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And so. Hello, you're listening to The Science of Everything podcast. I'm your host, James Fodor.

In this episode, we're going to do something a little podcast. I'm your host, James Fodor. In this episode,

we're going to do something a little bit different to usual. So instead of just me, today I'm joined with Jared Bauer, co-founder of Wisecrack and host of Show Me The Meaning movie podcast. Jared,

welcome to the show. Thanks for having me, James. I'm excited. Excellent. So just before we jump in, tell us a little bit about yourself and about your podcast and sort of how you came to be here today.

Sure. So I am the co-founder of Wisecrack. What is Wisecrack? Wisecrack is a digital media company that focuses on the humanities, it focuses on ideology, philosophy. We're basically a collection

of comedians, academics, literary enthusiasts, and we try and use pop culture or comedy

as a lens to introduce people to new concepts, to new ideas, to make them question their lives.

So a good example that I always use to explain to people is everyone's seen the movie Fight Club,

people like it for a variety of reasons.

And basically, like, we might do an episode that's like the philosophy of Fight Club so we

can talk about like anti-commercialist sentiments and stuff like that to kind of arm people

with a reason why they like the movie more than just Brad Pitt has a sexy six-pack.

So right now our mission has largely been opening people's eyes, opening them to new ideas through the things that they already love.

And I've read some of your blog and I think some of the, we have a very similar mission statement in that you are someone who's constantly, in a sense, taking the middle ground.

You believe that both Christian, I mean, I don't want to put words in your mouth, but you believe that both Christian theism and atheism are both very valid viewpoints.

And I agree with you.

And part of my mission at Wisecrack is that it's very hard to use reason or logic or any kind of oratory to convince anyone to consider other ideas outside of their own very strictly adhered to beliefs.

And one of the things that we do at Wisecrack is that if I'm able to, let's say you

and I believe complete opposite things, but we both love Fight Club or we both love an anime,

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