(BNS) Baratunde Thurston

I'm at the beginning of that for The Daily Show. I came in with Trevor Mhmm. Right as he took over from Jon Stewart, and I was the only new executive on his team. So if you can imagine, you know, a president coming into an administration, but all their cabinet is the previous administration's leadership. That was the case for Trevor except for me. And it was, you know, over time, he staffed and people adjusted to his voice, but I was there at the very beginning of that and and helping The Daily Show catch up to Internet speed. They really hadn't prioritized that. In many ways, they didn't need to. With the first Jon Stewart era, like, they could ride off of the strength of tradition and his strong, center of gravity and and, his knownness. You know what I'm saying? Whereas Trevor was not known at all in The US. And so he was, like, really open to the network was really open to let's experiment. Alright, Thunde Thurston. Thanks for coming on to talk to me once again. Brian, it's good to be back with you, and hello, everyone, including robots. Including, the AI that's scraping this right now. Yeah. When we spoke, a previous time, we got into, like, your tech background. You grew up in DC. I think you told me the story of how you got into computers, but, do that again. I your your mother was a a computer programmer. Right? Yeah. I was literally born into technology, Brian. My mother was a a programmer, systems analyst was her formal title for the Department of the Treasury, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Something in the late seventies, early eighties, she got her official certification. In fact, I was going through her files. She passed twenty years ago, and I found the letter, the formal letter saying, like, Congratulations! You're a computer programmer. And that's how it would happen. They sent you a letter, put it on a piece of paper and told you were certified. So she was in charge of, what in charge she worked on a team that was, like, overseeing national banks. She coded in COBOL, and I remember going to work with her. I remember her bringing a computer home. The first computer box I remember was Tandy. And, yeah, PCs started making their way into our house, and that really launched my exploration of this other way to connect and create and find opportunity and start fights and just be a human with the, technology of the time. I recommend, anyone searching first ones with Baratunde Thurston, for more details about the his his tech background. But okay. What I have not not asked you before about is comedy. And I wanna I wanna almost ask the Marc Maron question, like, who are your guys? Who who were your people that inspired, comedy for you? When I was a kid, that same mother, you …