Look, there are two things I wanted to talk about this month, but didn’t have enough time to fully prepare an episode on either. So, instead, I’m just going to talk about my current thoughts on both of these (unrelated) topics. First off we have the US Military no longer recognizing about 180 different religions, and then after that I’m talking about my thoughts on Chaos vs Eclecticism.

Like I said, unrelated topics.

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Music: “The Man With One Eye,” “So I Said It,” “Putz and Pulse,” “Untitled Nonsense” (Trae Dorn) / Random Loops (Apple Music Library)

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