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Introducing: Here We Go Again With Kal Penn

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Hey, I'm Cal Penn and on my brand new podcast, here we Go Again, We're going to take today's trends and headlines and figure out why does history keep repeating itself.

You may know me as the second hottest actor from the Harold and Kumar movies, but I'm also an author, a former White House staffer, and, as of like fifteen seconds ago, a podcast host.

You know, sometimes I feel like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, where I'm watching the same never ending cycle of things that are happening over and over and over again, like bridges collapsing, Vinyl coming back, gas price is dropping, and Fantastic four being rebooted again.

Not that I'm complaining.

Pedro Pascal is obviously a zaddie.

Along the way, I've made some friends who are experts in science, politics, and pop culture, people like Bill Nye.

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In my opinion, and keep in mind, everybody in my opinion is correct, I'll o Kvade Menna, the headlines from today could have been there in nineteen forty and nineteen fifty and nineteen sixty Pepe bodhagic.

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So we don't just wind up with the Gilded Age on steroids and Stacy Abrams.

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People have always been skeptical of government, We've always been distrustful of power.

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I'll be asking them things like, why are we racing the space again?

Are we headed towards another financial crash like in two thousand and eight?

Is non monogamy back in style?

And how come there's never a gate ready for your flight when it lands like two minutes early?

By the way, seriously, someone knew the answer.

Look, the world can feel pretty scary right now, right but my goal here is for you to listen and feel a little better about the future.

Here we Go Again premieres October twenty First, you can listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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