The handheld camera, chaotic hallways, and droning twenty-four-hour news in the background all alert us to the fact that we are still in 2001. Matt's watching the news, boggled as to how it's going to take "weeks" to defeat the Afghanis. He and Danny start pedeconferencing, Danny saying that the past few days have really shown him that he and Matt will be ready to take over the show from Wes when he retires. Matt doesn't want to be talking about this, since Wes is still in the hospital and all, and he'll never retire. And he certainly won't go down in a hail of bullets, screaming about how TV is for shit these days, what with its twenty-four-hour Fear Factor marathons and all. Matt, the newspaper from the last scene still in his hand, tells Danny about Karl Rove's Hollywood excursion. Danny says that news is three days old, but Matt's just getting to it now because he spent the last three days looking for material that wasn't controversial. "I've been lookin' at news on J. Lo," Matt laments, and considering that the fall of 2001 was her "Yes, Cris Judd. Seriously!" phase, I can see where Matt would encounter some difficulty. Matt continues to push the Rove story while Danny downplays it, in no small part because Jack Rudolph was one of the executives Rove met with. So they're both talking around the fact that Jack is trying to restrict content due to political expediency, while Matt makes his pitch for a sketch about Rove and the producers "trying to beat the terrorists with movie pitches." Danny says that's exactly what they were told not to write about, but Matt says the sketch is about Hollywood, a subject Jack explicitly said they could write about. Matt finally gets to the meat of his argument: if they go on the air with content that ignores what's going on in the world, they become irrelevant. Danny says that he hates being irrelevant and asks for a first draft of the sketch so he can run it by Wes. He asks Matt to do his best not to get them fired, seeing as the show is all he has. Hold up a sec, I'm beginning to make a connection between Danny's situation back in 2001 and --