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  1. “Place to find me is my website SomenCaini.com s-o-m-a-n-ch-a-ini.com and then I don't use Twitter anymore, so Instagram Trolleyware, you know, I see messages and things like that. Soman C on Instagram”

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  2. “I think it's just so fun to get to have a conversation with such a deep thinker and to be able to play around. You know what I mean? Like never get to do this in real life. So I feel like. Getting to do this is an honor, and I'm just very thankful that you have me.”

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  3. “Not giving too much direction. That's why I said about the kid making the bed, the kid coming to things on his own terms don't comment. Let them evolve. Just look at the photo. No need to add your two cents underneath. You know what I mean?”

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  4. “I think they encourage their ideas. I just feel like when they had ideas, it was like, it almost felt like an improv house where if one was like, I think I should do this. It would be like, yes. And like everything was yes, no shooting down ideas. It was just go with it. Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about how to me the ideal parent sees a kid reaching for an egg on the table, like a toddler. And he's like, you stop that kid from dropping the egg because you're afraid of the mess and wasting 40 cents on an egg. You're going to lose that toddler seeing this thing explode and leak three different substances and a yolk and a thing and how did that thing turn into that? And all of a sudden you have a scientist and a three-year-old. What else can I drop and see what's going to happen? So he's like, that's it. It's just saying yes and”

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  5. “I feel like the same, like something interesting is going to happen Something interesting is going to happen. So I have my eye on her. So it's good to end on somebody younger. That's where I think my”

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  6. “To keep an eye on. I feel like when I was growing up, people were like, okay, we don't know what he's going to do, but he'll do something interesting because I was just kind of off doing my dance with the Red Shoes. And I feel like Anna.”

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  7. “Yeah, she is in the early 2000s, late 90s, which is very prolific and still writes and great comedy, great just versatile at everything involving writing and performing. And that's Anna. I feel like she can write. She can do stand up. She can write novels. It's just, the voice is so sharp and interesting and mature at 23 that I just, I'm like, what's going to happen? So, I feel like she's one to.”

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  8. “Incredible kids. Sam is the older one and will probably be president someday. And Anna is just, she reminds me of Dino Miranda July.”

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  9. “Tutored both of them. I did no work with either. I want to take his customer In terms of working with Either of them there was nothing to be done. These kids came fully formed. They 100% just sat there and talked to the family and had family dinners and somehow got paid for it. I felt like they were the most.”

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  10. “More than one, no, there's one that is worth talking about, which is the daughter of a friend who introduced us how I first met you. I met you through Brian Koppelman, the creator of billions, and I have a completely independent of the fact that obviously I know her and I've seen her grow up. I have my eye on his daughter Anna, who is 23 and stand-up comedian and writer because she is so good.”

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  11. “That's what I was saying to myself. Like, when I was young, I definitely think I had a peanut allergy and it just, I think, got used to the discomfort and to the point where the body was finally like, all right, I guess this is we're doing this. And just, I guess got used to it. I don't think that was necessarily the right way to handle it, but that's what happened before. And now it's different. It is interesting to see on the farm, none of the kids, all the nephews, nobody has allergies.”

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  12. “To get off that plane, so it was the sudden thing about, okay, we have to take allergy seriously, but then this one we're not taking seriously, it just comes to me sometimes when I think it's worth looking at sort of the mental stress around the allergy.”

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  13. “Right. To me, when I say dodgy, what I mean is mental. Allergies in the sense of the allergy is compounded sometimes by this extra force. So like when I was on a plane and they called out, okay, someone has a peanut allergy, therefore we're not serving peanuts or caches, whatever it was. Everyone's like, oh, okay, a little grumbling, but whatever. Next plane, they were like, someone has an alcohol allergy. We are not serving alcohol. It was like Saigon.”

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  14. “Know deeper no fly zones. So anyway, that was something that crossed my mind at some point we need to test the no-fly zones basically eat cranberry sauces.”

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  15. “We'll just keep giving you peanut butter until one day your system gets used to it. So I was just thinking about the fact that the way that it's easy to, in your mind, create these little zones of, I can't touch eggplant, no fly zones. Once upon a time, this thing happened. And it makes you start to question.”

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  16. “Be something else, right? And so this happens, I think, a lot with, you know, when we were young, I remember first having like peanut butter and things like that and having weird reactions to it. I mean, like, this makes me feel weird.”

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  17. “Don't know, but I've been saying it for so long That I'm like, is it true? So the question is, when we are allergic to things, and I think this gets to a bigger, like more profound question, where did that start? I know that once upon a time I thought cranberries caused hives or something. And then I ate cranberries. This was probably when I was like a teenager and got like a bad case of hives. And therefore have told people ever since I can't eat cranberries But was it because it could be?”

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  18. “On the purple cards. This is a good one to end on. I tell everyone I'm allergic to cranberries and eggplant. The cranberry's eggplant.”

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  19. “Used it correctly. It's opposite. There's a lot to be said about St. Louis. And also, I just haven't met that many people, so I'm excited to start, you know, making friends.”

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  20. “That has a lot of potential. It reminds me a little bit of when I first started to come to Austin eight or nine years ago, I was like, oh, this place is gonna go crazy one day when people find out what's here. St. Louis isn't quite at that level. I feel like it's evolving, but there's a lot there where people are going to be like, weather's good, people are great, food's good, easy to get around, no traffic. It just feels like it's a sleepy little city that people kind of gave up on, but I wouldn't be surprised if it has a boom at some point.”

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  21. “It's quiet, it's manageable, it's a very family-oriented city people. Whenever people are like, oh, I just moved to St. Louis, it's to be in our family, usually most of the time.”

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  22. “I think what I'm realizing is I'm in the creative zone now where I'm done with School for Good and Evil and Fairy Tales for a while. I'm making new work. So for the next two years, that's really where I am is the making new work, which involves also making new life, new partner, new city. It's a new chapter. It's a second act. It looks nothing like my first act. First act was New York fairy tales. I'm now doing something totally different in St. Louis and I'm on a goat firm. So like new album. So I don't know what will happen when I'm done writing and it's time to promote. Will it be Dance with the Red Shoes again? Let's go to New York and dress up. Of course it will. Of course it will be. I think it'll be great. I think it'll be great.”

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  23. “Just realized, especially for me where I am at my stage, where I want to commit to my art and the things I want to do and connection and relationships, especially with this new set of tools that I have post ketamine where I feel like I'm finally getting to connect and be in the moment and have fun and be present and slow in terms of my experiences. In New York, it never would have happened.”

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  24. “I felt like I'm home. Like, thank God each time I went, I started to dread it. I was still seeing all my friends. I was getting to do all the fun stuff that I get to do in New York whenever I go there, the restaurants, the this. But I was just like, I could feel myself be like, we're going to war. That's what it feels like when you go into the city again, you know?”

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  25. “I moved to St. Louis in end of January Of this year. And then I go to New York maybe three or four days a month. And in those three or four days, when I first started going,”

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  26. “I would go to Florida and go to places that were much slower to relax. But I think with New York and LA, what I realized is until you're out of there for an extended period of time, that's when you finally get to be yourself because New York and LA and even Chicago and the biggest city, San Francisco, everything's so reactive. It's too much stimulus to ever process in a way where you're just alone with your thoughts in a consistent way. So it's not just vacation, but on a permanent basis. And when I moved to St. Louis, I didn't have any friends there. I was new to the city. I knew no one is still getting used to it, but it's quiet, not much is happening. And it's for the first time in my life, it was just me. And I felt like in those 10 months, I had to grow.”

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  27. “That's it. And I thought to myself And in my case, it was obvious because it felt like I was going after certain kind of guys that had things that I wanted. And I realized that it was never because I liked them. It was because I wanted to be them or I wanted this thing that they had physically or something. And it was always like, you just want to extract. And I thought. That can't be good for your soul. I just thought that can't be good because what's going to happen if you mentally go through with it? Yes, you're going to go. You're going to extract this thing or try to extract it. You're going to fail to extract it. And they're going to leave and you're still not going to have it.”

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  28. “Literally like a fish hook them and like get this thing there's no connection needed you're gonna dispose of them at some point you know it's gonna succumb”

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  29. “I never really got into it. I always was more interested in connections and things like that. And people are like, but it's fun. It's so many hawk eyes. I mean, New York has Austin is similar. Everywhere you go, everyone's like a supermodel. It's annoying. The reason that it stopped me was every time I was like, okay, you know, you could go hook up with that guy, whatever, I used to think to myself, well, what's the reason? And I realized that it was because I was trying to extract something from them. They had this hotness or this thing or this thing that I felt that by hooking up with them, I would get. And that's when I started thinking about the term hookup. What is it? Hook. It's like you're trying to like”

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  30. “It is Malinki. It's adjective. Adjective. So we use that a lot. A person could be a Malinki, a dish that we're trying to cook, could be Malinki. So like it just comes up. And so like we have maybe a hundred of these kind of words, you know, nicknames and things. And so it's just our own little private language. Hookups. This is a pretty simple one, but in New York, hookup culture was big and.”

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  31. “Yeah, because it's somebody else's language. And I thought, oh no, this is a real thing, this is like somehow in our DNA to create this private language with our other person. And I have a million of them, but like we use the word Malinki a lot. Malinki to refer to something that is on its way to being totally fucked, but has not gotten there. It's circling the drain.”

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  32. “Things that we have that no one else would understand. And it's almost like animals, like we just came up with our own little barks and repeated phrases and repeated thoughts that are just ours. And then I talked to other couples and they have it too. And I was talking to a friend about this where he's like, you know, him and his partner used to make, instead of saying the word program, they used to use a British accent for it and say program or something. And that was how they always said it. And then they broke up and then the new partner heard about this somehow and started using it. And he felt this like irrational sense of like anger.”

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  33. “Comes to me with all his, you know, this kid, this what do I say to this kid? This, and I'm just like always asking him questions. I love it. It's just, it's my favorite thing. I'm always asking him more questions about what's happening with the drama behind the scenes, you know.”

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  34. “An investment banker and a lawyer, they're similar, there's something similar about it. But if you can find something that's really different so that you can just relax and be a cheerleader and feel almost humble like coaches basketball. And when I go watch the games, it's just fun to watch him coach basketball because it has nothing to do with my existence. I have nothing.”

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  35. “I think it's as simple as It's not so much the collar, it's about the intensity of the commitment to what it is. So, for instance, I'm so committed to my writing career and the entrepreneurship of my life that it is such a huge part of what I do that you want to find somebody who has that same commitment to what they do that is in a completely different space. So that's why I look at Taylor and Travis Kelsey because she is the most famous pop star in the world. She's always in the number one position what man is ever going to be able to have that same level intensity. But football player playing in the same stadium in front of the same amount of people and she has to be the rooting for them. It's like you're each doing your thing. It's yours. It's not the other person's, but the other person is there to cheerlead. And I think that to me is the perfect recipe of where I think sometimes when you have like even if”

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  36. “He does it the dance of the red shoes as a metaphor in general. He's like, he's off doing his dance of the red shoes. See him when he's done that could be anything, you know? So I think that's what it is. And whatever I see, like two lawyers together, I'm like, oh no, who's going to, I don't know. So yeah, worth looking at.”

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  37. “But I can't relate other than be supportive. And that's, you know, when he comes to watch me do the dance in Charleston, he's just like.”

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  38. “Yeah, he's thinking about Every one of nurses is about does he have enough money to sell this group of calves for that? You know, like, I'm sure it's.”

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  39. “So that's the balance. You're looking for, and I'm all sky, I'm all what they call Shakti, which is thunder and lightning. You know, that's me. So I need somebody who's like the guy on the ground holding the kite before it flies off, you know. And so I just think of like, what was I doing? I should have known from the start. And I think I started to sense it as time went on that I needed to be with someone ultra grounded. And so that's why I think cross-color dating works because also you're not in each other's. Space there's no competition you're not competing for the same thing you're not measuring each other against each other.”

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  40. “So then, when I met, who is just in the earth, he can tell you when it's going to rain. It felt like it was just such a match of someone who has earth energy and someone who has sky energy. Because in Hinduism, that's the balance. It's not masculine, feminine. It's not male, female. It's sky energy and earth energy.”

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  41. “Yes, I'm guessing. Yes, yes, yes. And it's been popular now. I've just seen it. There are a lot of columns about this. Just will. Now, watch, I'll have to eat my words. But it's similar to what happened to me, which was I lived in New York for 22 years. I did it every lawyer, accountant, investment banker. I went through it all. And it always felt like two clouds in the sky and no one on earth. Like we were doing jobs that a monkey would not understand. Like, could you explain your job to a monkey? Neither of us. Like, oh, I write. It wasn't going to work. Yeah.”

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  42. “Maybe we should start with cross color dating then because that's sort of the unlocking key. Have you never heard this term?”

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  43. “To be emotionally thrown into a well, honey, and if you want to just have like the equivalent of a Taylor Swift album in prose that is much more articulate.”

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  44. “Conversations with friends is the most accurate depiction of what it's like to be, I don't know this for sure, but I just mean like what I think of what it means to sort of be in a feminine state of mind in your 20s. It is just crystal clear and brilliant writing of the emotions of what it's like to be young. And so I just think for anyone who has ever been young, when you read it, it takes you back there and takes over everything. So I think that one, and you'll tear through it in a day and a half because you won't be able to stop. The secret history is if you just want great writing and feel like you're in a different world because Donna takes her 10 years to take us to create a world that the characters feel so real that you're there. So if you're just ready to go somewhere else and disappear for a while, but without the emotional hijacking, you go to Donna Tart.”

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  45. “Together with Sally Rooney, who's another author for I'm obsessed with. These three authors are able to access a certain kind of primal nerve of feeling because they're so immersed in it. They're just there that it's the intensity of reading it just feels higher than anything else. Yes, you can have someone who spent 10 years crafting this meticulous world and all that sort of stuff. I've read plenty of books like that. But there's something about the 10 years that is spent doing that work we talked about, what does a character want? Why do they want it? Why do they want that? Why do they want that? And they do it for every character so that when you're reading it, you're just in this like emotional soup that is undeniable. It's just so affecting to everybody who reads it. So there's this category of book that I can recommend to anybody who comes to me and says, what book should I read? I always tell them, secret history by Donna Tart, Little Life by Hanya, conversations with friends, by Sally Rooney. Those are my first three recommendations.”

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  46. “or stupid or short-term thinking or monkey meme we get it doesn't matter that stuff still holds because they're the two most popular authors on tick tock”

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  47. “Yeah. She's the editor of the T magazine for New York Times. And she wrote this book that is the most immersive, committed, that's what her and Donna do. Like they spend years and years writing their books and they become these immersive complete experiences to the point of they just consume you because they're so real. And what I find so interesting is Donna Tarte, there's a whole section of TikTok dedicated to her. Little life 10 years later, it's like number 20 on Amazon. TikTok's obsessed with it. And it's because of the level of commitment of the work. And that's, I think, what I aspire to deep down is to be able to just be so committed to something that you're able to have the time and freedom to spend a very long time on it so that you can really create this alternate thing that is undeniable. It will exist forever because it's that committed. And so those two authors, I think, are a sign that no matter how adult”

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  48. “Sure. I'm really interested in these two authors who I just feel like we're in the age of hyperproductivity, the rush of content. So you have to put out a book every year. You have to put out content on Instagram all the time, like this ubiquity of, and I find that the people that, especially the authors that we most hold on to and the ones that we start to get obsessed over and in a weird, ironic way are the most popular on TikTok are the ones who release a book like every eight years So thinking of Donna Tart as one author and the other one that sort of goes together with her, her name is Hanya and the last name is Yana Gihara and Donna Tart wrote Goldfinch Secret History She's only written three books she writes one every ten years and she's due for exactly 10 years so she did one at 29 thirty nine forty nine and her 59th birthday just passed so we should be seeing one any moment”

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  49. “So interesting because that's what's so obvious, right? What are people asking you? What do people ask me? How do I fix my teenager?”

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  50. “But I also think that what was interesting about the four hour body is it just seemed so, it's so funny because that anyone would question that. It just seems so obvious because you had presented a hack of the work life. So then for you to be like, I'm now presenting a hack of your physical existence.”

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