Hello. My voice sounded weird a couple weeks ago because of screaming from being at a summer

camp thing for queer women, which is a real thing. And now it sounds weird again, because

I was home this past weekend because, uh, Mamei, who I don't know if you guys know was my grandmother.

She died, uh, kind of unexpectedly. And, um, she was just like very

fashionable sort of like matriarch of the family who was very funny and sassy and sort of

Lucille Bluth-esque. And, uh, almost like that part in her essay development when Lucille Bluth is

like, how much could a banana cost? $10? Not that she didn't know. I mean, she survived the Holocaust

and moved here as an immigrant running from World War II and from concentration camps and,

and she came here and started over, um, and had a lot of really terrible experiences in her life.

But then that sort of led to her and her being a connoisseur of the finer things, which makes sense

because I think when you have gone through a lot of trauma sometimes you just want to surround

yourself with nice art. So anyway, she went home and, um, she has a lot of, a house full of stuff

that's like very her, like nice clothes and sculptures and she had just two weeks before or reordered

all of her makeup and face creams at 91 years old. And so, yeah, so she, I mean, I, I talk, I guess

I haven't talked about it on the show that much that she was sort of like the set the money tone

essentially for everybody and was very confident in taking care of herself and funny. Like, when I,

I was interviewing her for the book and I asked her why in her 90s she kept spending money on

makeup and lotions and creams and clothes and high heels and all that and, and expecting her to sort of

be like, give me some reason, right? But she just went, oh, I'm very vain. And that was the end of it.

So, so then, so then now, right? So the episodes are planned out. So now we have this episode and, um,

I, and I was supposed to like record the, like, audio for it or whatever, um, you know, the parts in

between the interviews, you guys get it, you've heard the show. Um, so we were supposed to record that

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