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Discount code, unorthodox, all caps. It's Mark Oppenheimer. Not in the studio this week. It's just me right here in my basement.

The cat is hiding out somewhere. The dogs are upstairs. The daughters are asleep.

We weren't going to do an episode this week. We have an amazing episode planned for next week. It's going to be our second annual apology

episode in honor of the Yum-Gipur season. So we were just going to take this week off and stay home,

relax, plan for that.

But we decided that, you know what, we just didn't want to go a week without talking to you.

We love you guys so much and we get such amazing feedback from our listeners and we know that you're

a part of our lives.

So Liell had this idea, he said, here's what we should do.

We should each just take our iPhones or a little digital recorder down to our basement tonight, and we should each tell a story about new beginnings. little wonderful producer and she'll stick to them together and it'll be like a little mini episode.

It won't be like the others, no guests, just the three of us, each telling a story and we didn't

talk about what our stories were going to be.

We said all right we'll each go home and

the only rule is it has to be something on new beginnings. So I don't know what Leel's got for you, and I'm not

going to know until I hear this, and I don't know what Stephanie's got for you and I'm not going to know until I hear this and I don't know what

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