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Sign up now to listen at slate.com slash mood. Hello and welcome back to Big Mood Little Mood.

I'm your host, Danny Lavery.

And with me in the studio this week is Oyan Mukherjee, a writer and musician based in Massachusetts.

He's a member of the band Darling Side, and he's also working on an Indian cookbook with his mother, Gioti.

O'ian, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much, Danny.

It is a pleasure to be here. And secretly also in the studio this week is my last guest, Elisa Gonzalez. She's still here. You heard her last week. But through the magic of audio recording, that hasn't happened yet. That week has not yet elapsed. So she just stuck around. The three of us met at summer camp earlier this summer. I haven't shut up about it. I've been bringing you all on my show because I had such a nice time at summer camp. Onlyon taught me to juggle, told me how to slack line. At least and I had perfect opinions and watched a bunch of amazing old movies together and screamed at beautiful clothes. So as far as I'm concerned,

you two both know how to live in ways that other people don't. And I think everyone who

listens to the show should benefit from your experience. I am honored and concerned that I

might not live up to these expectations, but I'm ready. I'm ready to try. I think you're going

to do great. And just in case anyone listening wants to know like what's going on in everyone's lives, what's changed, uh, O'ion recently lost most of his clothes, uh, to the,

the great country of Canada, which I guess just didn't want you to have clothes anymore.

Yeah. They took them from me at the airport and told me they would get them back,

that I would get them back at the end of my flight with Air Canada. And turns out that it

might take 45 days. 45? Yeah, that's what the Air Canada has a, um, all of their English speaking

assistance is outsourced to India. And so I've been speaking with a lot of Indian folks at call

centers. And the last call, I was just calmly instructed to just wait for the 45 days that they

advised it might take. I think after that is when they just pay you for the luggage, assuming it's

lost forever. I like the idea of calmly waiting. I think you're good at calmly waiting.

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