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Hey team,

I know we've all got a lot of stuff on our minds right now, but the rough cut of the newest video is online. But for a few tiny tweaks - I want to fix Guy from Payroll's beard, Generic Office Lady's blouse, and I need to add a content warning - this is pretty close to the finished product. It would make the most sense to release this next Monday, for obvious reasons, though I suppose releasing on Friday would be a good way to celebrate the weekend, too. But I wanted to get the rough to you before the month was out.

Proper update in a day or two. Take care of yourselves.

-I

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I Hate Mondays rough cut

Comments

Sarah H

Great stuff! Love it! A fairly minor point, but you use a picture of the United Kingdom, but keep saying England. I hate to be that pedant, but you'll get pulled up on it in the comments, if you care about that sort of thing.

Nathaniel P Graham

Good stuff, though I don't buy that binary thinking is either exclusive or more common/prevalent/virulent on the right than on the left. At least, not without hard data.

Eva O

I think the comments on this one are going to be really interesting. I have some vague ideas about cancelling on the Left that I can't really articulate very well. I'm sure someone in the comments will bring up that point with real words. Hopefully will be a good discussion.

Aaron Roberto

Most excellent work. And arguments I as an Australian am sick of having with gun toting muricans.

Jenlifer Fronester

This is the most excited I have been about one of your videos so far--my degree is in rhetoric and, to toot my own horn, I did rather well in the subject and am unusually skilled at considering perspectives other than my own. I was also raised conservative and evangelical and grew up around quite a few people who turned fascist (though, thankfully, not my parents--it is not an accident that I came out the way I did). You *still* manage to regularly present points on conservative and fascist thinking that have never occurred to me, even with the amount of time I have spent thinking about it, and that seriously impresses and excites me. I was never good at thinking this way, which is why I left pretty much immediately upon becoming an adult. (Side note: reading Bob Altemeyer's take on how traditionally "intelligent"--a term that signifies little of use but paints a picture--children handle being raised with right-authoritarian worldview made SO MUCH SENSE to me, and I am grateful to have been pointed at that book.) I always, always appreciate insight, and you consistently bring it. Thank you for the work you do.

Артем Тютюнников

I like how three dimensional pie charts are bad at being pie charts, but somehow they communicate an idea of being a pie chart better

Lunar

Ian, if you'd like to have English subtitles the day you release the video, I'll be happy to do sync work given I get a hand on the transcript.

KSCHatch

Yes, yes, yes, yes, YES! Amazing. Thank you! The binaried view—and recognizing that this is a natural function of the brain because it helps us navigate the world. It would be really annoying to have to figure out what a chair is as opposed to a table every time we encounter each. But we can become aware of how our brains do this with people too. And that yes, this is a matter of shifting someone's paradigm that believes that their binary view is inherent, rather than a function of the brain making meaning of the vast amount of information it receives. Thank you for this, as ever. An amazing resource.

Mark Paglia

I am of course not surprised when you turn out another great video, but this one is truly stellar.

Hisham Fageeh

I'm not sure how I feel when you use a picture of latinx criminals at 4:52 for "criminals". Also, do we have to worry about people flagging the content because of swastikas?

Ben Bariteau

I _cannot wait_ to share this with my friends. This is frankly incredible.

Reed

Holy shit this is amazing! So freaking accurate!