It's topics, the podcast where two comedians discuss serious topics in a serious way.

Although if something funny happens, we do not censor ourselves.

And we allow humor to make its presence known even during the most serious of topics.

Hello, Michael Schoalter.

Hello, Michael Black.

How are you?

I'm great.

Yeah, no, go ahead.

I was just going to say, as always, topics is a highlight of my week.

I enjoy recording it.

I enjoy thinking about it.

I enjoy getting all up in the topics.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Well, yeah, I mean, it's important.

You know, one of the things that we try to do on this show is to really unpack the topic and to really get inside it, look at its guts

and see what's in there.

Yeah.

You know, I'm recalling a story, perhaps apocryphal, perhaps not, that the great artist Michelangelo,

who lived in Italy during the 13th century, was doing, trying to perfect his drawings of the human

anatomy. And to do so so he would actually steal human corpses

dissect them and study their musculature in their guts contrary to the law of the time but he

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