The Culture of Netflix and Chill
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Every generation has its own code words for things that are taboo, but when watching TV and relaxing could mean having casual sex, it’s fair to say we’ve reached a tipping point in our culture. In this episode, Fr. Mike examines the “Netflix and chill” lifestyle, borrowing some ideas from Boston College professor Kerry Cronin, who appears in a new documentary called The Dating Project, which addresses the problems inherent in a hookup culture.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is a sentence I'm presenting. |
| 0:06.6 | So sometimes priests say stupid things in homilies. |
| 0:09.6 | Sorry, sorry, let me clarify. |
| 0:12.0 | Sometimes this priest says stupid things in homilies. |
| 0:14.6 | Actually, let me clarify. |
| 0:16.6 | One time, well probably more than one time, but one time I was using the example of just |
| 0:23.7 | taking it easy for an evening. |
| 0:26.0 | And I used the phrase as like, yeah, sometimes, you know, like after everyone's gone from |
| 0:31.1 | the newman house and it just, I don't know anything else to do for the rest of the night. |
| 0:35.3 | I like to just, you know, turn on Netflix and chill. |
| 0:39.4 | And you would have, you could have, you, if you were to see that people in the congregation, |
| 0:43.6 | the students were like, what? |
| 0:44.6 | I'm like, I know what it means. |
| 0:46.4 | I literally meant. |
| 0:48.5 | I want to watch Netflix and relax with a lookcroy because these millennials are affecting |
| 0:54.0 | me and drink with a croyol at time now, whatever. |
| 0:56.6 | But it's one of those things. |
| 0:57.6 | I'm like, no, I want to, I just want to watch Netflix and I want to relax. |
| 1:01.7 | Is that so wrong? |
| 1:02.7 | They're like, no, father, that's not wrong. |
| 1:04.5 | But you can't say last Thursday night, you just had Netflix and chill or whatever the |
| 1:10.0 | phrase of like the verb for had Netflix and just Netflix and chill. |
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