After a very brief hiatus—apologies, but all is explained in the first five minutes of this episode—the lads are back. And there will be a flood of new content in the coming days, to make up for our testicular tardiness (also explained in the first five minutes of this episode). Also note: this episode was plagued by technical difficulties, but we hope, through the magic of editing, that you won’t notice.

* The procedure

* The politicization of late night continues apace

* This is our territory

* Alt weeklies that weren’t alt

* Trump’s long “All In” interview

* Could the debate move voters?

* Don’t pretend to be working class

* Louisiana and the Ten Commandments

* Actually, covet your neighbors wife

* Tell us about your culture: “Diet Coke and Starbucks and Dunkin’s”

* Who did MM see at dinner?

* Happy Juneteenth?

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