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From the window of my office, I see our gardener, Rafael, wave for me to join him outside. So, I slide into my flip flops, put on my Dodgers cap, and grab my mask.
“Michael, I heard someone talking about you on a podcast,” Rafael says.
This tracks. Sort of. For one thing, there’s a pair of earbuds dangling around Rafael’s neck. Obviously, he’s a podcast fan. And podcasts are huge these days, so there’s always a chance of my name getting tossed around. Matter of fact, my friend Gina Ippolito co-hosts Knowing is Half the Podcast. The show has been running for five seasons, and while the hosts will never run out of funny shit to say, they are running low on GI Joe cartoons to discuss, so they’ve broadened their podcast to cover ‘80s and ‘90s cartoons. The other week, in an episode about Plastic Man and somebody called The Weed, Gina told listeners to read my n…
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