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The Fundamentalists

The Reason for the Season

The Fundamentalists

Elliott Morgan and Peter Rollins

Society & Culture:philosophy, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In the run up to Christmas Elliott and Pete delve into the meaning of Christmas. Along the way they discuss Santa, Commodity Fetishism, Incarnation and Pete’s new job as a Social Influencer

Transcript

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Fundamentalists podcast.

0:14.0

My name is Elliot Morgan, and I am here with my fundamentalist friend, Peter Rollins,

0:20.6

from Northern Ireland, philosopher, writer, theologian.

0:24.4

I myself do comedy, internet comedy, for as long as I can for now and see how long it lasts.

0:30.7

Hey, I am now an influencer because I was content. Oh yeah, you did a tweet, yeah. Yeah, well, I haven't

0:35.7

done it yet because they have to okay it, but I was approached and they said we'd like to pay you to talk about, to watch the expanse.

0:44.2

And what is the expanse?

0:45.2

Is that a sci-fi show?

0:46.9

Yeah.

0:47.1

It's like a kind of, yeah, it's like a straight up like Star Trek type show, right?

0:52.2

Yeah, so they're basically basically about launch their fourth season and i'm not even getting paid to do this this is not the pay bit the

0:58.0

paper it's just like a tweet that's how they get you that's story that's is that right yeah you know

1:02.1

you start really being a fan i um i did a thing for a it was what was the company that i did it for

1:08.1

uh oh i'm blanking on the name.

1:11.0

It's Robert Kirkman's company, Skybound, the Walking Dead guy.

1:16.4

And they had me do this show that they were trying to get off the air that was like

1:20.0

science-y, experimental things.

1:22.8

And so they had me wear, for this video, they had me wear one time, like, this electrode that they had invented that this guy made.

1:29.6

And it monitored my activity.

1:32.0

And the show that they had me watched was the expanse, which I had never seen before.

1:36.1

And they kind of just threw me into it.

1:38.5

So I didn't really know any kind of, I don't know what was going on.

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