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I'll take a Macintosh apple over a Honeycrisp. I guess that makes me old school. Or just old.

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Not gonna lie. I first got wind of Defector at about the same time things went sideways for you at NBC, and I personally wishcasted you into joining Defector. I didn't think it would be a perfect fit (and I wasn't aware at the time that you were planning to go the solo route), but I also figured that I couldn't be the only one who was a fan of both your work and theirs, so I thought maybe it could work.

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The Honeycrisp is the Coldplay of apples. Highly overrated.

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Say what you will about Rubin the Amazing Cube, but the kids who owned the cube were Latinx, which was nearly unheard of on Saturday mornings. I am sure the writers had no idea how to write such characters but gIven how white cartoons were, it’s still remarkable.

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I like apples period. Picking them yourself is an added bonus. Growing up in a foreign country I read stories of apples and knew of their existence, but didn't taste my first one until I was 15.

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Did you go to Lynd’s Farm for the apple picking? I’m looking for some fall activities before the depressing winter comes to Columbus.

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Sep 11, 2020Liked by Craig Calcaterra

Physically, you may not have been born by September 3, 1967, but spiritually, I think you were born in 1936 or so.

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As a wise man once said, "anyone who can bowl a perfect game can play second base." Or something. Anyway, Mookie's LA success continues to break hearts across New England.

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In 83 I was 13, I remember the PAC-Man cartoon but not Rubik, I’m now disappointed I missed it.

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Apple picking is such a waste of fall weather. Wandering around an orchard with a bunch of other people when the apples for sale at the farm stand are exactly as good and fresh. Better than pick your own strawberries but that's about it.

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Growing up in NH apple picking was a thing big thing. Of course back in the 70s and 80s these new fangled designer apples were not a thing. Macintosh apples were all we had at the farm we had 10 min from my house.

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'I would rather be nine people's favorite thing than a hundred people's ninth favorite thing."

From the Broadway musical [title of show]

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Gravensteins and cortland are old favs as well as russet apples in winter!

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Stop pitching to Freddie Freeman, please.

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"[S]ix Cubs relievers combined for five and a third innings of six-hit ball to make room for a comeback" is pretty on the nose for baseball in 2020.

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Loved reading about your SF experience. Sounds like a totally not abnormal day in the city. Besides being mostly on fire currently, Ca has a lot to offer and you will surely leave with a story.

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