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Katie, I'm in Boston. I have a lot of shit to do. We just got to do this quick.

No foreplay, Jesse. You're just going to go right into it. I see. No, I'm not. I'm doing quick

foreplay. You're the one who treats every episode like a warm bath you just want to settle into.

I'm going to ask you a question. You respond with your one answer response and then I'll respond with one word and then we'll just go through this quickly. How are you doing? Okay, I'm annoyed. I'll tell you why. Can I tell you why? Oh my God. This is the exact opposite. Okay. Go ahead. You've derailed my plan immediately. Okay. My neighbor, I've been sitting outside this morning and for three days. Can we just review? Let's just review so far. Jesse, a lot going on. Let's get through this quickly. Katie, got a story about my neighbor. Okay. I don't know which neighbor this is, but for three days, I've been sitting, every time I go outside of my house, I hear the fucking chirping of a fire of a smoke detector.

That's hard.

I hate that. It's not coming from my house. It's coming from my neighbor's house. And I don't know which neighbor. And I don't know if like this person is dead or deaf. I don't know what to do about this. It could be like this for the rest of my life. Anyway, how are you? My brother and I got back to our childhood home last night, which he's done a heroic job.

We have someone who comes to help, but he's basically sorting through our parents 40 years of accumulated stuff.

That's a job.

Yeah, it's a job.

But as soon as we got home, as people in their 30s and 40s do, we had a pretty heated fight about the thermostat.

Of course.

He was, I just want to be clear, he was the girl in this fight.

Was this like Taylor Lorenz style?

He wanted it to be like 90 degrees?

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