Hey y'all. Welcome to Mike.com's new pivot to podcast format. We have here a tri-fire type format here

featuring my good friend Liz Franzak, a social justice journalist out of the University of Pittsburgh.

We have Noah Colwin out of Tel Aviv University here to talk about diversity in the IDF.

And of course, me, Victor Frankel.

And, uh, no, okay, can't do that.

Let's go to Joe Jeffrey Webster.

And you guys from Cheryl.

Jeffrey Weston.

Did you guys go to showirene Jeffrey Epstein I mean I don't know you're the guy who's like to do you're the guy who like does this. I'm just the media guy. Yeah, that's why you're here. I'm just the simple blue check. Listen, Noah, riddle me this. Yes. It's 3 p.m. on a Friday, right? We're here at the fusion.com offices. Fusion.net, but go on. Fusion. Wow. Wow. Thank God you're here. It was, I don't remember why they didn't, but, yeah. There was a moment when media companies were like relaunching or rebranding where they're like, we're going with, it was like an alternate, like, how to like signal that you were alternative. We were recode.net. Well. And now we're v-and. Then it became Vox.com.

Wait, so, okay, yeah. I've got so many media questions. Well, here, let me, let's play out this out a little bit. Okay. You are getting called in. You are a. Yes, I'm being called in. You work at the office, but you're a freelancer.

Liz and I are your boss's Jorge Ramos. You work at the office, but you're a freelancer.

Liz and I are your boss's Jorge Ramos.

Ramos.

Ramos.

And what's a woman?

Madeline Albright.

Madeline Albright.

We are your bosses here at Fusion.net. I've always thought Liz looked like her.

We call you into the office.

And it's 2013. Okay. It's 2013. Great year. We say it pre-9-11, everything's good. Bush is still in office, but he hasn't started the Iraq war yet. In 2013. In 2013? Yeah, this was a number. And we're like, Noah, we, our numbers are flagging, right?

The clicks ain't there.

What do we do?

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