It's topics, the podcast where two comedians talk about serious things in a serious way.

Although if something funny happens, that's okay.

I'm Michael Ian Black, joined as always by my co-host, Michael Schoalter. Great to be here.

It's an exciting episode today. It's our final episode of our second season. Yep. This has been a great.

I think season two has been a real adventure. It's been a mental adventure for me. So many ideas have percolated, so many

avenues of thought explored. Sometimes, you know, we've, we've gone down, uh, dead ends and

reached a cold as that. That's okay. It's fine. And we've had some great laughs. And that's been

okay too. Um, now before we jump in, uh, we do want to just quickly go over some of the headlines here.

We have a ground rule on the show, and the ground rule is that there are no rules.

We have a guideline, and the guideline is that on every episode of topics we are going

to do our darnest to cover 80% of whatever topic we're discussing on any given show.

And we have a precept. Well, we have a recommendation before the precept.

What's the recommendation?

The recommendation is however far, whatever percentage we get into any given topic, we recommend

that you, the listener, then follow through and complete the topic.

Right.

With either by yourself or in one of your study groups and study groups

um are now springing up all over the country and all over the world so that's that's an exciting

new development yeah and a study group i i just want to say too is two or more yes it's it's it's

it's it's a group is two people or more it doesn't have to. If you only have two people for your group, that's fine.

Yeah.

I mean, some of the better study groups have only been two people.

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