Podcast #130: New Year's, Celebrity Deaths, and the Meaning of Life
Drunk Ex-Pastors
Christian Kingery
4.7 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2017
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
We begin our New Year's episode of DXP with a look back at 2016 in all its glory and shame, with Christian taking the blame for how bad this last year treated so many people. We then reflect a bit on the death of Carrie Fisher, springboarding to the issue of celebrity deaths in general and whether mourning the passing of people we don't really know is pathetic or legit. We take a call about whether difficulty and trial produce better quality satire and music, and if so, whether this may be silver lining around the dark cloud of a future Trump presidency. Another caller schools Jason on the topic of evolution (how hard can it be? Fish Monkey Man, right?). We then squeeze in one final caller whose question focuses on the simple matter of the meaning of life. Christian is biebered by people's self-obliviousness on TV, while Jason's bieber focuses on people looking better than they should.
Also, suck it, 2016. Your time is over.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Fiona Stelman, Christian's best friend's daughter. |
| 0:08.1 | For some reason, my dad likes doing this podcast, and you like listening to it, but I'm not allowed to. |
| 0:14.4 | If you want them to keep doing the show, they need your support. |
| 0:18.7 | Become a Patreon. |
| 0:20.7 | By going to patreon. They need your support. Become a Patreon. Is that a right? |
| 0:22.3 | By going to patreon.com |
| 0:25.2 | slash drunk ex-pastors and pledging money for each episode. |
| 0:31.1 | When you shop online for Legos, do it at Amazon.com slash drunk ex-pastors. You can donate on PayPal and write them a five-star |
| 0:41.9 | review on iTunes and tell my dad how awesome he is. Or you could just send them whiskey. This stuff |
| 0:50.4 | doesn't just fall out of sky for free like manna from heaven, you know. |
| 0:55.3 | And now, here they are. |
| 0:57.9 | My dad, Jason, and the other bulb guy, you're drunk ex-pastors. |
| 1:04.8 | Good riddance to 2016. |
| 1:09.1 | Fuck that year. |
| 1:11.4 | Fuck that year so much. Fuck that year. Fuck that year so much. |
| 1:14.2 | Fuck that year so hard. |
| 1:16.9 | Because, you know, we all know that fortune knows what the Western calendar it says the date is. |
| 1:25.2 | I read something today where some, uh, |
| 1:27.9 | some smug asshole was saying something like what you just said. |
| 1:31.0 | And the person said, |
| 1:32.1 | I'm not blaming 2016. |
| 1:33.9 | I'm just saying it was a shit year for a lot of people. |
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