Fundraiser Special – The Guests Get Curious (N360)
Nomad Podcast
Nomad
4.7 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
This episode began life as our 2025 Patreon fundraiser — but we’re releasing it here, freely, on the main feed, with a new intro and two additional questions!
For this special episode, we invited last year’s guests to turn the tables and ask us whatever they liked. What came back was a rich, surprising mix of the playful, the personal, and the deeply searching. Questions came in from Rowan Williams, Brian McLaren, Selina Stone, Chine McDonald, Lamorna Ash, Gareth Higgins, Jennifer Bird and many others.
Along the way, we talk about:
• the gap between what we believe and how we actually live
• remembering joy in a world wired for disappointment
• scripture, inspiration, and what still feels life-giving
• whether love really does conquer everything
• faith, imagination, childhood toys, books we’d reread forever, and the strange magic of 1980s technology
• and which portrayals of God in the Bible we find hardest to love or respect
We also talk openly about why we ran a fundraiser in the first place, what we learned from it, and why we ultimately decided to make this episode freely available to everyone.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome back to Nomad Podcast. I'm Tim Nash and this is Nick Thorley. Hello there. And this is our |
| 0:43.0 | 2025 Patreon fundraiser transported into 26, freely and lovingly placed on the main feed. But more |
| 0:51.1 | about that in a minute, Nick. Nick, the last time we recorded together was back in November 2025, so I'm guessing there may be |
| 0:58.3 | one or two things, a maximum of three, please, that you'd like to share with the listener. |
| 1:03.3 | I've got four things, actually, but one of them is just a thought on life that I've had. |
| 1:08.9 | Firstly, the cats can now both use the cat flap completely. Excellent news. How good is that? Very, very good news. They really can do it. It's amazing. So when the polarity happens and chart GPT kills us all, at least my cats will be able to come in and out of the house on their own. Yeah. And maybe a house is a little bit warmer downstairs. |
| 1:28.1 | Oh, it's much warmer. |
| 1:29.3 | It's just absolutely revolutionized everything. |
| 1:32.3 | Second Tim, the ashes. |
| 1:34.2 | Oh, dear. |
| 1:35.2 | Another classic sports prediction from Nick Thorley. |
| 1:38.3 | Oh, dear. |
| 1:39.9 | Oh, dear. |
| 1:40.5 | What might have been? |
| 1:42.0 | It's thrown us into all kinds of angst, existential crisis. Are we good? Or have we thrown away a golden opportunity? Were we not that good in the first place? Was it worth all that lack of sleep? So we're recording this after the second day, after two days of the final test. Last night was the only night that I didn't either stay up or record it and listen to it at high speed when I woke up. I think we had a good session, didn't me? Yeah. Well, yeah. Who knows? We don't know yet, do we? That is the weird thing about cricket, isn't it? Yeah. Like, you can have an amazing inning. And you don't know whether that counts for anything or not. That's true. Thirdly, Tim, Stranger Things. Oh my goodness. |
| 2:19.4 | I mean, I weren't saying much because the beloved know whether that counts for anything or not. That's true. Thirdly, Tim, Stranger Things. Oh, my goodness. |
| 2:19.4 | I mean, I weren't saying much because the beloved listener might still want to watch it. Goodness. |
| 2:24.7 | Wow. I haven't watched any of the final season. Oh. Did it live up to all your expectations? |
| 2:29.5 | Yeah. Have you watched all of it? Yeah. Nice. Well, it was the highlight of our Christmas, me and the kids. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I can't say anymore. Maybe I'll talk about it more in six months. Yeah. I would like to. I'd like to process a bit of some stuff. And finally, Tim, I had this thought yesterday, which is, is this an age thing that I just don't retain lyrics of songs anymore? |
| 2:53.3 | There's loads of songs that I know all the words to. |
| 2:56.0 | Loads and loads of Queen songs, U-2 songs, Extreme songs. |
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