It's so funny because when you look at the guys, that's never a topic of conversation. Yeah. What you look like? Yeah. Did you watch the football last night? It's never about, I'll watch your skincare routine. Whereas women walk into a room and because we've been taught to be pitted against each other. Yeah. Not always, but sometimes there's, oh my God, you know, I can't. It's a bit of a barrier. Yeah, yeah. and it shouldn't be there.

We should be trying to change that stereotype, believing that there is space for everybody. So, what are you watching at the moment? Squid game, Dad. Let's watch it together this weekend. That'd be nice. What's it on again? Netflix. You've got EETV, so you just switch it on. What season are we up to? Um, four? That's stranger things, Mom. And what about the kids? Don't worry, they'll watch Cokemellon for the hundredth time. Switch on Netflix with EETV, plus change up sports and entertainment. It's TV with the ultimate flex for the whole family. EETV requires EEB broadband, separate 24-month contracts for TV and broadband content

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Hello and welcome to conflicted, the history podcast where we talk about the struggles that

shaped us, the tough questions that they pose, and why we should care about any of it.

Conflicted is a member of the Evergreen Podcast Network. And as always,

I'm your host, Zach Cornwell. As you know, on this show, we usually traffic in controversial

historical topics. Conflicts or events that are often misunderstood, or rarely discussed,

or just flat out confusing. Subjects that challenge our preconceptions or undermine our assumptions

about the world. In fact, the word controversy is even in the show's unofficial tagline,

untangling history's greatest controversies. But the topic of today's episode, on a surface

level, is not controversial at all. In fact, it's probably one of the few things on planet

earth that everyone seems to agree on. The topic of today's show is The Weekend. Not the singer,

the recording artist, The Weekend, but The Weekend, that little 48-hour oasis at the end of every

week. The two days out of seven that we take for ourselves.

The time when we see friends and family, when we unwind or relax or pursue our hobbies.

The fleeting free time that always seems to disappear just a little bit too fast.

And then on Monday we go back to work and we restart the process all over again.

For five days we work and for two days we rest. Lather,

rinse, repeat. Now granted, not everybody follows that rhythm. All kinds of people have all kinds of

jobs with all kinds of schedules. But for the vast majority of the global economy, there is a weekend.

A two-day period where our work stops and we rest.

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