Hello! Salmon of Axios. Here as well is Anna Schmanski. Hello? And in the seat normally filled by Emily Peck, we have the one and only Charles Doe.

I'm a pale comparison to Emily.

You are a bit paler than.

It's true.

But I'll try my best.

So Charles, last time you were on this show,

you had written an amazing thing about Elon Musk.

Yeah.

And you were just recording something mysterious in the studio next door and we were talking about

Elon Musk and we were like, Charles Doohig is literally in the studio next door.

We need to drag him in there to talk about Elon Musk.

And the one thing that we didn't know

is what the hell were you doing in the studio next door?

And now it's come out.

Now it's come out. And now we know that Charles

Duheg is now a slate podcaster. I'm a slate podcaster. So we're making a show

called How to. And the idea behind it is the tagline is what if Dear Abbey was an investigative journalist.

So every week someone calls up with a problem, they want to learn how to, they want to learn

how to be funnier.

A pastor called us and says I want to be funnier from the pulpit and so we find an expert.

This guy Gary Goldman who's a comedian to give him advice or or someone wants to learn how to rob a bank.

That was actually me. I want to learn how to rob a bank.

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