Hello, everybody. My name is Cody Rigsby.

And my name is Andrew Chappelle.

And if you just crashed Singular Wireless for voting for Sunjaya Malacar, this is your weekly episode of tactful pettiness.

Welcome to the episode, Friends.

Cody is buzzing. He is vibrating at a very high rate right now.

When me and Wren were coming up with this episode on Friday, we were just like, we were going.

Like it was just like, we were like, oh, fuck.

Yeah, and that and that and that.

We are doing an American Idol episode.

You know, I've said it before.

This country, this great country that we live in, the United States of America,

was never as united as it was when A, we gave the crown to Kelly Clarkson,

but just even the first season of American Idol. We were, we were united.

As Wren said, it was part of the monoculture. I don't know that we've actually achieved a monoculture

since American Idol. I would, I would also, I would also agree with that statement. Like,

with the invention of the internet, social media, we've just diverged into too many different

forks in the road.

There's too much dissension within the ranks.

Yeah.

And water cooler culture is just gone at this point.

There's only a few things in this world that get us Americans together.

And I would say, honestly, the Super Bowl is honestly the only one I can think of.

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