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May 21
50m 17s

Company Retreat & Texting Your Ex

Jake Ernst & Simon Paluck
About this episode

This Isn't Therapy... it's a fun, flirty, fab convo about the Amazon Prime show "Company Retreat" and a reddit user's query about whether or not they should text their ex. Juicy! 

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Original music composed by Kat Burns and performed by KASHKA.

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