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ENCORE: Patton Oswalt and The Mandela Effect

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

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The Unspoken Bargain We Have Right Now

In the matrix, we live in these goopods and we're hairless and have no muscles. But that's how I, that's actually how I live. And especially if the person manipulating it knows there's that unspoken, what you just said, I just want some pleasure. Okay. I'm going to give you some pleasure and the cost of it is you're going to have to accept this lie. Yeah. It'll be a pleasurable lie. And you'll, but you'll accept it. Which is really creepy.

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