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You are not alone.

You have found other people.

You and I have a friend in common.

Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done.

I think it's really beautiful.

Gee, stupid, what I struggle, you know? It's incredible know. Incredible. But your head exposed to being what was really there. And now here's your host, Brad Listy. Just one person in just one time. Hey, everybody, how's it going? Welcome to the Other People podcast. I'm Brad Listy. It's good to be with you. I'm sitting here in Los Angeles. Happy holiday season. Did you make it through Thanksgiving?

Everything okay? You get into some good screaming fights with your family? You resenting people right now?

You're on an airplane? Where are you? You're back at work. You're hating life. It's almost over.

December. Just got to get through December into 2018. We're going to get some indictments on Christmas Day. It's all going to end on Christmas Day. Didn't you hear that? That's my theory. I'm sticking to it. Ponteo Giannopoulos is my guest today. He's got a great new story collection out. It's called How to Get Into Our House and Where We Keep the Money. It's available now from four, let me see, four way books.

I was going to say four ways, which would make some sense.

But it's called four way books, like a four-way stop sign.

I'm spending too much time on this, but you know what I'm saying.

Ponteo Giannopolis, his second appearance on this program, the story story collection one more time is called How to Get Into Our House and Where We Keep the Money. Before we get to that, I do want to read some mail. I'm a little bit behind on mail. And before I forget, if you want to write to me about this program or about your life or whatever it is that you would want to write to me about, the address is Letters at OtherPPL.com. Letters at OtherPPL.com.

A listener named Stephanie writes, Dear Brad, earbuds being ripped out of your ears on things like

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