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Welcome to Stray White American Jesus.

My name is Brad O'Neishie faculty at the University of San Francisco.

And I'm here today, back after some time off, uh,

is the one and only Dan Miller, D1 and only.

Yes, I am, I am back, uh, Dan Miller, Professor of Religion and Social Thought at Lamar College.

Glad to be with you, Brad and everybody else.

Got a lot of cool emails from people wishing me well on our, I'm a little break.

I was in Greece, have never been there.

Um, so that was really nice.

I'm a little jet lag.

So we'll see, uh, we'll see how fun and loose things can be today.

And then we also just, you know, we don't talk about global warming all the time,

but it's like Canada is burning like where I live.

It's gray and smoky and like that air quality of presence.

As a Californian, I know with that air feels like, and I hope that everyone is staying safe.

And, uh, it's, it's just really not fun.

And it really does bring home global warming in ways that are seemingly

indeniable unless you're Fox news.

But yeah, as always, you're dedicated.

You flew home from Greece last night.

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