Podcast #293: The Trolley Problem, Political Pastors, and Coronavirus
Drunk Ex-Pastors
Christian Kingery
4.7 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2020
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 293, we take a moral sense test, delving into numerous variations of "The Trolley Problem", a thought experiment in ethics, which pits utilitarianism against deontological ethics. We then bid a fond farewell to one of the major contributors to our Feeding Friendzy segment over the years. We then talk about the Coronavirus, and whether or not it's something people need to worry about if they're relatively young and healthy. Biebers involve loud cover music and overly cautious web browser prompts.
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| 0:00.0 | Jayne and I were listening to an episode of Phil Hendry Show last night. Yeah. |
| 0:04.1 | We're a recording right now. Oh, we are? Yeah. Oh. Oh, okay. Well, it was about how it was Chris |
| 0:10.6 | Norton was his guest. Yeah. You know, who's like a 29-year-old telemarketer, aspiring actor |
| 0:16.9 | from Redondo Beach, you know, total douchebag. Yeah. And the whole thing was about the rumors about Tom Cruise being gay. |
| 0:24.5 | Because at the time, this is from like the early 2000s, I think. |
| 0:28.3 | You know, Tom Cruise was suing some newspaper for propagating this rumor that he's gay. |
| 0:32.3 | And why do, why is this rumor continually coming up? |
| 0:36.2 | And Chris Norton, who's, is it homophobic to sue somebody for libel for calling you gay? |
| 0:43.4 | That was one of the things they never really, like, addressed in this episode is like, |
| 0:47.5 | why is this such a vicious rumor? |
| 0:49.1 | Right. |
| 0:49.6 | You know, and Phil at one point said, like, not that there's anyone on being gay, but if you're not gay, |
| 0:53.8 | you don't want to be called gay. But anyways, Chris Norton, who's played by Phil Hendry, but which the listening audience or the people who call and don't know that, they think he's a real person. Right. But his whole thing was like, well, you know, Tom Cruise is a good looking guy and I'm also like incredibly hot like, incredibly hot and good-looking. And, like, women want us, and they want us to buy them drinks and pay attention to them. And when we don't do it, they make up vicious rumors about us. So that's probably what happened because it happens to me all the time. Right. That was pretty funny. That was funny. He's not still on the air, is he? |
| 1:28.5 | I don't think so. |
| 1:30.9 | At least not in the form he was before. He was on KFI or something? |
| 1:31.8 | He was on KFI, but he was all over the, it was nationally syndicated. |
| 1:34.6 | Okay. |
| 1:35.2 | Eventually he was big enough to be nationally syndicated. |
| 1:37.6 | He was pretty talented. |
| 1:38.3 | Dude, that guy is amazing. |
| 1:39.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:39.8 | He was in, this is 40. |
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