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Off The Record: You Have to Pick a Religion... Which One ?

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0:00 low key no offense but you know at that time it felt like it was everyone's mission to convert everybody but same thing I thought he was about to say no offense Jesus is not Korean [Music] all right welcome back to a highly energetic episode of careful oh ████ turn it up this is the most energy we've had all year we got Nick and Colleen we got regular Joe regular Anthony and we got cool jokes in the building hey uh here's something are you are you religious person would you say uh I would say yes okay are you like non-denominational Christian non-binary Christian oh Christian Protestant all right let's say that you have to pick a different religion oh yeah which one is it gonna be yeah

0:51 that's a great question and for the rest of you if you're not religious let's say you have to pick one oh dude your lifestyle that's gonna be your house yeah [Laughter] [Music] because Hannah says we have to join a synagogue she really said that she's Jewish no wait what the ████ happening here because we're we're talking about like how okay so we were talking about how kids do better in a religious community because it's more structured you also have like other parents that believe in the same thing so they'll help you also teach the same things and you have like

1:42 a community effort yeah yeah so we were just going down the list because I was like well you're Welsh right and there's this whole movement in Wales for them to speak the the the Gaelic again and like do everything and there's also like a group that's like trying to bring back like Welsh witch ████ you know and I was like but then we need to give them some time to work it out because they're so new that not everyone's on board they don't have a long like system so we're like who's got a really good long time system and we're like well Christians do but they they still like they're not really connected but we're like what's the original Christians and it's like before Christians Jewish okay so it's like okay and then they're pretty strict they have a lot of kids yeah it was between Mormon and Jewish oh really Mormon because it's

2:34 kind of similar right like they have big families yeah they're they're strict on their um like that too they have really big funds they don't drink they don't drink yeah and then they're strict on like they promote good habits good lifestyle yeah so I was like okay those two are cool yeah but the Mormon church um I love Salt Lake City but I also love South Park and I don't think I'd be able to um because they did the Book of Mormon there's some Mormons at like South Park but they're not real Mormons yeah if we're gonna do something we're gonna go like all in hard okay like if I go Jewish I'm gonna go Orthodox with the curls and everything wow yeah I'm not gonna go halfway Jewish how come not we got a big nose plastic surgery you can do it you can do it get the extendo why not the

3:26 unification Church the Moonies yeah oh this too much drama dude why not it's unpopular in Japan right now because of shinzuhave yeah the the guy who assassinated him his parents got ruined by the Moonies so that's why he assassinated the prime minister of Japan so why not go back to Seventh-Day adventism yeah just go back to what you know because that's not the prompt though right too small well you can if you're not if you're not religious enough all right fair enough you can go back to the one that you were raised in but you said it because it's too small too small oh you're looking for like a power Network huh they're not and also hot take but I don't think Christians today are as hardcore as Christians before and like being stern with their shoes oh yeah yeah that thing like

4:17 Jewish Muslim um yeah most like Jewish and Muslim are very strict with their ████ sure yeah oh Amish Christian they're strict with their ████ right like they're about it but I feel like all the other Christians are kind of like halfway in halfway out they're like yeah yeah it's hard because it has to be adaptive in some way to like societal life right it's almost impossible to be like biblical Christian and live in America but like yeah like European Christian I feel like they're more like I'ma go ceremonially like Japanese Buddhists they go ceremonially They're not really Buddhists you know so like I want to do the hardcore ████ if you want to be hardcore hardcore I'm a Believer yeah wow I'm like Westboro Baptist Church but I don't think they're they're hardcore but I don't think they're good they sound like a game that's that's the appeal really

5:10 bam yeah what about you Anthony what religion would you choose if you had to if I had to you have to Jewish or Muslim that's it for me that's my final answer are there Jewish Asians yeah Rob Schneider I don't know he's he's Filipino and Jewish is he oh ████ so I would say uh in the default that I was raised Buddhist I won't choose Buddhism but I would say from a practical standpoint maybe maybe Catholic wow I know is Nina your is she well she also is not religious but it's like within the family and the whole Filipinos it's their family value Catholic is very just it's just consistent it's present all the weddings we go to Every you know what I mean it just is is right there I actually went to Catholic Church a lot when I was younger because of like my pseudo-god parents we were just my parents would

6:01 just mix go to church sometimes even though it didn't make sense um so I'm like very familiar with it uh from a non-practical answer Catholic because of the swag you like the clothes huh what are the clothes I said swag I don't know about the clothes yeah I'm like what are the clothes what's this no when you the guys on the stage not you like the Cardinals he's gonna be swinging this thing oh the nuns the nuns in them like the actual buildings to like the way that you see him uh portrayed in like movies you like the Catholic Pinterest oh yeah you know what I mean like the mood board yeah you like a mood board yeah exactly so epic it's just so ████ you know Regal and ████ got it very traditional that's important the churches are always way crazier what do you think of the priest he likes the

6:51 pimp he likes the pimp aesthetic how so then Gold Cup cane yeah what are the top three pros of being Buddhist you don't have to change ████ if your food is that's why yeah I feel like uh you live your life uh Nirvana there's definitely something about the idea that like Buddha said he wasn't like a God and it makes it feel in a weird way like relatable and or attainable like the practices versus like this you know all right yeah like you you have to service your your entire being to like try and live in the in the ways and the in the shadow almost of something a deity that's beyond your comprehension so it's all Faith there's something about Buddhism that like felt

7:42 like um I don't want to say practical and like downplay it in that sense but it's too self-helpy so relatable in a weird way why is it that like you said growing up that's why you wouldn't go into because well it's because I was raised like that my parents are Buddhist but then based on what don't you like about it though being that it's not that I don't like it it's just that like you know when you're forced to uh you know practice something yeah when it's your default sometimes I feel like when it comes to belief like you kind of have to walk your own road to believing you know what I mean but if you're like uh and you know bless my parents but I don't think they were super articulate when it came to those things and they're not super super devout I think it was very like um traditional and that like we have like a shrine and you're supposed like my mom

8:33 would always yell at me to make sure that I pray in order do you do the thing where like if if a relative dies you have to put like the food on the always you give your grandma orange yeah we're always burning the incense I'm always talking to my my dead relatives you know what I mean I'm always asking for the same type of things of like you know luck and prosperity and like finance and all that stuff you know it felt like a like a practice but without like the core belief that like I found an understanding of why it's ceremonial yeah like that's what I mean by like people are ceremonial is like their religion is culture and ceremony they're not devout it was a chore to go to the to the temple all the time yeah yeah you know what I mean like the way that my mom would make it like you have to do this and you know what I mean it just didn't it felt like a chore so I don't think like I grew up with this like uh innate curiosity of like the belief

9:23 system in it um but I think when I got older learning about it I thought things were really there's a lot to really cool yeah a lot to appreciate um especially and then things like Christianity I think when I was introduced to like God in Christianity in high school I was I was at a very uh Korean high school so it was like Christianity everywhere and I feel like low-key no offense but you know at that time it felt like it was everyone's ████ mission to convert everybody but same thing I thought he was about to say no offense Jesus is not Korean and I remember I remember like you know especially coming from like a Buddhist uh household too like one of my aunties she's a monk right so when you're trying to learn about a different religion and stuff like that and you're talking to somebody who's maybe not the most

10:14 articulate as well you can get thrown off of a certain path I remember talking to somebody who's trying super hard to like recruit me into like the Christian club and convert me and bring them to the church and it was very powerful at Sunny Hills High School you know what I'm saying again all good intentions I see that very clearly but I remember having this conversation being like okay so you're saying my auntie like she's a monk like a Buddhist month because she doesn't like acknowledge Jesus as her savior that he died on the cross for her sins and so that she's gonna go to hell and you know this homie was like yes either All or Nothing though removing myself I can get it whether or not I believe it but a part of that at that time was so jarring too yeah I mean you could just run it the ████ is this would ruin it for you that it would turn

11:04 you off initially for sure yeah just like militant vegans yeah yeah just like oh I like vegetables but I hate them now yeah it still tastes like Jesus I think I was also surrounded by so many people that like were like this is like you know I am this religion they they preach it but at the same time they're still ████ around like high school kids you know what I mean like doing all these other things that are sinful and stuff so you you just stop believing in religion you know what I mean yeah you might still believe in God I do believe in God but I just this religion I don't really believe in I guess trust me like like the aspects of it like some of the teachings and stuff like that yeah I think the ideologies I think are ████ spot on yeah but then you know the human element of it like is really kind of a

11:56 can throw you off if you don't meet the right people to like guide you and I just don't feel like I met those people but it's very hard to meet the right people exactly which is why I like I question it because very I feel like very seldomly the most enthusiastic person trying to talk to you and force you is usually not the right person there's just the person wanting to score the most points they're just allowed commenters because I probably was that person at one point were you did you grow Buddhist too what the ████ is that supposed to mean no I didn't was it I wasn't judging you yeah exactly I wanted to make you I want to make you look like based on any particular physicality I want to make you look like a bad guy you gotta look like Buddha another more like Confucianism yeah yeah yeah dude um no we didn't grow up religious at all no in no kind of way whatever my dad would always and I've talked about this before

12:46 um my mom wanted me to go to a private school when I was in sixth grade because she didn't want me to get beat up all the time so it's like oh let's put you in a Christian School in like a couple of our friends were going to Christian School they liked it so like hey let's push in a Christian School you know at the time they thought it would be a better education and it kind of wasn't but um it wasn't better than public school I don't I don't think so I don't I I didn't think um you didn't have smaller classes and it was easier to get to know your teachers none of that happened yeah it was cool but I feel it was like a net neutral like okay how many people did you have in your class it wasn't that many it was like it was our seventh in so which religion would you join that Christian it was a Christian school but um I think I would do I don't go Muslim bro shut the ████ I got a full muscle around why it's my man why because the cubby copy bro that's

13:37 why I fell out loud that's so funny okay look the one thing and I think this goes for all the religions across the board right we all know tons of people who claim to be very religious but they're all Hypocrites exactly they may not show exactly they may not their lifestyle may not represent their beliefs and their religion if you look at it like that's could be like maintained a pretty good demonstration of proper like I'll say this I think I think some of the dudes are like that are Muslim a good amount of them the nice thing example wise tend to be a lot more disciplined in their life because they have to adhere to adhere to a lot of it right especially when it's like ingrained in their culture but then again you could have there's obviously way more examples of that not being the case and I think that's like that for any religion you know like of course yeah because human

14:28 nature is always going to overpower like that concept right because we know what what needs to be done the discipline side but I think in for some for a lot of people that are Muslim it's built in just because of like the daily practice right like a lot of them do the um the Ramadan when they do Ramadan I think that kind of builds that in especially you grow up with that but then again not always the case but for me I would think I'd give that a spend in yeah not always the case but it is true when you see Muslim people really being Muslim it's kind of dope yeah like I like that I think that's what I like is I like people in communities that that practice what they preach so exactly if I look at like all the Christian communities I would say like Amish Mormon like they're so hardcore like that I'm like okay you

15:19 guys are about it yeah see that's what I was thinking like if I'm gonna go into religion it's gonna be in the same school of Joe like we're gonna ████ really do that but also we only find the hypocrisy when we're close to it definitely so like that's the reason why we know so much about so my number two yeah people look at us and go you don't eat pork yeah they think and I'm like that is pretty true they do they're strict with their food yeah yeah I think my number two is like I want to join a mega church dude I kind of think that's like the opposite dude the Joel Olsteen ████ yeah I want to do a ████ mega church you want to get the uh because I bet the Sunday Services dope the gemstones baby you know because it's a whole event the whole family comes out you there's obviously a big junk and you know take everything that we're saying with a grain of salt because there's always drawbacks right in my head I just wanna like they have a band dude they have a whole ████ and their preacher

16:09 comes down a like a a zip line a zip line and they believe this preacher isn't talking through him like Chris Brown on the strings he's not talking to a bikes he's talking through this thing and he's it's wireless yeah the he has a Janet Jackson concert it's a tiny little oh Mike I'm into that I'm into I'm into that I want to be a part of that kind of fresh dude see it's about the swag sometimes kind of like it's just see you being in love with that yeah because I think it's the community part right I think that's the cool thing everybody's attracted to it everyone's correct not going to like ████ like Rome or something like you go into a St Peter's Basilica you're you see some ████ gangster Church you're like God was here and then you go to like these random like Christian like hatan churches or something like that on a strip mall yeah it's just like in the strip mall it's just in a building you're just like man that belief is here but that's where you want to be dude hey but you know what being part of Faith

16:59 here yeah that's where you want to be dude God is love the church is gonna it's gonna also cost you Mega more that's fine dude I'll I'll work to the bones for for the ████ Jesus gonna be like 90. I believe if I truly believe that my religion is gonna be my path to Salvation then yeah bro I'll give ████ 15 percent Olive Garden freaking liar dude I'm a good temper bro I'm a good temper I do like eight percent just the tip I want to be a part of a group though that's like hooked up so like if I hooked up yeah so like talking about games I think it's the same all right because like it sounds like I don't know like what if what if like Biden went to your church and then so

17:51 like you could be like hey dude you know I need a job and he goes well you could work at the White House okay because like if you're in a connected religion you know like everybody works together yeah that's true so it's like you want to be with a successful group if a cult hits me up and I see what they're doing and what they're wearing and where they're I'm like man you guys aren't successful oh yeah like yeah what if a a cult like a good one y'all wearing Quicksilver dude if they came over and they're like more of a billabong guy yeah we're like we yeah they all Drive Lambos yeah they're like a pyramid sites yeah yeah well you know what's interesting we're talking about religion in such a way that it's like the lifestyle and the

18:41 practices of like our this existence but not really referencing like the afterlife elements damning these religions completely because if we was going there then I'm like yo you know I've always been curious about the whole 70 virgins waiting at the doorstep ████ you know come on over brother oh he sounded I was like whoa yeah there's 70 in cells that show up yeah hey we don't know that yet but it's a good Community he gets there and they're like oh we thought you were a virgin ████ no one thinks this guy's a virgin come on everybody what about what about you Colleen you gotta pick one I'll probably flip Anthony's flip Anthony's only because I uh went to a Catholic private school in elementary school and I felt like it was very much let's push this narrative down your throat you can't ask questions if you did you'd get

19:32 in trouble I'd get call home uh calls home and my dad would pick up and I mean I've said this before he'd be like double stop asking questions and my mom would be mad at it what kind of question would you ask as a kid little Colleen I'd just be like what do you mean that's what Jesus would do that's funny it's a good question how do we know about it how do we know that I mean I'll just won't do that it's just what he would do I'm like it just did it never it's never satisfied it never satisfied me so I don't know I'll be a Buddhist that sounds pretty chill no it all it all comes down to the articulation I think that is such an important part you know what I mean you're like trying to like teach somebody how to like live their life and like its greatest purpose and you're educating like a kid who hasn't like come to terms with like the world yet and how it works and then you're not a good articulate person so it's like I actually like a lot of religion after I studied it on my own yeah yes that's

20:24 very true when you're running into ████ morons and they just don't know how to speak yeah they're just like well ████ you I don't like you so because I don't like you and you like religion so much yeah I'm not whatever you are yeah the same reason if someone were to stop the freeway whatever it is they're doing that for I hate it yeah yeah or or outside of the supermarket when they ask you to donate you're like I don't care about women oh that'd be the worst I don't care about Wheels now I don't I usually love whales but now I hate them [Music] okay

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