Eric, the episodes are not our children.

In fact, I feel comfortable saying some are our stepchildren.

We don't have to play favorites.

In fact, we can openly discriminate against certain, well, not discriminate.

We could just merely elevate to the exclusion of others certain episodes.

And I could say personally, maybe it's because we haven't had an episode delving into the history

of what we love, lifting culture. It feels so damn good, man, to do this again.

I like how we're just jumping right into the controversy head first here with this episode.

God, dear. In the first 10 seconds of this episode, Omar just said openly discriminate

and insinuated that he hates some of his

children. Let me just be the Jedi or Sith right now and say, I love this episode. I felt like we got

to return to the roots of iron culture. And I think if you listen, dear listener, who is listening with your ears, you're going to find

that you're going to return to a culture and a history, then you may not even be aware existed,

but be surprised by how many parallels there are with modern times.

Yeah, and I wasn't trying to throw the baby out with the bathwater. What I'm saying is that we only have so much food around here because as we learned,

there was indeed a famine.

And if we have a finite, this is a zero-sum game.

It's kind of like the society we live in, right?

We want to maximize personal wealth.

And so if we have a finite amount of resources, Eric, and we have to distribute it amongst a certain select amount of individuals, our children, someone's going to go starving.

That's all I'm saying.

So in this instance, I feel spiritually fulfilled.

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