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

Religious Studies, Skidmar College, and I am here with my co-host today.

I'm Dan Miller my co-host today.

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

Good to see you, Dan. We are living in two worlds.

I'm in California where it is projected to be 92

degrees today and you are in the northeast and the the polar vortex is

making its way through. What's the temperature where you are this afternoon?

It's not that bad for us.

For us, it's like, it's supposed to be in mid-50s today, but mid-40s tomorrow.

Like we're missing, but we may get some snow and rain tomorrow.

Like further north, I get up into like Vermont, they're supposed to get like actual snow or back where I did my

grad work in Syracuse New York I think they're looking at like multiple inches

yep but they'll shrug that off because it's Syracuse and like it basically snows all year round

That's that's a little bit of an exaggeration. It doesn't snow in August, but yeah so different different worlds in a lot of ways.

So.

Well, I wanted to start with a story today

and as has become our custom. So you'll appreciate this Dan.

Folks you probably don't realize this but Dan and I really kind of came up in

grad school as people doing what is called vaguely philosophy of religion and both of us actually spent a lot of time in our lives.

Maybe I'm not sure if I would agree with this but too much time reading French and German philosophy and digging

through very dense texts and in many ways like looking up to a generation of American

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