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Speaker 1: You see, she said, sweetly, there are Jews in Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: The Minnesota offensive continued along. Emily looked at photos of

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Speaker 1: Having never owned a house, none of it made sense.

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Speaker 1: And then we put in an offer. It was like

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Speaker 1: Forbidding it outright. All this plan was missing was a

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Speaker 1: Emily said, and sure enough she was true to her word.

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Speaker 1: Spring is here, or what passes for spring in Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: The april snow has almost melted, and I can just

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Speaker 2: It's like the best time of the year. I love

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Speaker 3: So.

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Speaker 4: Now that the weather is getting nicer, my dad and

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Speaker 4: I have been taking walks together. I left Brooklyn about

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Speaker 4: when we're off on these walks, we invented this game

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Speaker 1: Mago maya.

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Speaker 2: Boom? Is that too? To one?

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Speaker 1: To one? Hold on hold on. Is this a game

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Speaker 4: It's a lot like a lot of the games we

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Speaker 1: All right, yeah, yeah, let's see it.

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Speaker 2: Let's see it. Very nice. Do you find that you're

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Speaker 4: I feel like I'm just like a kid again. The

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Speaker 2: Do you enjoy it?

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Speaker 3: I love this. This is looking really good.

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Speaker 2: Jonathan, what have you been up to? Well?

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Speaker 1: Thank you for asking. Sure, A good portion of my

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Speaker 1: And I invent all these different characters like robo Papa

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Speaker 2: Welcome boys and goals and goals and ladies and man

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Emily pulled out this puppet Johnny that I

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Speaker 4: Wait, wait, you made a puppet and you named it

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Speaker 2: Does it look like you?

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Speaker 4: Like Papa likes Hey?

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Speaker 1: Yah, Yes, Papa doesn't have any hair, but if he

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's one of those typically hard to work with directors. No, no, no, no.

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Speaker 1: It just ended up devolving into this like big dance

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Speaker 2: And it was the last I didn't know it at

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Speaker 1: And there was something else noteworthy about that evening that

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Speaker 2: You ever heard of award winning producer of The Jinks.

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Speaker 1: Can you say? Award winning producer of The Jinks Again, Award.

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Speaker 2: Winning producer of documentary The Jinks.

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Speaker 1: We happened to run into a former co worker of ours,

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Speaker 2: You ever heard of crime Town?

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 1: Recently a doctor Anthony Fauci made that statement about how

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Speaker 2: The unforgettable, the unforgettable Stevie Lane.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So I got up, went over and shook your hands.

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Speaker 1: Your hand might be the last hand we ever shake.

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Speaker 3: Lucky you. I could have gotten you all sick, right there?

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Speaker 1: Where are you right now, Brooklyn?

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Speaker 3: I'm in Clinton Hill?

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, I might have seen you around though,

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Speaker 3: I'm thinking about it.

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Speaker 4: You guys should just open your windows and you can

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Speaker 1: Were you born in New York? Are you from New York?

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Speaker 1: Is there still an upsign to being in New York? Like,

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Speaker 3: Well, food delivery is a big plus, you know, although

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Speaker 3: in New York is it just.

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Speaker 1: Is not the place to be during the pandemic.

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Speaker 3: Oh, there is one magical thing. I can get a

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Speaker 2: A thing I've really been missing about New York is

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like everyone's gone, I can't do anything. And I

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Speaker 2: like everyone's really unhappy, but you're like, I actually like

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It's like irrational and unquantifiable, but you just sort of

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Speaker 2: Yeah. You know there's that cheer every night at seven

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Speaker 4: Yeah have you participated?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: I haven't, And it makes me feel bad because I'm like,

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Speaker 2: I know it's a nice thing.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to sit this one out.

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Speaker 2: That's true. And when I go to a show and

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Speaker 1: Like, whoo it's I don't think I've ever heard you

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Speaker 2: But last night when it happened, my downstairs neighbors started

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Speaker 2: blast sing that you know that New York New York song,

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Speaker 2: Oh that SNATA song.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, start spreading the news.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that one and he was really like blasting it.

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Speaker 2: It was really loud and he was like singing along

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Speaker 2: and everyone on the street was like doing their cheer

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Speaker 4: Do I know know when you're drinking