I'm Hello and welcome to Decoding the Guru's supplementary material with your favorite two cranky middle-aged academic international hosts, Matthew Brown, psychologists,

Christopher Kavanaugh psychologist slash anthropologist, cognitive anthropologist, if you like.

We're here and we're ready to talk about gurus and related topics in a supplementary material edition where we can let our hair

down and be ourselves smart we're not constrained to some rigid format of clips and responses to

clips no we're free let our freak flag fly um welcome that's right we can have something approaching

one of the personal conversations we have

which is mainly commenting on dumb shit we've seen on the internet that's how we roll that's how we

roll yeah um and they've got plenty of dumb shit that i've seen recently but uh have you been

matt have you been good uh big good it's been we had a here. And you're in Golden Week, aren't you? Golden

Week? Yeah. And yet, why am I in a suit? Well, not a suit. That's overstated. Why am I in a shirt?

Why are you at the office? More to the point.

In a shirt at the office, Matt, because the universities in Japan, their cursed black soul means that they don't necessarily follow public holidays.

So university decided that this is a public holiday today, but not for me.

I had a class and everything.

So I think that's the legal.

Yeah. Yeah, I feel like the guy in that I think you should leave skit. I'm not sure you're alive there.

We're canceling lunch. Yeah. But seriously, why are they scheduling classes on Golden Week? I mean, university students, come on, aren't they?

They deserve Golden Week, too. I know. I know. So you can tell me, but it's actually,

it's important because on the little calendar, the pocket calendar, it classifies it as a special

day where it's like, this is a public holiday, but it's got classes. Like, why? Why did you decide that?

I guess it's because of the summer.

I mean, come on, academics.

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