Mike's Pope style: the plausible-reality quiz and advice
Mike's Pope-style bit (identified as his in the intro, though the diarization label here is merged and unreliable, so no speaker_id is asserted): an interactive quiz asking whether the room has known a cheating spouse, a child abuser, or a transformed life they initially refused to believe — establishing 'plausible reality,' the set of things we cannot imagine because we have never experienced them. The monologue applies it to race and policing: one population cannot imagine race mattering at a job interview while another cannot imagine it not mattering. The Pope-style advice: admit your reality is not everyone's, stay open to others', and lay your freedoms down in service of Yahweh and the people around you.
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Evaluating the event: Elijah, Josiah, the sign of Jonah, the donuts test
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