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🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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A remembrance of a summer past begins today's episode as your host recalls a trip to his grandmother's apartment, a trip which involved watching the rock star Prince have more sex than was comfortable. Meanwhile, our resident Hamlet, Master Clyde Griffiths, continues to inch closer and closer to his ultimate destination. One of... MURDER!!!
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1:37.7 | of the time my brother and I stayed with my grandmother in the Chicago suburbs. |
1:47.0 | Maybe, you know, I was in the suburbs. |
1:50.0 | When I was 12, he was 14, we were there for a week or two, and it was dreadfully boring. |
1:59.0 | You know, my grandmother did not have a apartment set up for adolescent boys to hang out in |
2:09.6 | for a week or 10 days or whatever it was. |
2:13.6 | And so what I primarily remember are two things. |
2:17.9 | One, my grandmother said we could pick out a movie to go see, and then she would take us. |
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