It's common sense with Dan Karlin.

If the energy level seems just a tad off, let's blame that on the fact that I'm recording this at night.

And normally I am a morning guy when it comes to, you know, the brain working,

the sharpest and the energy level, the highest and all that, you know, things clicking mentally with me.

But sometimes these things are just inspirational and you got to do them when the mood hits you and it's in,

it's in the evening right now. So strangely enough.

Before we get started, I just want to point out how fabulously interesting it is that people can get

mad at you for deciding you don't want to do something anymore and not

mad at you because they're mad that they won't get to hear your golden voice anymore.

But mad because they see it as a political statement or an outing, right?

We finally get to know about you because you decided to not talk about current events anymore.

Now that Joe Biden's in office and he's your guy.

I got the same stuff from the other side and a different sort of twist when you had to do the show

because Trump was president and, you know, if you weren't speaking out, then you were shirking your

duty. I mean, one way or another, it's like, if you ever signed up to talk about politics or current

events once upon a time, you're shirking your duty. If you don't keep doing it forever and it's a

conspiracy, if you decide to talk about other things or that perhaps the climate is not right for

people listening and engaging, which is sort of the climate I operate in, right?

I'm not talking to preach to acquire and Lord knows after I went on for a while, there'd be fewer

and fewer of you left because eventually I'm going to piss all of you off. We used to weave that

into the marketing and branding of the show. Remember just to keep you on your toes. Look, you're all

going to hate it at some point. And then when it would happen, you go, oh, there it is. So maybe

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