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Hello and welcome back to Big Moody Little Moody.

I'm your host, Daniel Lavery, and with me in the studio this week is just me.

I had a guest this week who was supposed to appear with me.

You should know that she described herself as a circus runaway, and she is not here.

I don't, she's not missing. I'm not putting out like an APB, but I do feel a little bit tickled

by the fact that the circus runaway has in fact runaway. I will obviously edit this out

if there turns out to be something more sinister behind her disappearance, but my guess is

much more likely she's had something else going on today.

So it's just going to be me today, which is a sort of rare Big Moody Little Moody episode.

Usually I do talk with a guest partly because I think it's really useful to get multiple

perspectives on other people's advice, and partly because it's more interesting to

listen to a conversation than a series of monologues. But every so often, I think it can't hurt to

wrestle through issues by yourself. So I'm going to be tackling these questions by myself today,

and I'm looking forward to it. I also just heard from the sound engineer here at Slate Ben

that he recently, and by recently I mean three years ago, found old promotional surfboards

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