And the Hello and

welcome to Decoding the Guoos, the podcast where an anthropologist and a psychologist

listen to the greatest minds the world has to offer and we try to understand what they're talking about.

I'm Matt Brown, I'm the psychologist from Australia.

With me is Chris Kavanaugh. He's the cognitive anthropologist from Japan, formerly of Belfast, as he never ceases to remind us.

He's the not the hero we need.

No, he is the hero we need, but the hero we don't want.

Is that how it goes?

I forget.

You're Batman, don't worry, you'd be happy.

Yeah, I feel you're just disparaging the fact that my accent reminds you that I'm from Belfast and you have an anti-Irish prejudice.

So you feel like I'm telling you I'm from Belfast but it's just

a way I speak God damn it Matt have some tolerance.

I've heard people from Northern Ireland express surprise at your accent.

You know you're from Northern Ireland, are you?

Those people, they are barely sentient.

We don't even need to acknowledge them.

They're just troublemakers. They're enough trouble and speaking to trouble

You know we don't we don't do intro segments anymore. I'm just gonna say the guru's fear is a flame. It's a flame at the minute.

There's too much going on though. They're running into each other like headless chickens,

the whole events in American politics avoid, you know, the attempted assassination, the dropping out of

Biden, it has led to the great flourishing of hot takes online and we will cover, we will cover it but good God.

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