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It's Bolzai. I'm Jesse Thorne. As you probably know, by now, every week on Bullseye, we interview a guest or two, usually actors or writers or artists or musicians who do cool and exciting things in culture. We've been doing it for 25 years. But this week, we've got bad news for Jennifer Aniston or whoever I would have been interviewing. The only person I'm talking with is my family and my producer Kevin,

who is recording me right now. Hi, Kevin. And they don't really even count. Instead of an interview,

we're playing back excerpts from some of the best stand-up comedy albums of 2025. First up is

Liz Mealy and her album Space Camp. A few things to know about Liz Mealy. She is based in New York,

raised in New Jersey. As a kid, she was pen pals with George Carlin, and she loves her cats.

This is despite writing a book called, and we are going to bleep this, why cats are

and this is also despite, as you are about to hear, having traumatized one of the cats, a cat

named Lunchbox. I want to tell you a story, but I have to preface it with this,

he's fine.

Three weeks ago, I washed one of my cats in the washing machine.

He's fine!

Why would I tell this story if he wasn't?

He's the long-haired one.

He probably needed it.

Here we go.

All right, all right, all right.

I have two cats, they're brothers, but for some reason one is long-haired and one is short-haired, and one is really smart, and one is really dumb.

I don't have kids.

Does the DNA run out?

I don't understand how one can be so smart and one can be, dude, one's going to go to college.

If the other one eats and doesn't choke, we're going to be proud of them.

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