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We recorded this ep on the centennial anniversary of the Great Gatsby but end up having a wide-ranging convo about culture, religion and politics — people’s obsession with the hereditary rich, the difference between religious vs secular values, meeting Todd Solondz and his vision of what life is like in the suburbs, MAGA and the Great Gatsby, Evgenia’s pre-cog abilities and her epiphany that cinema is a form of religion for her, Soviet morality as Christianity without the metaphysics, having children as the ultimate anti-consumerist act…and more.

—Yasha