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This is Rico Beatty with Peter Kafka.

That is me.

I'm here in person today with Wesley Morris, the New York Times

Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic, and also the host of the excellent podcast still processing.

We just kicked off a new season. Welcome, Wesley. Thanks for having me, Peter. It's a pleasure to be here.

I did all my genuflecting before we started taping, but I'm a Wesley Morris super fan going back to your Grantland days when I really, really loved your, uh, do you like Prince music? Oh, the movies, yeah. Prince movies podcast. It's an inscrutable title, so that's why I screwed it up. It's fair. It's fair. Blame Alex Papademus, uh, who I love, to blame him for nothing, actually. He's perfect. Thank you. You're trying to make me cry out of the gate, basically. I felt, I felt emotional when that thing split up and when you stopped making that podcast. I felt like you were making that podcast for me. Oh, that's nice. Which is a podcast phenomenon. You feel very intimate with the people you listen to all the time, and you made a thing that tickled my brain. That is not your day job, though. Your day job is

writing stuff. But I do want to talk to you at the podcast because that has just kicked off.

Sure, sure. What's the best way to describe what still processing is? I don't know. I was just

thinking about this when we had to cut a trailer for the show.

And I didn't like what I originally said. And I thought, what is a better way? What is a better way?

What is it the Jenna and I do whenever we talk to each other?

That's Jenna Wortham, your co-host. Normally your co-host. She's not on the season.

She's away writing a book. She'll be back.

But I was just thinking about what, you know, people frequently ask in the building, how do we, what do, how do we, how do we describe a show?

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