What's up everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Late Night Drive. My name is Elie Schnick.

And I am Michaela Oakland. And we're so happy to welcome you here in our car for this beautiful,

lovely late summer, late night drive. Yes, hello and welcome to our car. It's been a while,

but that is not on purpose. We recorded two episodes that got ruptured, and I do think that

that was our mercury retrograde momentgrade moment. Which like as you guys

know for some reason, it only seems to affect me and my recording equipment, Mercury Retrograde.

Yes, it's specifically, well I do think in the past I've been affected by Mercury

Retrograde. Wasn't it when I had my microphone off that one day on accident? It was

Mercury retrograde? But yeah, it specifically seems to manifest in technological ways for us,

like only really relating to the podcast. Yeah, I don't have it with other things.

It's never happened before, though, where we've recorded two episodes and both of them got lost.

They were just dead. So it was like particularly painful.

It kind of makes you sit there and go, I can't.

I can't do it again.

I got a step away.

I have to say like I did fight demons in a way that I haven't had to fight demons like recently after that occurred.

Wow. I'm so sorry. I had to go on a walk. I was perturbed. But then I got a Chipotle burrito.

But then the Chipotle burrito wasn't that good. Oh my God. And I was like, okay, that's life though.

And that's sort of become my life philosophy Claudia told me this story about

she moved into her new apartment with her boyfriend and their upstairs neighbors have lived there

I guess for like 60 years and it's just like this older lady and her husband who has dementia

and Claudia was talking to her and she's like it it's, you know, it's so great,

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