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I thought we'd take this opportunity here a week's shy of WrestleMania, which is we know

as the biggest college football event of the year. Just you know, see how we're feeling. See,

see how what was on our hearts. Because you know, before we, before you go to a battle royale,

you got to make sure the body, mind and spirit are all set and prepared because what you hang on.

Well, I'm sorry. What in the spirit of interrupting, which is a common wrestling trope,

and I have something on my heart. Okay. I have to act real surprised about it. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Where's the first guy? What's Holly? Holly Anderson doing here. They're coming down from the

wrapper. All right. All right. All right. Hang on. I want to lay out a very, I want to lay out a very

specific path for the two of you for the one of you who I did not wake up at 11 o'clock last night

screaming through the phone about Michael Bolton. I would like to speak about the television

program billions. And there's a couple reasons that might seem like an odd choice for this show.

For one thing, there's there's no news hook. I know that we try to be topical.

WrestleMania is a week away. Billions is like four weeks into its fourth season. Same thing.

Right. All right. So maybe on full cast time, it makes sense that we're coming around to it too.

Billions is on showtime. We are about humble bloggers, not real deep in the premium cable game.

And maybe most crucially, billions is a show written about rich people in New York by other

rich people in New York. So it may seem an odd choice of entertainment fair. I feel with the

development of last night's episode, which is called Chicken Town. This show needs to be brought

into the consciousness of our collective listeners. It's called chicken town. It's called chicken

town. I'm listening. Okay. So first of all, this is this is an approach with caution because

here is a show written by four and about rich New Yorkers, which I kind of watch as though I'm

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