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Look at this. It says pasta is not fattening. No, it's the opposite, according to these researchers.

Oh, how I wish. Yeah. I trust the research. Oh, sure. See, who did this. I got research in my own, sir.

You're not going to believe this. I just found out where this was done. Where? It's a research outfit in Italy.

Oh. Oh. And they're saying that all the world should... Yeah, it's fine. Because of post-consumptions would not lead to obesity. They found the opposite. Did they? Yeah. Well, actually, I'm sure that they did there. They did there. Yeah, yeah. It doesn't work for us here. No, over here is a problem. No, we do it different over here. So maybe you're like me and you are a skeptical person by nature.

There's like a good reasons for that.

You go through stuff or maybe you've seen hypocrisy or you just like to test things and find out if it's really true or not, that sort of

stuff.

I totally get it.

But skeptic means to view from a distance.

And I would say this, like, if you want to get to know somebody, you're going to have to

come closer.

It can't just be from distance.

This goes with the Lord, like actually reaching out to him. Maybe you're in your car.

You might feel silly, but open the door to talking to him. Lay it out there. You can even talk

about your doubts or things you struggle with, but staying at a distance all the time, like, you may

miss out on the best relationship of your life.

Getting a lot of reaction to my hot take about raisins and cookies and how nobody really wants to. Oh, are you? I thought that that was going to be a really divisive topic. Yeah. What are people saying?

Are they agreeing with me? It's split.

I would say there's a lot of passion, though.

What's, okay.

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