Lemonade.

All four of us were like presently having our heart stomped on and I remember because of the way Lady Gaga records instead of like sitting around a guitar

everyone has headphones on because she likes to hear her voice like every nuance because

it's so emotive and I remember when she said like it's either the one ain't it hardkeeping it so hardcore or

are you happy in this modern world? I remember all my hairs kind of stood up because I just felt like

she was like consoling me like even though she was sort of making up on the fly.

This is Podcrushed.

The podcast that takes the sting out of rejection

one crushing middle school story at a time.

And where guests share their teenage memories, both meaningful and mortifying.

And we're your hosts.

I'm Nava, a former middle school director.

I'm Sophie, a former fifth grade teacher. And I'm Penn, a middle school director. I'm Sophie a former fifth grade teacher and I'm Penn

the middle school dropout. This week is really exciting because we had our first

press release as a company.

So Penn and I and our friend Chelsea have a production company called

Ninth Mode.

And we recently acquired the rights to a David Sedaris short story called

Jamboree from his first book of short stories called

Barrel Fever but basically we had to have a press release about this it's like

kind of a big deal because Sadaris doesn't really ever option his work and it was

also our way to announce our company in the trades so Penn's publicist Kate was giving us like

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