Rod and Kale react to the news that John Lennon's Boomer Anthem "Imagine" plays across Germany in their "synodal" moment. As they rush to bless same-sex unions in defiance of the CDF, when will a break become a break? After a brief mention of the new woke college president at LSU, Kale asks Rod to talk about the vocation of writing, how he found it, the proliferation of platforms amdidst the collapse of legacy journalism, and the future of writing. Kale presses Rod on his own process, his life at home versus his life in Budapest.