Hello and welcome, I’m Renée Valentina and this is Musing Interruptus. A podcast meant for sharing thoughts, stories, enjoying idiomatic phrases and words in general. You can read along; the transcription is in the description of this episode. The idiomatic expressions are in italics. Try to get the meaning from the context and then look them up to see if you were right. If you like it, share it, but more importantly, continue the conversation. Today, It Had To Be Done. Before I start, I need to warn you, if you don’t like my strange voices, if you are put off by poor imitations of accents, then please, tune-in next week. You’ve been warned. 

I'd like to welcome a special friend to the show. We've been friends for some time. Full disclosure, he just showed up and kind of let himself into the studio. Well, let me restate that, he was my lov ...