Casey, I miss you. You're in New York this week.

I'm in New York. I thought it was time to finally come back to the offices of the New York Times and see what I could find out about your performance review.

Our studio in San Francisco feels very empty without you. What are you up to there?

It's so empty. You can actually fully extend your legs while standing inside the studio, which is not always true when there's two hosts present.

So I saw Titanic last night.

Have you seen the show or heard of it?

It's pronounced Titanic.

It's Titanic.

Okay.

It is a sort of fevered dream retelling of the Titanic story by an actress playing Celine Dion.

And it's kind of like

a Celine Dion jukebox musical set in the world of Titanic. It's absolutely hilarious. I just thought

as a theater kid, you would love it because this is like an off-Broadway show. And I swear to God,

the singers were like the best singers I've ever seen live. One of them was the understudy.

These people are incredible. Yes. The talent density of singers in New York is unbelievable.

I realized this when I was 22 and moved to New York and entered a karaoke contest at a local bar.

I was not making much money, and they had a $500 cash prize.

And I was like, I sing.

Yeah.

I'm an okay singer.

I might be able to, like, win this thing.

So I show up to the bar, and the karaoke contest is about to start, and I just hear

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