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Is it bad to stare at your phone while eating? Thoughts on protests in Iran? (EP 34)

The Adam Ragusea Podcast

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Movie 300 - The Hunchback Usurper

The movie does seem to throw a little shade at the Spartan practice of tossing physically imperfect babies off of cliffs, which probably didn't happen in actual history. Contrary to what the movie would have you believe, the Spartans were the real quote unquote boy lovers,. or at least institutionally sanctioned same-sex relations were common in Sparta. However, the movie does traffic in classic ableism when the Hunchback character, F.E.L.T.s, becomes the traitor.

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