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Have a really fun podcast episode for you today. Recently had my good friends Diego

Maldonado and Wallace Stelzer, a great drummer, great bassist, and some of my best

friends over the last decade to just come over to my studio here in New York City, just

hang out, have some drinks,

have some of NYC's best cookies, or no, the best cookies in the world.

And we just chilled and just absolutely geeked out on jazz and music and had a great time

for a little over an hour and guess what we recorded it just

for you to listen in uh lots of fun good stuff in here lots of great antidotes on music

and philosophy on music a lot of us just goofing around so uh yeah get your favorite beverage

because we're going to be drinking along with you.

It's the holidays.

Have some fun.

And let's do this thing.

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