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I'm Amanda Knox, and you're listening to Hard Knocks.

I'm Amanda Knox, and you're listening to Hard Knocks.

Welcome back to Who's Right. That's right. We're back with Who's Right. Chris is not in the booth with me because we need to figure out a two-camera situation.

But in the meantime, welcome to Who's Right?

And also, happy Halloween.

If you're not familiar with Who's Right, this is a series of friendly debates where we model some healthy disagreements.

Hopefully healthy.

Yeah.

This is where Chris and I argue on camera.

And it's apparently a really popular feature, so we're bringing it back.

Yeah, we asked the audience, and they said overwhelmingly, bring back who's right.

So moving forward on hard knocks, you're going to be getting who's right

episodes once a week. And with a few Ask a Man, anything's thrown in for good measure still.

Okay. So it's this week is Halloween and what else would we talk about but death. And actually,

the thing that we're going to talk about was something that was a bit inspired

by a talk that our Zen master man, Koshen Kane, brought to the Zendo most recently.

I was really struck by this story when he told this letter that was written by the Pope, where he described

Zen and Buddhism in general as being a life-denying religion, which was fascinating to me.

As, I mean, I guess they're a death-denying religion in the sense that they believe that no one really dies.

They just go on to, their spirit goes on to live forever.

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