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The cut. The cut. The cut. The cut. The cut. So I have this friend Stephanie

Foo. She's also a California transplant. We met when we both worked at this

show called Snap Judgment in Oakland. She moved to New York to work as a

producer at this American life and I followed a couple years later to work at

the New York Times. So when I'm feeling homesick and out of touch, I call her up

and we commiserate. But a lot of the time we're just petty. I think you were the

first person I texted when I first moved to New York and I went grocery shopping

and they gave me like 15 plastic bags for like maybe four items. I was just

like, this is ridiculous. Yeah, seriously. It's one of my biggest pet peeves.

Like they use so many plastic bags and we're like, well, I don't need a plastic

bag for my coat, dude. It's not always petty. And sometimes we do talk about the

bigger things that bother us. The culture divide and the New York City hustle

mentality that started out so exciting, but quickly ground us down. So we

actually worked in the same office in Oakland. And I always felt like I was the

hardest worker there. You definitely were. Thank you. And then I moved to

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