Tony Hinchcliffe

It's true.

The only black male on the podcast is whatever the Israeli government has on these guys.

Black male.

All right.

But seriously, to the all-in squad, thanks for all you do to promote healthy discourse and share perspectives across culture, tech, and politics.

What you all have built is special and transcends partisanship.

I'm honored to be here tonight, and I'm very proud to now call each of you my friends.

Also, can I borrow some money?

Well, that was fun.

Yeah, I just built the show that I wanted to do.

I always was very lucky early on at the Comedy Store to get to host the open mics there, which are three minute long sets.

on Sundays and Mondays with 40 comedians in a row doing three minutes, three minutes, three minutes, three minutes.

And I would go up after each comedian did three minutes and make fun of them.

And every once in a while afterwards, go up to them personally and say, hey, you know, if you took a breath sometimes or, you know, used pauses or sped up or got the mic close to your mouth, little advice.

here and there, and me and my friends would always have so much fun sitting in the back of the room watching these open mics and the things that we would whisper into each other's ears.

I thought were so funny.

We'd be in the back of the room.

Sometimes we'd be the only people laughing at the open mic because of what we're saying to each other.

And I thought to myself during this time in which everyone was saying, Tony, you have to do a podcast.

You got to do a podcast.