Hey, with pod listeners, we should note this conversation was recorded earlier this year.

I'm on vacation as you're hearing this.

So we're revisiting one of our favorite episodes from our inaugural with pod future of series

that we launched in March.

Hope you enjoy.

There was a whole year where we were putting in punchlines about the Mets because it worked

with the nine Mets fans who were running cables and working cameras and the security guys.

And I think that the audience at home, even for people in Europe who don't get Mets jokes,

they got that the joke wasn't the Mets joke.

The joke was that I was a comedian who was pandering to the only nine people in the room.

Right.

And the show just took on a new dimension because of that.

Hello and welcome to Wise is happening with me, your host, Chris Aides.

Really big day today.

We're excited to launch our first ever kind of thematic mini series, a special four part

mini series we're calling the future of.

And the idea of it goes like this for me.

I have found it increasingly difficult to think about the future in a way that doesn't

feel bleak.

I'm laughing because that's my coping mechanism for that fact.

But been kind of a rough few years.

I'm speaking to you right now as there's a land war on Europe following the once in

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