Podcast #71: Virtual Friends, Counsellors, and Confessors

Drunk Ex-Pastors

Christian Kingery

Religion & Spirituality, Comedy

4.7 • 565 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2015

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

This episode of Drunk Ex-Pastors opens with a brief discussion of whether Time magazine's fourth most-powerful person in the world deserves the label, after which we take a call from (and are shocked at the libido of) the world's most brilliant theoretical physicist. We turn our attention to the irony that is Seattle's Amazon Books superstore, which is intertwined with the topic of technology, leading us to the not-so-futuristic issue of self-driving cars and whether they'll be as "safe" as the ones that human idiots drive. We then touch upon Bernie Sanders's views of marijuana and the gays' plan to make the human race extinct. After our break we discuss Australian (ex)model Essena O'Neill and her renunciation of social media, on social media, which brings up the broader topic of just how healthy it is that online forums have replaced real flesh-and-blood counselors for so many young people in our culture. In our "Dick Move, God" segment we learn how to get out of paying your debts with the help of the Spirit. Jason is biebered by the effects of changing your email address, while Christian's bieber involves unnecessary wastes of his time.

Also, Lesbian Island? Yes please.

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0:00.0	Podcast 71. Does Mike always get screwed up? There we go. Sounds good to me. Your voice sounds like music to my ears. Yeah, it's like, it's like honey. I can't really talk or express myself today, so I'm interested to see how this goes. Why not? I mean, it's not going to be that much different than normal. But what,
0:20.9	what,
0:21.1	did something happen?
0:22.0	I woke up at 3.55 a.m.
0:23.5	and I've been up ever since.
0:24.7	That's no good.
0:25.4	Like wide awake up. Not like I laid back in bed and kind of drifted off. I've been just awake since four, yeah. Well, I'm only six hours behind you. I woke up about 9.30.
0:37.3	Yeah.
0:38.1	Yeah, but I'm having the worst couple days.
0:40.8	Yeah, I know. I'm sorry, man. Yeah. It sucks. Yeah. What can I do for you? Do you pray for you? There's nothing you can do. Especially since given the conversation we were having five minutes ago about how God doesn't intervene in the world. Yeah, God's not going to help you do. You just let secondary causes just, you know, run their course. You need to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. I'm trying. It's not working, though. I got some good news for you. Oh. Forbes came out today with the most powerful people on their...
1:10.9	What's our ranking?
1:12.8	Well, Putin is first, the most powerful.
1:15.1	Yeah, I can see that.
1:16.6	We've got to be at least top 50, right?
1:18.3	Angela Merkel.
1:19.7	Is that a name?
1:20.6	Angela?
1:21.6	She's number two.
1:23.3	Number three is Barack Obama.
1:25.0	All right.
1:25.8	You're going to love number four.
2:34.9	Bono. Pope Francis. Oh, Pope Francis. Fourth most powerful person in the world. Interesting. Yeah. Do you think that's right? Well, it depends on what you mean by power. I mean, I would say influential. He's probably higher than that. But he doesn't have any power anymore the way a Pope used to have. I mean, what is power other than being able to influence a billion people? Well, if you were, I mean, Putin isn't just influential. He's powerful because he can do whatever he wants. Well, he can start a war, you know, the drop of a hat. And I'm sure popes used to be able to do that kind of thing all the time, but we don't live in those days anymore, thankfully. Yeah, that's interesting. Pope Francis. I was thinking it would be funny to make a bumper sticker. Yeah. A Catholic bumper sticker. You know, my boss is a Jewish carpenter. Yeah. It would be funny to make one that says my boss is an Argentine biochemist because that's what what he is. Wow, Pope Francis fourth, number four. Interesting. Yeah. Hmm. I guess it depends on what you mean by power. I mean, certainly he's more... I'm sure influence is a part of it. I think he's more influential than all three of those people combined. Yeah. But I don't think he has as much power as any one of them to do what he wants.
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