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You are not alone.

You have found other people.

You and I have a friend in common.

Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done.

I think it's really beautiful.

Gee, see it what I struggle, you know?

It was incredible, you know.

It was like your head exploded, seeing what was really there.

And now here's your host, Brad Listy. Just one person in just one time. Hey, hello, hello, hi, ho. Hey, this is the Other People podcast. I'm Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles. It's the day after Christmas. It's December 26th, 2018. That's when this episode is going live. The holidays are over. You made it. I hope you had a Merry Christmas. I hope you had a Happy Hanukkah, Kwanza, whatever it was. If you did not enjoy it, if it was hard on you, hey, it's over. So at least we have that. I find the holidays to be an exhausting nuisance. I don't feel like a scrooge. I get it that

it's fun for kids. I try to play along as much as I can. I say this from the perspective of

rationality. All of the social obligations, the cards, getting these pictures, not knowing,

you know, what do we do with these? Do we throw them away?

Uh, you know, what else? Presence? Did you get presents? Did everybody get presence? Did you get presents? Did you get presents for so and so?

Are they going to be offended? Do you need this? Do they need that? It's exhausting.

It's unnecessary. They should be done away with. What can I tell you?

Oh, yeah, like another thing that occurred to me, and I tweeted about this, I believe.

But I was walking through a store and just looking at all of the items on the shelves.

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