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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, come on, it's time for our walk. I know

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Speaker 1: I'm excited too, Mama. All right, hold on, let me

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Speaker 1: get you Leishan ready good, I know I'm excited. Okay, keys, phone, earbuds, water, Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's go. Oh actually, you know what. I want to

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

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Speaker 1: check and make sure that I have My check is

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Speaker 1: not here yet?

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Speaker 3: 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 4: It's Burn?

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Speaker 5: 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? She's like a doxy Terrier mixed or something, right right?

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Speaker 4: You told me that?

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Speaker 3: So you know.

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Speaker 1: I was at a dinner party the other night with

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Speaker 1: my friends and we were talking about getting a dog

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Speaker 1: and what he.

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Speaker 2: Was to do.

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Speaker 1: Hey, yeah, no, we it's time for her walk. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna head out now, good single se alright by Fern Fern.

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Speaker 1: 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 1: Oh my god, I am so glad you've picked up.

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Speaker 1: That's kidding.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna wait for my phone right now and do it, sirically.

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

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Speaker 1: Beat Hayful the nineties called they want their voicemail joke back.

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Speaker 1: This is kind of random, but have you heard from

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Speaker 1: Dad recently? I got this letter from him in the mail,

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Speaker 1: and I don't even know what to do with this, Like,

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Speaker 1: first of all, for starters, how does he even know

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Speaker 1: where I live?

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Speaker 5: Man?

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Speaker 1: Just my freaking look Erne is taking a huge poop

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Speaker 1: right now and I'm straight up out of poop bags.

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Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, you know what. Actually, I have

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Speaker 1: a brilliant idea. We're just gonna use this freaking latter

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Speaker 1: to pick up her poop. Also, in the slightest chance

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Speaker 1: that you've listened to this voice message, could you please

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Speaker 1: give me a call back as soon as possible. Okay,

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

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

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Speaker 1: Good Fern, I know it's not today, very good. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let me put this away. Haseel, What up? Pizar? Did

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Speaker 1: 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? Melissa? You're the

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Speaker 7: best little sister. I'm so glad that you asked. That's

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Speaker 7: how you do it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, damn, I'm sorry, sis. How are you? How was

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Speaker 1: your day? What you have for lunch today? Was it

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Speaker 1: a soup? A salad?

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Speaker 4: How?

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Speaker 1: I have protons with your salad? Oh? My god? Did

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Speaker 1: you listen to 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. Actually, before I stepped out on my

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Speaker 1: walk with Fern, I checked my mailbox and I got

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Speaker 1: a letter from 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 1: You were so annoying that. First of all, you know

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Speaker 1: that was years ago. And secondly, you know I sent

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Speaker 1: it in a self tape audition for Stomp. Oh my god, you.

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

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Speaker 1: I thought I thought I was pretty good.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 1: That's besides the point. I got a letter in the

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Speaker 1: mail from Dad. Wait, what, No way, yes way, I

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Speaker 1: 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. At least it's like

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Speaker 1: biodegradable or whatever. Soul, for ills I need to know.

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Speaker 1: 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 1: Well, you're the only one in the family who still

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Speaker 1: 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 1: Dad made a very clear choice that day. We gave

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Speaker 1: him every chance to fix things, to make things better,

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 1: Does when things get hard.

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Speaker 5: I know.

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Speaker 1: So I actually have moved on so much so that

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Speaker 1: I don't even think about the man anymore. Well, actually

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Speaker 1: up until today when somehow, mysteriously I have a letter

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Speaker 1: from him in my mailbox. Soul, what did I tell

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Speaker 1: 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? So I get to choose if and when he

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Speaker 1: comes back into my life. I don't let him have

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Speaker 1: the 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 1: Not sorry, soul dude, you straight up went behind my back.

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Speaker 1: Why would you do that?

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Speaker 7: Because I am worried about you.

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Speaker 6: Anytime I try to bring up Dad, you immediately shut down.

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Speaker 6: It's not fair that I have to do all the

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Speaker 6: work in this. It just really makes me wonder. Have

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Speaker 6: you moved on like you say you have.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: 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 hate

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Speaker 1: 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 1: It's not Wait, your signals starting to break up hate

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Speaker 1: if you can still hear.

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Speaker 7: Me, or for anybody for our stuff.

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

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Speaker 1: gonna have a long talk about boundaries later, but I'll

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Speaker 1: call you back when I get home. I love you.

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Speaker 1: No bye, Come on, friend, Let's go sit in the

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Speaker 1: shady spot, good girl.

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Speaker 5: Come on.

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Speaker 1: Okay, damn, look at this view made it all the

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Speaker 1: way to the top.

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Speaker 5: Huh.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know what to do with this. What

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Speaker 1: do you think for an huh? I think I think

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Speaker 1: Soul is right about one thing. It's time for me

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Speaker 1: to start moving on, to start healing.

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Speaker 3: Mm.

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Speaker 4: The letter was written and directed by Kristin Torres, with

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Speaker 4: editorial and directing support from Fred Munios. Melissa is performed

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Speaker 4: by Kristin Torres. Soul is performed by Anna La Madrid.

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Speaker 4: Neighbor was performed by Fred Munios and introducing Lucy as Fern.

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Speaker 4: Special thanks to Fred Munos, James Kim and Andrea Torres.

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Speaker 4: The editor and producer is Cameron kel On set sound

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Speaker 4: mixer is Daniel Martinez. Sound design and head of podcast

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Speaker 4: production is Diego Perez. Creator and showrunner is James Kim

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Speaker 4: On set photographer.

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Speaker 1: Is Julian Park.

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Speaker 4: Score by Robert Garova and Ryobaum you Feeling.

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