Matt and Dan begin by demonstrating that they learnt absolutely nothing from their previous episode, returning almost immediately to their unconscious devotion to the rubrics – and, with the serene confidence of an auntie rearranging your kitchen, innovation at exactly the same time.

This naturally, or perhaps unnaturally, becomes a discussion about complexity and what the Asians detect as a cultural crusade against it: the conviction that everything, including the intellectual and spiritual life, ought to be made simple, preferably before the tea gets cold.

But when did simplicity become a measure of value?

The Asians consider simplicity not merely as a technique, occasionally useful and occasionally not, but as an ideology which, like an overenthusiastic relative with a cleaver, can reduce something complicated into manageable pieces while insisting nothing important has been lost.

This becomes rather more concerning when it wanders into the life of the Church, where the demand for simplicity can quietly become a demand for reduction: of legitimate diversity, mystery, creativity, and the wonderfully inconvenient lifeworld of historical faith. Some things, after all, are more dumpling than chicken nugget: what matters is folded inside, and flattening them rather defeats the point.

The Asians then consider what this drive towards simplicity actually does to theology, liturgy, and ecclesial life—and whether a faith concerned with the inexhaustible mystery of God was ever supposed to fit neatly on a slide, even if the slide has very good branding.