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The Happy Rant

Episode #81 - Egg Hunts and Helicopter Drops and Did Driscoll lead to Trump?

The Happy Rant

Happy Rant

Comedy, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8896 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas rant about the following: What's the deal with church doing huge, expensive "helicopter drops" and Easter egg hunts in celebration of Easter? Do they actually work for getting people to...

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome to the happy rant.

0:15.0

My name is Ted Cluck and I'm joined here in studio by my good friends Barnabas Piper and Ronald J Martin.

0:23.8

And gentlemen, we just wrapped up the Easter holiday,

0:28.4

which was strange in that,

0:30.4

well, it's always kind of strange

0:31.6

to see the way that this holiday is marketed, but one of my enduring memories of it was I'm standing in a Walgreens the night before Easter with some family members and we're just kind of tossing collections of like

0:46.9

pastel crap into into our baskets because there's there's the expectation that you that you give your kids some stuff on Easter which is

0:56.7

Dude, it's just strange. It's like you know nothing honors the

1:00.7

the risen Christ more than like a gigantic chocolate, you know, Star Wars guy or whatever.

1:07.0

Yeah, the whole thing is just a little bit crazy, but I'm going to dive right into our first topic here and

1:13.1

Bigar this is one that that you had suggested and apparently there are churches

1:19.2

that are now so big and and the money money is is raining so heavily that they can afford to hire

1:26.5

helicopters to fly over their gigantic compound and drop Easter eggs so that the kids from these

1:35.2

particular churches will be able to toddle around and collect plastic eggs

1:39.8

that have dropped out of a helicopter and And this is supposed to be the thing

1:44.3

that will ignite the hearts of people

1:48.3

and draw them to the church.

1:50.3

So guys, Barnabas, you're the son of a pastor, Big R, you are a pastor.

1:55.8

I am just a cynical guy.

1:59.0

So I'm gonna, I'm gonna let you guys speak into this one and then I'll tell you a little story about about church on Easter Sunday.

2:04.8

But, Bigar, what do you think of this whole phenomenon?

2:07.2

Yeah, you know, it's kind of come up the last few years because I don't know how but every time during my you know my Easter

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