Hi everyone. I'm Joanna. And I'm Jenny. And this is hyphenated, the podcast about living in the hyphen.

Jenny, I'm back in New York. Our in-person recordings and hangouts are over. We are back on Zoom.

Yeah, this is pretty depressing. Not for you. I know you're happy to be back home.

It's funny.

With my New York friends, I'm like, guys, I'm bucking happy I'm here.

Like, this is my city.

This is where I belong.

And then every time I talk to my friends in L.A., I'm like, oh, hey.

No, I like, I miss you.

And L.A. is great.

Man, I was there for three months, man. It's a long time.

Damn, I went by fast.

It went by so fast yet so slow. Like, I think about my first week there where I had to move four times because I had a stalker and about my airbags being stolen and all that. And it

feels like ages ago because I personally

matured and aged like 12 years from that experience. You know what I love about everyone I know in L.A.

is that we make a bunch of plans and then it ends up being like one tenth of what we planned.

And me and you, Jenny, we were like, oh my God, I can't wait. We're going to be able to record

literally every day. We're going to shoot maybe 17,000 sketches.

I'd say maybe 17,000 sketches. And then we're just going to like have brunch every other day.

And then what ended up happening is that we recorded in person once. Yeah, the Latino Comics Expo and we did a live podcast. That was a one time we recorded in the same room and it was the

busiest loudest room I had ever been in since before the pandemic. You picked me up in a little

orange car and then you were like, we're going to go to the Latino Comics Expo and I was like,

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