Brad and Mir for the Culture.

Love you, Pee.

Okay, everybody, welcome back to a brand new episode of Brad and Mira for The Culture,

the other people shows weekly pop culture assessment.

I'm Brad Listy. I am old and I am joined as always by my friend and co-host the vivacious

millennial Mira Gonzalez.

Wow, I do love these intros. They make me feel so youthful and full of zest, which I generally don't feel.

Has anyone ever called you vivacious before?

Maybe you on a past episode, but I think that's about it.

So this is a show that bridges the generational divide.

It's about popular culture, about which I don't know all that much. And then Mira, you know, you know more than I do. Though I think like as you age, maybe you know less and less. I think that's what happens. We're going to have to bring just like younger generations in as the show goes on. It's going to be like we're going to bring in gen z then we're going to bring in gen alpha then brad's going to die and then i'm going to

be the old host and then i'm going to have to find a gen z host below me yeah it's like a human

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