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"It's just funny that it's in the net flicks office, like, not they lk is also in the huluain the mulatto logo and everything. I didn't even notice it at first. Like, eliza had to point it out to me because, like, you know, ik, she's already like, more attuned to that stuff," he said of his co-star Eliza Drexler. "I haven't seen a single person bitch about thatriht i am ymaybe at some point we shold talk about this."

David and Tamler talk about the often rancorous debate among cognitive scientists and evolutionary psychologists over whether the mind is modular -- composed of discrete systems responsible for vision, reasoning, cheater detection, sexual jealousy, and so on. David and Tamler (mostly David) describe the history of the debate, then dive into a recent paper (Pietraszewski & Wertz, 2021) arguing that virtually all the disagreement is the product of a conceptual and methodological confusion â€“ that the two sides are operating with different levels of analysis and talking past each other as a result.

Plus, we REALLY tried not to talk about the University of Austin thing for the whole opening segment. We had another topic lined up and everything. It just didnâ€™t work out. Cicero would understand. Bari Weiss stans might wanna skip to the main segment.