[PREVIEW] Episode 101 mocks "the commons" as vague as a cafeteria, then pivots to a $75 "mud diamond" seized by a UN task force—joking about blood diamond conspiracies tied to Africa. After mispronouncing guests (Slava Franczak, Slava Brace) and sweating through a recording mishap, the host teases an upcoming deep dive into Ukraine’s overlooked history, already taped without drama. The episode blends absurdity with sharp cultural critiques, ending on a promise of geopolitical intrigue. [Automatically generated summary]
I was just thinking of a guy who's like, hey man, that guy's a real audiophile.
Like, you got to stay away from him.
That's so stupid.
I don't know.
Like, he's always, you know, I don't know.
I just looked on his computer the other day.
He was looking at these really expensive headphones, man.
Like, he's got studio speakers at his house.
Like, what are you listening to, man?
This reminds me of, I had a character when I was younger, much, much younger, but my character was the person who is like a maloprop, person with a malaprop problem.
What's maloprop?
When you accidentally use the wrong word, but it sounds very, very close to what it is.
Gotcha.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So they would be like, like, yeah, man, that's such a nautical idea.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I knew a good.
No, that's actually fucked up because I knew.
Hard on.
Hard on.
I'm going to take that clip of you saying, yeah, hard on.
I'm going to put that as my text tone for whenever I get a text tone.
It's a free country, baby.
I can do it.
It's fine for me to do.
I'm a little...
Is this how the comments works or whatever now?
Now that I've said it, it's just everyone owns it.
Is that it?
I've never done it again.
Whenever people talk about the commons, I'm like, what are you, is that a college thing?
Like, what are you talking?
Is that like the quad?
Yeah, I don't know what that is.
Commons.
It sounds like a cafeteria.
I have no interest in whatever your commons are.
I like rare things like diamonds.
Yeah, I mean, actually.
I like diamonds.
Have you ever had?
When are you buying me diamonds?
I actually, so this is crazy you mentioned this.
I bought you a super rare diamond from this kid I know.
And it turns out, so, all right, so this is kind of like a cheap thing for me to say.
So I bought the diamond and then unfortunately, like this like weird like UN task force or whatever made me give it back.
And apparently I have to go to prison or whatever, but like I'm sure to work out.
It's so romantic.
Yeah, yeah.
It's cool.
It's called like a mud diamond or something.
I wasn't really paying attention to what you said.
But yeah, it was only like $75.
One even go about buying a blood diamond.
I don't know.
It sounds more magical than I thought it would be.
I think you have to go to, does it like.
It sounds like it's a thing where it's like, you know, a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy.
And then suddenly you're like, you know, on a plane to Africa.
I'll be honest with you.
Probably our producer and I have family members involved in this business.
Boy, oh boy, oh boy.
Guess what?
I'm starting this one.
Hello.
Provice, Nick.
I was not expecting that.
Hello.
Slava Franczak!
Slava Francak!
What is Slava?
What are you saying?
Well, okay.
That's a little spoiler alert.
Well, Slava.
Well, let's say Slava, Ukraine is like.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Don't say that.
Not, yeah.
Well, I didn't say Slava Ukraina.
I said Slava Fronzak.
No one's ever, it's actually kind of an art thing.
That's not even how you say my name.
Frank Zach.
No.
It's Franzak, I know, but I was doing it in an accent.
Franczek.
No, Franczak.
If you want to do the accent.
Frenchman.
Oh, my God.
Hello.
Welcome.
My name is Liz.
My name is Slava Brace.
We're reappropriating it.
They killed us, dude.
We can say it.
We are, of course, joined by our producer, Jan Chomsky.
Slava Chomsky.
This is Truanan.
Hello.
Slava Truanon.
Hello.
Sorry, I'll stop.
I swear to God, I'll stop.
I'm really sweaty right now, baby.
I fucked up.
Why are you so sweaty?
I turned the, it was really cold in here earlier, and I turned the heat on, and now I'm hot as hell, because I forgot I have to close the doors to my bedroom when I record here.
So now I'm really.
It's like a whole hot box.
You got Asana going.
I, yeah, I'm here.
Hold on.
I'm doing this.
No, keep your shirt on, please.
Baby, just okay.
All right.
So today we've got, I think, a fun episode where we're talking about a big country that little people know about.
Meaning few people know about.
I want to kind of give us a pat on the back here because we've already recorded the interview.