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

Although, if something funny happens, that's fine too.

I'm Michael Ian Black, joined as always by Michael SchoWalter.

Hi, Michael.

Hi, Mike.

It's good to be here, as always.

As always, you know, recording topics and discussing topics is a

highlight of my week not only because i have the opportunity to teach but be but more importantly

because i have the opportunity to learn i feel exactly the same way and um i really take that approach with me into life and i feel like the older i get and i don't know

if you can identify with this but the more i realize the less i know and uh when i was a teenager

and i thought i knew everything i thought i had all the answers and uh as i get older i realize

i don't have any of the answers. It's very wise,

very wise. In a way, I'm sort of the opposite because yes, I was a smart allocate teenager and I

thought I knew everything, but now as I get older I realize that I really do know a lot. And it's

important for me to pass on as much of that knowledge as possible.

So, you know, I sort of have less and less to learn the older I get because the more I already know.

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