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Hello and welcome back to Big Mood Little Mood.

I'm your host, Danny Lavery, and with me in the studio this week is Oyaan Mukherjee,

a writer and musician based in Massachusetts. He's a member of the band, Darling Side,

and he's also working on an Indian cookbook with his mother, J.O.T.

Oyaan, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much, Danny. It is a pleasure to be here.

And secretly also in the studio this week is my last guest, Elisa Gonzalez. She's still here.

You heard her last week, but through the magic of audio recording,

that hasn't happened yet. That week has not yet elapsed.

So she just stuck around. The three of us met at summer camp earlier this summer.

I haven't shut off about it. I've been bringing you all on my show because I had such a nice time

at summer camp. Oyaan taught me to juggle, told me I had a slackline.

At least then I had perfect opinions and watched a bunch of amazing old movies together

and screamed at beautiful clothes. So as far as I'm concerned, YouTube both know how to live in

ways that other people don't. And I think everyone who listens to the show should benefit from your

experience. I am honored and concerned that I might not live up to these expectations,

but I'm ready. I'm ready to try. I think you're going to do great. And just in case anyone

listening wants to know like what's going on in everyone's lives, what's changed.

Oyaan recently lost most of his clothes to the great country of Canada, which I guess just

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