Episode 424: Evil Algorithms & Faith-Based Movies with Luke Barnett

The Holy Post

Phil Vischer

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.5 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

The Holy Post crew discusses the new Netflix documentary, "The Social Dilemma," about the way social media is contributing to the breakdown of society and how Facebook's algorithms make reasonable people into extremists. Also this week, Skye and Josh Lindsay—his co-host on The Movie Proposal podcast—interview actor and screenwriter, Luke Barnett, about his new comedy "Faith Based." Barnett explains how his long experience in the church informed the project, why Christian movies follow such a predictable formula, and how tribal identity rather than quality is what makes movies successful today. Plus, new research from Barna says fewer Christians think racism is a significant problem than a year ago. And Mexico passes a law preventing kids from buying junk food.

"'We Had To Take Action': States In Mexico Move to Ban Junk Food Sales To Minors":
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/14/912029399/we-had-to-take-action-states-in-mexico-move-to-ban-junk-food-sales-to-minors"White Christians Have Become Even Less Motivated to Address Racial Injustice":
https://www.barna.com/research/american-christians-race-problem/

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome back to the show. This is Phil Vichor. This is the only post podcast. I am here with Christian Taylor. Hi Christian. Hey, how you doing?
0:07.0	I'm great. Thanks and Skyjutani. Hi. Hi. Hi. And Jason. Rog. Hi, Jason. Hey there. Hey there. And Alfie. Hi, Alfie. He's still behind the chair. Hi.
0:20.2	Yeah. You know, there's some Alfie making noise. Can he snort or? Or? Does he bark or does he just make the noise? No, no, but small dying sheep. He barks quite a bit, but he mostly snores now.
0:38.2	That's still like, I'm looking forward to that face of my life.
0:43.7	Does he still make films and stuff? Yeah.
0:46.7	Mostly snores.
0:48.7	All right, here's the theme song.
0:51.7	What's the news that you like the most? Who's your favorite podcast host? If it's breakfast, get your toast. It's Sky and Phil and the Holy post Sky and Phil and the Holy post and sometimes Christian.
1:10.7	Did you hear what's going on in Mexico? This is huge. This is huge news. What's going on in Mexico?
1:14.7	And harm me. States in Mexico. States in Mexico move to ban junk food sales to miners.
1:23.9	Huh?
1:25.2	Because because it's interfering with drug sales.
1:29.9	Picture this. You're 17. You walk into the corner store and grab a Coca-Cola and Doritos, but the cashier refuses to sell them to you because you're under age.
1:38.5	That rule is expected to soon become reality in parts of Mexico as lawmakers push legislation to keep junk food away from children partly in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
1:49.0	Two thirds of those who died in Mexico of COVID-19 had an underlying medical condition such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular problems.
1:58.5	So they are trying to change the diets of the younger generation so they don't have the same ailments.
2:05.0	Okay.
2:05.5	Third.
2:07.5	Guys are ready to jump in.
2:08.5	I'm already to jump into this because you know, hasn't history taught us that when you when you ban or outlaw a widely popular product, it just ends up creating a black market.
2:21.5	No, there's no there's none of that in Mexico.
2:24.5	Well, there's plenty of that here. We we learn that during prohibition. You take alcohol away from people and they create a black market for it.
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