Ep. 046 | Bloopers
Today, we have a gift just for you. See you next year!
TRANSCRIPT
Erica: Welcome, friends! You’re listening to The Feeling is Musical — as presented by the Snohomish County Music Project. My name is Erica Lee, and today, we have a gift just for you - an episode full of bloopers. Believe it or not, every episode doesn’t go off with a hitch. Sometimes there’s very comical things that happen. Sometimes there are very annoying things that happen. So, welcome to the episode where we share all the behind the scenes giggles, laughs, and frustrations. Let’s go!
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[An acapella version of the podcast intro music plays, Yana voicing 3 harmonic parts]
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Erica: … The red button…
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Cassie: Are you recording right now or we’re just practicing?
Erica: No I’m recording —
[Chuckling in the background]
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Vee: [Chuckling] That would be so disappointing —
Erica: [Chuckling] We did the whole thing - oh, I forgot to record it. [Pause] Okay —
Vee: [Chuckles and sighs] Oh, flashback to What is Music Therapy…
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Erica: So it’s just audio of course so you can make any weird faces you need to.
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Meg: … Normally I’m standing.
Erica: Oh, your pop filter?
Meg: Yeah. I’m not too concerned about it —
Erica: Naw —
Meg: I’ll make sure I don’t go [makes a popping sound into the microphone]
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Erica: Because nobody can see me, I’m gonna move my microphone. [Moves mic and causes microphone rumbling. Says in a sing-song voice] Blooper reel!
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Amy: … For right now, as far as you can tell, the audio quality from my end is good?
Erica: As far as I can tell, yeah.
Amy: Okay.
Erica: Just pretend like you have to yell at me most of the time.
Amy: [Pretending to shout] Erica!
[Erica laughs]
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Erica: Intro. [Clicks a mouse button and says in a sing-song voice] Intro intro intro!
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Erica: Welcome, friends! You’re listening to the Feeling is Musical, as presented by the Snohomish County Music Project. Vee is drinking their water bottle very loudly while I did that.
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Erica: … And today, we are talking - we are not talking about that.
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Erica: … Autism Acceptance Month.
Yana: Yay!
Erica: For those of you who’ve not yet - [chuckles] you can’t do yay in the middle of my thing —
Yana: [Chuckles] Dang it —
Erica: You’re not in the episode yet!
Yana: Ohhh! Sorry!
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Erica: … Highlighting the ecological link between individual and communal wellbeing. [Breathes and pauses] Good. Does that feel like —
Vee: Yeah —!
Erica: Your whole life is read out to you? [Laughs]
Vee: [Laughs] Great! I was like, hmm, I forgot!
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Yana: [Singing] .The feeling is musical. [Pause. Says, while trying not to laugh] Welcome to a place —
Erica: Where I live —?
Yana: Where you hang out a lot, Erica!
[Laughter]
Erica: It’s like um when you’re a kid, you think your teachers live in the classroom.
Yana: [Chuckles] Wait, they didn’t?
Erica: It’s like the listeners are like, she lives in the podcast.
[Yana chuckles]
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Erica: Imagine the music has played. So —
Alyssa: [Singing and making musical sound effects] The feeling is musical.
[Erica says something quietly]
Alyssa: Sorry —
Erica: It’s really good. Yana…
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Erica: [Adjusting her microphone. Sighs] Okay, let’s talk about music therapy. Let’s get peppy…
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Cassie: Get that.
Erica: If I’m not feeling it, you can tell that I’m not like - I’m not super into it.
Cassie: Do you want me to do like some kinda cheer or something?
Erica: What?
Cassie: [Laughs] Do you want me to do a ch - I don’t know if I know any cheers.
Erica: No, that’s not gonna help.
Cassie: Ah [Laughs]
Erica: [Smiling] That’s not gonna help me at all.
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Erica: Well, welcome back to the podcast, Cassie.
Cassie: Thanks…Erica. [laughs]
Erica: [Chuckles] That’s not a good response.
[Laughter]
Erica: As much as I had to fake it, you have to fake it a little bit too!
Cassie: [Laughing and taking a steadying breath] Oh my gosh…
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Erica: …Had a whole like [makes fanfare-like noises] ta da!
[Yana laughs in the background]
Erica: Jazz hands! [Pauses and sighs] Um, I’m excited about today…
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Erica: …They will have to edit it all together, but —
Cassie: Good luck, Yana.
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Cassie: It’s like a - it will be fun —
Erica: Yeah. I’m sure they’re having a great time already. [Smiling] ‘Cause we’ve been going for about 5 minutes and we’ve done like 2 sentences that are relevant to the podcast.
Cassie: [Smiling] But Yana likes that we’re talking to - hi, Yana.
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Erica: Uh blows air through closed lips] today is not a words day. Um —
Marta: [Laughing] Do you have extra ruminating - if you’re having trouble …
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Grant: …Within different cultural [trails off, repeating a quick buh buhsound]. Just gonna redo that entire thing ‘cause I feel like I don’t know what I’m saying. Um [chuckles].
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Erica: Earlier in previous podcast ep - [makes mumbly oise]
Colby: Mmhmm.
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Yana: So you - [makes mumbly sound] So you —
[Laughter]
Yana: I like rewind myself [makes a noise like a tape being rewound]
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Erica: So, obviously, you do a lot of trauma. Er, you do a lot of —
[Colby and Erica laugh]
Erica: Let’s start again. So, obviously, you do a lot of trauma-informed work.
Colby: Uh huh. Yes, I do that…
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Erica: Oh, I had a really good question [whispers] and it just like - ‘cause I got stuck on the nursery rhymes.
Sam: [Laughing] I know! I’m sorry!
Erica: Oh no! Um…
[Laughter]
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Cassie: Are you leading to this?
Erica: I don’t know —
Cassie: I have this one written down -you said, um —
Erica: I don’t know what I’m leading to, honestly..
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Vee: Are you asking me what’s challenging for a therapist, or what are the challenges that queer folx face that we might address in therapy?
[Prolonged silence]
Erica: Both?
[Laughter]
Vee: Um —
Erica: Do you want me to re-ask the question?
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Erica: I feel like I have all the questions and no questions at the same time.
[Tanesha and Erica laugh]
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Erica: Okay, let me say my question again —
Yana: Okay —
Erica: So it doesn’t look like I wasn’t listening to you.
Yana: Okay [laughs]
Erica: [Laughs] I was, but it’s a lot to keep track of!
Yana: [Laughing] Yeah…
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[Marta and Erica laugh]
Marta: We’ll be cutting that out, I know! [Laughs]
Erica: [Chuckles] I know. Yana, cut it all out. Um…
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Alyssa: …Actually work toward social justice, we need to throw that - I was about to cuss —
[Erica chuckles]
Alyssa: We need to throw that stuff out the window.
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Alyssa: …You have been to - am I allowed to say any bad word? I was gonna - like H-E-double-hocky —
Erica: Yeah —
Alyssa: You’ve been…
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Colby: …Tied to learning in some ways. Um, and part of that —
Erica: Wait, are you starting the whole thing over?
Colby: I’m starting part of it over.
Erica: [Chuckling] Okay.
Colby: Um. Not adding - re-adding the whole…
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Erica: …How far back are we going?
Colby: I’m going just back to um dopamine is fun…
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Yana: …Like I think a lot of - a lot of our movement - a lot of the [makes mumbly noise] okay…
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Yana: So, neurodivergent people are - like I - okay… [laughs] sorry —
Erica: [Laughing] Half the podcast —
Yana: [Laughing] I know —
Erica: [sustained laughter] Is you starting your sentence and going [mimics Yana’s syntax] oh, okay.
Yana: [Continuing to laugh] Yes! Um, okay. [Takes a deep breath] So, under the umbrella…
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Erica: This is the worst part of podcasting [fiddles with microphone] is you losing your train of thought, and then you’re like, shoot! Um —
Sam: And they just keep talking and I’m like —
Erica: Then you’re like babbling —?
Sam: Just like nose diving…
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Erica: Yana, when you edit this, please edit out this conversation part. Um —
[Laughter]
Tanesha: [doing a voice] But this is the candid stuff, man
Erica: This is just the extra - we are at some point going to do an episode where it’s just like the bloopers from the podcast —
Tanesha: That will be fun —
Erica: ‘Cause they’re so much fun. Um —
Tanesha: I hope this makes it in, yeah.
[Laughter]
Erica: All the times when I’m like, please edit this out - please edit this out…
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Colby: Uuummmm… I should know this - you can edit this out…
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Vee: I wish I could think of the word - that’s bothering me.
Erica: It will come to you —
Vee: Okay —
Erica: Just keep going and it will come to you in like 3 minutes —
Vee: Yeah [chuckles]
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Yana: [Says quietly] A different brain [chuckles to themself]
Erica: Everyone has their own brain [chuckling]
Yana: Yeah.
[Laughter]
Yana: You have your brain, I have my —
Erica: Oprah. Everybody gets a brain!
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Erica: …Also have a baby that’s very distracting. But it’s so cute, it’s okay.
Vee: Hard to make words when there’s things happening —
Erica: I know —
Vee: In the screen —
Yana: [Sings to the tune of Baby Beluga] Baby burrito, baby burrito —
Vee: And in the chat. [Chuckles]
Colby: [Smiling] Yeah —!
Sam: [Laughing] I’m sorry —!
Colby: The chat…
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Colby: …It’s good that we lasted almost like 50 minutes before we hit our first tangent. That’s good.
[Vee, Vasheti, and Colby laugh]
Cassie: True..
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Erica: ....Bloopers episode in December, [smiles] and Yana is going to have a great time with this episode.
Grant: [Laughing] I - yeah - I - I’m essentially a - I’m a living blooper reel…
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Yana: Even like [Yana’s stomach gurgles] Oh, my belly..
Erica: Oh, I thought that was Greta.
Yana: It was both of us
[Laughter]
Yana: Okay…Take, like - I don’t know - 10…
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Erica: Can we pause?
Colby: Mmhmm —
Erica: Can you go close that door?
[Colby moves away from the mic, clearing his throat a couple of times. Erica laughs]
Colby: I shouldn’t have eaten Doritos before this. Such a bad idea…
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Katy: [Burps] Get all the burps out now.
[Laughter]
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Yana: [Whispering] I need to sneeze, I think. [Burps] Mmm —
Erica: You have to sneeze, is that what you said?
Yana: No, I had to burp - okay —
Erica: Oh [laughs]
Yana: I was like, which thing…?
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Erica: Yeah.
[A dog barks in the background.]
Ally: Uh huh.
[Laughter]
Ally: Jax, I was just talking about how you don’t bark anymore…
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Ally: …Guide what our needs are. Uh, I knew a little bit about that before, but not nearly what I do now.
[While Ally was speaking, a dog sneezed several times in the background]
Erica: [After a pause in which the dog sneezed] Is he sneezing in the background?
Ally: Yes, he’s sneezing in the background [begins to chuckle]
Erica: [Smiling] That was hilarious
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Ally: He’s rolling on his back sneezing —
Erica: I love it, it’s okay. He’s a cutie - hi, Jackson, are you having a good time? Yeah.
Ally He just wants attention all the time [chuckles]
Erica: I love it.
Ally: That’s what your needs are, right, buddy? Okay.
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Erica: [In a sing-song voice while a siren blares from a truck in the background] Waiting for the sirens to stop
Yana: [Let’s out a huge yawn] Sorry.
Erica: All the bloopers.
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Grant: Uh… [Types on his laptop while vocalizing]
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Yana: Not all good —
[A crow caws outside]
Yana: [Whispers] Oh, jeez..
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Erica: Hold on, my sister’s calling me, just a second.
Cassie: Okay.
Erica: [Answers the call as a connecting sound chimes] Hello, you are on the podcast.
[Cassie laughs]
Erica: Do you want to call me back later? Okay, talk to you later.
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Diana: …The TV or —
Erica: Yeah —
Diana: Alexa, or something.
Erica: Something. Um [chuckles] —
Diana: [Laughs] Oh! Sorry —
Erica: Ope?
Diana: No no no no. [Snorts] I said her name.
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Diana: I’m gonna unplug this [chuckles].
Erica: Okay.
[Pause, in which there is a thud]
Diana: Okay. Kinda creepy.
Erica: What’s creepy?
Diana: Well I just mentioned Alexa’s name and then she starts talking.
Erica: Oh…
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Yana: But um, one thing I’ve - [Yana’s phone vibrates audibly. Yana whispers] Stop it. One thing I’ve —
[Laughter]
Yana: I gotta get my bloopers in.
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Matt: .Uh I was given a referral to [Matt’s audio cuts out]
Erica: Nope, Still lagging. [Pause] There you are, you’re back!
Matt: [Says in an announcer voice] Okay, we’re back.
Erica: Try again —
Matt: In 3, 2, and 1!
[Erica chuckles]
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Erica: This is what it’s like to be professional. [Chuckles] we do podcasting in a stairwell.
Vee: [Laughs] I know…
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Erica: …You could just do it in the elevator - that’d be hilarious.
[Laughter]
Vee: [Sighs] Someone would press the button - I’d just travel sitting with my computer.
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Erica: …And the guests would be like people that come into the elevator.
Vee: Oh, just whoever it is? Yeah, cool!
Erica: You could call it the Elevator Pitch - that’s the name of the podcast.
Vee: [smiling] Cute.
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Erica: …Resident cutie.
[Greta’s collar tags jingle in the background]
Erica: She’s getting up for her stretches.
Yana: [Chuckles, and says in Greta’s voice] Me?
Erica: Downward dog…
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Yana: …The relationship building and - [chuckling] there’s Greta
Erica: Hi, Greta!
Yana: [In Greta’s voice] Hiii!
Erica: I saw your elephant in the hallway.
Yana: Yes…
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Yana: …Stuff. Because I had also tried —
[Yana’s microphone wobbles on its stand audibly]
Erica: [Laughing] I’m sorry - Greta just hit your microphone when she stretched, and it totally like wobbled.
Yana: [Laughing] Yeah, I heard it!
[Laughter].
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Yana: …Sad —?
Erica: Sad with them?
Yana: Yeah.
Erica: Mmm.
Yana: Um, but — [Laughs]
Erica: [Chuckling] Thank you, Greta
Yana: She said [makes a raspberry noise]
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Erica: She has to stretch more.
Yana: Mmm.
Erica: Oh, don’t stand up - we got to do a whole nother episode —
Yana: You’re okay, pup. Yes, you are so good —
Erica: We should have brought your bed upstairs…
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Yana: …Blind - [the microphone moves audibly and Yana pauses] Um —
[Laughter]
Erica: [Laughing] She got comfortable
Yana: Greta, this is already hard, okay? [Laughs]
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Yana: …Be insidious, and [pauses to listen to a noise] Really?!
[Laughter]
Yana: [In Greta’s voice] You have to start over 10 times. I know the drill.
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Erica: Thank you for listening, and we’ll talk to you next time.
Colby: Bye, everyone —
Erica: Oh, wait! I have to do that whole thing over again.
Colby: [Whispers] Oh, okay.
Erica: ‘Cause I forgot to do the resources —
Colby: Oh —
Erica: And the website, and —
Colby: Uh oh. I don’t know if I have resources…
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Yana: …No, you do that after?
Erica: That’s at the very end.
Yana: That’s at the very end? Yana, you listen to this podcast like 10000 times. Come on —
[Laughter]
Yana: Okay, now I’m like - I wasn’t nervous until this second!
Erica: I usually say, if you would like to know more about the podcast —
Yana: Oh yes! If you would like to know more about the podcast, visit our website —
Erica: Yeah —
Yana: S as in Sam, C - okay…
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Erica: Our website is Sam as in cat, C as in - let’s try - wwooww…
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Erica: We apologize, Yana, for the very long recording you’re have to listen to.
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Yana: Oh, Greta just sighed at me. Okay —
Erica: Greta could do the outro.
Yana: [In Greta’s voice] Okay! So, this…
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Yana: Thank you listeners for listening —
Erica and Yana: And we’ll —
Yana: Talk to you next time —
Erica: [Mummbles] Talk to you… next time. I got nervous because you didn’t say anything.
Yana: [Laughing] Okay!
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Yana: And we’ll talk to you —
Erica: And we’ll talk to you next teem - oh, bah —
[Laughter]
Erica: Do it again, do it again. We can do this!
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Yana: [Laughing] We’re really cute!
Erica: We both have music degrees, we can do this!
[Laughter]
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Yana: We got this. [Snaps out a beat] Thank you listeners for listening —
Erica and Yana: And we’ll talk to you next time —
Erica: What are you doing with your hand? [Laughs] You’re making a metronome sound while we’re recording!
Yana: [Laughing] I was practicing…
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Yana: …Just take like a couple of —
Cassie: Do you wanna do like a 3, 2, 1, like everyone say…whatever?
Yana: And we’ll talk to you next time!
Erica: No. Because it took 10 minutes —
Yana: No, it’s okay, because —
Erica: To do it on our own —
Cassie: But - but but —
Yana: Yes but it’s okay —
Cassie: But but but but —
Yana: No no no no no
Cassie: Fun!
Yana: Erica - Erica, Erica Erica, I’ll just make it —
Erica: We gotta start the staff meeting also —
Yana: I’ll just make it cool in post!
[Colby laughs]
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Erica: Oopsie, I’m still recording.
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Erica: If you’d like to learn more about the Music Project, please visit our website at S as in Sam, C as in Cat, Music Project dot org (scmusicproject.org). On our website, you can find transcripts for every single podcast episode. We encourage you to connect with us on social media, @SCMusicProject, on all platforms. Never miss notifications for new episodes and other projects.
We’re taking next week off, but we’ll be back in the new year. So, until then, thank you, listeners, for listening. And we’ll talk to you next time.
[Podcast outro music plays.]