Episode 4 of Drunk Ex-Pastors is now available to download and stream. In this edition of the podcast (which is perhaps the most entertaining and least substantive one yet), Christian and I kick things off with a shot of 100 proof Southern Comfort, and then ramble semi-coherently about everything from the volume of Christian’s vomiting to […]
Category: Pop Culture
Podcast #3
Our new episode of Drunk Ex-Pastors is now available for download and stream. In this edition of the podcast, Christian explains the “Ice Bucket Challenge” to me (call me cray cray, but it’s not apparent to me how pouring ice water over my head will help cure a disease); we soften our stance on the Michael […]
Extremism, Flowers, and the Powers that Be
If you take a strong position on some issue, or on cultural/political matters in general, it is easy to label those on the other side as “extremists” or “reactionaries” (while failing to see that they might be passing the exact same judgment on you). For example, I remember when the O.J. Simpson verdict was about […]
Podcast #2
Our second podcast is now available for download. In this episode, Christian and I discuss the shooting of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teen who was shot in the back and head by a white police in Ferguson, MO, last week; we explore the issue of whether people on the right are more ideologically driven […]
Podcast #1
As promised, the first of Heavy for the Vintage’s weekly podcasts is available for download (you can download or stream here as well as over at the Podcast page). In this episode, co-host Christian and I discuss the American attitude toward work and compare it to that of other cultures; we talk about the horrific actions of […]
Suicide and Failing the Compassion Test
As I highlighted in my latest post and feared would only continue, the response to Robin Williams’s suicide, especially on the part of Christians, has left much to be desired. First we had Willis from Diff’rent Strokes waiting all of seventeen seconds after the news broke to pat himself on the back for turning to God […]