159: Living Forever
Stories Are Soul Food
Canon Press
4.8 • 787 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Will we tell stories in heaven? Nate says the answer is so obvious it's a dumb question. Brian tries to make him answer anyway. Instead, Nate talks about a sci-fi story he is working on in which nobody lives past age 18. Turns out storytelling is fundamental to humanity, and we should be living like it now. Then Brian brings up a related listener question about how to choose what you're doing with your life now: What happens if you're working a blue collar job but you want to go to seminary and you also want to write? Prepare for an episode of Life Advice with Nate , and you best believe he's not sympathetic to decision paralysis. Pick what you want to do, and do it. God doesn't steer a parked car. You'll often get Open Doors when you least expect it, because your life is a story, and you don't get to know what happens in the future. The conversation blasts off into a conversation about human nature and winning the lottery, and how we love to complain in the midst of richness. You'll also get to know Grandpa Kohl's slogan, "Better than I deserve," and how you should look for God's choicest wines in the cellar of affliction (Rutherford). You'll also notice we opened this week's SASF with a new song just for fun: Check out Aaron Rench's "Fences" streaming everywhere now.
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| 0:00.0 | Stories are soul food. |
| 0:10.2 | The podcast and show. |
| 0:12.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:13.5 | We still wear the headphones because it's just the podcast. |
| 0:18.8 | You caught us musing on whether Kamala is going to get yanked, as Walter Kern says, whether she might be president for a week, as Nate hopes. |
| 0:28.5 | I really want her to be the first female president in the United States for a month or two. |
| 0:35.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.0 | And I think they'll do it. |
| 0:37.4 | The instant they, |
| 0:39.9 | the instant they actually see or believe that she'd have an advantage as sitting president. |
| 0:45.9 | Right. |
| 0:46.4 | She's already president, guys. |
| 0:48.0 | Just give her a shot. |
| 0:50.5 | Right. |
| 0:51.6 | Do you really want to spend another $50 million on another inauguration? We just did one. |
| 1:00.9 | Yeah, they suddenly become fiscally conservative. I don't know. Are we only talking about politics today? |
| 1:06.8 | No, we were going to talk about the Olympics, a couple of questions. Let's talk about something that matters. |
| 1:11.8 | Yeah. Well, okay. Ashtown burials. I have a question that seemed like the sort of question |
| 1:16.7 | one of my sons might ask. So you just get ready for that. Very literal. Very literal questions. |
| 1:21.8 | A very literal question. Yeah. Okay. Question from Joshua that has been a blister on his brain for the past two weeks. |
| 1:29.4 | In the Ashdown Burial series, whoever holds the dragon's tooth cannot die. |
| 1:34.1 | However, the dragon's tooth can slay that which cannot die. |
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