The tale of old Jonas, he was swallowed whole of my whale, that's a good tale, but this ain't that tale, this is

Listener Mail.

Listener, man.

Hello, you are listening to Listener Mail.

I'm Michael Showalter, joined as always by my Topics co-host, Michael Ian Black.

Hey, Mike, how you doing?

I'm great.

I always enjoy listener mail because it really opens up my mind to entirely new ways of looking at some of our past topics and hopefully

points the way to some of our future topics.

Let's just jump in.

This letter comes to us from John Bennett, and John lives in London.

Now, I just want to clarify, is this London, England?

London, England.

Wow, okay.

Yep, London, England. And. Okay. Yep, London, England.

And John writes, hi, Michaels. He says, my multi-ethnic topic study group met last week to discuss your podcast on the Middle East. First, I want to say what a great discussion it was. Even though you're both comedians, I thought it was important to hear you discuss a serious

topic in a serious way. At the same time, I love that your sense of humor reared its head on occasion.

Even though comedy isn't the objective, if something funny does happen, that's great. But despite all of the

positive takeaways from the Middle East discussion discussion because you two covered it in such

depth covering over 90 percent we were able to complete the journey to 100 percent in far less than

six out in far less than the six hours we normally a lot for discussion we adjourned unusually

early and the rest of my week felt a bit lacking as a result.

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