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It's Topics, the podcast where two comedians get serious about topics.

I'm Michael Ian Black, joined as always by Michael Schovaldor.

It's great to be here.

I'm very excited to be jumping into our third season.

You know, if you had asked me back when we started this, I don't know what year it was,

but when we started this, if we would be around for a third season, you know, I would have said I hope so, but I certainly didn't anticipate the success that we've had.

Well, the network just keeps picking us up, you know?

It's, you know, I feel really blessed today because it is our third season, the first episode of our first season.

And the main thing that I take away from the first two seasons is not only what I've learned, and I've learned a lot, more importantly, what I have yet to learn.

Hmm.

So interesting.

I've seen, I've just seen my horizons expand so much further than I ever thought they could.

Just, just by talking about these, these topics in a serious way. I mean,

yes, funny things happen and that's great when they do. It's fine. We certainly don't censor that.

But talking seriously about serious topics has really just expanded my horizons and just made me

see things in a whole different way. Like right now, I'm in my home, and, you know, I'm looking at the wall.

You know, a wall I'm looking at.

But because of topics, I'm thinking, well, what is that wall?

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