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I don't know about you all but I really needed music this past week.

You've had that right?

Yeah. Like music comes to the rescue. Yeah. Yeah, this is surprisingly good batch of picks. I expected Brittany to pick good songs. I did not expect Robin to pick good songs.

And that's Brittany Loose, host of NPR's, It's been a minute.

Hey Brittany.

Hi Robin, thank you for having me.

Our very special guests this week

along with Stephen Thompson. So Brittany you cover all kinds of stuff on it's been a minute.

But music's definitely a big part of that. Yeah, no absolutely. I mean one of the things that has

been really fun about the show is trying to

figure out how to use sound or talk about music in ways that are exciting or

fresh or feel fun. Yeah we don't do any of that.

I mean, that sounds really interesting.

We try to actually tamp down the appeal of music.

I'm always interrupting Stephen during these tapings and saying, I don't know if you meant to do this Stephen, but what you just said was actually interesting.

So yeah, like maybe, yeah, scale up.

Can you just take out, take out a few adverbs try to paint fewer pictures with words?

Well, Brittany, because I know you're such a music lover, I thought we got to get you on the show and

you know, we like to get together and

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