we are back from our break we are here with a laura dodd a.k.a. Online one room schoolhouse.

How are we feeling? I am feeling deliciously satiated from the mint cookies from

Aldi's that I just ate during our break. Aldi's not a sponsor but if it were, would you be mad?

I don't, we don't have Aldi in Philadelphia.

I don't, or if we do, I've never been to one, but I've heard they're nice.

There's like one in Oregon, but it's too far.

Yeah, so I have a question for you.

Does having a strict rulebook and a very black and white things that are allowed versus things

that are not allowed make it easier to live in some respects, does having like, yeah,

like a prescribed regimented standard of what is or isn't an appropriate or acceptable

social interaction make things easier like you get in fundamentalism

or does the stress of following all of the rules and not being able to express yourself

as you wish make things more difficult you're following the rules anyway you're following the

rules anyway you when i was a kid i panicked about how to speak how to move how to stand how to

everything i was so self-conscious but i had no idea what i was I was a kid, I panicked about how to speak, how to move, how to stand, how to everything.

I was so self-conscious, but I had no idea what I was supposed to be doing in the terms of

social situations. At least with religious rules, they write them down.

That's fair.

You don't know why people think everything you wear looks ugly and frumpy and why it looks bad on your body and you wonder if maybe you're a hideous mole woman.

Wait, that's a Kimmy Schmidt reference, which is remarkably apt.

But then you go to church and they say, here's the ruler to stick up your thigh.

And you're like, well, at least I know now.

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