Podcast #282: Optimistic Nihilism
Drunk Ex-Pastors
Christian Kingery
4.7 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2019
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Drunk Ex-Pastors we play a listener's voicemail about death, which leads us into a discussion about so-called "Optimistic Nihilism," a view that says that we can still find beauty in the world despite everything being pointless and destined to ruin. We then turn our attention to a recent study suggesting that people living in red states have worse—and significantly shorter—lives than their blue-state-dwelling superiors. Biebers involve search engines and fatty nuts.
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| 0:00.0 | Dude, I'm so excited to have a drink with you on the podcast this week, but I've been getting worried we're never going to get there. |
| 0:08.4 | Because we're messing with their sound. |
| 0:10.5 | We made this drink like 20 minutes ago. |
| 0:13.6 | I haven't even taken a sip yet because I haven't had a dark night, which is what we're having. |
| 0:18.1 | Cheers in a long time. |
| 0:19.5 | Cheers. |
| 0:20.2 | Let's take a little sip of a dark night. |
| 0:22.0 | We haven't had this in ages. |
| 0:26.9 | Oh, so good. |
| 0:27.7 | It's really good. |
| 0:28.9 | It's bullet rye, Angostura bitters, |
| 0:33.1 | vanilla de Madagascar, |
| 0:34.8 | ancho chili liqueur. |
| 0:36.4 | Antcho rays chili liqueur. |
| 0:39.7 | And a big old ice ball. |
| 0:41.1 | There's two different types of bitters. |
| 0:42.9 | And a verna. |
| 0:43.4 | You forgot a verna. |
| 0:45.0 | Half ounce of verna, half ounce an chiroise, quarter ounce of vanilla |
| 0:49.7 | de Madagascar, one and a half ounces of rye, |
| 1:28.5 | underbergs, one dash of Underbergs and two dashes of Angostura, but I didn't use Angostura because I found a new company called Scrappy that's Seattle-based that makes really good bidders. Yeah. And so I got their bitters in state. Make America great again, baby. And then an orange peel. See how pretty it is? And a big ice ball. Yeah. I like big balls. I do not lie. So I forgot what I was going to say. Oh. Probably because we're being recorded and I'm so nervous. We are recording ourselves. We're not sure if we're going to put this one up on YouTube or not. |
| 1:34.8 | But we are experimenting with video and trying to see how it does for us. |
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