Hi everybody. Welcome to the Fundamentalists podcast. I'm excited to be doing this again. Pete, how are you doing?

You know those videos where a person whispers to you and then you can as

m r yeah you'd be good at that i think your kind of intro there was very relaxing hi everyone

welcome to the fundamentalist hi everyone welcome to the fundamentalists have you listening to

some people really love it some people get turned on by it yeah it's so strange but i love i

follow a lot of that said I follow

ASMR soap accounts where they cut soap after showing the soap cutting videos I went

through a real phase where I was kind of obsessed with it but there's the whole

genre of Instagram videos and accounts that you can follow where it's somebody who's

just diced up all of this hand soap and they take a box cutter and they take the blade all the

way out and they just cut out all these they cut it into cubes basically and when they do it's just

very satisfying to watch so maybe i can kind of understand the asmr thing yeah but you should check

it out it's like yeah like those oddly satisfying videos you know that are like they'll be like paste

or be something being crushed under a compressor.

I'll watch, but it's fun to put it on the background.

You just kind of zone out.

And they literally are just cutting the soap?

Yeah, I'll show you.

It'll be like pleasantly colored soaps, like tie-dike or glitter on it.

And then I'll just take and cut it and it's just like you know when you like see something and they're just slicing it into perfect pieces and there's just

something very like just satisfying about it obsessive obsessive yeah there's something very

obsessive ritualistic yeah you're going to be able to cut you're going to cut that part too oh

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