Special Oddcast! The Starbucks Outrage
Brant & Sherri Oddcast
Brant Hansen
4.9 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2015
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The Starbucks controversy shows it again: There are two main ways Christians engage the culture, and you can be a hero to your "side" if you choose one way or the other. Brant and Sherri think there's another, harder way...
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Brand and Sherry podcast, sponsored by MetaShare. |
| 0:05.0 | For more info about the show or about Brandt's book, Unaffendable, check out brantanson.com. |
| 0:11.5 | Hey, wanted to talk about the Starbucks Red Cup thing, and here's the deal. |
| 0:17.0 | I couldn't care less about it. |
| 0:18.8 | I mean, I really couldn't. |
| 0:38.4 | Don't care if Starbucks never celebrates Christmas ever again. Don't care if they ever have. Don't care. Don't care that their number one selling coffee, I guess, is their Christmas blend. That's what they call it. Not interested. That they call it Christmas blend. Not interested if they don't call it Christmas plan. |
| 0:39.3 | Don't care. |
| 0:41.4 | So you know where I'm coming from right off the bat. |
| 1:00.0 | What's been so interesting, though, is to me it's watching the reaction on social media because, and we've mentioned this on the show, I don't know anyone, anyone who has posted anything that I personally know that has, that has diminished Starbucks or denounce Starbucks or been upset at Starbucks. I just don't have. It's, I'm sure people have. |
| 1:04.9 | But that's still saying a lot, Brandt, because both of us, it's just by virtue of our job. |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah, mass media. Yeah, we have a lot of friends or a lot of people on social networking. |
| 1:14.3 | And we, I haven't seen. |
| 1:15.8 | Thousands. |
| 1:16.5 | I have not seen one person. |
| 1:17.9 | Thousands of people in our timelines are evangelicals. |
| 1:23.1 | So these are the people that are supposedly up in arms. |
| 1:25.5 | We're told. |
| 1:26.8 | I have not seen one. And Sherry's saying this too. |
| 1:29.3 | I see about other issues all the time. |
| 1:31.8 | I'm like, wow, you're taking a real stand on that. |
| 1:33.7 | Okay. |
| 1:34.9 | On this, no one, but what I have seen are dozens and dozens of sarcastic put-downs of the people who are complaining about Starbucks. And I have to tell you this |
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