Kevin, is it true you got fired last week?

No, but there was a brief moment where I suspected that I might have been.

What happened to you?

So I got an email from someone in the tech department at the New York Times basically saying,

we're going to need all your equipment back. And then it had a big list of all the equipment

that I've sort of, you know, gotten from New York Times over the years.

You have soaked these people for everything they're worth.

This man has a Vision Pro and God knows what else.

And I wrote back and I said, well, that's going to be hard because I still use this stuff and and the guy wrote back and he said so wait

you're telling me you're not being offboarded and I said I sure not. This would be a weird way to find out. And then he came back a couple

of minutes later and he said, oh sorry, the mistakes on our end clerical error, we don't actually need this stuff back.

You know this is such a great prank and I wish I had pulled it.

I should have been in touch with the IT department years ago and just that I need you to tell

Kevin he's being offboarded because it brought me so much joy.

Anyway, very scary 10 minutes. You know, I was a contributor at Vox Media and they had sent me, you know, a variety of things over the years to appear on

podcasts you know a microphone a mic stand whatever and at some point you know they

had sent me a sort of similar thing saying please send all this back and I thought

the amount of time it's going to take me to package all of this stuff up and send it back like I absolutely

do not want to do this but lucky for me my agreement was extended and

then when it finally lapsed nobody emailed me and so I still have all the equipment

wow and you're admitting this and I'm admitting this and let me just say to Vox Media

you can take it from my cold dead ears.

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