How is everyone great it's funny oh my god it's raining here oh poop

It's raining since the second I got back well it's winter there right it's winter yeah

I sort of forgot I forgot that it was winter and that seasons are different here and so I arrived back

And my friend Dan picked me up from the airport and he parked as far away as possible

Yeah, and so we're just walking through the rain for so long and I was like why did you do this to me Dan?

Listen we are getting way ahead of ourselves

What people need to know is that David is in space

This is our first ever episode talking to someone in space

We wanted to get ahead of Tom Cruise filming a film in space by doing a podcast in space and that's what we decided to do

Well, we figured that you've figured out America pretty well, so now you have to figure out space

I wish it was this exciting. I really do. I'm so excited by this alternate narrative now

Do you want to tell people why we're apart? This was sudden. This was not planned

Yeah, this is a sudden change about a week ago

I jumped on a plane and flew back to New Zealand because I'm having some back problems

Yeah, and turns out the easiest way to solve them and sort of in the medical system was for me to fly back to New Zealand

And use my New Zealand health insurance to get things sorted out. So yeah, I'm in New Zealand

I'm gonna have a sort of a minor bit of back surgery in about 10 days now

Yeah, and then do a bit of recuperation in New Zealand, but shouldn't take too long

But it would be a good time to talk because obviously our regular

Scheduling might change a little bit and also I just thought it's good to sort of talk about my

Experiences with the American health care system. Yes, I feel like you did this on purpose

So that you could skewer the American health care system

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