Hey everyone. Quick heads up that today's episode is our last on swimming. We'll be taking a few weeks off for the holidays.

But don't worry, we're coming back with a handful of episodes on Circles, which will begin publishing on January 18th, the week of Circle's anniversary in Max's birthday.

Again, we will return to analyze Circles beginning Tuesday, January 18th.

I hope you all enjoy the holidays and thank you so much for listening.

Everything ends, but what do endings even mean?

Every ending creates a beginning.

One cannot exist without the other.

They are bonded together, creating one fluid continuous experience like the infinity symbol or yin yang or a circle

Mac Miller understood this idea well and one of our favorite quotes at the time of swimming, Mack reflected on what he would tell his younger self, saying, quote,

Everything has so much weight, but it's all just chapters, it's all just pieces of the story,

there's going to be a next part, it's not a big deal. It's not. That's the thing,

trust. The more I trust in who I am as a human being, the more I'm like, okay, this will kind of all figure itself out."

This wisdom permeates through Okay, this will kind of all figure itself out," unquote.

This wisdom permeates throughout swimming, an album whose central motif, water, so perfectly

captures this continuity between beginnings and ends, life and death, as water is the replenishing source of life

that can just as easily pull you wonder. But even death, the ultimate individual end, is not

the end. There was a time before you, there will be a time after you, and everything will kind of figure itself out.

For life to continue, it has to.

And so today we come to the final track of swimming, a song that is at once an end and a new beginning.

A song that was the last thing Mac ever posted about on the day he passed.

A song that captures both the closure and complete lack of closure that most accurately

resembles our lives and existence. From Spotify I'm Cole Kushna and this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short

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