Welcome to Michael and us, I'm Will Sloan, here as always with.

Luke Savage, welcome back, everyone.

We had that one person, writer review saying that we seem not to like

each other, which, first of all, is not true. Luke and I are very close friends. Speak for yourself.

And yet we continually start these episodes immediately after we've just had an artistic argument

over what the podcast should be, you know, some conflict of vision. This is happening almost every episode now. We went to the,

we went to the studio and then had to come back because let's just say conditions there were not

conducive to a good recording session. Right. So we're already in a bad mood. It wasn't Will's

fault, to be fair, but we're already in a bad mood. And then, and then, you know, Lenin and

McCarty start bickering with each other.

Within a year, this podcast is going to be like the second side of Abbey Road. It's like, yeah,

it's brilliant, but it's just kind of like, we're just doing our own things, you know? It's just

bits of songs that are unfinished, stapled together. So, you know, you'll hear... It would be a shame of that happened to this podcast, wouldn't it? Yeah. You'll just hear like,

you know, five minutes of me, uh, ranting about, I don't know, like, whatever...

It'd be as if there was like the film guy and the politics guy. Yeah, right. It'll be like,

well, you'll, you'll, you'll hear me just, just going full, like, I'll be like, ah, yeah, Democrats, oh, and then Amar Bergman, and then you'll be like,

ah, so I was thinking about Bruce Lee impersonators.

Anyway, there was a coup attempt in Russia, I think.

Yeah, yeah.

So I didn't follow it that closely, but what I did see was the meta discourse around it,

which was I saw two kinds of things.

One of them was, ooh, I bet all you people talking about Ukrainian Nazis sure feel silly now.

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