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Pints with Jack: The C.S. Lewis Podcast

S6E5 – OSP 3+4 – “Rocketman”

Pints with Jack: The C.S. Lewis Podcast

David Bates, Matt Bush, and Andrew Lazo

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8638 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Ransom wakes up from his drugged sleep with a massive headache, but sees a view which is out-of-this-world...

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Norman Stone, I'm the director of The Most Reluctant Convert, the story of C.S. Lewis and his struggle to faith. And I'm on Pines with Jack.

0:13.3

Weston, Weston, he gasped. What is it? It's not the moon, not that size. It can't be, can it?

0:20.3

No, replied Weston. It's the Earth.

0:25.4

This is Pints with Jack, season six, episode five, Rocket Man.

0:30.9

Out of the Silent Planet, chapters three and four.

0:54.7

Welcome, everyone. Here on Pints with Jack, we're reading our way through the works of C.S. Lewis. I'm David, and I'm joined by my co-hosts Andrew and Matt. This season, we find ourselves among the stars, reading through the first of C.S. Lois's science fiction trilogy, out of the silent planet. In the past couple of episodes, we've just covered one chapter at a time, but today we begin

0:59.2

to pick up the pace.

1:00.6

We're going to be covering two chapters, and in chapters three and four, we discover what

1:04.6

interplanetary travel is like through the eyes of Elwyn Ransom.

1:08.8

And since Lewis doesn't give his chapters any names, this season we're naming each episode

1:13.2

after a movie title.

1:14.8

And since in today's chapter, Ransom is on a flying vessel to some unknown planet,

1:19.3

I thought we'd call this one Rocket Man, after the 2019 biopic about Elton John, named

1:25.1

after the same song, which has an amazing legendary cover by the Mr.

1:30.7

William Shatner.

1:33.4

Gentlemen, welcome to the Rocket Man episode.

1:36.8

Welcome.

1:37.5

Good to see you guys.

1:38.5

Happy New Year.

1:39.5

Yeah, that's what I was going to say.

1:40.7

Happy New Year.

1:42.4

What did you guys do?

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