Just in such a bitchy, like, married woman of 30 years who hates her husband way, where she goes,

and, you know, I'm not even fully sure he's doing his job as the mayor.

But he just said it as he was shuffling papers.

From the smallest room in New York City comes the show that gives you a reason to live.

Yes, hard-boiled crime boiled down to hard facts, refracted through

the prism of a superior mind in search of another mind, equally superior, if such thing

were possible. Beaming coherent radiation into an incoherent world with the intensity of 250

trillion lasers from America's largest city, world's loneliest town.

And the eyes of the world are on New York City.

City in protest, marching, chanting, complaining of shortness of breath, a city playing dead.

Joining me now is comedian and, well, let's go with comedian. Dan Soder, soder how are you good and we know you from

uh conan comedy central half hour yeah i love you might have one of the um most classic

beginnings of a podcast it sounds like a radio program yeah like i feel like you're leading

into the shadow it's borderline legit it's like well yeah it's got a real war of the world I feel like you're leading into the shadow. It's borderline legit.

It's like, yeah, it's got a real War of the Worlds feel.

Have you participated in any of the die-ins?

I have been on the road, so yeah, I have.

I've been laying on my hotel bed as a dying. I got the dying in and dying out.

I can't breathe because there's no circulation in this hotel room. You ever get

into one of those and it just feels like somebody smoked in there? Yeah. Yeah. Shuts down your whole

sinuses. I was in Tampa and everything smelled like burnt aluminum. Which club in Tampa? Side

splitters. Tidesplitters. Oh, Bobby Jewel. He's the best. Yeah. What a fun guy.

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