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72 Episodes In: Pitching Where the Show Goes Next
from This Is No Way To Live · #72
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3 minTim and Ray discuss burning out on guests and topics after 72 episodes, joking about needing a new dark subject like organ trafficking to replace their sex-abuse-scandal coverage.
- 50:48Tim asks Shannon about eating pasta in Italy and jokes that Italians spend their time lounging around eating pasta and abusing underage women.
- 51:00Dana White's hypothetical take: she'd complain that Olive Garden portions are better because they keep bringing more bread.
- 51:36At 72 episodes, Tim says they're starting to hate every guest they've had on and need new material from the world to discuss.
- 52:06The show has been shepherding the gate on sex abuse scandals for months, but now other people are handling it and they need to find something else to break apart.
- 52:24Tim pitches going deeper into economics, mentioning Bethany McLean, or pivoting toward darker topics like human trafficking and organ harvesting.
- 52:46He considers covering organ trafficking and people who cut organs out of you as a potential new direction for the show.
sex abuse scandalsBethany McLeanShannonorgan traffickingDanaFreddie Mac