So this is the cafeteria and I'm very excited to be here and also I don't know

who any of these people are. If you're ever here and you need somebody to eat with, I'd be happy to eat with you.

You need somebody to eat with. Glad. Glad to.

We are going to talk about culture wars and the culture warriors that wore them.

And how they have real world, real world implications and consequences.

You know what? If you have to work in an office and you have to write somewhere, you might as well do it.

From the freedom tower with views of the water, views of New Jersey, of this coffee.

Yeah, oh yeah. Can I just get one of these?

Are you one of those coffees? I don't want one of those fancy coffees.

I'm Molly John Fass, special correspondent for Vanity Fair.

And I'm in the studio today with Chris Murphy. Say hi Chris. You must say hi. Say hi right now. Go.

I will say hi. Hello. Hi. I'm Chris Murphy. I'm a staff writer of Edited Fair and I cover entertainment and popular culture for the Hollywood section.

This is the third in a series of bonus episode from Vanity Fair writers from in and outside the hive.

In addition to the regularly scheduled programming from cohost Joe Hagen and Emily Jane Fox.

Chris Murphy and I had never met. We are now in a room in the Vanity Fair offices and we are best friends.

We are in that special period between two enormous cultural moments.

The Super Bowl. Yeah. And the Oscars. Totally.

We need a name for this period. Yeah. I feel like it's America's cultural Kinsey scale.

You know, you're either towards the Oscar side or you're towards the Super Bowl sides everywhere.

Somewhere in between. It's a spectrum spectrum in terms of what you cherish the most.

What are you? Where do you fall on the spectrum? I mean, I can't. I don't even. I now I know what sport they do during the Super Bowl.

I know as my people say like I know what sport it is. And so that is good. I didn't always know.

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