Pushkin. Hello everyone. I'm Sam Fricoso. This is Talk Easy. I hope you're staying

safe and healthy over the holidays. I know it's a strange one. Thank you for being here.

This is a very special day for us on the show and I know I say it's a special day for us on the show all the time, but really stick with us because this is something

we've been working towards for about four or five months now.

As you may remember, over the summer I had the privilege of sitting with Fran Leibowitz.

It turned out to be an immensely popular conversation, I think because it was Fran being Fran for 75 minutes. Of course she is the author of books like

Metropolitan Life and Social Studies. She's also a renowned public speaker

performing across the country in auditoriums and lecture halls.

That was until the pandemic.

In the absence of modern technology, she doesn't have a cell phone, she doesn't have a computer. There were no

virtual events for Fran. There was no zooming going on. When we spoke over the summer, she

called from her landline.

After we finished taping, I started to ask her about how she may be able to listen to this episode.

You know, because she doesn't have a phone a computer the internet there was silence on the other line did I offend her with that question was it so outrageous that she may want to hear how the conversation turned out?

As you can tell, I'm reliving the anxiety I felt in the moment.

But as the silence grew deafening, I came up with an idea.

I have maybe one or two of those every year. So I said to her,

well, what if we printed a vinyl record of the podcast and have it sent to you in New York?

She started talking. She liked this idea.

She was entertained by the notion of a vinyl record before admitting to me that she does, in fact fact not own a record player. I must say I was a

little heartbroken but by the time she made this admission I had fallen in love with

the idea.

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