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I am Frank.

And I am Crystal.

And we are furious because we've had technical problems this morning.

I don't know what's going on. I think it got so bad that I like passed the point of annoyance.

And now I just think it's hilarious that we spent like an hour.

Fine, I'll hop on that train.

I will hop on that train and join you.

Yeah, you're right. Thank you. I just needed reorienting. So here we are. Just a quick follow-up, I did see West Side Story. I was talking the last time that I wanted to in musical theater as part of my fiber of my being.

So I did.

And what was interesting about it is that I cried all the way through and I was a very well-made movie and totally enjoyable.

The music will persist forever, I think, and lyric.

It really was an experience for me because it harkened back to when I first saw the original one,

1961 version, when I was a child on a little black and white TV in my basement, suburban

basement.

And that experience was transcendent.

And I think watching the new one just harkened back to that or recalled that experience.

And that's really where the tears come from so much

is so formed in our childhood that whenever we haven't experienced like that in childhood

it sort of never leaves you so it's interesting the new movie did not I was afraid in a way

that it would replace the old one and then I realized it just can't because that original experience is just so tied up

with so many emotions and being a young person and no experience in the world and seeing this

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