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Works from PRX, wherever you listen to podcasts. Shalom, Joshua. It's so nice to see your face. I kind of preferred it when we were sitting in front of hundreds and hundreds of people.

That was fun, yeah. We're non-live again.

I know.

Hopefully we'll still be as funny and scintillating as we were last week.

Nah, I didn't.

I did too. My husband is really, he really is not convinced that it can be as good as it was last week.

I'm telling you. That's why I like live theater.

Should we talk about live theater?

Sure. That was my segue. See? I learned at your feet.

It's a beautiful segue because, like, quite literally, as soon as we finished taping today,

you are hopping in the car and driving to San Diego to begin rehearsals for your new play, right? That's right. What I think is a brilliant new play about one of my favorite writers, Nathan Englander, it's based on his short story of the same name. It's a play called What We Talk About when we talk about Anne Frank. It's very funny. It's thoughtful. It's deeply Jewish.

It's like if there were a play written specifically for our listenership, I think this would be it.

So I'm very excited.

If you're anywhere in the area and want to see it, it's running from September 18th through October 23rd,

and you can find that information about tickets at the old globe.org.

Or if you just want to go to vacation in San Diego, you can just also go see the play.

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