Episode #424 - Keeping Up With New Things, Awkward Conversations, and Bad Names for Theologians
The Happy Rant
Happy Rant
4.8 • 896 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety ion topics:
- What new things do we still try to keep up with?
- The performative aspects of keeping up with new things
- Fullbacks and casseroles
- Extricating ourselves from awkward conversations
- Names that will not work for theologians
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| 0:16.2 | Hey, welcome to the happy rant podcast. I am one of your hosts, Barnabas Piper. Today's episode is going to sound a little bit different than what we normally do because it will be |
| 0:19.7 | a collection of a few of our Patreon bonus episodes. |
| 0:23.6 | Each month we put out two or three of these on Patreon.com |
| 0:28.0 | for those listeners who support us financially there. |
| 0:31.8 | You can also get some free books for supporting us at |
| 0:34.3 | different levels things like that so if you go to patreon.com slash happy-ramp |
| 0:38.1 | podcast or just go to patreon dot com and search for happy rent you can find us see how to support us there that helps |
| 0:44.4 | cover all of our costs but these are episodes where we simply pose a single |
| 0:49.0 | question and then rant about it together and so they're a little bit shorter |
| 0:52.2 | we're gonna put two or three together in this episode and that will be what you get to hear now. I hope you enjoy it. |
| 1:01.0 | Hey, welcome to the happy rant Patreon only podcast, a very special |
| 1:06.0 | podcast for our very special listeners, those who support us financially via |
| 1:11.0 | Patreon. I'm Ted Cluck joined as always in our Patreon only |
| 1:14.8 | studios by my good friends, my partners in radio, Barnabas Piper and |
| 1:18.6 | Ronald J Martin. The setup is simple boys. Pipe brings to the |
| 1:22.4 | question or to the table one question undoubtedly more provocative than the thing that we just talked about on our real show pipe what do you have for us? |
| 1:31.0 | I have a I think what will be a fun question because we love to talk about |
| 1:35.3 | nostalgia and then all of us you know we enjoy various aspects of culture so the question is what do you |
| 1:41.6 | try to keep up with like what new thing do you try to keep up with and then |
| 1:46.4 | a second half of the question what did you used to try to keep up with so like new music |
| 1:50.1 | new movies you know whatever it is what are the things that you're like I'm gonna |
| 1:54.3 | I'm gonna invest in keeping up with this and then what are the things that you used to |
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