Hi, Kainaz. Hi, Sean. Visuals editor here at Vox. You just got back from like a trip. I did and you got engaged.

That's right. And I thought it'd be nice if we got you a little gift. Oh, thank you.

For your, do you see the box in that studio? Can you guess what's in there? Yes, I can. What, what do you think is in there?

I think it's a toothbrush. Well, don't open it yet. We just have to suspense, you know. What do you mean?

It's the label says quip. Does it say get quip.com slash explained?

No, it says quip. All right.

Remember Sasha Baron Cohen. This is my wife. That's a nish nish.

Buyakasha. He's back with a new show. Who is America?

In America there is big problem of shootings in schools.

The N. R. A. Want to arm the teachers? This is crazy. This should be arm in the children.

Yeah, that. It seems like it was done in pretty extreme secrecy, but it's going to be seven episodes unfolding over the next several weeks.

Todd Banderwerf writes about TV for Vox. He also hosts a podcast called I Think You're Interesting.

It's really just kind of a revisit of the format he set up on Oli G show where he plays these characters who go out and interview people.

Most of the people he's interviewing are everyday Americans, but the show is getting a ton of attention right out of the gate because some of the people he's interviewing are famous, like Dick Cheney, Bernie Sanders, Sarah Palin, famous.

And a lot of them are very mad at Sasha Baron Cohen right now.

Various political figures. Mostly on the right. We're talking about how they had been duped into recording an interview for some sort of program.

Most notably you had Sarah Palin and Roy Moore saying, you know, I was tricked. I was duped. And that really sort of brought the program to a new level of publicity.

And in a way, that's a fascinating and shrewd publicity strategy because everybody had heard about this show.

What were people like Sarah Palin and Roy Moore saying specifically? Were they getting into how they were duped or just saying, you know, that Sasha Baron Cohen, I'm going to sue him if I get the chance.

Roy Moore definitely said he was going to sue for defamation.

Sarah Palin, however, talked a little bit about how she was duped, which was she was told it was a program about veterans.

She says she actually flew herself out to be on this program. And then she discovered it was not the case.

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