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Every episode we blast anyone who gets in our way,

we bring critical thinking, skepticism, and irreverence

to any topic that makes the news,

makes it big or makes us mad.

It's skeptical.

It's political.

And there is no welcome at.

Today is Thursday, May the 14th, when you're listening to this,

probably.

Probably.

It's the seventh.

It doesn't matter. We're going to have a little fun today. We're going to have a good time today. It's less urgent. You know, these stories have less urgent. The world needs wackiness, Tom. The world needs something to be like goofy and a funny moment. That's what the world needs right now. What it doesn't need is more talking about horrible shit that just keeps compounding. I am so glad that we started doing these funny shows. Yeah, me too. I genuinely, like, I like both pieces of our show. I think both pieces of our show are interesting and I think they're both valuable. I truly do like doing this show. I like doing it every time we record it. I never am like,

yeah, me too. I'm always looking forward to it. Absolutely. But like I just like the,

the goofy shows, bro, they kind of give me life. Yeah, man. They kind of give me life. Do you remember how

bleak it was during the pandemic? We were just like, let's just not look at the news. What do you say? Yeah, man. Like, we're just at some point, it's like, what am I going to do? Yell about vaccines? Somebody else is doing that for it. Yeah, man. You don't need me for that. Hey, my cousin died. Like, what is that for you? What's so funny is I remember we did those goofy shows and somebody had sent us a message

and was like,

hey man, love what you do. And then, because we weren't really talking about any kind of political points at all, when politics came back up a year later, I got a message in that person because they were clearly not into like goofy shit. That what they wanted, rain. They're like, hey, I hate what you do. And I was like, cool, block. I don't fucking care. I literally don't know who you are. You're some random idiot. Go and keep my ass. I didn't fucking make this show for you. Fuck yourself. All right. Well, here's

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