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Speaker 1: You feeling.

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Speaker 2: This is our production of iHeart Ladio and Overtones Media.

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Speaker 1: Fern.

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Speaker 3: Come on, it's time for our walk. I know I'm

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Speaker 3: excited too, Mama. All right, hold on, let me get

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Speaker 3: you LEI shaan ready.

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Speaker 1: Good, I know I'm excited.

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Speaker 3: Okay, keys, phone, earbuds, water, Okay, let's go.

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Speaker 1: Oh actually, you know what. I want to check the

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Speaker 1: nail really quick. Hold on, wait one second, check and

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Speaker 1: make sure that I have my check is not here yet?

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Speaker 4: What?

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Speaker 1: How do you get my address?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: It's burn? Hey body?

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Speaker 1: What kind of dog is she?

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Speaker 5: Again?

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Speaker 1: Burn?

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Speaker 3: She's like a doxy terrier mixed or something, right right?

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Speaker 1: You told me that?

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Speaker 2: So you know.

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Speaker 3: I was at a dinner party the other night with

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Speaker 3: my friends and we were talking about getting a dog

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Speaker 3: and what he.

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Speaker 2: Was to do.

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Speaker 3: Hey, yeah, no, we it's time for her walk. We're

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Speaker 3: gonna head out now.

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Speaker 1: Good single see.

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Speaker 5: Alright by bern.

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Speaker 1: Fern. We're gonna need to go for a longer walk today.

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Speaker 6: Hey, oh my god, I was just thinking about you, Soul.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, I am so glad you've picked Up's kidding.

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Speaker 6: I'm aa wait for my phone right now and do it, sirusly,

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Speaker 6: don't leave a message after the beat be.

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Speaker 3: Hayful the nineties called they want their voicemail joke back.

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Speaker 3: This is kind of random, but have you heard from

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Speaker 3: Dad recently? I got this letter from him in the mail,

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Speaker 3: and I don't even.

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Speaker 1: Know what to do with this.

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Speaker 3: Like, first of all, for starters, how does he even

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Speaker 3: know where I live?

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Speaker 5: Man?

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Speaker 3: Just my freaking look Erne is taking a huge poop

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Speaker 3: right now, and I'm straight up out of poop bags.

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Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on, you know what. Actually, I have

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Speaker 3: a brilliant idea. We're just gonna use this freaking latter

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Speaker 3: to pick up her poop. Also, in the slightest chance

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Speaker 3: that you've listened to this voice message, could you please

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Speaker 3: give me a call back as soon as possible.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I love you, Bye, Fern. How do you suggest

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Speaker 1: we pick up this poop? Come on, come drink some water?

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Speaker 3: Good Fern, I know it's not today, very good. Okay,

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Speaker 3: let me put this away.

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Speaker 1: Haseel, What up? Pisar? Did you listen to my message?

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Speaker 7: Okay? No, it should go more like, hello, my favorite

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Speaker 7: big sister and the whole entire world. How are you?

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Speaker 7: How's your day? How does work? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Melissa?

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Speaker 7: You're the best little sister. I'm so glad that you asked.

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Speaker 7: That's how you do it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, damn, I'm sorry, sis. How are you? How was

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Speaker 3: your day? What'd you have for lunch today?

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Speaker 1: Was it a soup a salad? How? I have protons

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Speaker 1: with your salad? Oh? My god? Did you listen to

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Speaker 1: my voice message?

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Speaker 7: Shut up? I'm just messing with you. No, I obviously

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Speaker 7: didn't listen to your message.

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Speaker 5: Stupid.

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Speaker 7: What's going on? Is everything okay?

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Speaker 1: Well not really.

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Speaker 3: Actually, before I stepped out of my walk with Fern,

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Speaker 3: I checked my mailbox and I got a letter from

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Speaker 3: the last person I expected to hear from.

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Speaker 7: Oh cute, did you find me? Hear back from the

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Speaker 7: Blue Man Group?

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Speaker 3: You were so annoying that. First of all, you know

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Speaker 3: that was years ago. And secondly, you know I sent

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Speaker 3: it in a self tape audition for Stomp.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, you.

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Speaker 7: Were so annoying, banging everything in the house.

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Speaker 3: I thought I thought I was pretty good, you know.

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Speaker 3: That's besides the point. I got a letter in the

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Speaker 3: mail from Dad. Wait, what, No way, yes way, I

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Speaker 3: almost just use the letter to pick up Fern's poop.

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Speaker 7: You were on a walk without a poop. Back again, girl,

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Speaker 7: you gotta get your life together.

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Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know.

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Speaker 3: At least it's like biodegradable or whatever. Soul, for ills

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Speaker 3: I need to know. Did you give Dad my address?

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Speaker 7: Why do you think I would do that?

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Speaker 3: Well, you're the only one in the family who still

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Speaker 3: kind of keeps in touch with him.

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Speaker 7: Well as the oldest. You know. It is the burden, eyebear,

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Speaker 7: that he tapped on everyone some lork. This might come

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Speaker 7: as a surprise to you, but we're all still fucked

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Speaker 7: up from that failed intervention. It's not just you, Okay.

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Speaker 3: Dad made a very clear choice that day. We gave

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Speaker 3: him every chance to fix things, to make things better,

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Speaker 3: to make a goddamn effort for once. But instead, what.

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Speaker 1: Did he do?

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Speaker 7: He stormed out, like he always does.

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Speaker 1: When things get hard.

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Speaker 5: I know.

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Speaker 3: So I actually have moved on so much so that

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Speaker 3: I don't even think about the man anymore. Well, actually

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Speaker 3: up until today when somehow, mysteriously I have a letter

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Speaker 3: from him in my mailbox.

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Speaker 1: Soul, what did I tell you that day.

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Speaker 7: That you didn't want anything to do with him anymore?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 3: So I get to choose if and when he comes

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Speaker 3: back into my life, I don't let him have the

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Speaker 3: ability to just waltz in here like that.

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Speaker 7: Okay, well you should know Dad wrote me a letter too.

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Speaker 1: Wait, so you did give him my address.

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Speaker 7: I'm sorry, but look also like I'm.

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Speaker 3: Not sorry, soul dude, you straight up went behind my back.

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Speaker 3: Why would you do that?

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Speaker 6: Because I am worried about you. Anytime I try to

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Speaker 6: bring up Dad, you immediately shut down. It's not fair

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Speaker 6: that I have to do all the work in this.

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Speaker 6: It just really makes me wonder. Have you moved on

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Speaker 6: like you say you have.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Oh, you can't be serious right now.

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Speaker 7: You deserve peace now. Besides, I knew he was only

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Speaker 7: going to send you a letter, Like what did you

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Speaker 7: really think he was gonna do a greyhound from New

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Speaker 7: Mexico and show up to your door and be like, hey,

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Speaker 7: I'm ready to celebrate Father's Day if you come on

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Speaker 7: his dad.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, don't even joke around like that. I

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Speaker 1: hate you so much right now.

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Speaker 7: Well, you were always by his side trying to fix him. Okay,

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Speaker 7: ever since you were a little kid. I just don't

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Speaker 7: want you to live your life holding on to all

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Speaker 7: of this because it's not yours to care.

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Speaker 3: It's not wait, your signals starting to break up hate

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Speaker 3: if you can still hear me or.

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Speaker 7: For anybody for our stuff.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So I'm so pissed at your dumbass what.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna have a long talk about boundaries later, but

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Speaker 3: I'll call you back when I get home. I love you.

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Speaker 3: No bye, Come on, friend, Let's go sit in the

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Speaker 3: shady spot, good girl.

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Speaker 5: Come on.

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Speaker 3: Okay, damn, look at this view made it all the

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Speaker 3: way to the top.

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Speaker 5: Huh.

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Speaker 3: I don't even know what to do with this. What

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Speaker 3: do you think for an huh? I think I think

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Speaker 3: Soul is right about one thing. It's time for me

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Speaker 3: to start moving on, to start healing.

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Speaker 4: Mm.

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Speaker 3: The letter was written and directed by Kristin Torres, with

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Speaker 3: editorial and directing support from Fred Munios. Melissa is performed

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Speaker 3: by Kristin Torres. Soul is performed by Anna La Madrid.

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Speaker 3: Neighbor was performed by Fred Munios and introducing Lucy as Fern.

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Speaker 3: Special thanks to Fred Munos, James Kim and Andrea Torres.

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Speaker 3: The editor and producer is Cameron kel On set sound

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Speaker 3: mixer is Daniel Martinez. Sound design and head of podcast

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Speaker 3: production is Diego Perez. Creator and showrunner is James Kim

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Speaker 3: On set photographer is Julian Park. Score by Robert Garova

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Speaker 3: and Ryobaum you Feeling.

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