Welcome to Topics with my good friend Michael Showalter and myself, Michael Ian Black, where we really get into some stuff.

Last week was our first podcast, and I felt like, Michael, that we really got into it and

maybe even deeper than I was anticipating.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, the thing is, I think people are expecting us to, to, because of what they might know about us and stuff, they're expecting us to be funny and that this is a show all about us making jokes and being funny.

And I feel like while that might happen,

while that's something that could happen,

I don't see that as being, you know,

the necessarily like the main part of what we're doing.

It could happen.

It might happen,

but I'm just saying it's not definitely what we're doing here It could happen. It might happen, but I'm not, I'm just saying it's not

definitely what we're doing here. Honestly, I hope it happens. Like, I hope there's some mirth and some

laughter and just some great jokes that happen, but that's not the focus of what we're doing.

It's not the focus. There's time for that. Yeah. I think I have every expectation that that's going to happen.

But it's not the focus. As you said, it's not the focus. No, the focus has to be on just getting into it, getting really real about some of this stuff that I know I've been thinking about.

I know you've been thinking about.

Yeah.

And it's just things that are on our mind, things that are out in the ether that need to be talked about.

Well, last week I know, for example, we got into something really heavy,

which I've been thinking about ever since, which is whether or not God,

like, what is God? Like that was something that was really powerful for me.

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