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Hard Fork
The New York Times
4.3 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Kevin, very nice to be with you here in New York City. |
| 0:21.7 | Reunited at last. Having a great time. Are you having a great time in New York this week? Yes, I got to see some friends last night, got to go to Brooklyn. I'm not seeing a show, but I am staying in Times Square, so I feel like I'm seeing a show every morning. Wonderful. Well, I've also been out on the town, going to cool parties, meeting new people. |
| 0:28.1 | You know, I met this gay guy the other day who said he was a listener to the show. |
| 0:28.4 | Oh. |
| 0:33.1 | And I said, oh, hi, you know, and he said, oh, you're from Hard Fork, which one are you? |
| 0:35.1 | And I said, I'm the gay one. |
| 0:38.2 | And he said, I thought you both were gay. |
| 0:42.5 | And I had to explain to him that straight people also perform acapella. |
| 0:46.1 | And that it blew his mind. |
| 0:47.9 | It completely blew his mind. |
| 0:48.9 | Wow. |
| 0:54.3 | I feel like I have talked about my wife a non-negligible amount on this show. |
| 0:57.9 | It's reaching Borat levels of talking about one's wife. |
| 1:03.3 | And yet still, you know, people don't always pay close attention to what they're listening to. |
| 1:04.8 | And we're going to get into that later in the episode. |
| 1:05.4 | Yeah. Yeah. |
| 1:09.8 | Is it because they think like people sense some sort of like chemistry between us? |
| 1:11.4 | Is that like a thing? |
| 1:27.9 | No, he specifically said that he did not think that we had any chemistry. Okay, so we're just platonic. Yeah, no, it's completely platonic. Yeah. I think it's great, though, because it just goes to show you can listen to a podcast for a long time and still not really understand anything you're listening to. And I take that as a no. |
| 1:29.8 | We should keep that in mind as we plan our segments. |
| 1:31.3 | That's very good. |
| 1:27.8 | It's not all going |
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