Hi, you're listening to Topics, the podcast where we try to make humankind kind of human.

You know, the outpouring of responses to our last episode, What Is Art, was so fervent that we decided to have a contest.

The contest is called The Topics Podcast Is This Art Cont art contest and here are the rules

send us a jpeg of anything you want to our twitter feed

at Topics Podcast

and we will tell the winners if it's art or not

the winners will be announced on next week's show

again

the rules of the contest are send us a jPEG of anything you want to our Twitter feed

at Topics Podcast, and on next week's show, we'll tell the winners if it's art or not. Thanks for

listening. It's topics with Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black, two long-time friends who are really trying to get into the big questions of not only this day, but I feel like all days. Would you agree with that,

Michael? I, yeah, yeah. And yeah, I think we want to get into the nitty gritty about what is,

you know, what's the meaning of life at the end of the day that's kind of what we're talking

about i heard that yeah we're really unpacking some pretty big ideas in this series of podcasts

um my hope is that you the listener will walk away going i don't know if i have the answers, but I definitely heard some questions today.

That's what's most important to me.

Well, and I just want to say, I want to say because I think it bears repeating that we are really unpacking this stuff.

Oh, yeah. No, there's, I think of this podcast as each episode, there's like a big U-Haul moving box.

Okay.

And in each box is a question. What is, what is the nature of poetry? What is the nature of art? What is life?

What does it mean to be a good person? And each episode, I'm taking an exacto knife and I'm cutting open the packing tape.

I'm opening up the box and I'm unpacking whatever it is I find inside. Yeah.

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