And welcome to light ears.

I'm recording this 1.30, 2 p.m. on Sunday. We

do not know the end of the Bay Bridge

series. Andy Lou is

currently hunting

for Armand from White Lotus

on his vacation. He'll be back

next week. And sitting

in, in his place, I have

from the Merck News, Dieter Curtinbach, Dieter, how you doing, man?

I'm good. It just dawned upon me that I'm filling in for Andy, so let me get into the right headspace.

Do you have any recreational drugs or anything around here?

No one can, no one can fill in for Andy.

That's like, you know, that's like saying, you know, okay, well, the Warriors

replaced Kevin Durant with Andrew Wiggins.

Like, that's just, it's not, you know, just not a match player is the same.

It's the same way first take has never quite been the same since they lost Skip.

Yeah.

Oh, man. Every now and then I go down the rabbit hole of the old Stephen A. Skip

things. Like one, 50% of the bits they did just would not fly in 2021. You're telling me that

white guy, black guy wasn't the best way to go about things for longevity. I mean, like,

they might as well have called the show white guy, black guy.

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