Shayne Smith

You know, it's always like, control yourself.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I wonder though how the Christian message, when it's spoken like this, especially in the first two, right?

These are like subversive, trying to be combative, but in a way that's funny.

I guess it's like, how did they, how did those first two make Christianity essentially cool or Christian beliefs essentially cool?

And then you compare that with like a evangelical Hollywood type movie where you just feel preached at and you're bored and disgusted.

I have the answer.

Yeah.

The answer is that they're being totally authentic.

And there's so little authenticity these days that even to be authentic about something popular makes people stoked.

Like we're living through the rise of so many controversial people who are so popular, who say things that aren't, that are obvious or dumb.

And you're like, why is this person so popular?

It's just because they're being themselves.

People are so, so, so tired of fakeness or performativeness or whatever.

Everyone's burnt out from like the last five years of like the, you know, your aunt Kathy has some opinion and then every single person at the table has got to change their politics so we don't make her mad.

You know what I mean?

Like we've all lived through like five years of that.

Okay.

And we're all doing it culturally all the time.