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Let's let's include all the Hello the Internet, and welcome to this week trend episodes, weekend trends, weekend trends, it, weeknd trends on Like, guys, my mic sounds nice, my mic sounds nice. My mic sounds nice. That super producer Brian Jeffery louis but he was here, I'm here, We're here together. It's gonna be the last weekend trending episode of the year of twenty twenty two.
Damn, what year is it?
Jack, I've been looking through We're gonna do some best of episodes over the break for people to listen to in addition to our evergreen ones, and so I've been looking back over the past couple years of episodes. I don't know, that's not an excuse. I've been only looking at twenty twenty three episodes, and for some reason that
made me say, twenty twenty two, I'm Jack. That is super producer Brian Miles is a way on assignment, just getting a little relaxatione that's his assignment, and that's going to be all of our assignments in three short days. But for now, we're still here. We are here to tell you what is trending this weekend, but first we like to tell you a little bit about ourselves and what we think by telling you something we think is
underrated and overrated. So, Brian, do you want to kick us off with something you think is underrated?
Underrated? I'm going to go very very literal.
That new Obama movie, Leave the World Behind, is getting review bombed on Metacritic.
I love the Obama movie, calling it the Obama movie. He's all up. I mean, you know, I'm not going to call him an au tour, but his his fingerprints are all over that some bitch man.
I keep calling it the Obama movie because I didn't plan on watching this movie, right. I was just I was just passing through the living room and my partner was putting the movie on and she happened to She was like, Obama, that's a lot Obama. And I was like, huh, Obama made another movie. And I sat down and I watched it. I knew nothing about it, and I found it perfectly.
Enjoyable, perfectly diverting, and you.
Know, good performances, and uh, you know, it's very good performances. Some familiar faces and Yeah, Yeah, I was unaware of this movie's existence, and you know, it was like a pleasant, little small surprise that it wasn't awful.
Yeah, and didn't waste my time.
The effects are really cool. It's like, it's definitely, I don't know, it's kind of appropriate to me that it is an Obama So so you're saying it's getting a review bombed because.
It's because it's produced by.
Produced by the Obamas. It's just one of the movies that they threw their weight behind as part of their Netflix production deal. Basically, and I.
Have to assume it's based off of some book that he likes or some ship.
I don't even know.
I think that's right from his reading list. Yeah, guy's a fucking dork. It's uh. I think it's my favorite trailer of the year. The trailer with the LCD sound system, Oh Baby song over It is a blast. I then was so overcome by the trailer that I went and saw it in theaters and then I won't dig too much into spoilers. Love the trailer doesn't love the film quite as much, but I highly recommend checking out the trailer if it speaks to you, check out the movie.
It is the number one trending movie on Netflix, and that I think means it's probably been viewed more times than most films that came out this year.
I remember what.
The other thing that caught my attention was that it starts with like a banger song. I don't know who does the song, but it starts with like hip hop music.
Yeah, just blaring, and I'm like, the fuck are you watching?
And then throughout the film number one, this score sounds like us.
It sounds like some Colombo type shit.
There's these weird little piano chords that when somebody said something and some spooky happens, it's like a like a your piano chord, which was tickling me. And the music was like they were playing that one song by next about getting a boner while dancing.
Uh huh.
Yeah, I like the music. Yeah, there was a lot to like, I'd say, yeah.
Lots of like the literal the very like intentional off putting music cues seems to be a thing that's happening like May, if you've seen May December, there's like some piano music that is like really strange and draws attention to itself, And yeah, I feel like there's a lot of like little music cuesing this that draw attention themselves. My underrated, Brian is the psychological complexity of the home alone films. I watched the home alone films over the weekend with my children.
Now, which ones did you watch? Did you watch the only the.
Just the mac ones? Okay, yeah, just the ones from that I had seen as a child and had not looked at since and viewing it as a parent. This seems to be a film about an attempted very late stage abortion, Like is what I'm taking from it? Like, so I have you know, I've talked before about like my my theory, Like we have like different people, different personalities inside of us, and like sometimes they're acting without
the conscious self being aware. So when someone is like, ah, I keep sabotaging myself, I think that's literally what is happening oftentimes, Like there's a part of you that doesn't want the career that and it's like sabotaging that career, or like there's a part of you that doesn't want that relationship, and so that part of you is actually like working outside of your conscious mind to you know,
get you out of that relationship. By sabotaging it. Anyways, this is what I think is happening with Kevin's mom in Home Alone and Home Alone too, And I don't think I'm at like I think this is all kind of what the filmmakers intend, Like I don't think they would necessarily call it a movie about an attempted late stage, very late stage abortion, But like there's so Catherine O'Hare the mom, Like there's a conscious part of her that knows she's supposed to be a loving mother and like
gestures towards that. But I think there's another part of her deeper down where like language doesn't reach, that comes through in her eyes when she looks at Kevin that truly wishes he wasn't around.
Like.
You you see it when she sends him to bed without dinner after he like he literally spills milk at dinner in the first movie, in like the first ten minutes of the first movie and is sent to bed in the attic without dinner. And the first thing that I noticed about the scene was that Katherine O'Hare is like looking at him with the deadest eyes, And I'm like, she's a good actor, that's like, why is she And she's saying wild shit and while sending this kid to
bed without eating. The next part I notice is that she doesn't realize he's not with them in the airport, which they're carrying fuller, who's the other kid who's around his age? Which is what you do when you're in a hurry at the airport. You pick up anything under the age of ten, and you are carrying that shit because they are going to get lost otherwise. That's the first thing you see as a parent, like traveling with kids as hell for a reason they are not for one second out of your thoughts.
You'd be tiny and distractable.
Yeah, like I carry my kid on my shoulder, like when I'm running late, Like I just like throw them over like he's a sack of potatoes. But the real thing that I think everyone remembers that kind of proves my point is the scene where she leaps forward and goes come on, Because so there's part of her that knows she left the kid.
Yeah, like that she she's fully the part of fully aware.
There's part of her that's fully aware that's trying to get through to the conscious part of her mind, but not until they're off the ground. It's not, it's not getting through until they're off the ground. She doesn't have to look in the back, Like she's not like, oh wait, no, there's no way we left Kevin, like go back.
It's only her.
Yeah, she's the only one. Yeah, right, because well I think that there there is like the dad is among the dumbest dad characters we've ever seen outside of like a fucking beer commercial or like a I guess not beer, like a hardware commercial or something like that. Dads are dumb, commercial commercial dumb. Yeah, he's very he's commercial dad dumb. Yeah, and and uh she but so she she realizes it.
She's like, oh my god, we left him without checking in the back because the kids are sitting in coach and the parents are sitting in first class. Something that she's like, oh my god, don't you feel like a heel kind of that we're sitting in first class and the kids are in coach. So they're just bad, bad people. But once so, once the jig is up and her conscious mind is now aware that she left Kevin, she makes like one call to the cops. She like, she
makes a call to the cops. The cops like send her to family Services appropriately they're like, well, there's clearly something going on here. Then she's like sent back to the cops. They they send one cop by to do a wellness check on him and are like there's nobody here. So my brain before was distracted by those are the worst cops in the world. But she's just like okay with that. She doesn't like keep harassing. She's not on
the phone continuously with the local police. I feel like she's just checking off the boxes of what a loving mother would do so that, like she has, she can continue to tell herself she does not want this kid dead, but that's I think ultimately what she wants until she gets home and sees that he's kept the house neat, at which point she's like, okay, you're acceptable, because like, yeah, she clearly has big problems with like messiness, and when
he spilled that thing, she was like, no, fuck this. And then the fact that it happens again in a second movie at a certain point, you're trying to kill this kid. But again when she realizes it, she just faints straight away. Like there's the scene probably less iconic, but where they're at the bag claim she's like, here, give this back to Kevin. It goes down the thing and then they're like, Kevin's not here. And the second she hears the phrase Kevin's not here, she just screams
Kevin and then faints dead away. So again she knows that they've left him or lost him. In the second one. There is part of her that is consciously doing this. It's not a coincidence that it happens twice. This is a movie about a very conflicted mother who does not like her son taking taking matters into her own hands, is my theory. Interesting?
Interesting, I was not that long ago.
I was.
I was watching a group of movies because I was trying to find the worst movie mother. Yeah, but I totally forgot about Home Alone.
Really not great parenting. The other loose theory that I think you could probably also make the case for is that she does it all consciously and it is just checking off the boxes, just trying to make it so that it seems like, you know, she actually gives a shit, but full sociopathic like Kevin's not here and we actually don't need to. Granted, this is putting all the pressure on her and not the dad, but as we mentioned,
the dad is commercial dumb so you can't. You just have to assume she all the weight is on her shoulders, which isn't fair and maybe a reason why she's trying to off one of these little fuckers. So just just my read on the Home Alone franchise. Also just an incredible amount of hyper violence in both movies. The second one in particular is like it's wild because in the second one, he catches them at a like toy store.
They're robbing a toy store. Everything about like storytelling and like who the target demographic is for this movie suggests, Oh, he's going to use toys to trap them and like torture them, and Nope, Instead he like lures them to a kill house and repeatedly kills them, like repeatedly does things that would murder any living organism, like a brick from like four stories up thrown straight into the forehead.
All of these stunts individually would kill a man, yes, easily, And.
It just keeps it keeps going, Yeah, it's yeah, it's something.
It's wild. I'm really curious if anybody knows the backstory to Home Alone two, if there was like a last minute rewrite by the guy who would go on to direct Saw or something, because everything is leaning up to that moment, is like, yeah, he's just gonna like use nerf guns to like trap and trick these guys, and.
Instead McAllister is actually the saw Man when he.
I think there is a theory online, a loose theory, that he is like Jigsaw as a child. Yeah. Anyways, uh yeah, I'm very curious how how that came about, how the Home Alone to Kill House came about, Like why they weren't just like, yeah, it would be funny if he like used toys, because that was what he
did in the first one. He used toys like as weapons against these guys, and they were like, we gotta up it, man, we got to like take the violence to like at least the level of the equalizer, you know, Like it's like it is really like he just takes them into an abandoned house like a murderer and then uses just industrial strength weapons to murder them repeatedly.
I wonder if you could change the the entire tone of the film by just changing the score to make it feel more appropriate.
Yeah, and then just adding like some blood sprays here and there with CDs.
Some spooky piano stingers.
Yeah, well that that actually leads into my overrated which is the high pitched choral thing that I don't know, I just noticed. It's the second verse of Nat King Coles Silent Night, which is in heavy rotation around this time of year. It goes from Nat King Cole singing Silent Night, which you know, great one of the great voices, you know, seems like it was built to sing Silent Night, and then the second verse is like all of these
high pitched chral like like just overlapping. It's also in a lot of early Disney movies, So I just think I think it was a thing that people had seen live before recorded music, and we're like this shit goes like this is this is a transfixing, transformative experience, and
then they just tried to like put it everywhere. And it's also I think it's the sound that you hear when like in two thousand and one the Space Odyssey where they see the big black obelesque or is that what that thing's called the big black Domino monolith and yeah it so it just has like creepy connotations now, so I mean not there's I guess nobody's really using it anymore for any reason other than to creep people out. But it's just it's really a bad one.
Yeah, it's it's firmly in the realm of cliche. Yeah, almost to the point where it's like it's reserved for like comedy bits.
Yeah. I think though.
It's shorthand for spooky now.
Yeah, And it just feels like I think this is the thing that happens still is people underestimate the difference between like music that sounds good live and it's fun to see and then like recorded music. We're still like we're working with that gap, yeah somehow, And so I don't know that this feels like the original sin of that where they're like, we all love being in church and hearing the like a really good chorus, just nail it. So here's that experience and then it just sounds like shit,
just sounds creepy and screechy. What something you think is overrated? Brian?
All Right, I'm gonna stick with films.
Film and so I saw another movie this weekend and this movie just pissed.
Me right the way off did cheesey off.
Okay, so this film is called Soft and Quiet, and it is literally overrated. It's got an eighty seven on run Tomatoes. It's got an eighty two out of one hundred on Metacritic, indicating universal acclaim. And here here's a little snippet of a review. A painfully timely, horror fueled thriller, Soft and Quiet forces the viewer to confront the ugly underbelly of modern American race relations. And to that, I say, no, the fuck it doesn't. It really really doesn't.
It this movie.
I guess what's really overrated are films that nonsensical and silly, that take themselves really really seriously. Because this movie was.
I'm just gonna say it was straight trash.
It was.
It was not good.
It was one of those movies where I saw the reviews right, and I'm like, I don't watch trailers usually, and I see horror thriller. I'm like, Okay, that's the vibe I'm looking for horror thriller, and I knew race was an element, And this movie ended up being are you familiar with mumblecore?
Jack?
Yeah?
So it was ended up being Yeah, it ended up being a mumblecore nightmare with everybody talking over each other as they do in mumble core movies. And I won't get into spoilers but it literally it goes from these these Karens essentially meeting up for a racist get together that is very blunt and unsubtle and like there's literally a pie with a swastika on it. Wow, and it's like you didn't need to that's a little too on the nose.
And then it just.
Gets stupider from there, like and this is basically like the Sound of Freedom, but for racism.
It's that bad right and gets racism wrong.
And yeah, it's it's it totally gets racist.
That Sound of Freedom gets human trafficking around.
Yeah, it's just there are simpler, less stupid and embarrassing ways to depict uh racism in America than what they chose.
It's really baffling.
So yeah, a literally overrated film, soft and quiet piece of shit.
There you go. All right, let's take a quick break, we'll be right back. Talk about news, and we're back. And there's a story coming out of Gaza that I feel like could get lost in the avalanche of devastating news, but I think it's worth stopping and just acknowledging. So IDF snipers killed three innocent Israeli captives who had escaped and were trying to get rescued, and they came out with their arms raised Torsos Baird literally waving a white flag,
and were summarily executed by the IDF. Only later was it revealed that they were innocent Israelis and not innocent Palestinians, at which point it became news. But this is like acknowledge. This is being reported on from like by the Sun, like the UK newspaper The Sun. Not exactly a pro Palestinian rag. No, it's just worth acknowledging that, like this is what is going on. They seem to be out of the bombing everything to rubble phase and Gaza and
have moved into the shooting everything that moves phase. And if three Israeli hostages waving a literal white flag can't like even be spoken to before they're killed, and Israeli hostages are the reason they're there is supposedly it's probably trying to ask what they're actually doing there and whether they should be there, But it's yeah, it's horrifying, this
writer Moyn Rabani roach. The incident confirms yet again that Israeli soldiers are authorized to shoot dead both surrendering combatants and civilians waving flags of surrender under current conditions in the Gaza Strip, and despite the Israeli military being fully aware it may encounter live Israeli captives, ostensibly a key reason for their presence there. May additionally be the case that soldiers are being encouraged by their commanders to shoot
anything that moves. So, yeah, it's it's not great. It's pretty pretty fucking horrifying, Like those are That's that's war crimes. That's you can't you can't shoot people waving a white flag of surrender.
Look, we're well past that, jack, Yeah, Like, yeah, how bad of a war crime do you think someone would have to commit for people to start giving a ship about war crimes?
Again, they seem to be in search of an answer to that.
You think white phosphorus or the nape home like, because that that that goal post kid shifting.
Of like Biden saying Israel's we want you out of there by Christmas, which doesn't seem likely at this point.
Also seems kind of arbitrary.
Why not now, yeah, right, Like, oh, so they can play soccer like in World War two?
Yeah, I think On the other side, wanted to do a quick check in with Donald Trump's rhetoric over the weekend. He quoted Vladimir Putin and Victor orbon in speeches saying that he's innocent of his crimes. He used the term hostages to describe people charged with violent crimes on January sixth, and like he's he just seems to be ramping up his rhetoric. The week after. Everyone was like, man, this
guy might be an authoritarian. He's just gone full like dictator and yeah, they were like, he's ramping up that authoritarianism almost like he wants to be a dictator. And he responded with the Jack Nicholson like nodding and smiling crazily mean.
Yes, yeah, well, I mean this is a surprise to no one.
Actually seems late, like he's been an authoritarian for a long time.
Yeah, Like some of the stuff is like he's also using blatantly like white supremacist eugenesis language around undocumented immigrants, claiming they are quote poisoning the blood of our country.
But like in the past he had just made that statement to hard right conservative outlets, but this time he's like using it in his political speeches, and like the thing that people are grasping at for hope is also kind of depressing to me, Like there is people were like Nikki Haley's gaining on Trump in New Hampshire, Hell, that just means she's at twenty nine percent to his forty four percent. In Iowa it's fifty eight to thirteen. So I mean, I guess you got to start somewhere.
But I also feel like the two factors are not unrelated. Like Trump is saying this wild shit and getting more popular because you know, his base is you know, there are enough people who are racist, and there is I think a broad sense among people that there's just been years of ineffectual leadership where like the president is clearly not acting on behalf of people, but like instead on behalf of corporations. And so you know, for a while now,
there's been this unstated in the mainstream media. I hope that like someone's going to come through and step outside of that system. And like, I don't know, I feel like there are probably a lot of people who are like, yeah, let's go with an authoritarian at least.
Well that's well, that's the interesting thing because Okay, so with like your Joe Biden's they have shareholders essentially, like there's a bunch of people in line ahead of the constituency that he has to appease, right, Yeah, so with an authoritarian he's free to just throw that out the fucking window and do whatever he wants. Now that doesn't that might not be good for a lot of the constituency. But it's oddly closer, I want to say, because.
In theory seems like it could be close.
Because it's not.
He's not He's not necessarily going to appease the shareholders first. He's going to appease his ego right much better, and that there might be a little more crossover with the people who are into what he's throwing down. You have to, you know, get something out of it. I don't know what that's something is, but they're getting something out of it. They're and I think white supremacy.
Yeah, I think for white supremacists, this is you know, the answer to a lot of like long held beliefs where they're like, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Everyone's acting like whites aren't supreme and the But I also, yeah, I think there's something that's very real there with people looking at you know, Joe Biden trying to forgive student debt and like throwing his hands up and being like,
it's out of my hands. Guys are like trying to pass like this progressive legislation that he promised, and you know, just repeatedly saying it out of my hands.
And if anything good happens, it's like some weird little rider on some other ship that's for us.
Yeah. Yeah, So I don't know. I just think the it's being treated as like Trump is succeeding just despite the authoritarian like him saying these authoritarian things. And I think it's probably more accurate that he's succeeding at least partially because of that, which is fucking scary, a scary place for the country to be. So yeah, not great. Yeah, all right, let's take a quick break and we'll be back. And we're back, and Arlington National Cemetery will remove their
Confederate memorial this week, So there we go. Years. That's right. It sits an Arlington National Cemetery and it is set to be removed later this week out by the end of the year, per a Department of Defense directive on
renaming and or removing Confederate monuments. Republicans, of course, not happy about this, claiming the memorial should stay because, according to a letter signed by more than forty House Republicans, it does not honor nor commemorate the Confederacy, this Confederate monument, but rather the memorial commemorates reconciliation and national unity. Uh huh?
And who what is the statue of it?
I believe there are slaves involved in it, and so even the Arlington National Cemetery website admits the sculpture includes a nostalgic, mythologized vision of the Confederacy with highly sanitized depictions of slavery.
Hmm.
And among those calling for the statue's removal include the family of the original artist, who said in a statement that quote, this statue intended to rewrite history to justify the Confederacy and the subsequent racist Jim Crow laws. It glorifies the fight to own human beings, and in its
portrayal of African Americans, implies their collusion. So it seems like not a great statue that you'd think they would be removing by breaking it to pieces or like putting it in a mysterious warehouse next to the Arc of the Covenant. But actually it's just moving to a different park. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin is going to move it to a new Market Battlefield State Historical Park where video DA has no power.
So one of my favorite battlefield parks, good one.
The water slides are sick there. Oh oh man. All right, So there's this New York Posts article that they just continue to try and sweatily dunk on young people to just I think they're just like harvesting boomer rage clicks by being like, look at it, look at these helpless youngs.
So let's see who wrote this.
Yeah, I mean, somebody who probably just knows what their editors want. But one of their articles that made the social media rounds this weekend blasted gen Z's menu anxiety problem. Kids today are just quote too scared to order their own meals. Gen Z suffers from menu anxiety when dining out, with many too scared to order their own meals, is the tweet from the New York Post. So the science
is there. I mean, this is based on a study conducted by British pizza chain, which is where most of our most of the science that we cite on this show is studies from various pizza chains, not always British, but because British pizza chains don't make pizza that anyone wants to eat. They have one of time for research.
I was wondering. I was like, is that going to be any good?
Best pizza I had in the like time that I spent living in Ireland, which I know is not Britain, but uh, it was pizza Hut up Pizza Hut personal pan pizza. So ouch, that's maybe maybe it's changed. That was a long time ago, but I hope so. And also, like the menu, anxiety was reportedly triggered by, uh, the
increasingly exorbitant cost of a meal out. Like even the study says that, so, like the headline makes it sound like anyone under thirties just like irrationally afraid of an inanimate object like the menu.
And yeah, I hate the framing of this, Like yeah, it's you know, it's clearly that. I mean, you look at the the author's page, and they clearly have some sort of mandate to work gen Z into at least at least thirty percent of their headlines. What else you got on there, Well, there's one that says gen z ers hate email, but so do the rest of us.
What do we do now?
And it's like, what.
The fuck does that have to do with anything?
But that's amazing. Yeah, but I mean that like, so, yeah, it's just anxiety around how much it costs to eat out, which is very understandable, understandable and common to everyone. Like hatred of email, everybody can identify with that, and also like anxiety around decision making has always been a thing, like choice overload. Choice fatigue has been studied for decades.
I've had many, many people in my life who, yeah, like eating out with like a group of people and that that for some people, that's pressure, like having everybody's ordering in a circle and you gotta be ready when the person gets to you. And yeah, it's just that some people out just eating out the side. So it's like I can totally see.
How Yeah, yeah, let me see.
I mean I don't really go out to the new places unless I check out the menu first.
It's just what you do. I don't know.
To me, I if yelp didn't exist, I wouldn't know what to order. I yeah, ordering that is a thing, Like ordering at a restaurant is a skill, and some people have it, and some people use yelp to cheat at it and I am in the latter category, but like in the same way that you know they say that, like Chuck Close, the great portrait artist, had face blindness, but like in having face blindness, you like break the face down into its component parts and like do an
amazing job of like painting a portrait. I because I don't have the skill, like I look at a menu and I don't see music. I see like a bunch of choices of like things ways that this could go horribly wrong, And so I recognize in other people like this is a great skill that some people have, and I will just cheat off of their order. I'll be like, you order first, and then I'll be like, I'll have what he's having, because they are better at it than that.
Like I work with like archetypes, Like I'm very habitual. So it's like if I go to a certain genre of restaurant, I already have an idea in my mind of what sort of thing I'm gonna get, whether or not whether or not I've been there before.
I'm like, I'm going to Italian. You know.
I like creamy sauces and like salty meats and stuff like that.
Man, that's also what I like. But saying creamy sauces and salty meats just grosses me up for some reason. But yeah, what do you have? Do you ever do you ever verbalize it that way? What do you have that's creamy sauce and salty meat?
It only when I want to embarrass my partner.
Yeah, there you go. You having a salty meat?
Good sir, I'll have your finest salty meats please.
Well, I does not like salty things, and so it has been called to my attention that I eat some saltyes meats. I ate some salty s everything.
I love me some pan chetta, man.
Yeah, yeah, so good, get that chetta. By chetta, I mean pan chetta. Finally, the Pope has okayed same sex blessings with a massive asterisk, but the formally approved same sex blessings in a new document that also stresses that people shouldn't be subject to exhaustive moral analysis.
Which is weird coming from Catholicism.
But it seems to be like a eternal machine of exhaustive moral analysis.
I can't think of a better definition for Catholicism than that.
But this is the cool Pope. This is the come on man, just love one anothers dope, that's right, has it? Do we know? Has this pope smoked weed? Has he comment I'm come out soon enough.
Smoking a blunt.
Guy like that? Come on, No way, he's not getting high, not token up. But yeah, so seemingly a far cry from the Vatican's previous Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Yeah, of course that we all we remember when that bomb dropped and we were all just eagerly reading. But that one stated the Church can't bless the unions of two men or two women because God cannot bless Sinkay, let's just say they say the same shit about like any couple that had premarital sex. You know. But the Church
is not the coolest hippist of institutions. But so the new document follows up on a letter that Pope Francis published in October which suggested that there could be ways. There could be ways, and I've been talking to God, there might be some ways to bless same sex unions, like maybe if I do it with my eyes closed, maybe I do it with my eyes up closed. Sorry for South America or.
Whatever wherever he's from. I don't know where he's from.
The Brazilian Argentinian. He's from he was just Italian, just a couple tiny massive caveats here. The document reaffirms the church's position that marriage is only between a man and a woman, and stress this is that any blessings conferred upon a same sex couple can't be done at the same time as a civil union, or using set rituals from a civil union, or even with the clothing and gestures that belong in a wedding. So the church can now bless a gay couple, but they'd better not be
dressed in formal wear. Is essentially the rules here.
So it's the church's version of civil union. They just they changed all the trappings. But you can still get it. Yeah, but it's just we can't call it what it is.
Yeah.
Use God will get mad, Yeah, and he'll send locusts.
He will, he will send locusts and various boxes upon your house. The document also underscores that any quote irregular unions are in a state of sin, So these couples can still receive a blessing, which is like a nice wave from the pope on their way to hell, according to the Catholic Church, Like all right, well that was nice.
He's like, all right, have a nice chipsy.
Next exactly anyways, So unclear where this all shakes out. I would say we'll continue to pay attention and try and like rank all the orders of importance of the blessing versus the statement that it's still a thin But I have been advised against exhaustive moral analysis, so I think I'll just you know, ignore the ship and continue to try and just be kind to people. Seems like maybe a way to go.
Yeah, but what are you getting out of it though?
That's right? I don't know. Yeah, Now I'm going to go back to the Catholic Church way, because that way I can just like read up a lot on these all these doctrines and then sound smart as hell and maybe find a way to tie in Taylor Swift to my condemnation of the modern world. All right, Ryan, that's gonna do it for us. On this Monday, December eighteenth, we are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Where can people find You? Follow you any of that good stuff?
You can't find me?
Can't find me? Yeah, leave them alone? How about that?
And you can't fool me again?
Can't fool me again? We want shame on you pool me twice. You can't get fooled again.
Yeah yeah, all right back tomorrow.
Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow.
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