have anything to do.

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Speaker 5: All I do is computer and work.

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Speaker 4: You'll be here working. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Victor then tells me he's looking forward to the weekend,

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Speaker 1: and I believe him.

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Speaker 3: Now that the furnitures returning to its goodwill home, now

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Speaker 3: that the last month's rent is scheming with the damage

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Speaker 3: to take this moment to deserve.

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Speaker 4: If we meant it, if we.

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Speaker 3: Trust but felt around for far too from things that accidentally.

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Speaker 1: This episode of Heavyweight was produced by supervising producer Stevie

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Speaker 1: Lane and me Jonathan Goldstein, along with Phoebe Flanagan. Our

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Speaker 1: senior producer is Khalila Holt. Production assistance by Moheey mcgauker,

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Speaker 1: the editorial guidance from Emily con Special thanks to Lauren Silverman,

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Speaker 1: Neil Drumming, mime O'Donnell, Anya Schultz, Jackie Cohen, and Jessica Basheer,

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Speaker 1: who directed a short documentary about Victor's art called Heroin

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Speaker 1: which is where I first learned about Victor and Mitay.

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Speaker 1: Bobby Lord mixed the episode with original music by Christine Fellows,

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Speaker 1: John K. Sampson, Blue Dot Sessions, Michael Hurst, and Bobby Lord.

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Speaker 1: Additional music credits can be found on our website, Gimbletmedia

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Speaker 1: dot com slash Heavyweight. Our theme song is by The

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Speaker 1: Weaker Thans, courtesy of Epitaph Records. Heavyweight is a Spotify

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Speaker 1: original podcast. Follow us on Twitter at Heavyweight, on Instagram

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Speaker 1: at Heavyweight podcast, or email us at Heavyweight at gimletmedia

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Speaker 1: We'll be back in two weeks time with a new episode.