And she was like, “Cool, what’s the story?” And I was like, “I don’t know! We’ll figure it out!” And that was it. I was like, “Oh, that’s kind of fun.” And so I took that small kernel of an idea - of a Spanish teacher and her student, and maybe they end up with a connection that can develop on this unlikely format - to Natalie. And I thought it was interesting that the 2-D video connection that we were all starting to lament as an inhibitor to connection was actually facilitating connection in this moment. So we just started going deep kind of quickly. What I noticed is when you’re taking conversational lessons is, if you’re not good at small talk, you have nothing to talk about.

One of the things I was doing was, I was taking online Spanish classes to brush up on my Spanish, and I was taking conversational lessons. I wanted to make something because I’m just used to making a lot, and I was, at the same time, doing those things that we all do, like, oh, making bread and watching old movies and doing all the dumb shit. I was doing a lot of writing, but I was feeling creatively frustrated. You know, I was about two months into the first lockdown.

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