2026 Update: Skye
4/23/202650 min
When Skye was in middle school, her best friends showed up at her home one night and wrote “f*ck you” on her garage door. After that, they never spoke again. Decades later, at the urging of her eleven-year-old son, Clark, Skye sets off to finally ask them why.
In this update, Skye tells us how that confrontation has shaped her and Clark in the years since.
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This episode was produced by Jonathan Goldstein, Kalila Holt, Peter Bresnan, and Stevie Lane, with editing by Jorge Just and Alex Blumberg. Special thanks to Emily Condon, Devon Taylor, Annika Pillsbury, and Jackie Cohen. The show was mixed by Bobby Lord. Music by Christine Fellows, John K Samson, Bobby Lord, Edwin, Blue Dot Sessions, Michael Hearst, and Hew Time. Our theme song is by The Weakerthans courtesy of Epitaph Records. Mixing on this update by Sarah Bruguiere.
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First 90 secondsJonathan Goldstein· Host0:00
[intro music] [pen scratching] Pushkin.
Speaker 1· Host0:06
Hi.
Jonathan Goldstein· Host0:11
Hello.
Speaker 1· Host0:12
Uh, I think people probably know the drill. We're gonna revisit an old, an old episode, and we're gonna have an update.
Jonathan Goldstein· Host0:19
That's not good broadcasting. No. [laughs] You don't say to people they know the drill.
Speaker 1· Host0:24
Okay.
Jonathan Goldstein· Host0:24
You, you, you tell them the drill.
Speaker 1· Host0:26
Okay.
Jonathan Goldstein· Host0:26
You use your, your powers as a storyteller.
Speaker 1· Host0:29
Hi, everyone. Here's, here's the drill.
Jonathan Goldstein· Host0:31
And drills are exciting. Think of a fire drill when you were in elementary school. How great was that?
Speaker 1· Host0:36
You're getting out of class.
Jonathan Goldstein· Host0:38
Especially if you were in gym, like you ran outside in the winter snow in your shorts.
Speaker 1· Host0:42
Yeah.
Jonathan Goldstein· Host0:42
[laughs] It was great. So yeah, here's the drill.
Speaker 1· Host0:46
Today we're gonna re-listen to an episode called Skye.
Jonathan Goldstein· Host0:49
Oh, it's a classic episode.
Speaker 1· Host0:52
You know, we get a lot of pitches about being cut out of friend groups, about being bullied in some way. I think it's, unfortunately, like, a pretty common story that a lot of people can relate to. But what we really liked about Skye's story is that we really liked that it involved her son, and that she was doing it at the encouragement of her son.
Jonathan Goldstein· Host1:13
And now, that same son from the story, get this... This is a bit of a spoiler alert. He's now an adult.
Speaker 1· Host1:21
[laughs] Yeah, a young adult.
Jonathan Goldstein· Host1:23
That's what time will do to you.
Speaker 1· Host1:25
Yeah, that's true.
Jonathan Goldstein· Host1:26
Make a little kid a young man, make an old man like me an even older man.