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#335 Hot Take Chips Oct 20, 2025

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Emmy and Natalia talk about how everyone always needs to comment about everything, and wonder together what it might look like if we all practiced having more unexpressed thoughts.

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#334 I'm Going To Steal The Infancy Gospel of Thomas Oct 13, 2025

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Summary: Get ready for an auditory Powerpoint presentation on supernatural horror flicks and non-canonical gospels because Emmy took the wheel on this one re the forthcoming release of The Carpenter's Son, a supernatural horror film based on (we're not kidding) the Infancy Gospel of Thomas and starring Nicolas Cage as Jesus' father Joseph.

The Carpenter's Son Trailer Nic Cage hunts for the Holy Grail

The Five Gospels

Infancy Gospel of Thomas in translation

Fun fact skipped for time: The oldest existing fragment of the IGT might be a student's handwriting practice

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#333 Micah: the OG Doom Scroll Oct 06, 2025

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Emmy and Natalia set aside current events (and big feelings about current events) to talk about the biblical book of the prophet Micah and discover that actually, not a lot has changed since 700 BCE.

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#332 The Seven Heavenly Virtues (Finally!) Oct 02, 2025

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Emmy and Natalia finally talk about the Seven Heavenly Virtues, and wonder if they even really matter at all?

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#331 Why Is No One Ok? Sep 24, 2025

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Emmy and Natalia continue the conversation from last week, about why everything feels like too much, and what we are trying to do about it.

Links:

https://substack.com/@dianabutlerbass/note/c-157891892?r=3g6zg&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

#330 Tragedy, Hot Takes, Stupid Joys, and What Is Ours To Do Sep 15, 2025

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Emmy and Natalia talk about the death of Charlie Kirk, the outpouring of hot takes, and how it might not be good for us that everyone feels like they needs to care about all the things all the time.

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#329 Seven Deadly Sins, pt. 2 Sep 09, 2025

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Emmy and Natalia finally come back to wrap up the seven deadly sins with wrath, envy, and pride. Also included, Natalia's rant about Psalm 46 and when cherry-picking goes wrong.

Links:

Substack article about not being able to maintain the moral high ground: https://open.substack.com/pub/elisedenbasco/p/on-white-covid-cautious-queers?r=3g6zg&utm_medium=ios

Natalia's uplift: https://nataliaterfa.substack.com/

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#328 Thoughts. Prayers. Despair. Rage. Sep 02, 2025

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Emmy and Natalia process their big feelings around the school shooting in Minneapolis this last week, and how we're trying to hold more than despair.

Links talked about it today's episode: Tolstoy and Trump Substack: https://substack.com/home/post/p-171917579

Glennon and Abby chat: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNit0TKtDgY/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MTNoajNtN2pudDVybA==

Moms Demand Action: https://momsdemandaction.org/

Everytown: https://www.everytown.org/

#327 Should We Celebrate When Someone Dies? Aug 26, 2025

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Emmy and Natalia take a little pause in their Seven Deadly Sins series to talk about the death of James Dobson and what to do when we have conflicting feelings about it.

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#326 Seven Deadly Sins Pt 1 Aug 19, 2025

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This week, Emmy and Natalia begin a multipart series on the 7 deadly sins. What are they? How did they come about? Why do they matter, if at all? Dig into gluttony, greed, and lust with us (yey?) in part 1!

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