Just out of curiosity before we get to the to the meat of the season. How do you guys choose your topics?

What's that process look like? I usually tell Noah what I want to do and he obeys me.

This is why he's not on the pot at the moment. You've got him like duct taped to the wall in the background so he can't contribute.

He was dying to be on but I said no that's not happening today.

No, he's he's busy.

We have to do all the press ourselves, so you know he's off doing shows and I'm off doing shows and

we'll see where we meet in the middle.

But no, we, sometimes it's natural. I remember coming out of the Iraq season because that was our first time we thought we would actually do another season given that we weren't sure how everyone would even like the first one and we just kind of both knew, I think it was Cuba. We just thought it'd be fun to go back in time because Iraq was obviously a relatively modern conflict. And that Cuba was like just there was something about it that drew us with the way we thought of the show and what what we how we could treat it and then

Korea I think I might have made that call.

I do think I made the call for Afghanistan as well.

It wasn't just because we had just withdrawn,

Biden had withdrawn, but it didn't hurt with Afghanistan.

Yeah, there's always some kind of connection to the real world that, that, or the real world

to all this stuff's real, but to the current day, that inform you know why certain topics feel right but sometimes it's subconscious you know I I think we we just kind of

We just commune with the with the podcast spirits yeah

Vives based decision-making that's the best way to do it absolutely in a very in a kind

of very dark way it's good that you have so many things to choose from but it's

fucked up that you have so many things to choose from thanks to you know

empire and everything that we'll get into throughout

to this episode then that we got into during the previous one so just the fact

that you you know have to sit down and think okay which one out of these horrible fucked up interventions

do we talk about is already so I mean I'm gonna say it and it's a cliche but it's true. So fucking dystopian at the end of the day.

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