Podcast #413: Armageddon and Learned Helplessness

Drunk Ex-Pastors

Christian Kingery

Comedy, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 565 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

We begin this episode by shouting out a couple DXP listeners who made their way to the Well & Table this past week, and then banter a bit about nothing in particular. We discuss "Planetary Defense," which is a recent NASA experiment in which we try to alter the trajectory of an asteroid (think the film Armageddon, only real). We talk about another experiment on the subject of "Learned Helplessness," which explains why, when you're down on your luck, it's so hard to turn things around. Biebers involve icemakers expired water.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up?
0:01.0	Hey, how's it going?
0:02.0	Dude, this weather is just amazing.
0:04.0	Yeah, I mean, it's October 2nd right now, and it's like supposed to be 79 today.
0:10.0	Yeah, not a cloud in the sky.
0:12.0	Climate change is the greatest thing the man has done in the history of mankind.
0:17.0	Yeah, I got my hang 10 shirt on, my fly vintage.
0:21.2	I know.
0:23.2	You looked like you were right out of the 70s.
0:37.0	I thought about that when you went. Thank you. Like early 80s. Yeah. Probably early 80s more than 70s. Thank you. Yeah. Because I'm thinking like you can't, not going to be listening. Like I spoke to cigar yesterday. Yeah. Not going to be doing that again for very soon.
0:38.7	I've been trying to do it every day.
0:52.3	It's nice because I've got about eight cigars left. Mm-hmm. And I'm like, maybe I can get, because they won't, I'm not going to keep the humanor or whatever at 73, uh, whatever it is. Right. It's not degrees. What is it? 73 humidity. Percent humidity.
0:53.1	Percent, yeah.
0:54.2	For the whole winter.
0:56.2	So I want to get those smoked before.
0:57.7	Yeah. it's not degrees what is it 73 humidity percent humidity percent yeah um for the whole winter so i want to
0:56.5	get those smoked before yeah but it's like every day i'm like that it's warm i'm like i have to get out there
1:01.5	and smoke a cigar yeah or it's like i listen to reggae because it's like i love reggae but only when it's
1:06.5	sunny yeah in the summer yeah and so it's like there's just like little things where it's like okay
1:10.8	this is all going to go away for about eight months, you know, 10 months. Right. Very, very soon. Yeah. So I got to enjoy it. And then you have to change the music you're listening to to fit with the climate. Season. Yeah, of course. You're a psychopath. Who doesn't want to listen to acoustic singer songwriters in the autumn? Oh my God. You know? Who doesn't want to listen to trip singer-songwriters in the autumn?
1:28.2	Oh, my God.
1:43.8	You know? Who doesn't want to listen to trip hop in the wintertime? I'll tell you who doesn't want to listen to 80s music anymore. I never thought I would say those words ever. Oh, you? Yeah, me. Really? Yeah. The other day I came in, I'm just like, I can't do the 80s anymore. I just can't.
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