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Long episode for Christmas Eve. This episode has it all! (I forgot what is in it)

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Patrick

I’m putting together 3 bikes for the kids right now… thank you for saving me with a new ep 🙏🏼🎄

koalatee

I havent quite gotten to my laundry system with the kid's ages yet, so appreciate the great ideas. But total understanding and on Matt's side because my dishwasher system is great and anyone else that fills it with usually no system makes my eyes twitch.

Ian H

Unless I'm mistaken, Bethlehem is in the West Bank rather than Gaza. Not sure if anyone here has seen it, but the Reverend Munther Isaac gave an absolute banger of a Christmas Eve sermon earlier today. I was wondering what podcast Liz interviewed him on?

dylan baker

i dont know why i was thinking of different type of elf

Lauren Gallagher

We need a Disney princess who is a pregnant elf

Ian H

Man, *hard* disagree on the validity of standardized testing as a measure of intelligence/academic ability, from the opposite perspective of your poorly-testing imagined questioner; I scored 90th percentile or better on basically every test I took over the course of a fiasco of an academic career that left me with a GED and a culinary certificate. My explanatory take is that test-taking is its own skill, from remembering and producing trivia on command to understanding the logic of the questions to guess effectively. It doesn't predict whether I will ever write or turn in a paper (I will not)

TC

"There's not a lot of positive posting, period. It's just a bunch of people competing over how miserable they can be." Liz backdoor endorsement of Stancilism??? 😱

TC

More often than not, an ugly visage is a marker of an ugly soul and vice versa. There was an old viral twitter thread comparing the faces of the players of Revolutionary France and it's hard to come away from it thinking otherwise... All that to say, I subscribe to the Pope Lenny school of aesthetics rather than the Francis school. Make Mary Beautiful Again!

Sam Harrison

I'm interested in Liz's fanfic. I wonder what it was about (Harry Potter?!)

Jacob

I love the Jane math stories! Hearing how proud Matt is is really touching.

Chance Walker

Please post the Liz Bethlehem podcast on the Patreon

Christian Hunt

Merry Christmas Bruenigs and Bru-Heads alike.

TC

I"m guessing Nightwing-themed slash fiction XD

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merry christmas Bruenigs!!

Otto Laakso

Matt (almost) literally airing dirty laundry in public

Emmanuel Arce

Older people often times still separate whites and colors…dollars to donuts that’s your mom in laws system.

Emmanuel Arce

lol never mind Liz just gave up the game. That’s what it is. Dealt with this frustration myself.

ja ak rtgr

I need Matt as an LSAT tutor for real

ABD

“If I saw someone giving birth in the animal part”

Michael Hoogenakker

Just wait until the girls are teenagers and they (gasp!) steal each other’s clothes! Or worse, the ultimate betrayal, when Liz starts wearing their old worn-out t-shirts around the house 😱 How will Matt cope when the “little people” clothes slowly blend together as the laundry room descends into chaos? Will he crack under the pressure? Will he ever regret taking over laundry duties from Liz? Find out next time on The Bruenigs: The Laundry Saga®

Katherine

“More honorable than the cherubim and more glorious beyond compare than the seraphim” is what we Orthodox sing about Mary. I’d say she is probably beautiful!

Bob K Ross

Idolatry at it's worst.

J P 3

Corey Robin's "The Politics that Trump Makes" published Jan 11, 2017, was one of the most accurate previews of the Trump presidency. The conceptual framework that he outlined in the article (applying Yale prof Stephen Skowronek's theory of presidential power) has also been very helpful. As far as Hamas goes, technically, Israel and Netanyahu government had a more influence over its rise than ordinary Palestinians. e.g. Hamas is a byproduct of the occupation (its leadership were survivors from the 1948 Nakba, its rise was facilitated in direct and indirect ways by the Likud Party and its strategy of "divide and rule"; the resort to militancy was also fueled by the refusal of Israel to acknowledge or accommodate Palestinian rights in any meaningful way with respect to security and self-determination). Israel's slaughter has also made no distinction between Hamas's militant wing, its political and social wing, politically disengaged Palestinians, and even people who have been vocal opponents of Hamas. Israel's violence has been directed indiscriminately against all Palestinians within both Gaza and the West Bank.

Daniel Solano

Im only 24 and I actually love hearing about you guy's positive thoughts on marriage and parenthood and your kids achievements and milestones. My niece and nephew are 9 and 6 respectively and Ive loved watching them grow up, and its made me want kids of my own. The miserable people online can kick rocks

Surna

Matt needs to become the male version of a beige Instagram home organization girlie

Lili Mandl

Agreed. As a public school teacher I have seen many cases of bright, even gifted students test poorly. Usually a combination of anxiety, self-doubt, or careless errors. Some can even score well one day and less well the next. Plenty of them also have undocumented disabilities that would potentially qualify them for accommodations like extended time, breaks, etc. Proving these things can be maddeningly difficult, if not impossible, just based on red-tape and a very broken system. I appreciate that standardized tests can yield useful data for more dire intervention (eg student reading comprehension being at an all-time low) but as a metric for evaluating individual student intelligence or aptitude, it’s reliability is borderline at best IMO.

Caitlin Still

I too am dying of curiosity here. My high school fanfic was three rounds of NaNoWriMo. Can’t say it got me far as a writer in the end.

Andrew

Re: tips, Matt is right to point out the restaurant owner's linguistic confusion, but the underlying situation actually is complicated, so Matt's take really fell flat for me. I know people who work in kitchens/back-of-house who are super resentful that servers get paid way more through tips. To bridge that gap, some restaurants pool tips and redistribute them, but employers often exploit that to classify more workers as tipped so they can pay them less, driving everyone's average wage closer to the minimum. Also, the tipped minimum wage and the rules for pooling vary a lot between different localities. Would be interesting if Matt did a deep dive into restaurant tipping policies across the US / other countries and ranked different policy choices.

Orb

Stop. Bimbofying. Mary.

Kiwi

so I'm really the only one who's turned a bunch of white shirts pink in the laundry? Why does my machine have specific settings for dark clothes!

Chiara Rohz

If we feel weird looking at hot mary then how do we feel about the neck and décolatage of the prostrated naked sweaty christ as depicted in the west? At the very least he's had a nose job and skin bleaching if we are to be historically accurate. There's no need to have a tendril of wheat coloured hair hanging just so in front of azure eyes- but I suppose like most things- humans are attracted to 'beauty ' (obv v subjective and geographically and temporally dependant)

Gina Burton

Late listening but must comment on the laundry situation. It must be a generational thing. If you don’t dump everything out, how can you sort into: dark, light, white, delicate, jeans, sports wear etc???