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I'm Father Gregory Pine joining you from

Freiburg Switzerland. It's not Free Bird, it's Freeburg, which is a mistake often

made by those with whom I am speaking. As you might imagine not in the Swiss context but never mind.

Father Jacob Bertrand, you are in a more easily pronounceable city. How are things there?

Fine, yeah. They're great.

Nice. Yeah, yeah, it's great. I've never, do people actually call Freiburg, Freiburg?

No, they don't. I just thought it was funny.

Although a couple of times, you know, because I went to Steubenville, um, people would like sometimes be like,

huh, is that stupidville?

I'd be like, oh man, savage.

You realize that by saying that you, never mind,

the irony is just too rich. or it's like my mother you know is from New Jersey and you know whenever

you talk to somebody about New Jersey the first thing they go to like, isn't that like a super ugly state with like really rude people?

And I was like, okay, so let's see, is there anyone in this conversation who's being stupid and ugly? Is it the person from New Jersey? Okay, moving on,

moving on. No, just kidding. I would never, but yes. So yeah, things of

Freiburg are great and it's actually so I describe it as a city they have like very

I don't know what you would describe them as but like very well defined delimitations of what constitutes a village and what constitutes a city

but it doesn't map onto what we mean by like a town in a city so I'd be like Philadelphia

city right new town Pennsylvania where I'm from I'd say it like a town. I wouldn't say it's a village or a hamlet, but it's like a town.

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