Hey, it's Mary. Yesterday, I told you that I'm on a mission to get 100 people to join Slate Plus before the new year. We are even offering a 50% off deal to folks who join us right now. So for the next few days, I figured I'd pop in here and give you a few reasons to join us.

Other than this show, of course, which you love. Today, I'm going to call out Slate's coverage

of the Supreme Court, which offers analysis that conservatives love to hate and the rest of us

just love. You know, a couple years back, there was actually a meeting of GOP lawyers in D.C.

A federal judge got up and name-checked journalists one by one,

encouraging everyone there to laugh at these folks.

Those journalists included Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern from our team here.

Some reporters would hear about this and get freaked out.

But Mark actually called the judge up afterwards and interviewed him about why he'd made Slate a target.

That kind of reporting, reporting that makes good trouble for the right people,

it's what you want, isn't it? To keep this kind of journalism going, though, we need you. The way to

support us is to go on over to slate.com slash what next plus. Use the code What Next 50. That is what next 50. And you'll get yourself

a year of unblinking analysis at half the usual cost. Thanks in advance for your support.

Here's the show. There's this TikToker named Tony Varra.

His feet is so eclectic.

I don't even know how to describe it.

To me, it feels like peak Gen Z.

Listen to me very closely.

You are not depressed. You're just in the United States. Look at where I am. There are these videos where he rants about Love Island. Get ready with me to go out to the club in Nashville, except I'm not near. There are Get Ready With Me posts where he's doing his makeup before going out. All right, Christians, we need to have a talk because I'm a little irritated right now.

I'm not going to lie to you.

He's also been working his way through the Bible, reviewing it, like it's any other piece of

content.

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