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Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hannah Spinney.

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I am Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Hanna Spinney, and this is a best-of story-worthy episode.

That's right. Tonight we are featuring two stories. The first is by Arise Barr, and the second is by Moran Surf.

And we're calling this episode, Hannis, water sports. Water sports, which, because they both involve water. That's exactly right. I don't know if there's any sports, but there's water. And there's no waterworks is not exactly, that make people think of pipes. So we didn't know with that. Or monopoly, waterworks. I never used to want waterworks. I didn't want electric company either. Right, right. Yeah, but I was on, yeah, I was end up with one way of road, waterworks, and Baltic Avenue, and then you'd kick my ass. Exactly. I also don't want any railroads. I also don't want the purple ones, Baltic and Mediterranean. Right. Exactly. But I like the yellows and the reds. You know what I mean? Like Kentucky, Illinois. I'm proud to say that I've forgotten the name of the rest of the store. Veterans Gardens. I have not. I play Monopoly on a

regular basis. Did you know that? Yes. Yes, I do. And I actually was trying to watch a

Netflix, a documentary about like the World Monopoly Championships. and I couldn't get through more than

the first 20 minutes.

Really?

Joe Slepsky is very upset by my not being able to. He said it's great. I like the documentary

about Helvetica, the font that I enjoyed. That is a great documentary. It is a great documentary.

Is it called word play or font play? No, it's called.

Font play. Font play. Fuck play is a different one on Netflix plus. I think it's just called Helvetica. It's called Helvetica. It's the story of the font. The font that is everywhere in the world right now. McDonald's uses it. Everybody uses it. Ladies and gentlemen, And tonight's best ofworthy. It's all about, what are we doing? It's all about water sports is what it's about. That's exactly right. And before we get to the stories, I did want to tell the audience that we do have an app available now for your Android phone. You can purchase the storyworthy app for $1.99 at Amazon.com. How about that? That's right. And Amazon.com, we want you to go to Amazon.com through our website, Storyworthypodcast.com, because anything you buy there, our app or something unrelated to us, we'll still get a little taste. That's exactly right. You support our show by going through storyworthy podcast.com and clicking on our Amazon ad. All right. Also, you guys, you can find Storyworthy on Facebook, Twitter, and of course, Stitcher.com. Stitcher.com has thousands of amazing podcasts. But none of them are as good as ours. None of them. That's exactly right. And, of course, go to iTunes and leave us a good review. That always helps us out. All right. Let's get right to it. Our first storyteller tonight is Erease Barr. She is a critically acclaimed writer, actor, director, and producer. And she's best known for her reoccurring role as the Orthodox Jewish girl, Rachel Heineman, that gets stuck on a ski lift with Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm. We all know that. You remember that episode? I do. Ah, you know, there's so many episodes to take place on ski lifts, but only one is truly

great. That's right. Also, Arise has done some amazing one-woman shows, and she has played up to

11 different characters in her different shows. It's just amazing. She's super talented. She has two

humorous memoirs. One is called Dork Hor. And then she has a sequel to that called Machu My Pichu.

And in fact, Honest, the story she's telling tonight was in the book, Machu My Pichu. Also, I know this

about Arise Barr. She has a brand new baby boy. She also lives in Tel Aviv, Israel. Ladies and

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