Hello and welcome to Favourite or Forsaken on your host and Babel Scholar Aaron Moon.

Because the Babelbench episodes are mostly looking backwards, Favourite or Forsaken is an

episode about looking to the present and future as we consider current events there were

just lands to decide if they are Favourite or Forsaken joining me on this faith-based journey.

How are you guys today? Are you feeling personally Favourite or Forsaken? What's going on?

I'm feeling very favored because as the listener is listening to this, you're listening

on Friday, Aaron and I are wandering around downtown to LaDalkia, the double-fisted

cheese steaks. We're going to the room where it happened. We're eating federal donuts,

we're doing all the things. We bought snow clothes. We did. We bought some sort of cold thing.

And we're going to go see John Maren Yeva. Very good. When you say room where it happened,

you have to be more precise with that. What do you mean? You know what the room with the little

chairs and the green velvet where they wrote the Constitution. Is the Constitution

their declaration of independence? Yeah, exactly. We'll find out. We'll know. We'll know.

It's not a minute tall, so that feels like the declaration of independence.

You're going to a room where something happened and you're ready to bomb this.

Everything said, this is the room where it happened, the one that Lin-Manuel talks about.

There you go. Okay, great. That's all you need to know. That's what about you?

I'm going the opposite way. When the listener hears this, they'll know how this went.

But I don't know right now how the Super Bowl is going to go.

Oh, that's right. Everything's good. Placing my bets, all that stuff.

You got some of your chips on a certain team?

I do. I do. Are you talking about that? No, he did. He's talking about it. It's the goats, right?

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