That's a weird psychology where this jackass fires you, insults you, and you decide you're

just going to keep sucking up to him.

Good afternoon, Michael Malice here. Let me if you're welcome for the next hour. We have

with us a guest that I've been trying to get for years. I'm absolutely ecstatic to welcome

someone who needs no introduction. You might know her as the human oozzi. You might know her

as America's sweetheart. She's the author of her dozen books. Millions of copies sold. Her new

sub stack is and culture dot sub stack dot com. Ladies and gentlemen and gentlemen, that was

weird. I'm sorry English is my second language. Please welcome and culture to the show.

Hello, I'm so happy to be here, Michael. Thank you so much for taking the time. I'm going to ask you

a little something that you probably not going to ask before. You're used to extremely hostile

interviews in the internet on stage. Are you uncomfortable with an interview with someone's

complimentary and flattering? Do you not know what to do? Yes, this has totally thrown me off.

I don't know how to respond. This friendliness. It's I don't know Michael. That's the truth. Do

you regard yourself as a troll? And by troll, I mean someone who intentionally says things in a

provocative way in order to solicit a emotional response from others.

On that definition, sure, I mean, I think all writers and talkers do. I mean Shakespeare does

were eliciting an emotional reaction. I will say people don't believe this, but I've tested it

on about, I don't know, at least five or six books. People would always say I'd come out with a

book and there would be one particular line that the media would go crazy over. Oh, you slipped

that in just because you knew we'd be upset about this joke. And you just put it in so did

genocide. And my friends all knew my editors knew because they've edited the book. My editor is

edited in the book. My friends have read the book. We never had any idea what liberals would flip

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