The intro to Rachel Maddow’s Wednesday night show — a two minute geography lesson — was arguably the most boring television moment of the day.
Maddow launched into her show with an explanation of the pronunciation and location of a Nevada town called “Calnevari,” which rests in the intersection of California, Nevada, and Arizona.
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“[Calnevari] sounds like a pasta, I know,” Maddow droned. “It’s not…It has about 200-300 people in it. It’s on route 95. I have driven through Calnevari.”
“It’s way out in the desert, but it is emphatically not in the middle of nowhere,” she exclaimed.
Apparently, Maddow’s entire point was to compare Calnevari to Al-Tanf, a similarly situated town in Syria that was the site of a recent ISIS attack on U.S. troops.
“[Al-Tanf] has that same function on the map,” Maddow elaborated. “It is memorable in the same way in how it fits on the map.”