WEBVTT - Heavyweight Check In: What’s to Come

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<v Speaker 1>Pushkin.

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<v Speaker 2>Hello, Hello, okay, Hello, can you hear me?

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<v Speaker 1>Hello?

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, Khalila, Hi, Hello, Jonathan, Hello.

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<v Speaker 1>Stevie Hello. Hi.

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<v Speaker 4>Wow.

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<v Speaker 2>That's some real, like citizen cane lighting in that studio. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>very expressionistic shadows.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm not big on overhead lights.

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<v Speaker 1>So how are we? It's been a while, it's been

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<v Speaker 1>a year, it's been over a year, So what's new,

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<v Speaker 1>what's happening?

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<v Speaker 3>Well, we were all laid off.

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<v Speaker 1>Ye, yes, your point being.

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<v Speaker 3>You said what I was just answering about what we've

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<v Speaker 3>been up to.

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<v Speaker 1>I guess I get a little differensive about it.

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<v Speaker 3>No, we had like kind of a crazy year of

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<v Speaker 3>trying to find a new home for the show.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, a lot of meetings.

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<v Speaker 3>Some good meetings, some bad meetings. I could not believe

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<v Speaker 3>how long it took, I will say.

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<v Speaker 5>I know.

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<v Speaker 4>And everyone told me.

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<v Speaker 5>I was talking to other people, you know, who have

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<v Speaker 5>taken their shows to new places or how their shows canceled,

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<v Speaker 5>and everyone told me like, it's going to take longer

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<v Speaker 5>than you think.

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<v Speaker 3>And I was like, but I already think kind of

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<v Speaker 3>a long time, so I'm going to be getting ahead

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<v Speaker 3>of this.

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<v Speaker 4>And so it took a long time.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so whatever, And get up to with all your

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<v Speaker 3>unstructured time.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, for me, I realized that I had been kind

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<v Speaker 2>of on the carousel of deadlines and production for almost

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<v Speaker 2>twenty years. So, you know, stopping affected me in a

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<v Speaker 2>way that I didn't anticipate.

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<v Speaker 1>But I did kind of.

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<v Speaker 2>Go through a period of feeling very etsy and took

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<v Speaker 2>me a while to get used to, like not doing

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<v Speaker 2>anything in a way like except for you know, taking

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<v Speaker 2>my son to school, picking them up and going on

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<v Speaker 2>runs and trying to teach myself, not very successfully, how

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<v Speaker 2>to play the piano.

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<v Speaker 3>Can you play any basic songs?

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<v Speaker 2>Not even I mean it's very it's very jazzy, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>it's very like avant garde.

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<v Speaker 1>The way that I play the piano.

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<v Speaker 3>I play random notes.

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<v Speaker 1>Kind of.

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<v Speaker 2>So yeah, so that that those are the those are

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<v Speaker 2>the major things. What have what have you guys been

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<v Speaker 2>up to? Stevie? I know that you've probably been up

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<v Speaker 2>to all kinds of You're a very productive person.

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<v Speaker 3>What about me? What kind of person? Am? I?

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<v Speaker 4>Uh, this isn't about you.

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<v Speaker 3>Fine, I'll hold my question.

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<v Speaker 2>And I don't know. I could see you didn't. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know, maybe you joined a cult or something. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>not sure, I would be easily sucked into a cult,

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<v Speaker 2>you think, so, Yeah, it's a fear of mine.

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<v Speaker 1>What would be the thing that would that would suck

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<v Speaker 1>you in?

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<v Speaker 3>I think if they just caught me on a bad

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<v Speaker 3>day where I was feeling really isolated and they were

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<v Speaker 3>like come on, and I didn't want to disappoint them,

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<v Speaker 3>I'd be like okay, and I'd be like these people

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<v Speaker 3>are so nice.

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<v Speaker 1>And you'd be like, I always have plans. Now my

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<v Speaker 1>calendar is so full with events.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, because you know, cults are really using Google Calendar

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<v Speaker 5>every day.

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<v Speaker 3>It is just blocked off within it, just as cults.

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<v Speaker 5>But to answer your question, Jonathan, I also did a

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<v Speaker 5>whole bunch of nothing this year.

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<v Speaker 4>Really.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you're not just saying that to make me feel better.

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<v Speaker 5>No, no, no, I keep calling it my year off

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<v Speaker 5>and everyone's like off of work, and I'm like.

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<v Speaker 4>Off of everything. Yeah here, yeah, exactly. Let's see.

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<v Speaker 5>I traveled a lot, I visited friends, I read like

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<v Speaker 5>multiple books.

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<v Speaker 4>I get like multiple books.

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<v Speaker 3>Like like three books maybe. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 5>And as and as you guys know, I do a

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<v Speaker 5>lot of jewelry making and blacksmithing.

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<v Speaker 2>Like you make horseshoes. I'm so that's not nothing. So

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<v Speaker 2>you were you were working and you were making jewelry

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<v Speaker 2>and things.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I was being creative, I guess, but very unstructured.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah what about you, Kaylee? What did What did you do?

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<v Speaker 3>I also traveled some the other thing I did which

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<v Speaker 3>was very fun. I'm a big fan of the Brooklyn

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<v Speaker 3>Public Library and they did something in this last year

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<v Speaker 3>called Browse the Branches where you got a little booklet

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<v Speaker 3>like a little passport, and you tried to go to

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<v Speaker 3>every Brooklyn Public Library branch and they would give you

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<v Speaker 3>a little sticker at each one, and if you got

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<v Speaker 3>all the stickers, you got a tote bag, which I did.

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<v Speaker 1>How many branches are there?

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<v Speaker 3>Sixty two?

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<v Speaker 1>Okay.

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<v Speaker 3>It was a little embarrassing always to walk up to

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<v Speaker 3>them and be like, hey, can I have the sticker?

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<v Speaker 3>But I did it. So that was probably my biggest

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<v Speaker 3>accomplishment of the year.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, should we talk about what we've got coming up?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so we've got a new season later this year,

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<v Speaker 3>but before then, we have some other little treats.

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<v Speaker 5>Just to tie our listeners over and to say hello

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<v Speaker 5>again after all this time.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so we're going to revisit some favorite episodes and

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<v Speaker 3>have some little updates at the end of what's happened since,

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<v Speaker 3>but before that.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So one thing that we did this year was

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<v Speaker 2>that we would occasionally check in and we would let

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<v Speaker 2>each other know what we were up to in the

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<v Speaker 2>form of audio stories.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, we weren't making heavyweight. We're trying to entertain

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<v Speaker 3>each other and keep those gears from rusting that a

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<v Speaker 3>machinery works.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I think gears can get rusty if they're not

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<v Speaker 2>oiled with the juices of creativity.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>I didn't want that.

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<v Speaker 5>But then what happened was, you know, we kind of

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<v Speaker 5>made them just as like a silly thing, and then

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<v Speaker 5>we played them for each other and we were like, oh,

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<v Speaker 5>these are kind of great, and we thought that they

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<v Speaker 5>could be fun in this time while we're making the

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<v Speaker 5>new season, to share with our audience for fun.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so should we say what our stories are about.

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<v Speaker 5>I made a story about something I found myself doing

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<v Speaker 5>a lot of in this time off, which was solving

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<v Speaker 5>long standing customer service issues.

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<v Speaker 3>That's one of your passions.

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<v Speaker 4>It is I would also call it a passion, Thank you.

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<v Speaker 3>Really, I spent some time trying to do things that

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<v Speaker 3>freaked me out, but that I felt that I needed

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<v Speaker 3>to try at some point in my life. So I

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<v Speaker 3>wrote a little essay about one of the things that

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<v Speaker 3>I tried. Jonathan, what's yours?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So I made a story about one of the

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<v Speaker 2>things that I did during our year off was I

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<v Speaker 2>stopped drinking, which is something that I'd been doing on

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<v Speaker 2>a daily basis for at least the past, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>a couple of decades. I mean, to be clear, I

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<v Speaker 2>should say it wasn't like I hit rock bottom or anything.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't bottom out, but.

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<v Speaker 3>You stopped bottom sing.

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<v Speaker 1>Up, I bottomed, I bottomed up.

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<v Speaker 2>Is that an expression bottoming up as in like tilting

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<v Speaker 2>the bottom of the yes?

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<v Speaker 4>Right?

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<v Speaker 1>Because that is true. I did.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, I also feel like I did this. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>when it was announced that the show was coming back,

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<v Speaker 2>I did this interview with the New York Times, and

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<v Speaker 2>you know, they asked me what I've been up to

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<v Speaker 2>in the past year, and I was like, well, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I quit drinking. So I feel like if I start

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<v Speaker 2>drinking again, it'll be like I've lied to the New

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<v Speaker 2>York Times.

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<v Speaker 3>They're going to have to do a.

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<v Speaker 5>Correction in the italic pant at the bottom. That's like,

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<v Speaker 5>mister Goldstein.

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<v Speaker 3>Started drinking again.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I don't need that, Okay.

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<v Speaker 3>So we're gonna release these three little stories and then

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<v Speaker 3>we'll have these old favorites with updates for you over

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<v Speaker 3>the summer. I'm going to take a little break and

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<v Speaker 3>we'll be back with a new season.

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<v Speaker 4>Jonathan, do you want to play us out?

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<v Speaker 2>You know, conveniently, I've been sitting behind the piano this

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<v Speaker 2>whole time.

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<v Speaker 3>The in