Before we begin this week, an announcement, I'm doing a live event in Brooklyn at the Bell

House on September 26th at 6.30 p.m. It's with Stephen Dubner from Freakonomics.

I'm interviewing him and he's interviewing me.

It's unheard of, it's experimental, it might be chaotic,

if you want to come see it. There might still be tickets. We'll have a link in the show description

The Bell House September 26th and then for our European listeners, October 3rd, get yourself to Amsterdam.

We're doing a live event with the whole search engine team, the venue,

I cannot pronounce the name of the venue, I'm not going to make you laugh trying but it's a beautiful old church

October 4th Amsterdam that link will also be in the show notes

Okay episode after some ads.

McDonald's are making small improvements to our classic burgers.

Seering our patty so did juicier, adding onions at the grill for extra flavor,

new toastier buns and we're serving

them hotter for even meltier cheese the McDonald's classics now a little more

mmm

comparison with prior classic burgers served after 11 a.m. subject to availability. I'm PJ vote.

There's big questions, there's small questions, and then there's moral questions.

You can't really answer those in a breezy podcast episode. And if we're being honest, if you are living as a proper adult

nobody else really should answer them for you. But sometimes other people can

help. The very first episode of our show, our preview episode,

was about how sad the monkeys were in the zoo. It was sort of a lark, but I find myself lately thinking more about animals than I ever meant to.

I've always loved my dog, but lately I've been thinking about all the other animals,

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