Pushkin.

In the end you have to find somebody that loves you for like totally who you are

and like the worst things about you.

That's the only way there is no other secret,

you know, not if you're really talking about love.

If you're talking about a relationship,

that's, anybody can do that. But if you're talking about a bonding that's going to stay together for 22 years, that person has to really love you.

And they have to know that you love them for who they are too.

That was Vincent de Nophria.

I'm Sam Fregoso and this is Talk Easy.

Welcome to the show. Hello. Hello everyone. If this is the first time you've listened to the show, welcome. If you've been listening for a while, welcome back. I apologize for the delay.

Sometimes this happens because we're human and no one here on this show that makes it possible is getting paid.

Everyone here is getting paid.

Everyone here is doing it for the love of the thing that we're doing.

And sometimes life gets in the way.

That was the case this weekend. I don't tend to share all the personal things about my life on the podcast.

I think I'm just a little afraid to sound like Mark Marin, but I'm looking at Delizia, our dog, and I'm thinking

about the past weekend, and we just wrapped this narrative piece I wrote for an album of an artist that may or may not have come on

this podcast in the past.

I'm going to be vague about it until I am contractually allowed to talk about it, which I think is soon.

But yeah, I feel odd saying this, but I am happy.

It was with a small crew not this similar to this show in which a handful

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