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Heavyweight Check In: What’s to Come · Heavyweight

• 0:15
  Speaker 1: Pushkin.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, okay, Hello, can you hear me?
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  Speaker 1: Hello?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Khalila, Hi, Hello, Jonathan, Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Stevie Hello. Hi.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: That's some real, like citizen cane lighting in that studio. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: very expressionistic shadows.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not big on overhead lights.
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  Speaker 1: So how are we? It's been a while, it's been
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  Speaker 1: a year, it's been over a year, So what's new,
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  Speaker 1: what's happening?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we were all laid off.
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  Speaker 1: Ye, yes, your point being.
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  Speaker 3: You said what I was just answering about what we've
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  Speaker 3: been up to.
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  Speaker 1: I guess I get a little differensive about it.
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  Speaker 3: No, we had like kind of a crazy year of
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  Speaker 3: trying to find a new home for the show.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of meetings.
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  Speaker 3: Some good meetings, some bad meetings. I could not believe
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  Speaker 3: how long it took, I will say.
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  Speaker 5: I know.
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  Speaker 4: And everyone told me.
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  Speaker 5: I was talking to other people, you know, who have
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  Speaker 5: taken their shows to new places or how their shows canceled,
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  Speaker 5: and everyone told me like, it's going to take longer
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  Speaker 5: than you think.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, but I already think kind of
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  Speaker 3: a long time, so I'm going to be getting ahead
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  Speaker 3: of this.
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  Speaker 4: And so it took a long time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so whatever, And get up to with all your
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  Speaker 3: unstructured time.
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  Speaker 2: Well, for me, I realized that I had been kind
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  Speaker 2: of on the carousel of deadlines and production for almost
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  Speaker 2: twenty years. So, you know, stopping affected me in a
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  Speaker 2: way that I didn't anticipate.
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  Speaker 1: But I did kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Go through a period of feeling very etsy and took
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  Speaker 2: me a while to get used to, like not doing
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  Speaker 2: anything in a way like except for you know, taking
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  Speaker 2: my son to school, picking them up and going on
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  Speaker 2: runs and trying to teach myself, not very successfully, how
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  Speaker 2: to play the piano.
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  Speaker 3: Can you play any basic songs?
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  Speaker 2: Not even I mean it's very it's very jazzy, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's very like avant garde.
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  Speaker 1: The way that I play the piano.
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  Speaker 3: I play random notes.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, so that that those are the those are
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  Speaker 2: the major things. What have what have you guys been
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  Speaker 2: up to? Stevie? I know that you've probably been up
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  Speaker 2: to all kinds of You're a very productive person.
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  Speaker 3: What about me? What kind of person? Am? I?
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  Speaker 4: Uh, this isn't about you.
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  Speaker 3: Fine, I'll hold my question.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know. I could see you didn't. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, maybe you joined a cult or something. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure, I would be easily sucked into a cult,
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  Speaker 2: you think, so, Yeah, it's a fear of mine.
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  Speaker 1: What would be the thing that would that would suck
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  Speaker 1: you in?
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  Speaker 3: I think if they just caught me on a bad
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  Speaker 3: day where I was feeling really isolated and they were
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  Speaker 3: like come on, and I didn't want to disappoint them,
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  Speaker 3: I'd be like okay, and I'd be like these people
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  Speaker 3: are so nice.
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  Speaker 1: And you'd be like, I always have plans. Now my
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  Speaker 1: calendar is so full with events.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, because you know, cults are really using Google Calendar
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  Speaker 5: every day.
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  Speaker 3: It is just blocked off within it, just as cults.
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  Speaker 5: But to answer your question, Jonathan, I also did a
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  Speaker 5: whole bunch of nothing this year.
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  Speaker 4: Really.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not just saying that to make me feel better.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no, I keep calling it my year off
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  Speaker 5: and everyone's like off of work, and I'm like.
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  Speaker 4: Off of everything. Yeah here, yeah, exactly. Let's see.
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  Speaker 5: I traveled a lot, I visited friends, I read like
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  Speaker 5: multiple books.
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  Speaker 4: I get like multiple books.
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  Speaker 3: Like like three books maybe. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And as and as you guys know, I do a
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  Speaker 5: lot of jewelry making and blacksmithing.
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  Speaker 2: Like you make horseshoes. I'm so that's not nothing. So
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  Speaker 2: you were you were working and you were making jewelry
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  Speaker 2: and things.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was being creative, I guess, but very unstructured.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah what about you, Kaylee? What did What did you do?
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  Speaker 3: I also traveled some the other thing I did which
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  Speaker 3: was very fun. I'm a big fan of the Brooklyn
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  Speaker 3: Public Library and they did something in this last year
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  Speaker 3: called Browse the Branches where you got a little booklet
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  Speaker 3: like a little passport, and you tried to go to
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  Speaker 3: every Brooklyn Public Library branch and they would give you
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  Speaker 3: a little sticker at each one, and if you got
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  Speaker 3: all the stickers, you got a tote bag, which I did.
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  Speaker 1: How many branches are there?
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  Speaker 3: Sixty two?
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: It was a little embarrassing always to walk up to
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  Speaker 3: them and be like, hey, can I have the sticker?
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  Speaker 3: But I did it. So that was probably my biggest
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  Speaker 3: accomplishment of the year.
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  Speaker 4: Well, should we talk about what we've got coming up?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so we've got a new season later this year,
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  Speaker 3: but before then, we have some other little treats.
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  Speaker 5: Just to tie our listeners over and to say hello
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  Speaker 5: again after all this time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're going to revisit some favorite episodes and
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  Speaker 3: have some little updates at the end of what's happened since,
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  Speaker 3: but before that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So one thing that we did this year was
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  Speaker 2: that we would occasionally check in and we would let
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  Speaker 2: each other know what we were up to in the
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  Speaker 2: form of audio stories.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we weren't making heavyweight. We're trying to entertain
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  Speaker 3: each other and keep those gears from rusting that a
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  Speaker 3: machinery works.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think gears can get rusty if they're not
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  Speaker 2: oiled with the juices of creativity.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't want that.
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  Speaker 5: But then what happened was, you know, we kind of
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  Speaker 5: made them just as like a silly thing, and then
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  Speaker 5: we played them for each other and we were like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: these are kind of great, and we thought that they
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  Speaker 5: could be fun in this time while we're making the
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  Speaker 5: new season, to share with our audience for fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so should we say what our stories are about.
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  Speaker 5: I made a story about something I found myself doing
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  Speaker 5: a lot of in this time off, which was solving
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  Speaker 5: long standing customer service issues.
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  Speaker 3: That's one of your passions.
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  Speaker 4: It is I would also call it a passion, Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Really, I spent some time trying to do things that
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  Speaker 3: freaked me out, but that I felt that I needed
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  Speaker 3: to try at some point in my life. So I
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  Speaker 3: wrote a little essay about one of the things that
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  Speaker 3: I tried. Jonathan, what's yours?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I made a story about one of the
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  Speaker 2: things that I did during our year off was I
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  Speaker 2: stopped drinking, which is something that I'd been doing on
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  Speaker 2: a daily basis for at least the past, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a couple of decades. I mean, to be clear, I
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  Speaker 2: should say it wasn't like I hit rock bottom or anything.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't bottom out, but.
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  Speaker 3: You stopped bottom sing.
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  Speaker 1: Up, I bottomed, I bottomed up.
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  Speaker 2: Is that an expression bottoming up as in like tilting
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  Speaker 2: the bottom of the yes?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Because that is true. I did.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I also feel like I did this. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when it was announced that the show was coming back,
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  Speaker 2: I did this interview with the New York Times, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, they asked me what I've been up to
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  Speaker 2: in the past year, and I was like, well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I quit drinking. So I feel like if I start
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  Speaker 2: drinking again, it'll be like I've lied to the New
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  Speaker 2: York Times.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to have to do a.
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  Speaker 5: Correction in the italic pant at the bottom. That's like,
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  Speaker 5: mister Goldstein.
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  Speaker 3: Started drinking again.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't need that, Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So we're gonna release these three little stories and then
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  Speaker 3: we'll have these old favorites with updates for you over
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  Speaker 3: the summer. I'm going to take a little break and
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  Speaker 3: we'll be back with a new season.
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  Speaker 4: Jonathan, do you want to play us out?
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  Speaker 2: You know, conveniently, I've been sitting behind the piano this
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  Speaker 2: whole time.
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  Speaker 3: The in