Welcome to crazy.

Welcome to Michael and us.

I'm Will Sloan here, as always with.

Luke Savage, welcome back, everyone.

Something that I think about sometimes when we do this podcast in this, in this new era that we're in, this post-Burney, post-Germy, post-Germy moment is, like, what is the show even going to be now?

I'm sure a lot of sort of left media thinks about

this. Like if you don't have this stuff on the horizon, these obvious things on the horizon

that we're working towards, what is the narrative arc? What are we going into? And I don't actually

have an answer to that question, but what I do know is that I watched a clip of Fox News's new late-night talk show, Gutfeld.

It's Gutfeld with an exclamation mark.

It's their response to Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel.

It's an angry guy.

His name is Gutfeld, by the way.

And the reason I had such a long-winded intro into this is because I feel like this era, this Biden era, hasn't quite created itself yet.

It doesn't have a shape, it doesn't have an identity. And what we're seeing right now is the backwater, the bilge of the previous era.

I think we'll see a little bit of that in the documentary that we watched this week. Do you know what I mean?

Like, does that make any sense to you at all?

Well, yeah, I mean, as Karl Marx says, the tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.

It very much does feel that way.

I think you're right that this era has not, I mean, everyone and everything seems to be running on empty.

It feels like all the sort of

raw material in politics and culture, you know, all the reflexes people are following. Everything

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