This is a headgum podcast.

I don't know the truth.

I don't know the way.

I don't know what to think.

I don't know what to say.

Yeah, but that's all right.

That's okay.

I don't know anything.

Hello and welcome back to Factually.

I'm Adam Conover.

It's Friday, so we're breaking down the news with a smart person and a funny person.

And as usual, the funny person is smart and the smart person is funny.

And I am neither.

Welcome, I want to welcome this week. Aaron Gloria Ryan. Welcome. Hi. Thank you. You're the host of hysteria on Crooked Media. Anything else that, I mean, I've known you for many years. I know, God. I was describing how I knew you to somebody that I worked with. I was like, I'm going on Adam's podcast. and they were like, how do you know him?

And I was like, well, sit down.

I am, I have a substack now. I sometimes do stuff for MS now, like written stuff just to keep the byline up. But for the most part, I'm like a mom, a lot. So I have my job and then my other job that sucks. And, you know, now I here I am. And let me say where we first met, which was on the failed reboot of Best Week Ever on VH-VH-1, not the original. No. And not the Paul of Tompkins version. No. The third version, nobody remembers that I was mostly cut out from. You had my back in the writer's room, though. I did have your back in the writers.

The cast of that show, when I tell people who was in the cast, they were like, are you, are you kidding me? How was this not the, can we swear? Yeah, you can swear. Are you fucking kidding me? This is how, how did this show not succeed? And it's like, well, I don't really want to go into it. But, no, was like Michael Chey, Allie Wong, you, Michelle Boutot, Pete Lee.

Like there were all of these really, really talented people in the cast, and they were wasted.

Like, they just were not used to their potential at all.

Because the executives of VH1 hated all of us.

They would be like,

not funny.

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