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I don't know if you've listened to my podcast before, but sometimes there's a bit of explicit language,

and this is one of those times.

It's Friday, January 26th, 2018, from Slated to the Gist, I'm Mike Pasca.

I listened to a Ross Duthut podcast twice in the last couple days.

Not the same one, two different ones. He was on with Tyler Cowan, love that podcast.

David Axe-Rod, rule of thumb, if you're on with Chotner, the Axe, Convose with Tyler,

a Thro' Larry Wilmore, pre-barara and Ezra Klein.

You talk to any of those guys you show up on between two and five of them.

I will listen to you three or four times. I'm not even a huge Ross Duthut fan.

Duthut. He's been on the show. Nice guy, smart guy.

But the thing is, Ross Duthut, New York Times columnist, is very, very concerned with religion and Catholicism.

And I just don't care that much. I like theology okay.

Hey, what do you believe in? What are the dietary restrictions? Heaven, okay? Hell, reincarnation.

I like the basics. Sketch it out for me. I go next level, but not deep down to the next level.

Interesting, swordfish, kosher or not kosher. I'm game, transubstantiation of the Eucharist.

Sure, let me know about that. Did the lineage of Muhammad flow through his nephew slash son-in-law or the caliphate?

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