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And thanks so much for being a loyal listener. Hello and welcome back to Big Mood, Little Mood.

I'm your host, Daniel Lavery, and with me in the studio this week is just me.

I had a guest this week who was supposed to appear with me. You should know that she described

herself as a circus runaway, and she is not here. She's not missing. I'm not putting out

like an APB, but I do feel a little bit tickled by the fact that the circus runaway has in fact run away. I will obviously edit this out if there turns out to be something more sinister behind her disappearance. But my guess is much more likely she just had something else going on today. So it's just going to be me today,

which is a sort of rare, big mood, little mood episode. Usually I do talk with a guest,

partly because I think it's really useful to get multiple perspectives on other people's advice

and partly because it's more interesting to listen to a conversation than a series of monologues.

But every so often, I think it can't hurt to

wrestle through issues by yourself. So I'm going to be tackling these questions by myself

today, and I'm looking forward to it. I also just heard from the sound engineer here at Slate

Ben that he recently, and by recently, I mean three years ago, found old

promotional surfboards from the short-lived HBO series John from Cincinnati, which we both

agree is a perfect show, just laying around in Brooklyn. And that apparently back in 2007,

when John from Cincinnati was coming out, HBO decided to promote it by sending surfboards

to influencers in various cities and have them just, I guess, walk around or surf with them.

And it doesn't seem like they lasted very long. So it's both beautiful and poignant and gone too

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