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Speaker 1: Let's let's include all the Hello the Internet, and welcome

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Speaker 1: to this week trend episodes, weekend trends, weekend trends, it,

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Speaker 1: weeknd trends on Like, guys, my mic sounds nice, my

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Speaker 1: mic sounds nice. My mic sounds nice. That super producer

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Speaker 1: Brian Jeffery louis but he was here, I'm here, We're

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Speaker 1: here together. It's gonna be the last weekend trending episode

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Speaker 1: of the year of twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 2: Damn, what year is it?

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Speaker 1: Jack, I've been looking through We're gonna do some best

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Speaker 1: of episodes over the break for people to listen to

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Speaker 1: don't know, that's not an excuse. I've been only looking

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Speaker 1: made me say, twenty twenty two, I'm Jack. That is

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Speaker 1: super producer Brian Miles is a way on assignment, just

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Speaker 1: getting a little relaxatione that's his assignment, and that's going

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Speaker 1: to be all of our assignments in three short days.

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Speaker 1: But for now, we're still here. We are here to

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Speaker 1: tell you what is trending this weekend, but first we

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Speaker 1: like to tell you a little bit about ourselves and

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Speaker 1: what we think by telling you something we think is

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Speaker 1: underrated and overrated. So, Brian, do you want to kick

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Speaker 1: us off with something you think is underrated?

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Speaker 2: Underrated? I'm going to go very very literal.

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Speaker 3: That new Obama movie, Leave the World Behind, is getting

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Speaker 3: review bombed on Metacritic.

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Speaker 1: I love the Obama movie, calling it the Obama movie.

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Speaker 1: He's all up. I mean, you know, I'm not going

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Speaker 3: I keep calling it the Obama movie because I didn't

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Speaker 3: was like, Obama, that's a lot Obama. And I was like, huh,

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Speaker 3: Obama made another movie. And I sat down and I

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Speaker 3: Know, good performances, and uh, you know, it's very good performances.

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Speaker 3: Some familiar faces and Yeah, Yeah, I was unaware of

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Speaker 2: It's because it's produced by.

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Speaker 1: My underrated, Brian is the psychological complexity of the home

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Speaker 1: There is part of her that is consciously doing this.

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Speaker 1: It's not a coincidence that it happens twice. This is

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Speaker 3: Okay, so this film is called Soft and Quiet, and

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Speaker 3: Soft and Quiet forces the viewer to confront the ugly

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Speaker 3: I guess what's really overrated are films that nonsensical and silly,

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Speaker 3: So it was ended up being Yeah, it ended up

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Speaker 2: And yeah, it's it's it totally gets racist.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, a literally overrated film, soft and quiet piece

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Speaker 3: with like your Joe Biden's they have shareholders essentially, like

438
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Speaker 3: there's a bunch of people in line ahead of the

439
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Speaker 3: constituency that he has to appease, right, Yeah, so with

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Speaker 3: an authoritarian he's free to just throw that out the

441
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 3: fucking window and do whatever he wants. Now that doesn't

442
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 3: that might not be good for a lot of the constituency.

443
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Speaker 3: But it's oddly closer, I want to say, because.

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Speaker 1: In theory seems like it could be close.

445
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:32,159
Speaker 2: Because it's not.

446
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 3: He's not He's not necessarily going to appease the shareholders first.

447
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 3: He's going to appease his ego right much better, and

448
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 3: that there might be a little more crossover with the

449
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 3: people who are into what he's throwing down. You have to,

450
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 3: you know, get something out of it. I don't know

451
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 3: what that's something is, but they're getting something out of it.

452
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 3: They're and I think white supremacy.

453
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think for white supremacists, this is you know,

454
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 1: the answer to a lot of like long held beliefs

455
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 1: where they're like, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

456
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 1: Everyone's acting like whites aren't supreme and the But I also, yeah,

457
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 1: I think there's something that's very real there with people

458
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 1: looking at you know, Joe Biden trying to forgive student

459
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 1: debt and like throwing his hands up and being like,

460
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 1: it's out of my hands. Guys are like trying to

461
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 1: pass like this progressive legislation that he promised, and you know,

462
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 1: just repeatedly saying it out of my hands.

463
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Speaker 3: And if anything good happens, it's like some weird little

464
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Speaker 3: rider on some other ship that's for us.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So I don't know. I just think the

466
00:29:55,840 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: it's being treated as like Trump is succeeding just despite

467
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 1: the authoritarian like him saying these authoritarian things. And I

468
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 1: think it's probably more accurate that he's succeeding at least

469
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: partially because of that, which is fucking scary, a scary

470
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: place for the country to be. So yeah, not great. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, let's take a quick break and we'll be back.

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Speaker 1: And we're back, and Arlington National Cemetery will remove their

473
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Speaker 1: Confederate memorial this week, So there we go. Years. That's right.

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Speaker 1: It sits an Arlington National Cemetery and it is set

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Speaker 1: to be removed later this week out by the end

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Speaker 1: of the year, per a Department of Defense directive on

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Speaker 1: renaming and or removing Confederate monuments. Republicans, of course, not

478
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Speaker 1: happy about this, claiming the memorial should stay because, according

479
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Speaker 1: to a letter signed by more than forty House Republicans,

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Speaker 1: it does not honor nor commemorate the Confederacy, this Confederate monument,

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00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 1: but rather the memorial commemorates reconciliation and national unity. Uh huh?

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Speaker 2: And who what is the statue of it?

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Speaker 1: I believe there are slaves involved in it, and so

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Speaker 1: even the Arlington National Cemetery website admits the sculpture includes

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Speaker 1: a nostalgic, mythologized vision of the Confederacy with highly sanitized

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Speaker 1: depictions of slavery.

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Speaker 2: Hmm.

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Speaker 1: And among those calling for the statue's removal include the

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Speaker 1: family of the original artist, who said in a statement

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Speaker 1: that quote, this statue intended to rewrite history to justify

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Speaker 1: the Confederacy and the subsequent racist Jim Crow laws. It

492
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Speaker 1: glorifies the fight to own human beings, and in its

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Speaker 1: portrayal of African Americans, implies their collusion. So it seems

494
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Speaker 1: like not a great statue that you'd think they would

495
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Speaker 1: be removing by breaking it to pieces or like putting

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Speaker 1: it in a mysterious warehouse next to the Arc of

497
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Speaker 1: the Covenant. But actually it's just moving to a different park.

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Speaker 1: Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin is going to move it to

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Speaker 1: a new Market Battlefield State Historical Park where video DA

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Speaker 1: has no power.

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Speaker 3: So one of my favorite battlefield parks, good one.

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Speaker 1: The water slides are sick there. Oh oh man. All right,

503
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Speaker 1: So there's this New York Posts article that they just

504
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: continue to try and sweatily dunk on young people to

505
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 1: just I think they're just like harvesting boomer rage clicks

506
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 1: by being like, look at it, look at these helpless youngs.

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00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 2: So let's see who wrote this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, somebody who probably just knows what their

509
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Speaker 1: editors want. But one of their articles that made the

510
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Speaker 1: social media rounds this weekend blasted gen Z's menu anxiety problem.

511
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Speaker 1: Kids today are just quote too scared to order their

512
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Speaker 1: own meals. Gen Z suffers from menu anxiety when dining out,

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Speaker 1: with many too scared to order their own meals, is

514
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 1: the tweet from the New York Post. So the science

515
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Speaker 1: is there. I mean, this is based on a study

516
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Speaker 1: conducted by British pizza chain, which is where most of

517
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Speaker 1: our most of the science that we cite on this

518
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 1: show is studies from various pizza chains, not always British,

519
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 1: but because British pizza chains don't make pizza that anyone

520
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: wants to eat. They have one of time for research.

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Speaker 2: I was wondering. I was like, is that going to

522
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Speaker 2: be any good?

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Speaker 1: Best pizza I had in the like time that I

524
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Speaker 1: spent living in Ireland, which I know is not Britain,

525
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 1: but uh, it was pizza Hut up Pizza Hut personal

526
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 1: pan pizza. So ouch, that's maybe maybe it's changed. That

527
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,320
Speaker 1: was a long time ago, but I hope so. And also,

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00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:28,359
Speaker 1: like the menu, anxiety was reportedly triggered by, uh, the

529
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Speaker 1: increasingly exorbitant cost of a meal out. Like even the

530
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:36,359
Speaker 1: study says that, so, like the headline makes it sound

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Speaker 1: like anyone under thirties just like irrationally afraid of an

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00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:42,720
Speaker 1: inanimate object like the menu.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, I hate the framing of this, Like yeah,

534
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 3: it's you know, it's clearly that. I mean, you look

535
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Speaker 3: at the the author's page, and they clearly have some

536
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 3: sort of mandate to work gen Z into at least

537
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 3: at least thirty percent of their headlines. What else you

538
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 3: got on there, Well, there's one that says gen z

539
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,839
Speaker 3: ers hate email, but so do the rest of us.

540
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 2: What do we do now?

541
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: And it's like, what.

542
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 2: The fuck does that have to do with anything?

543
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 1: But that's amazing. Yeah, but I mean that like, so, yeah,

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00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:24,319
Speaker 1: it's just anxiety around how much it costs to eat out,

545
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:29,759
Speaker 1: which is very understandable, understandable and common to everyone. Like

546
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 1: hatred of email, everybody can identify with that, and also

547
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 1: like anxiety around decision making has always been a thing,

548
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:44,840
Speaker 1: like choice overload. Choice fatigue has been studied for decades.

549
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Speaker 3: I've had many, many people in my life who, yeah,

550
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 3: like eating out with like a group of people and

551
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 3: that that for some people, that's pressure, like having everybody's

552
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 3: ordering in a circle and you gotta be ready when

553
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:01,880
Speaker 3: the person gets to you. And yeah, it's just that

554
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,799
Speaker 3: some people out just eating out the side. So it's

555
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 3: like I can totally see.

556
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,919
Speaker 2: How Yeah, yeah, let me see.

557
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 3: I mean I don't really go out to the new

558
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:14,839
Speaker 3: places unless I check out the menu first.

559
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Speaker 2: It's just what you do. I don't know.

560
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,880
Speaker 1: To me, I if yelp didn't exist, I wouldn't know

561
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Speaker 1: what to order. I yeah, ordering that is a thing,

562
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: Like ordering at a restaurant is a skill, and some

563
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,839
Speaker 1: people have it, and some people use yelp to cheat

564
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 1: at it and I am in the latter category, but

565
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 1: like in the same way that you know they say that,

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Speaker 1: like Chuck Close, the great portrait artist, had face blindness,

567
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 1: but like in having face blindness, you like break the

568
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Speaker 1: face down into its component parts and like do an

569
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 1: amazing job of like painting a portrait. I because I

570
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 1: don't have the skill, like I look at a menu

571
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:01,360
Speaker 1: and I don't see music. I see like a bunch

572
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: of choices of like things ways that this could go

573
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 1: horribly wrong, And so I recognize in other people like

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Speaker 1: this is a great skill that some people have, and

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Speaker 1: I will just cheat off of their order. I'll be like,

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Speaker 1: you order first, and then I'll be like, I'll have

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Speaker 1: what he's having, because they are better at it than that.

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00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 3: Like I work with like archetypes, Like I'm very habitual.

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Speaker 3: So it's like if I go to a certain genre

580
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:33,720
Speaker 3: of restaurant, I already have an idea in my mind

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Speaker 3: of what sort of thing I'm gonna get, whether or

582
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Speaker 3: not whether or not I've been there before.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm going to Italian. You know.

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Speaker 3: I like creamy sauces and like salty meats and stuff

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Speaker 3: like that.

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00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 1: Man, that's also what I like. But saying creamy sauces

587
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: and salty meats just grosses me up for some reason.

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00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 1: But yeah, what do you have? Do you ever do

589
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 1: you ever verbalize it that way? What do you have

590
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:06,439
Speaker 1: that's creamy sauce and salty meat?

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00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 2: It only when I want to embarrass my partner.

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00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. You having a salty meat?

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00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 2: Good sir, I'll have your finest salty meats please.

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00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: Well, I does not like salty things, and so it

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Speaker 1: has been called to my attention that I eat some

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Speaker 1: saltyes meats. I ate some salty s everything.

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Speaker 2: I love me some pan chetta, man.

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00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so good, get that chetta. By chetta, I

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00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 1: mean pan chetta. Finally, the Pope has okayed same sex

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Speaker 1: blessings with a massive asterisk, but the formally approved same

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Speaker 1: sex blessings in a new document that also stresses that

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Speaker 1: people shouldn't be subject to exhaustive moral analysis.

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00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 2: Which is weird coming from Catholicism.

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Speaker 1: But it seems to be like a eternal machine of

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Speaker 1: exhaustive moral analysis.

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Speaker 3: I can't think of a better definition for Catholicism than that.

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Speaker 1: But this is the cool Pope. This is the come

608
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Speaker 1: on man, just love one anothers dope, that's right, has it?

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Speaker 1: Do we know? Has this pope smoked weed? Has he

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Speaker 1: comment I'm come out soon enough.

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00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 2: Smoking a blunt.

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Speaker 1: Guy like that? Come on, No way, he's not getting high,

613
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:37,840
Speaker 1: not token up. But yeah, so seemingly a far cry

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Speaker 1: from the Vatican's previous Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Yeah,

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00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: of course that we all we remember when that bomb

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00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:52,279
Speaker 1: dropped and we were all just eagerly reading. But that

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Speaker 1: one stated the Church can't bless the unions of two

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Speaker 1: men or two women because God cannot bless Sinkay, let's

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Speaker 1: just say they say the same shit about like any

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Speaker 1: couple that had premarital sex. You know. But the Church

621
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Speaker 1: is not the coolest hippist of institutions. But so the

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Speaker 1: new document follows up on a letter that Pope Francis

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Speaker 1: published in October which suggested that there could be ways.

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00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,759
Speaker 1: There could be ways, and I've been talking to God,

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00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 1: there might be some ways to bless same sex unions,

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Speaker 1: like maybe if I do it with my eyes closed,

627
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:37,920
Speaker 1: maybe I do it with my eyes up closed. Sorry

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00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 1: for South America or.

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Speaker 2: Whatever wherever he's from. I don't know where he's from.

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Speaker 1: The Brazilian Argentinian. He's from he was just Italian, just

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Speaker 1: a couple tiny massive caveats here. The document reaffirms the

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Speaker 1: church's position that marriage is only between a man and

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Speaker 1: a woman, and stress this is that any blessings conferred

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00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 1: upon a same sex couple can't be done at the

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00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 1: same time as a civil union, or using set rituals

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00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: from a civil union, or even with the clothing and

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00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:16,919
Speaker 1: gestures that belong in a wedding. So the church can

638
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 1: now bless a gay couple, but they'd better not be

639
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 1: dressed in formal wear. Is essentially the rules here.

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00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 3: So it's the church's version of civil union. They just

641
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 3: they changed all the trappings. But you can still get it. Yeah,

642
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 3: but it's just we can't call it what it is.

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00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:36,279
Speaker 1: Yeah.

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00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:41,839
Speaker 2: Use God will get mad, Yeah, and he'll send locusts.

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00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 1: He will, he will send locusts and various boxes upon

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00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 1: your house. The document also underscores that any quote irregular

647
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,280
Speaker 1: unions are in a state of sin, So these couples

648
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:57,800
Speaker 1: can still receive a blessing, which is like a nice

649
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: wave from the pope on their way to hell, according

650
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:04,880
Speaker 1: to the Catholic Church, Like all right, well that was nice.

651
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 2: He's like, all right, have a nice chipsy.

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00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:15,919
Speaker 1: Next exactly anyways, So unclear where this all shakes out.

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Speaker 1: I would say we'll continue to pay attention and try

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Speaker 1: and like rank all the orders of importance of the

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Speaker 1: blessing versus the statement that it's still a thin But

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Speaker 1: I have been advised against exhaustive moral analysis, so I

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Speaker 1: think I'll just you know, ignore the ship and continue

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Speaker 1: to try and just be kind to people. Seems like

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Speaker 1: maybe a way to go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but what are you getting out of it though?

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Speaker 1: That's right? I don't know. Yeah, Now I'm going to

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Speaker 1: go back to the Catholic Church way, because that way

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Speaker 1: I can just like read up a lot on these

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Speaker 1: all these doctrines and then sound smart as hell and

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Speaker 1: maybe find a way to tie in Taylor Swift to

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Speaker 1: my condemnation of the modern world. All right, Ryan, that's

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Speaker 1: gonna do it for us. On this Monday, December eighteenth,

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Speaker 1: we are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of

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Speaker 1: the show. Where can people find You? Follow you any

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Speaker 1: of that good stuff?

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Speaker 2: You can't find me?

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Speaker 1: Can't find me? Yeah, leave them alone? How about that?

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Speaker 2: And you can't fool me again?

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Speaker 1: Can't fool me again? We want shame on you pool

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Speaker 1: me twice. You can't get fooled again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, all right back tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves,

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Speaker 1: get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and

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Speaker 1: we will talk to you all tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Bye bye