It's Topics, the podcast where two comedians get serious about universal topics. Joining myself,

Michael Ian Black, is my co-host, Michael Schoalter.

And today, we're going to explore 80% of the topic, at least 80%, I should say, the topic, the rights of the self versus the rights of the community.

How are you, Michael?

I'm great.

And I want to backtrack just a beat to what you were just saying about covering 80%

because I don't know if in terms of the order in which these podcasts are airing,

if people understand that we do have this new ground rule

where we are making it a kind of an official thing where we're going to try to cover 80%

of the topic. So I just wanted to kind of like kind of put a fine, whatever, I guess,

you know, underline what you had said and say we really are now making it

a top priority for each episode of the show to when we talk about the topics that we're trying to

actually cover at least 80 percent otherwise I think think we're not doing our jobs, essentially.

I'm glad you did that. I'm glad you underline that point because I do think sometimes

people listen to these out of sequence and you might not understand the 80% rule.

It's one of two ground rules that we set. That was number one. And the

second one was that there are no rules. And there are no rules rule sort of contradicts the first

rule. But again, it speaks to the second rule. Because in there being no rules, of course, that allows the possibility of contradiction to exist.

But you know what?

You're making me think of something, though.

But go ahead.

I interrupted you.

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