So, for the past four months, since June, the studio that we usually use at WUNC in Chapel Hill,

where we have been recording the show for 10 years, is being renovated.

And so, I haven't been at WUNC. I've been in a studio that I basically made off the side of my garage

and converted this room, which has worked really well.

I think it worked better than any of us thought it was going to work until about two weeks ago.

And two weeks ago, I would say something biblical started happening in this room.

And it started out, I just thought, what is that?

And I didn't really know what was happening, but then people who were in Zoom meetings with me

or I'd be with someone, and we'd be doing an interview, and they'd kind of chat to me, Phoebe,

what is... I'm hearing the chirp. And I'd say, oh, I don't know, it's just outside.

And they'd say, okay. And it really escalated.

That was a little bit of one of our recent bonus episodes, which you get when you subscribe to Criminal Plus.

We're having a lot of fun making these.

And we thought you might like to hear what they sound like.

Recently, we've talked about the only time I've ever stopped an interview,

unusual gift ideas, Lauren's love of sheet cakes, how to fall asleep,

and, as you just heard, a recent problem in my studio. Here's more.

You could not have helped telling me, Dorian.

Oh my god.

Dorian.

5 million crickets.

And so for the past two weeks,

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