All right, so over the last few months, you guys may have heard me mention a podcast by the name of

Who Are These Podcasts, which I've become a fan of, because we have a lot of targets, the likes of Tom Myers and Opie and Howard Stern that we like bashing here.

But really what this is, is me preemptively befriending Carl

so that he never discovers this podcast and shits on us.

That's really all this is, Carl.

Smart move, Mike, very smart move.

Others have tried this before you and not pulled it off,

but you've pulled it off, my friend.

My real fear is I would never be on your radar until right now,

and now you're just

going to fuck with us. Right. That has happened as well. Yeah. Who's, uh, well, I guess I will start

at the beginning because, uh, were you just a radio fan that started a podcast or is this not

the first thing you've done? No, this is the first thing I did. Uh, just a radio fan, always listen

to talk radio, sports radio, political morning shows. Just always really enjoyed that. Started the podcast stealing from Open Anthony's Jocktober format. That was my favorite segment on Open Anthony. It was for October because I knew there'd be Jocktober segments segments every morning. And so, yes, we took that idea.

My buddy is a standup.

He moved out to Seattle and then Portland.

And we thought this would be a good excuse to get together once a week and shoot the shit.

He has since left the show, but I've kept it going.

Well, that was the other thing I wanted to ask you is it's amazing to me, you have this rotating crew of co-hosts, I guess, and they all seem

like, I can't get one. My producer is a fucking moron. I can't get one guy that can, I can talk

back and forth with for an hour a week. I'm amazed at the rotation you guys have. You all have good chemistry and everything.

It's interesting, too, because most of the co-hosts are friends of mine. And I play in bands,

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