Welcome. Welcome to Straightwide American Jesus. My name is Brad O'Nishi. I am Associate Professor

Religious Studies Skidmore College and I'm here with my co-host.

I'm Dan Miller, Associate Professor of Religion and Social Thought at Landmark College.

Well Dan, I had a couple of stories that I was thinking about telling today, but none of them can even come close to matching

what happened at your house this week.

So you want to let us know why you haven't really been watching TV over the last couple days?

Yeah, so some people may know a few months ago I spent some money and had like a

bunch of big trees taken down on our property because in October a giant tree

almost landed on our house when it broke and you know so we do that so the other day I thought

I had complete vindication in this there's this big thunderstorm rolling through. I'm in the

kitchen with my kids and all of a sudden there's people might have experienced this

where there's the lightning strike that happens just like right where you are like we see the flash we hear this

noise the whole house shakes the thunder hits at the same time I'm like oh my gosh what

was that and we're so I was looking around I was looking out the windows to see if like any trees got hit or anything.

And a few minutes later, I get a text from my neighbor and it turns out the lightning had in fact struck

one of their big giant trees, the same size as all the trees I had removed from our property and so I was you know they were fine it didn't like catch on fire it didn't split or anything like that there was no imminent danger

So I was feeling pretty good about that,

feeling pretty proactive, and went back in the living room

and found out that the lightning had the last laugh

and apparently it's

to fry my TV and my Xbox.

All of our power lines here are underground.

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