Saudamini Tambay is back to talk about how religion can often impact our closest relationships. She opens up about her mom's history with Muslims growing up in Northern India and the bad blood that can create life-long notions of the "other." She is not alone in this, and Saudamini and Scott unpack how best to bring humanity back to those stereotypes. They also unpack what it is like to date someone of another religious background and the pressure to marry from traditional societies. Lastly, Scott lays out an image that describes the post-modern search for truth involving magnets: we often find meaning by the people we surround ourselves with, but how do we know that our magnets are trustworthy. 

Other Topics Discussed:

Curveballs and improv games that Scott throws at people.

Why the Trouts chose the name Naomi for their daughter. And the other names, Scott wanted to use.

Saudamini's thought on the pressure Christians put on God, as opposed to taking responsibility for your own moral choices, and how Saudamini looks to her therapist, friends, and yoga for sense of grounded-ness not a god.

Scott's thought on the danger of building your sense of self and truth from multiple sources (or magnets in this case) and how Christianity isn't just a narrative worth following. It's a relationship. Akin to Scott's relationship with his wife.

Saudamini gives Scott advice on how to raise a girl, including an un-scary definition of feminism: simply treating men and women equally. Which is not what she experienced growing up in India outside her own family.

And lastly, Scott tries to convince Saudamini why the wedding is actually important, by describing the inauguration of Joe Biden and the rides at Disney Land that you can't get off of without significant harm. His point is you need that public proclamation to herald a new relationship and those rides are actually more fulfilling because they are not easy to exit.

Questions for the Community:

-Who is in your circle of magnets? How do you know that they trustworthy?

-If religion is the willingness to surrender to something greater than you, what do you surrender to?

-How have you experienced different gender roles? And what advice would you give Scott for parenting his daughter?

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