It's Topics, the weekly podcast where Michael Showalter and myself, Michael Ian Black, discuss evergreen topics that are pertinent to all of our lives,

and we try to cover at least 80% of any

given topic during the brief time that we have together each week. Michael, hello. It's great to be here

and yeah, I like what you said and I think one of the mottos that you had actually come up with when we first started doing these that I really like is, you know, I think a lot, a big part of this podcast is to try to make humankind kind of human.

I did say that and it was important that I said that.

And I think it's worth reiterating that humankind as a kind of meta descriptor for our species,

I think we sometimes look at it as this kind of almost

monolithic structure.

I was going to say monolithic.

And we can lose our actual humanity when we describe it in these terms these terms it's almost so much more important I

yeah it's almost like saying you know don't forget about the little things you know because

the little the little things are so important you know well can I can I share something with you

this morning you know well can i can i share something with you um this morning

you know i wake up very early and i like to just inhale the morning i just like to get

out into nature and just suck up the morning through my nose.

Yeah, I'm the same way.

I mean, when I get up in the morning and I'll take a walk or go out onto my veranda and

read the newspaper, drink coffee, and I'll just sniff in the morning air. I just sniff it in. Yes. And it's such a nice way to

start my day. It's a powerful and profound way to reconnect with my humanity. Mm-hmm.

To re-oxygenate my lungs so that I can then speak to my brothers and sisters,

particularly on days when we're recording this podcast, and this morning, for example,

such a lovely sunrise as I trotted out to fetch the paper just sucking in the morning

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