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A non-theology podcast in which a stodgy presbyterian and a casserole-loving baptist try to understand how they got to be the way they are.
If you’ve ever tried to get gum off your shoe, you understand how hard it is to get rid of this podcast. You also understand how hard it is for us to get rid of Ben Robin. In this episode, he joins us again for another text adventure game. Also Jim and Ben get quite confrontational about David’s covenanter-y beliefs.
This episode is mastered in surround sound, so you may want to listen with headphones.
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Sure, if you wanted to hear our End of Year Special from 2018, you could have just gone back and listened to episode 24. But we’ve made it easier for you by pretending a podcast feed is a radio station and replaying old content. You’re welcome.
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There comes a time in every podcast’s life when they release an episode like this one. Probably. Most likely. I think so, anyway.
We have some good conversations about Jim’s anthophila-at-rest expression, then read some Mitch Hedberg jokes, then “vamp” in follow up for the rest of the show.
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You have died of dysentery. Or rather, you’ll wish you had. No, wait. The show is good now. Sorry, Jim. Anyway, in this episode we have Ben on to play a text adventure game called Flaming Goat! Since it wraps up pretty quickly, the three of us come up with a game about trains and Francis Schaffer on the fly. Then we talk a bunch about what’s wrong with David. Lastly, Ben has a last word at the last.
This episode was actually mastered in Dolby Atmos Spatial Audio—and while that won’t come through 100% since it needed to be exported as an MP3 for podcasting, it is best listened to in stereo—so if you have headphones or some nice stereo speakers, maybe consider using them to listen.
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Purely Presbyterian articles on the Establishment Principle: One, Two, Three, and Four.
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The source for the text adventure game we played: Memento Mori. These are really fun with groups!
In this episode, we banter about Apple and pictures and stuff. Jim explains his deep desire for camouflage pants, possibly explaining his aversion to regular pants. We also talk a bit about COVID and Crossway, though as separate discussions. For the main course, we finish Jordan Peterson’s book or something, I guess.
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Um. I’m not sure what to write here. Officially, we covered two more chapters of Jordan Peterson’s book. Unofficially, just listen and find out. Okay? I’ve got things to do, too. Was this description really something you were going to read and evaluate whether or not to listen to this episode? I didn’t think so.
Sorry, I think I just wanted to rush through writing this so I can quit staring at the show artwork. Yikes.
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In this episode, we first discuss Jim's interesting experience while camping. I don’t want to say anymore because it’s more dramatic that way. Anyway, David interprets data from experiment about soup and tries to recruit people for the musical.
Our main topic is a combination of two chapters of Jordan Peterson’s Twelve Rules for Life, because we’re trying to finish it before we end the show. Is it worth it? We’ll leave that for you, the listener, to decide.
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In this episode, we can't help but talk a bunch about random things, knowing that we are only a few episodes away from our final episode. But then we gain (not regain) our composure a little and introduce our skit, which is a continuation of the saga surrounding poor Lester.
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To kick things off, we have some fairly silly conversations about birds and Veggie Tales, and then we must give some grave news regarding Jim’s participation on the show. But don’t worry! This is not the end! It is but the beginning—but it is the beginning of the end, so there’s that. I guess that was kind of misleading. Sorry.
Anyway, for the meat of this, one of our last episodes, we discuss the two year anniversary of Relight: how and why David started it, an update on how it be, and plans for its future.
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Well, listeners asked for it and we delivered. Our shortest ever intro to an FCU episode. We barely say anything at all and just dive right into the fun.
Speaking of the fun, while Jim and David are in transit from Paris to their new-to-them-sorta homes in Broken Whistle Montana, we check in with a beloved character, Broken Whistle resident, and cardiac patient, Lester Branigan. I don’t want to spoil anything, so I’ll just say he’s not having a good day. I won’t say that it’s a bad day, because that’s in the title and it would get repetitive.
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Back in our obtusely shaped saddles, we dive into a more extended follow up section since this isn’t an FCU episode. It’s so good, honestly, we don’t want to spoil it. For the main segment, we discuss Rule #6 of Jordan Peterson’s 12 Principles for Life: Set Your House in Perfect Order Before You Criticize the World.
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In this episode, we finally explain our recent and unexpected hiatus—or rather Jim does. ”‘It’s not my fault!’ – Han Solo” – David Mikucki
For the meat of this episode, we conclude the Jim and David on the Run series. To say anything else would be a spoiler, and David hates spoilers, even for things he’s already seen—yea, even for things he’s made with his own hands. So you’ll just have to listen, buster. Headphones or a quality stereo system is recommended. Actually, David just tried it and it’s pretty cool to use iOS 15 with Spacialize Audio turned on—but he doesn’t recommend installing the iOS 15 beta just for this.
Credits: Martin Lloyd Jones helped, even though his voice was not heard audibly.
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Wow. It’s been a while. This episode was actually recorded on May 21, just days before Jim would, as I (David) understand it, literally travel the entire United States of America without warning for something like 30 days. Impressive.
Anyway, we tried to make up for it by including a lot of the silly banter we know you have come to love (and hate). We also dive into our main topic, which shouldn’t upset anyone at all, really—parenting. It’s Jordan’s fault.
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In this episode, Jim tries to do an impression of Christopher Walken—like a lot. Jim injects some discussion of Albert Mohler, and David has a lot of follow up. Also we have our final (probably) discussion of LOST, since David finished the series.
For the meat of our show, we’ve prepared the penultimate episode of Jim and David on the Run. If you like time travel, or if you will like time travel, you will or will have liked this episode, because it will have had a lot of it.
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We kick things off with silly discussion about some CCM artists: their names and their voices. After that, for production reasons, we have no follow up. We tried. We really did. But we had nothing. At least we also tried to make it funny. Again, we really tried.
Our main discussion is a sort of smorgasbord of topics related to photography. We’d like to think everyone wants to take nice pictures of something at some point in their life—pictures of their pets, children, nieces, nephews, or HelloFresh meals. So David offers some tips on using your phone to take photos, as well as some tips on getting started as a professional photographer. For some reason Jim thought that last topic would be interesting enough to get started. Thankfully, a lot of the advice applies to any freelancing field in some way, so you can take comfort in that.
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After a lot of aggressive negotiations, your hosts have figured out how they can make Flogging a theology podcast! This episode features our first (admittedly somewhat brief) theology discussion and David isn’t even all that uncomfortable with it being released.
The meat of the show continues the story of Jim and David on the run, picking up where the last episode left off with us being captured by Gary from Indiana. It’s so exciting, you might get goosebumps. And if you don’t, we can always have Jim come breathe on you for the same effect.
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In this episode, we talk about who Paul Washer is talking about, then about coffee, then about Grudem, and then about LOST.
For our main topic, we talk about photography and copying other people’s work as a means to get better in a given art field. This stems out of our discussion of Jordan Peterson’s Rule 4, which says you ought not to judge yourself in comparison to others.
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A Philosophy of Photography – And the Rest of It post by David.
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In this episode, we finally have a good amount of follow up from David to talk about. Finally! Anyway, we slog through some quick points, then discuss the idea that grown men tend to start podcasts with other grown men because they want substantive friendships but don’t want to be perceived as effeminate. So that’s fun.
Our main content is the second part of the series “Jim and David on the Run,” in which we run from the government, driving Bill Hasinger’s car from Spokane Valley heading to Denver, CO. Shenanigans ensue, and yes—they beget more shenanigans
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I’m on vacation, so these notes will be brief. We talk about Lost, David being wrong, and talent. Just listen to the show if you want to know more. Okay?
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In this episode, Jim largely carries the Follow Up section and David wrote a skit. We're in backwards land! We also talk a lot about the various people who have played the Incredible Hulk. I'm not sure why.
For our main content, we start off a series of skits that will establish the Flogging Cinematic Universe in a a more clear way. If that doesn’t make sense to you, that’s okay. It made sense to David. Anyway, this skit picks up where episode 127 left off, with David having just stayed overnight at Jim’s house.
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In this episode, we might discuss the size of England. Maybe. We also catch up after David's dad's heart surgery and have some very vague follow up because David has been busy and doesn't remember the details about his follow up notes.
For our main topic, we discuss Jordan Peterson's 4th chapter in his 12 Rules for Life book: Compare Yourself to Who You Were Yesterday, Not Who Someone Else is Today.
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Finally! A new episode of Flogging!
– No one ever
Okay, so there are reasons why there have been no new episodes for a while. This episode explores them, as well as LOST. Because it’s been a while.
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In this episode, as per a listener request, we bring back Soup or Naw! We also discuss Lost and some other random stuff in Follow Up because, as the kids say, that’s how we do.
For our main topic, we discuss chapter three of Jordan Petersons’s Twelve Rules for Life: “Make Friends with People Who Want the Best for You” and David gives a weird amount of information about Jay Adams and nouthetic counseling.
By the way, sorry for the colors. This was the only public domain stock image of a yo-yo that I could find on such short notice. You try to do better, okay?
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You know we’re busy when we just do a skit from Monty Python. Well, we were busy, and we did do a skit from Monty Python—but we didn’t just do a skit from Monty Python!
Anyway, we talk about a lot of TV shows in our followup, which is cool if you like that sort of thing. Jim says he doesn’t like Psych and David gets depressed or something.
For our main course—the entrée if you will, we have a trailer for the most important movie to ever be featured in a trailer on this episode: Incompetent Jason Bourne.
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David’s office, not sure why he thought this was follow up. He was just happy about it, I guess. It’s not even done yet.
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To start, we discuss some stuff about Star Wars, coughing, military officers, and what makes people laugh really hard. Oh, and then we talk about how wealthy people laugh. For follow up, we discuss what made our last episode funny (to David) and also ABC’s Lost, season 2. Don’t worry, there’s a patent-pending spoiler horn.
Anyway, for our main topic, we talk about something that makes David angry—Jordan Peterson’s second chapter in his book 12 Rules for Life. David talks way more about theology than he wants to, and for that he blames himself—but also mostly Jim.
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Finally, a new episode. We talk about dentists, cover some follow up, Jim reads some stuff he thinks isn’t funny, and then we roll some skits. I’d just like everyone to know, I thought the skits were funnier than the things Jim read in Follow Up. That is all.
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It’s David’s day off, so this will be short. We talk about lobsters. Like a lot. Also Lost. Oh, and David insults youth pastors, so it’s a typical episode. Have a good new year and stuff.
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Who doesn’t love leftovers? You? Okay, well, you can skip most of this episode, then. We basically replay like 9 past End of Year bits that we did. But we do have a hearty followup section, and we even dive into some appropriately marked/quarantined Mandolorian spoilers. Don’t worry, you can safely listen to the episode and you’ll be told when you should stop listening, and when you can scrub to if you want to resume listening after the spoilers.
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Maybe we should just drop The Lightest Form of Flogging and start a Lord of the Rings podcast. This episode contains follow up on LOTR, Mandalorian, and other stuff, but we mostly stopped talking about the Psalms. Shut up about the Psalms!
For your main course, that is, the main topic, we discuss how people reason about things, why people are hesitant to admit that an idea they haven’t considered could even exist or be viable, and (primarily) David’s concept of Spectrum v. Category thinking.
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After a lot of silly seriousness last week, this episodes leans more into serious silliness. Although David does have a few things to clarify from LOTR (having watched the Fellowship in 4k now) and on the subject of Psalm-singing (having received a hefty amount of feedback).
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This episode is about The Lord of the Rings, VFX, and Psalm-singing. If that seems weird to you, you’re probably new. Anyway, the show is mostly about LOTR and VFX up until the 43 minute mark. At the 43 minute mark, we discuss the Psalms, but the discussion arises out of Jim’s appearance on episode 24 of The Balm in Gilead Podcast—a podcast about music, especially Christian music, and often even more especially Christian worship music. While it’s not strictly required, listeners may find it helpful to listen to that episode before listening to the latter part of our episode.
Anyway, David talked a great deal in this episode, which is why for the next two episodes, David will simply be asking Jim questions. Not good questions, just “Why?” over and over again.
Note that we don’t know whether the person in the album artwork is wicked or not, but for charity’s sake, we’ll suppose and hope that he isn’t.
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Video: lotr but every lotr but every time sam takes a step towards mordor he says it'll be the farthest he's ever been
The Chick fil-a video Jim mentioned.
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This episode has some of the most exciting news we’ve ever broken, which as I write it out, is sort of depressing. Anyway, we also talk a lot about the Mandalorian, Bowby’s, and Wayback-Machines.
Our main thing is a skit about Chuck Wood, an origin story, if you will. And we’ll like to ask that you do will. Thanks.
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This episode includes an important follow up point about K. Scott Oliphint. Not really, but we do talk about him, so that’s something. Right?
Our main topic is a David-isode (or however you guy son Slack want me to spell that). We discuss how David would rather live an unpleasant life than a life that is generally pleasant with occasional sudden bouts of unpleasantness. In short, his aversion to high variance options in life. And Jim talks about chicken a lot.
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Note that no chickens were harmed in the making of this episode art.
In this episode, we kick things off with another Flogging Theater that we forget to credit. It’s some British thing that I’ll force Jim to mention next episode. After that, we dive into a hearty time of following up.
Our main course is another script Jim wrote. This one does not feature any violence, although it does have some threatened violence. But ’ya know, we’re getting somewhere, so leave him alone.
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I guess Jim and David are like friends now or something. We kick things off with an extended intro because we had so much pointless stuff to talk about from having skipped a week. Weird, right?
Anyway, we talk about Youtube reaction videos, the election, and like some other stuff. Then we get into follow up and talk about more stuff. That’s a good summary of follow up.
Lastly, our main topic is the mental model of thinking about your brain as almost a sort of separate entity. Oddly, we agree a lot, so if you don’t like that, you can skip the episode or just pretend that we’re disagreeing in your brain.
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In this episode, we kick things off with a bit that you’ll later find out is from Monty Python. We also have an host of followup items, including one with an actual date for the release of the Lord of The Rings 4k Remastered Edition. Because I guess that’s the kind of stuff people listen to this show for now.
Anyway, the meat of the show is the conclusion to the story of The Amazing Clarence Flekman. Hopefully it makes sense; I haven’t been sleeping well this week.
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To start, we some good but potentially fraught news about The Lord of the Rings. We also talk about other weird things, and then move onto follow up—where, among other things, we clarify the origin of last week's opening skit.
For the meat of our show, we talk about why young people are dumb, and what the process of learning to not be quite so dumb is like. We thought it was interesting, anyway.
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After a short skit and each us bringing a few follow up points, we debut David’s first FCU skit. Like every cinematic universe, the Flogging Cinematic Universe needs some origin stories. This is one for a character you already know and love, Clarence Flekman—though you don’t know him by that name, I suppose.
Anyway, this is part one of two. Who knows when Jim will let me do part 2.
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Well, well, well. No reason for saying that. I’ve just wanted to start show notes that way for some time now. Anyway, we kick things off with some mindless banter, Jim has more follow up than David somehow, and then we discuss our main topic.
That topic deserves its own paragraph, and it is intimidation. specifically the idea of being so intimidated by the learning or doing of a thing that you decide not to learn or do that thing. We talk about our past experiences with such forms and degrees of intimidation, as well as what we do to combat it—and as you might expect, our differences are highlighted in bright yellow, like so many passages in a Christian’s ESV Journaling Bible.
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This is probably one of our shortest and most polished episodes ever. David forgot to hit record, so we had to record the first 25 minutes twice. So it’s extra nice and stuff.
The meat of the show involves chicken. I’ll leave it at that.
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David here. Full disclosure. It’s been a long week and I didn’t even listen to this until posting it. I’m sorry. I hope that’s enough, but I guess we’ll leave that decision to history.
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In this episode, Jim has two skits—one of which is a brand new segment: “Flogging Theatre.” This should not be confused with the Flogging Cinematic Universe, despite how confusing the names are. Don’t confuse them. You can do it. We believe in you.
For follow up, we talk about TENET without any spoilers and we talk about how our little slices of quarantine are going and whether Jim is ready to go crazy and start coughing on people at Safeway on his next trip to buy Zebra Cakes and milk.
Our main show skit thing (gosh, we’re almost as bad at naming things as Microsoft) features 50% less violence and arguing than normal. Progress!
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In this episode, we talk about wanting to see TENET, have some follow up about humor and weirdly-violent skits, and then we dive in to our main topic. It seems a waste to give it its own paragraph considering how short that first summary was, but this sentence should make up for it.
Our main topic is Jim trying to remember more positive or relatively neutral influences his dad had on him. We did an episode somewhere in the past about how Jim’s dad leaving affected him, but in a recent episode, Jim a little about how his dad shaped his sense of humor, so we thought it would be a good idea to dive in a little more on that and adjacent things.
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We kick things off with some celebrity-pastor poetry, then we dive into Follow Up halfway through our host intro. I think that breaks records or something.
Anyway, our main segment is… well, let’s just say it’s a bit that only Jim could write. Yeah, we’ll leave it at that.
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We kick things off with a weird discussion of Orlando Bloom. Not Orlando Blooming Onion. Just Orlando Bloom. We then, of course, dive into a healthy serving of follow up.
For our main topic, we discuss our theories of what makes things funny, what makes people laugh, and what makes people be funny. And so forth.
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It’s our next Flogging Cinematic Universe Episode. It has nothing to do with the previous one, but then again, that’s how the first several Marvel Cinematic movies worked, so we’re on par, yeah?
Anyway, the episode starts off with Jim explaining what it’s like to be approaching 40, and David pointing out how not-unique that is. We get into some follow up, talk about comedy and autism, then we roll in our main course: On the Lake with Pastor Gus.
We kick things off with a the first of many installments of a series exploring Jim’s Self Destructive Habits. It sounds more exciting than it is. We then, of course, cover follow up, the one consistent thing in this crazy messed up world.
Anyway, our main topic is a revisiting of David’s supposed autism. We follow up with David to find out how his discovery has affected him and what, if anything, he’s learned in the last year or so since said discovery. I think it’s pretty interesting, but then, I’m me.
Side note: The album art is is easily the most difficult selfie I’ve ever taken.
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Episode 101. An even bigger accomplishment than episode 100. Why? Because it’s one more than 100. Duh. Anyway, for those of you who love pedantic follow up, you need not fear. We’ve still got it. We also play a voicemail from an unwitting Rainn Wilson impersonator.
After that, though, things get weird. This is our first Flogging Cinematic Universe episode and it features none other than Bill Hasinger and family.
What happens in the episode? We’ll let you find that out yourself. No spoilers.
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It’s episode 100. What more could you need to know?
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You read that right, it’s the long-lost episode 39! Hooray! We felt bad about doing an episode 100 without having done 100 episodes, so we decided to pay our comedy debt and record episode 39.
This episode features a story about bears or something, follow up from episode 38, and another mental model: The Perpetual Ignorance Machine.
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Baptist or Naw! You didn’t ask for it, and we didn’t care. That’s how we kick off our show. If you don’t like it, that’s okay.
For our main topic, Jim decrees that we shall (you know it’s serious when someone uses “shall”) clast yet more icons that conservatives treasure deep in their bosom. We talk about the statues of dead white dudes that everyone wants to tear down, and Jim explains that he doesn’t really care about statues, but he does like books. David also has thoughts, probably, so be ready for that.
Anyway, another show closer to 100. Be excited.
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Jim kicks things off for us with a game of History Name Game Thing! Yay! That's really all I have to say about that.
or our main topic, Jim brings a Forbes article for us to talk about. The basic theme of our discussion is getting your thoughts out of your way so that you actually try to do things, thinking that there is a real chance you may succeed. Actually, now you don’t need to listen to the episode. That summary is probably better than the article and our discussion of the same. But whatever, you do you.
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For the intro, David kicks things off with a discussion about aphantasia and how each of us thinks. It’s one of our more interesting intros. Maybe we should try to do mini-topics more often.
The main topic is CGP Grey’s video, Lockdown Productivity: Spaceship You. I already mentioned it, and you should have already watched it, but if you haven’t, here’s another reminder. Anyway, we talk about we talk about the different aspects of trying to be a person and remain sane during quarantine.
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For our intro, Jim drudges up another game from his dank basement and we play it. Don’t worry, it’s less exciting than it sounds. After that, we do follow up, which is surprisingly short.
Our main topic is Bible College and why pretty much no one should ever go there ever. If you take nothing else from this show, make sure you take away the idea that going to Bible college is a terrible idea and a waste of money. For realz.
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Oh, you want show notes? People in the Slack complain about last week’s show notes, and now there’s a demand for another round? You couldn’t live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me.
Anyway, this episodes starts with an oddly passive aggressive game of Baptist or Naw. It contains our longest host-intro ever, and we bring Ben Robin in for some lively follow about things and stuff.
Our main topic is served by chef Ben Robin (pronounced Roe Ben). The topic is inception. Not the movie—although we did make all those jokes. We discuss the idea of helping someone else come to a conclusion and think its their own. If you think about it long enough, you might come to the conclusion that it’s a very powerful persuasion technique. That’s why it’s part something of our persuasion series.
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To start, David shows off how unfamiliar him is with history and figures of the same. It's really not good, but he made a Michael Jordan joke so Jim says that makes up for it.
In follow up we reveal that neither of us is a psychologist, and that we are in fact quite dumb. There is no doubt whatever about that. Dumb as door-nails. Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dumb about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a roofing nail as the dumbest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that we are as dumb as door-nails. This must be distinctly understood, or you might actually believe the rest of the things we relate.
Anyway, for our main topic, we discuss something relevant again. Not for the sake of relevancy, a thing for which we almost never strive. But because the issue has been on our minds a lot lately (due to its virtual unavoidability and not any piety within us, sad to say) and we thought encouraging discussion of said issue would be of benefit. Anyway, the topic. The topic is privilege and compassion. After listening to this, we're expecting to be hung as piñatas at some poor candy-less conservatives birthday party.
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We kick things off with a game of Baptist or Naw. No, that’s not a misprint. You read it right. Baptist or Naw. Yes, it’s highly derivative from our other game, which is derived from Robot or Not with John Siracusa. But if you didn’t like things that are highly derivative, why are you listening to this show? Heck, you’re probably a baptist and you probably prefer the 1689 over the Westminster Confession. Talk about derivative. How dare you?
We also play a voicemail and read a text message. No thanks to most of you, who wouldn’t send in a voicemail if we literally begged you to on the show.
For our main topic, which we actually have, we discuss directionlessness. Finally. Of course, due to the voicemail, follow up, and other things, we hardly had any time to discuss it. But hey, we’re making progress or something.
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In this episode, we uh… well, we spent the whole thing doing follow up again. But don’t worry, the intro was original. Oh, wait, we just did more Mitch Hedberg stuff.
Well, at least David spent some time apologizing for being the way he is. And Jim got to cry a little; although I can’t tell if that was fake or not.
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Lots of follow up this week, but not as much as last week.. So I guess that’s alright. We do talk a bit about COVID-19, so if you haven’t heard enough about that from everyone else, this should be a good opportunity for you.
For our main topic, Jim wants to talk about discipleship. Specifically, he wants to discuss the idea of a church having a specific, intentional program for discipleship. David’s had ecclesiology on the brain a lot lately, so of course he take it in that direction.
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In this episode, we talk about follow-up. Yup. That’s right. All we did was follow-up. David was so happy, he was tempted to dance. But he didn’t. He didn’t.
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For our intro, we have some celebrity pastors, young and dead, endorse Relight. Of course Bill Hasinger manages to screw everything up. We also talk about machetes and buying bread.
Our main topic is super exciting. Easily the most exciting thing we’ve ever talked about it. And I’ve seen some exciting topics—the most exciting. Really smart people, with really big brains are starting to talk about how exciting our main topic is.
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We kick things off with… I can’t actually write it. We kick things off with a… skit… thing… that Jim wrote. Jim Briggs, I mean. Anyway, what was I doing?
Right, our main topic is the Federal Vision. We talk about our experiences with it, the weird people who insist on defending those who profess it, some stuff about how wolves work, and why Johnny can’t explain the Trinity (no copyright intended)—or something.
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Last week, we had “women” in our title. This week, we have a woman on our show! Don’t worry, we’re still good complementarians; she’s only on briefly, for follow up. Sarah joins us to talk about how and why David is the way he is, and stuff.
For our main topic, we discuss a quote from H.P. Lovecreaft and the idea of Big Data, hence the weirdly apt title. Anyway, here’s the quote:
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.” — H.P Lovecraft,
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Jim didn’t have an intro, so we just like talk and stuff. It’s different from the main part of the show, where we just like talk and stuff—because of the uh… topic. Or something? Ask Jim.
Our main topic is how David thinks about failures, not so much moral failures (like this show), but more like practical failures of humans (like this show). We especially talk about failures of humans to do things that humans are rather, by nature, bad at.
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First of all, we play a game of “Would you rather?” which Jim hates and wants David to stop doing. But Jim still tries to do those stupid two-people-simultaneously-reading-a-poem things that David hates, so we’ll see how far Jim gets expressing his wishes to David.
Anyway, for our main topic, we talk about the genetic fallacy. We discuss its many forms and also the difference between using the genetic fallacy to definitively prove something and simply being careful about something because of its origins. Speaking of which, be careful listening to this episode because of its origins.
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In this episode, we discuss intuitionism. If you have a hunch you know what that is, well, I guess you know what it is at least on one level. Anyway, Ben is on the show to set us straight and stuff. There are fights, but not like last time. They’e more like the lightest form of fighting. Anyway, we made the episode and now you’re gonna listen to it. That’s all I have. Jim got me the episode late and I slept in after staying up late watching Star Trek: Picard with some friends. What do you want from me?
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In this episode, we talk a lot about the coronavirus. We then chat about follow up. For our main topic, we talk about some fairly strong precautions the government is enforcing, and whether or not they are overreaching. We also discuss the various responses churches have had to this and how we feel about them.
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We kick things off with a miserable failure caused by our abundance of incompetence and Skype latency. To make up for it, we discuss the movie Joker.
With our intro out of the way, we dive into follow up, where we learn about Tim Challies' hands and some other stuff. For our main topic, we discuss bulverisms, a term coined my Mr. C.S. Lewis to describe the modern, flawed method of arguing: ”to assume without discussion that he is wrong and then distract his attention from this (the only real issue) by busily explaining how he became so silly. “
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In this episode, the audio is what Jim would call wiggidywack because Jim hit the wrong button on his audio mixer—which admittedly is more complicated than it needs to be. Anyway, we kick things off with a contractually obligated ad for Bill Hasinger’s Instagram written by Bill himself. We’d suggest skipping it, but we’re contractually negotiated not to—but we’re not contractually negotiated to not say that.
Anyway, our main topic is the inverse of the law of the excluded middle. It’s the law of the exclusive middle. We discuss why the middle of the road position is often the most appealing, why it has a certain rhetorical persuasiveness, and David references Merlin Mann’s “turns out” concept to illustrate part of why this might be. It’s like fun and educational and stuff.
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In this episode, we forgot an intro. We’re 80 episodes in and we still have no idea what we’re doing. This is the kinda things that keeps listeners leaving. Anywho, Jim has some funny skits and stuff, finally.. So that’s good.
Our main topic, which is brief, oddly, is about denying multiple sources of causality. No, David didn’t pick it. Jim did. David just suggested it. And it was last-minute—well, actually we picked it live. Anyway, it’s about when people say things like “God didn’t send Jesus to die for us because he loved us. He sent him because he cared about his own glory.” – When in fact, He did it for both reasons.
It’s a pretty interesting topic, but don’t let that get you too excited. There’s plenty of disappointment still.
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This might be our most follow-up heavy episode to date. But first, Jim shares a moment with David in a segment called, “When Popular Theologians Bitterly Disappoint Us.” Next we dive into our generous follow-up, which includes an explanation on why i’m got mad, how Jim’s job is going, how David’s doing in his new church, and a handful of stupid little things no one cares about but David (of course).
For our main topic, we discuss when we’re tempted to lie. We talk about the temptation to lie when we are trying to persuade people, specifically. We each share some stories of when we’ve done this and what’s made us decide we need to do it less. We also talk about why it’s important, when you’re with like-minded people, not to just pick bad examples of the other side, or outright lie about them while everyone cheers and shouts, “David! David! David!” and then they pour gatorade on your head, but it’s sugar free, so it’s not sticky afterwards. Then they bring out a white robe for you to wear and—
Anyway, yeah.
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Oh, man. This is an episode, alright. We kick things off with a voicemail for Bill, and somehow things only manage to go downhill from there.
Our special guest is Ben Robin, again. It might be getting less special. Anyway, he receives an honor we typically reserve for no one at all: he joins us for our follow up segment. Follow up really is a two man job, though, so the segment smacks of too many chefs in the dining area. Nevertheless, we carry on.
Our main topic is Spiritual Gifts. And oh, man—it sure was a thing. Everyone was feeling fighty, and David didn’t have his emotion chip turned on—so empathy, as they say, was lacking. Anyway, we’re all still good friends, I think. But seriously, if you like it when we argue, this is your episode. You probably won’t be able to stop smiling for days. People will wonder what’s wrong.
Oh, and by the way, we had an after show. Ben picks a fight with David on having a high view of the church. Rhetoric flies. Statements are made. Children cry (I think). It’s quite moving.
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Just a reminder that we’re not a theology podcast or something. 🤣
Someone mysterious was in our studio when we first started recording, the show opens with us confronting the unknown individual and then getting frustrated and choosing to just start the show. Next is an exciting voicemail, and we then dive into follow up. This is the way.
For our main topic, we discuss something that’s actually in the title for the show, ad hominems. Jim pulls a fast one on David, turning it into a David-episode, and David struggles to pivot—choosing to basically just read his notes verbatim.
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The Lightest Form of Flogging has finally stepped up into the minor leagues. But first, of course, stupid skits and an annoying follow up segment.
For the meat—uh… tuna—of our show, we bring in special guest Tony Arsenal to talk about EFS. We talk about how it got so popular, why people are quick to accept it, and why many are slow to criticize its proponents.
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n this episode, Jim puts on a bright red trucker hat and tries to Make Flogging Funny Again, but we’ll let you find out how—and also be the judge of whether he was successful or not.
Follow up, of course, includes lots of creation-related stuff. But then for our main topic, we move on to a word David made up: evangashaming. The idea here being when people are made to feel bad because they haven’t shared the gospel in the past week, or for not going on short term missions trips, etc. We discuss our past history with such behavior and ideate a potential forthcoming series that has not yet been productized.
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Oh, boy. We kick things off with a fake advertisement—just like the good old days. After that, we dive into some follow up. As a note, David plugged his microphone into a USB hub because of moving-across-the-country chaos. This resulted in his microphone cutting out a lot, so if things he says make less sense than usual, you might just be missing an important word.
For our main topic, Jim wants to talk about creation. We weren’t expecting a big fight, but I guess that’s just how thing goes sometimes.
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In our very first episode recorded while not in the same room, we talk about moving and feeling at home. This is because Jim has never felt at home outside his geographic alma mater, Canada or something. It’s also the topic because David’s whole life has, for months, been anticipating his move to Colorado—set to occur just days after this recording.
We also talked about some stuff before that, and in follow up. But who cares? People just listen to the show for the musical breaks now, I hear.
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First, David has one last beer for Jim. I guess we’ve bookended our weird little series introducing each other to different alcoholic drinks—because we started with Scotch and ended with a Scotch Ale. This wasn’t intentional, I can assure you. We’re too dumb to do something like that. Jim also talks about mind palaces and pie or something.
For our main topic, it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Jim and David discuss prophecy. Specifically, we talk about Wayne Grudem’s view (or the historic Pentecostal view of it, which Grudem expresses). Jim talks about getting both the heebies and the jeebies whenever the idea of fallible prophecy is presented to him. David tries to understand why, and in the process probably accidentally insults the majority of the free world a few times.
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It’s the end of the year. That means you won’t have to endure any more flogging episodes in the year 2019. If that’s not cause for celebration, I don’t know what is. No, really, I’ve never understood celebration, or what causes it. Help.
Anyway, we have lots of weird end of year greetings and skits from some of our most infamous guests. After that, Jim and I discuss the new Star Wars. First we have a segment of discussing it with no spoilers (or at least nothing that can't be seen from the trailers, so that definition is slightly subjective), then Deep Voice Man comes in and tells you that we’re going to discuss spoilers and that you can skip ahead to the 01:45:00 mark to avoid them. Actually, since that's in the show notes, why did we pay him to say it for the show?
Anyway, after Star Wars, we replay last year’s An End of Year Carol, in which Ebenezer Mikucki is haunted by three ghosts or something.
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David kicks the episode off by giving Jim a tasting of a beer in a style wherewith was not previously familiar. This is a brief segment because David doesn’t actually know 3 episodes worth of stuff about beer, and because listeners complain when we talk for 270 minutes about alcohol. We don’t have a problem; you have a problem.
For our main topic, we do a deep dive on Les Lanphere’s Spirit and Truth movie. Jim reveals that when he watched it, something happened inside of him—and in a Taco Bell way. We discuss the movie, what we liked, some criticisms, and then David tries to understand what the movie changed for Jim, who is reported to have been seen cage staging on worship in downtown Spokane—carrying a broadsword and quoting John Knox about Popish ceremonies.
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First of all, Jim plays a game with David that concerns music and weird and/or angry outbursts. So that’s weird. Then Bill signs Derek’s book form our giveaway, and then we of course do so some follow up.
For our main topic, frequent victim and one-time (now two-timin’) guest Ben Robin joins us to discuss a series of grievances he has with our discussions of emotions, stories, and preaching. Fun, charity, and clarity are had by all.
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We kick things off by discussing David’s recent trip and the revelations he’s had regarding how he is weird about them and doesn’t enjoy anything good in this world. After that, we talk about follow-up and discuss the Mandalorian a tiny bit. Jim hasn’t seen it yet, though.
For our main topic, which was all Jim’s fault, we discuss Bible translations. We each give our stories with them, then Jim and David fight about some of the presuppositions behind the Critical Text and Texts Receptus movements. If you’re looking for an educated discussion, look elsewhere. No, please, look elsewhere. It’s an interesting topic and there are lots of smart people talking about it.
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First, and most importantly, we announce a winner to our show: Derek Mast! At some point in the future, probably before the end of 2020, he will receive a copy of Just Do Something, signed by Bill Hasinger. Speaking of Bill, his segment technically comes first—but I really didn’t feel like admitting that.
For our main topic, we discuss the idea of the First and Second Tables of the Ten Commandments. Jim’s been thinking about this a bit lately, so David was interested to talk about this theological journey. So there’s that.
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We have a guest! That’s right, folks. Someone was foolish enough to be on our show. Don’t hold it against him. He only did it because he doesn’t listen to the show.
Trevor Marsteller is an admin for the Reformed Pub Facebook group. We start off with a rousing game of Papist or Naw, making him choose whether things be Papist or, well, you know… naw. After that, Jim and David do a quick follow up segment, as expected. Then we dive into our main topic, which is basically what Trevor has learned about the behavior of various reformed groups through his work as an admin on probably the most popular online reformed community that exists.
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David kicks of the intro to the intro before the other intro with… a song. Do you remember that time when he suggested making a parody of the Beatles song Paperback Writerthat would make fun of the Christian publishing industry? David did. Do you remember immediately thinking, “That sounds like a terrible idea.” David didn’t. So he made it.
Apple’s Logic Pro lets talented people do some pretty amazing things. And it let David do this. Anyway, the lyrics will be below the mentioned links section, along with an apology from David.
For our main topic, we discuss Jim’s fiery passions regarding preaching. We set the context by discussing our views on it, then we try to talk about why Jim seems more fired up about it than David. Since David is usually more fired up about stuff like this than Jim, this episode should be at least mildly interesting if you’re really bored.
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Paperback Writer Parody Lyrics
Dear sirs at Crossway, will you read my book?
It took me weeks to write, will you take a look?
It’s based on some sermons by a man named Greer,
And I need the cash,
So I want to be a paperback writer.
It’s a gospel story of a broken man,
how he reads the Bible but can’t understand
His sin was ruling his heart since the Fall
He’s a Pharisee
But he wants to be a paperback writer
It’s 200 pages give or take a few
I could write some more in a week or two
I can add some stories if you like that style
I can change it 'round
And I want to be a paperback writer
Paperback writer
It’s my gift to preach, and not so much to write
This really needs an editors oversight
I wrote most of it while I was drinking beer
But I want some fame
And I want to be a paperback writer
Paperback writer
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I’m deeply sorry for having created this. But at least the lyrics still have more substance and less repetition than most modern worship songs.
– David
In this episode, we talk about Irish and Canadian whiskey. As expected, we make fun of Ireland, Canada, and people who file their teeth into points because they’re completely insane and live in Manhattan. We also have a follow-up segment and briefly discuss our dependency on foreign oil and more renewable options. This episode pairs well with whatever you normally drink when you are overwhelmed with grief and regret.
Oh, and we try to list things that are good about Canada.
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Much like Presbyterian theology, our whiskey journey takes us from Scotland to America. We begin by tasting some Buffalo Trace. Jim seemed insistent that we have at least some amount of alcohol in our system before he let David do follow up.
For the main portion of our show, we discuss bourbon. Jim takes David up to a high mountain overlooking Kentucky and explains that everything the light touches is good. David, spotting Tennessee off in the shadowy distance with his eagle eyes inquires there about. ”That's beyond our borders. You must never go there, David.“ Jim replies. We also learn how Oakland came to be, why California is both weird and on fire, and why American whiskey is has a French name.
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We're pretty sure that no one listens to their show unless they've been drinking, so we decided to join you. This is the start of a three episode series on whisk(e)y. Jim will be going through various kinds of whisey and explaining them to David as we taste them. It's a lot like Bob Vila's Home Again, but about alcohol.
This week's episode is all about Scotch Whisky in particular. Jim brought three single malts, each of a different kind. Additionally, David will be reading tweets from Denny's to help keep things mildly amusing.
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To begin, we play more Lord of the Rings trivia. I (David) suspect this is because Jim ran out of ideas but still had board games—but I can’t prove it. Anyway, after that, we have a surprisingly short follow-up section and then get into our main topic: People Skills as a Professional Tool. We talk about the idea of understanding people as a useful skill an advertising and marketing and then we just sort of wonder for a while how on earth David got into marketing.
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In this unexpectedly existing episode, we kick things off by exercising Jim’s rhetorical factories by requiring of him an oration on the topic of trees that is both impromptu and extemporaneous.
For our main topic, we decide to discuss the recent conversion of Kanye West. But less about the man himself and more about the idea of how hard it would be to try to convert while having as much fame as someone like Mr. West. It’s a fairly meandering discussion and—as you’ve come to expect from our show—quite useless. We recommend listening at 1/100th audio with cotton in your ears for a smooth, pain-free experience.
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We kick things off with a rousing segment of Ask Bill Anything. And I have to say, this time, it’s all your fault. That’s right. It’s not our fault. It’s yours. You did this. Shame on you. Shame.
Moving past that disaster, we get into some follow up and then our main topic—which is emotions, mostly Jim’s because David wouldn’t know affect if it left him a voicemail. But it least it would have left him a voicemail. Thanks again.
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We kick things off with a rousing segment of Ask Bill Anything. And I have to say, this time, it’s all your fault. That’s right. It’s not our fault. It’s yours. You did this. Shame on you. Shame.
Moving past that disaster, we get into some follow up and then our main topic—which is emotions, mostly Jim’s because David wouldn’t know affect if it left him a voicemail. But it least it would have left him a voicemail. Thanks again.
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Much like visiting a restaurant, this episode begins with soup—specifically, a question about the relationship between sharks and soup. After that, we dive into a hearty follow up segment, which of course includes an item about Kevin DeYoung. We really should get him on the show.
Our main topic is a pretty big one for the show. It may explain several past David-centered episodes, why he is the way is, and it may even prove to be virtually required listening for any future episodes where David talks about the way he is (or even those wherein he simply is the way he is). Basically, David took a questionnaire/test from Cambridge and the results have been profoundly enlightening.
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Red Green Color Blindness Article
Autism Test
We kick things off by redoing Soup or Naw—this time discussing things that are actually food. David gets to begin the process of establishing a definition of soup for the purposes of our show; Jim almost doesn’t mind. After that, of course, comes follow up. Honestly, I don’t remember much of what we talked about, but I’m guessing at least one point was about Kevin DeYoung.
For our main topic, we discuss Jim’s protestant problem and how he kind of wants to kill all the heretics or something. David points out Jim’s Baptist heritage and then we get in a fight. This leads to what is perhaps the most helpful sidebar we’ve ever had (or naw) and we then end up agreeing on some things so much that it will make you even more nauseous than the show was probably already making you—but now for different reasons.
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Robot or Not: The podcast Jim finally let David credit.
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To begin, we play a game of "Soup or Naw" which contains no questions about actual food. Jim tries to cook Ben Robin in a hot pot of liquid, and then we get into follow up—where Jim has a delightfully pedantic correction for David. Marvelous.
For our main topic, we talk about those dadgum millenniums. Why are they the way they are? Why aren't they the ways they aren't? What ways are they? What ways aren't they? Will we ever take a long enough break from eating avocado toast to buy a house?
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David Clapping Video
80’s Chunky Soup Commercial
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First, we read some poetry together. I'd this upsets you, know that it cannot upset you more than it upset David. Next we have a hearty follow up segment fraught with controversy, so the usual.
For our main topic, we talk about celebrity pastors. Given recent events, it's likely that everyone has discussed this to death by now, so the time seems right for us to break out the baseball bats and have at the dead horse. If you expected something better, you're clearly new around here.
Mentioned Links
Article on casualty
Paul Washer’s famous sermon
The Eagle Song episode
Relight: The app David is working on.
Remember back when we were funny? Neither do we. Remember back when we did more parody ads and fewer weird skits? Pepperidge Farm remembers. And so do we. That’s why we start things off with a weird skit and an old school parody ad. Because when it comes to schools, there are not schools which are like those which are old.
Anyway, David might be back with the show—in an engaged sort of manner. He has lots of follow up, which, oddly, Jim was excited about. Absence makes the heart grow forgetful. After a flood of follow up and some talk of socialism, we finally reach our main topic: all the stuff outside of you that affects your cognition and emotions, especially sleep. It’s a catchy title, no?
Mentioned Links
New York Times article on sleep
The book Jim read on sleep: Why We Sleep
The weird video about getting your brain cut in half from CG34aDtR4P Grey.
A picture of David’s sleeptime watch face.
Balmer Peak comic
We begin with a parody of a well-beloved podcast. You'll have to hear it to understand—then you'll have to unheard it to recover. Next we dive into followup, where Jim apologizes for mispronouncing “data,” and David apologizes for letting Jim turn last episode into kind of an ad for a web app that David hasn't even shipped yet. But it's no one’s fault. Remember that.
Inspired by David’s side-hustlin’ eryday, Jim has decided that he would like his own side with which to hustle. This lead to a series of shenanigans, not the least of which is Jim taking a bunch of free personality and aptitude tests, probably accidentally signing over his soul to Russia in the process. We discuss how to find a career/side-hustle and even dive a little bit into the topic of vocation.
As if that weren't enough, and of course it isn't since we're only putting out shows fortnightly this Summer, we decide to discuss Stranger Things Season 3 in our after-show. Don't worry, we warn about spoilers before we actually get started. What we don't warn you about is how dumb the conversation is. We figured that was implied by now.
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The Reformed Brotherhood
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To kick things off, David shows Jim some memes and Jim reads them out loud because radio. After that, Jim somehow turns a huge chunk of our follow up segment into a bit, which normally would have been an introduction. But who cares anymore, right?
For our main topic, we discuss why David has been seemingly cocooned for the past few weeks, learning about snakes. More seriously, we talk about the idea of changing or expanding one’s professional skillset, and the skills David is trying to learn to take on a fairly ambitious top-secret-but-not-secret-anymore-because-we-talked-about-it-on-the-show project. We’re smrt.
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The CGP Grey article David kind of got the death idea from.
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It’s our 50(--)th episode! We kick things off with a rousing game of Papist or Naw! After that we cover some follow up, and for what may be the first time since episode 01, David doesn’t have any follow up (that he can remember).
The big, fantastical news—indeed, the amazing surprise we have for episode 50 is that we have a real guest that Jim didn't make up! This episode features none other than one of our most famous listeners and Slack victims. A man who has inspired much follow up, Ben Robin (or as Jim calls him, Ben Row-ben).
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The Purely Presbyterian article David mentioned about ministers and laymen.
Ben’s link will be here if he wants to add one.
(Update: He says he doesn’t have one. He just reads the Bible)
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We kick things off by making some Long Island Iced Tea Iced Teas. I guess you could call that follow up, even though it's our intro. As such, it occurs before our other intro, which of course comes before the actual follow up segment.
After that, our main topic is, "Jim Goes to Church." Jim, our resident casserole-loving Baptist visited a church much closer in theology and liturgy to his cohost David—the stodgy Presbyterian. They discuss what Jim liked and disliked about the service and a smattering of other things related to this experience.
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David kept using the phrase “Confessionally Woke.” This episode explains that phrase: Episode 38: Confessionally Woke
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First, David sort of apologizes for the length of last week’s episode, then Jim talks about all the things he embarrassingly didn’t know about until surprisingly recently. During follow up, David explains how excited he is about the latest cheese grater.
For our main topic, we talk about Jim’s daddy issues how how they affect his being a daddy. David tries to get Jim to look on the bright side a little and Jim pulls an Irish accent out of his hollowed out leg. Also for some reason women are better at tying ties than men.
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The Sword of Damocles – Article
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We kick things off with a game called “The Jim and David Friendly Voice Debate.” You’ll understand when your older. During follow up, David makes some deeply introspective remarks and Jim pretends he’s listening.
For our main topic, we discuss emotions. How much control over them do we have? Are we responsible for them even though they sometimes seem to come from outside us? Why is Jim sad whenever he sees David? And what role do emotions play in worship?
Mentioned Articles
The Tech Reformation episode where we talked about imposter syndrome
NAPARC Congregation Finder Site
Special bonus if you can go to an RPCNA congregation – site
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In this episode, we have an accidental not-very-special guest and an intentional very special guest. David gets in a fight and then we try to make follow up for an episode that we had literally just finished recording at the time of this recording.
For our main topic, we talk about our experiences being micromanaged. We discuss the idea of knowing when you don’t know something, finding someone who is good at it, and trusting them to handle that thing. Also somehow we talk about filmmaking, so there’s that.
Mentioned Links
Peter McKinnon Youtube Channel
Gerald Undone Youtube Channel
In this episode, David eats Linguini, we have a silly ad and read an iTunes review, and of course correct ourselves in follow up. Typical.
For our main topic, we discuss the Dunning-Kruger effect—or why incompetent people think they’re amazing. It’s a deep dive into our show, when you think about it. Anyway, we discuss our history with being micromanaged by people who aren’t experts in our fields and David talks a little about how his awareness of this concept has pushed him to take a hands-off approach to things he doesn’t know a lot about.
Mentioned Links
Why Incompetent People Think They’re Amazing (Video)
The episode where David talks about his fear of incompetence.
The episode where David talks about his distaste for Christian publishing.
In this episode, we talk about virtually nothing interesting until we get to our main topic, which is also not that interesting.
Our main topic, if you must know, is vaguely verbal plenary inspiration. This is one of those episodes that you expect will demolish our attempts to brand our show as “not a theology podcast.” But believe it or not, we managed to do an alright job of talking about the psychological and cultural issues surrounding Jim’s experience with the doctrine, vs. donning sweater vests and pretending to be able to explain such things as inspiration.
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Jim said he’d send me an article about verbal plenary inspiration, but he hasn’t yet. Don’t @David. @Jim. It’ll be here eventually.
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In this episode, David—without any spoilers, seriously—tells Jim all about Avengers Endgame. Also, Jim puts on the Ritz. Next, we account for why the Reformed Pubcast isn’t releasing episodes anymore. After a bit of followup, they dive into the main topic, which is The Superhero Comic Model of Villainy and Evil. Basically, we talk about why bad people do bad things in real life, vs. their motivations in movies.
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In this episode, David steals someone’s dog and helps Jim get passionate about recording the show. After this, Jim gives David a custom-made empathy quiz. Bill Hasinger answers several questions, we discuss some of Adelle’s worship songs, and Phoenix, AZ rises from the ashes.
For our main topic, as promised in some past episode, Jim attempts to teach David the sacred art of caring. We dive deep into David’s psyche and try to understand why David is perceived the way he’s perceived. And after an impassioned rant from David, for the first time in 37 years, Jim feels like David cares about him.
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OODA Loop – Wikipedia Article
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We start by playing a video promo David made and discussing it a bit. Do please share the video with your friends. They’ll leave you, then you’ll become more depressed, then you’ll listen to our podcast more. Dive into our malicious downward spiral.
For our main topic, we ask the question, “Does Jim care about anything?” Okay, it’s not like that. But Jim keeps saying it is as a joke. This leads into a discussion of the Hebrew Roots movement and the zeitgeist of not being able to tell anyone they’re wrong about anything, even public schooling. The metaphor of rolling down a hill of a cliff is used, but to be honest, it most accurately describes this show. Stay away.
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The Trailer David made.
We’re not gonna like to Hebrew Roots stuff. You can find it yourself.
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You may have noticed we skipped an episode. It was a listener request and we always try to do whatever our listeners tell us, especially when it’s funny. Anyway, in this episode, we respond to a voicemail which is responsible for our mathematical violation among several other shenanigans.
Next, Jim and David patch up the canon ball-sized hole in their relationship that David tore open with his bare words at the end of last episode. And actually, the rest of the episode is largely us getting along like friends. It’s gross and you should of course skip this episode. We continue to discuss our theological mental models surrounding things like sanctification, emotions, divination, and, um, the temple.
Mentioned Links
All of Grace - Book by Spurgeon (free eBook)
God Dwells Among Us – Book Jim Mentioned
We get started with a game David was actually excited for—well, excited by his standards, anyway. Jim tries to talk to a robot, David makes a fairly sizable correction, and also Jim says he isn’t a terrible person, so there’s that.
For our main topic, we break our streak of not being a theology podcast and talk about our theological mental models. It was going okay until David messed everything up at the end and jeopardized his friendship with Jim or something. We recommend listening while drunk, high, or ideally not listening at all.
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To kick things off, Jim tells David the tail of his pilgrimage to see Donald Trump’s wall, giving him various souvenirs as he does so. Next, something unprecedented in Flogging history, Jim has far more follow up than David. Now you have to listen, right?
For our main topic, we discuss mental models/thought technologies that we know we are wrong, butt hat we hold anyway for various reasons. Jim misunderstood the question though, and basically just brought a list of things he thinks are wrong with him. If that sounds awkward and uncomfortable, you’re starting to understand what the show is.
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Cortex – Podcast
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This episode starts off with a game of buzzword, but really we could have just played “Have Jim tell Siri to do stuff.” You won’t want to listen within earshot of a HomePod.
For our main topic, we talk about thought technologies and mental models. We discuss what they are, Jim lists several, and David tries to help Jim get unstuck with the use of a thought shovel and cancer metaphor. It’s delightful.
Mentioned Links
Matt Chandler Plane Landing Article
100 Mental Models Article
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In this episode, we have a girthy follow-up segment because we recorded two episodes at once and won’t be able to have a real followup segment for episode thirty-six. We also read a listener review. For the meat (or salad, as you would say) of the show, we discuss the concept of meta-cognition or meta-thinking. This leads to some reflecting on the purpose of the show, the effects of the show on our lives, and also some shocking confessions. (You won’t believe number three! 😱)
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Reconcilable Differences podcast episodes 31 and 32
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We kick things off by talking about sportsing. Good old sportsing. For our introduction, we play a game of “Did Jim Actually Say That in a Bible Study?” This is almost as much fun as it sounds.
For our main topic, Jim tries yet again to get at the root of why David is the way he is. Specifically, this time, we discuss the importance of having and teaching right theology. We also discuss why Jim seems to care about this less than David.
Mentioned Links
The xkcd Ballmer Peak web comic
Wikipedia article on booleans
Wikipedia article on bouillon cubes
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Jim cares about things.
He told me to put that in the show notes. I try to appease him. Glad I’m done with that nonsense.
This episode starts out with a game of “Orthodox or Naw.” In this game, David reads a line from a Christian famous song and Jim has to decide if he thinks the author of that song was Orthodox or Naw. After that we launch into a discussion of why Jim wasn’t very aware of guys like Tullian within the Gospel Centered Movement and if that’s a bad thing.
This is a weird episode because we had to split the recording across two days. So enjoy that.
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The episode where talked about Jim leaving Facebook
The episode where we talked about the Gospel Centered Movement
The John Piper article/video critiquing the Gospel Centered Movement
The ridiculous TGC article about Doctor Who and Jesus
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In this episode, we kick things off with a new round of our world famous Papist or Naw game! After that, David apologizes for continually accidentally turning the not-theology show into a theology show.
For the main topic, we discuss why Jim doesn’t get into as many arguments as David, then we haphazardly stumble into the topic of why David makes everyone angry with him so much. Essentially, we discuss what we do when someone says something with which we disagree, why we do it, and how we should probably be better by now.
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Making a good podcast is hard work—or so we hear. We wouldn’t know. In this episode, David rips off The Reformed Pubcast and plays Would You Rather with Jim.
For our main topic, we discuss The Gospel Centered Movement Train Bandwagon thing. We mix our metaphors so hard, we bruise the gin. Jim plays bad cop right at the beginning and then David makes Jim’s Bad Cop look like Dudley Do-Right. As always, we suggest skipping this one.
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Literally any other web page. Please go there instead of listening to this show.
Jim and the pen image.
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First, some breaking news about some Baptists, some Presbyterians, a puppy, and the Super Bowl. We’re so relevant. After that, we dive into some follow up about Lt. Cmdr. Data and Christian bands. Rejoice.
For our main topic, we discuss Jim’s EFS Moment, which wasn’t about EFS at all.
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Gospel Coalition Article on Extra Calvinisticum
Kevin DeYoung on immutability - Video
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In this episode, Jim expresses his regret about his face, David plays a Shane and Shane song for Jim, and we have follow up on stuff as always.
For the main topic, Jim interrogates David about his time as a single person and how on earth he got married. David explains this miracle and the two discuss being single and getting decapitated in Afghanistan. It all fits together because of Mark Driscoll.
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The Eagle Song (Youtube video)
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If you think the Lightest Form of Flogging has changed, that it’s gotten worse, that it used to be about the music, you’d be correct. It’s never been about the music, but this episode is all about the music. So we’ve got that going for us.
First, Jim plays a game with David like a cat with a mouse in a bath. Then David talks about his perceived assaults on New Calvinists and we try to find a way forward with fewer crusades. Lastly, we finally get into our main topic: the song(s) that shaped Jim the most early in his Christian walk. Throughout this meandering discussion, we talk about our favorite bands, our least favorite bands, and about the emotional effect that music has on us.
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Flood by Jars of Clay - Song
Gravity by Sean MacDonald - Song
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Like a youth pastor, David always brings games. And like a youth pastor, his games are always disappointing. We kick things off by giving Jim (and listeners who choose to play along) a quiz about the show titles and topics. After that, David struggles to explain the topic, which is being bananas for Jesus and the effect Christian music might have had on the popularity of that particular concept.
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Song: The Altar and the Door (Casting Crowns)
Song: Somewhere in the Middle (Casting Crowns)
Song: Burn for You (TobyMac)
If you listen to this show, then it is quite likely that you have an above average capacity to inflict misery upon yourself. Perhaps you keep a journal of all the things that make you miserable, like listening to this show, following our instagram, or running around dog parks with bacon hanging out of your pockets and socks.
Whether this describes you, or whether you are a mere novice to misery, this episode will help you in your quest. Our main topic is Seven Ways to Maximize Misery. But before we get into that, Jim quizzes David on The Lord of the Rings movies.
Mentioned Links
The Youtube video that started it all.
The book that inspired the Youtube video.
Another video: The Lord of the Rings Mythology Explained (Part 1)
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First, how much attention have you been paying over the last ten years? David gives Jim a quiz about reformed and pseudo-reformed happenings from the past decade. Next, we cover the issue of The Wayback Machine with some degree of finality, hopefully. Finally, we respond to a voicemail.
For our main topic, we begin a seven part series about dispensationalism that will literally last 1,000 years. When people ask if we’re in the tribulation now, just point them to this show.
In all you’re being, we suggest you be left behind for this one.
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It’s a joyous time of year, so we thought we’d provide a break from all that nonsense. We kick things off by talking about chess robots and time travel, then we dive into our main topic, which is David trying to figure out how Jim would cope socially if he shared David’s convictions about the Christ mass.
After that, three ghosts visit a British David to try to convince him to embrace popish traditions. It’s barrels of fun.
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David here. Actually, I pretty much always write these things that no one reads. Anyway, when Jim showed up at my door to record, he needed to use my microwave. But he wouldn’t tell me what for until we started recording. That’s how the show starts. Then we argue about the semantic range of “way back machine” for a bit before finally diving into our main topic, Jim Goes to College. How fun.
Oh, and then we talk about how people are convinced of things, why it isn’t generally syllogisms, and how Jim thinks David could become a superhero or something.
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We kick things off with an introduction that explains our various introductions, then we play a rousing game of Papist or Not.
For our main topic, we talk about the idea of repping as adults. How do we present ourselves? We also get side tracked and discuss how to discern what kind of pie your eating. Doesn’t that sound fun?
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This Video will Hurt by CGP Grey
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In this episode, we discuss high voices, soup, food, and high school. Also plumbing. I’m tired of writing elaborate descriptions this week, so go read a product description on meh.com or something.
Alright, fine. Our main discussion is about how we learned to be a person in middle and high school: the concept of learning to interact with other people and liking things so that other people will like you.
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We may be no good at podcasting. We may make you wretch and dry heave every time you get the notification that we’ve released a new episode. That’s okay. We never claimed to be good at this. What we are good at is marketing and sales. This is a suitable compromise for us in this endeavor, because at the end of the day, it’s all about the Benjamins.
By listener request, this episode is 85% (or more) advertisements. The funny kind. The kind that make you giggle at work or in the library, when it’s maybe not appropriate to do so.
Enjoy. And remember to use the coupon code IDIDTHISTOMYSELF18 to get 20% off or something.
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David’s blog post about politics.
Some Covenanter essays
A talk on Christ-centered voting (Audio and PDF)
Newspaper article from 1900 about Covenanters refusing to vote
In this episode, Robert Goulet makes an involuntary guest appearance, we play a depressing game, then wrap up with some Shakespeare trivia.
For our main topic, Jim want to talk about politics and David is so excited, you can hear it in his voice. Jim explains his rollercoaster ride through conservatism and just about out the other end, and David explains why he has no friends on Facebook anymore. The only thing missing is a Scottish accent—also decent content. Decent content is missing from this show. But you’re used to that by now.
David spent an inordinate amount of time on the album art this week because Unsplash has no images of Scottish Covenanters in jacuzzis . Unrelatedly, if you see a damp Scotsman complaining about a ruined kilt, don’t tell him where David is.
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William Shakespeare Meme
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The episode where we talked about carrying water and politics (somewhat) before.
Russel Moore Religious Liberty Youtube video
We kick things off by talking about Shakespeare, the fear of not knowing how to use a word, and a radio theater version of church-greeting time.
For our main topic, have you ever seen something or someone and wanted to incorporate something about that into your personality? Not with this show, obviously, but with something good? In artistic fields, this is often called inspiration. In the field of animal psychology, it’s called imprinting. We decide to go full-on dog whisperer and discuss the people and things we’ve imprinted on throughout our lives. It’s way less interesting than it sounds, though.
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Video: A Mama Cat and Her Yellow, Feathered Kittens
Video: Batman Begins Fighting Style (called Kesi)
This episode is best listened to while mindlessly scrolling through your Instagram feed.
First, Jim tries to humiliate David by telling a story of his heartless apathy. Little does Jim know, humiliation requires a heart and is by nature squelched by apathy. Next we try to help our listeners share the show by talking about diverse methods for accomplishing the same.
For our main topic, we do a dive into why Jim is using a flip phone, writing on tablets of stone, and why he has left social media in all its forms. We try desperately to center the discussion around the battle with algorithms for our focus and attention, but ultimately fail and talk about printers and stuff. Hmm boy. It’s gonna be a good one.
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The GIF Jim referred to.
The book about smartphones changing us that Jim started off with.
A post about printers David wrote four years ago (he’s still using that printer).
CGP Grey’s Youtube Channel
A video wherein CGP Grey talks about his pulling back from the internet.
CGP Grey and Myke Hurley discussing the same thing in a podcast episode.
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Just when you thought you were safe, we’ve returned. In this episode, we talk extensively about how we’re not going to talk extensively about how we’re back. Jim makes weird noises into the microphone, David gets a new microphone, and then we discuss why David stopped writing. Masochists everywhere are calling this episode “so much fun.”
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The epic trailer David made. Give it a share, eh?
David’s old blog, And the Rest of It
The Medium post where David announced he wasn’t going to be writing as much anymore.
Paperback Writer (by the Beatles) on Apple Music and Spotify
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Breaking News: The United Nations has required us to cease producing episodes until they can evaluate our podcast and determine whether or not it is indeed a "war crime."
This may take some time as they are still trying to figure out if country music and man buns constitute the same offense.
We steadfastly believe that our podcast is a war crime and we will accept whatever punishment they give us. We look forward to it. We also look forward to providing you with more content once the ban has been lifted.
In the meantime, we suggest you find something useful to do with yourself, your ears, and your appendages.
In this episode, Jim kicks things off by trying to get David to do something he’s not very good at: laugh. They also spend some time talking about Jim’s phone-carrying habits, some followup items, and reading our first international iTunes review.
Our main topic is Jim’s desire to be a lone ranger and how his good cowboy daddy issues may have affected that. During this discussion we talk a lot about our introverted tendencies and inability to not tell jokes in large groups of people.
Mentioned Links
David’s blog post on the regulative Principle
Sola Scriptura and the Regulative Principle of Worship (PDF) Book by Brian Schwertley
The Necessity of Reforming the Church Book by John Calvin
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In this episode, we circle back around to something we did in episode one and piggy-back off of it. We play another game! And if David can find a way to get a half decent quiz that doesn't steal all your personal information We also list some of our favorite resources in response to a listener email.
Please stop emailing us. You can, however, call use and leave a voicemail at (707) 99-TULIP or (707) 998-8547.
Our main topic is a secret. You’ll have to listen deep into the episode to learn it.
Mentioned Links
Mongergism
Holiness of God by Sproul
Chosen by God by Sproul
Grace Unknown by Sproul
Purely Presbyterian
Reformed Arsenal
In this episode, we kick things off with a visual-aid assisted tour across the United States—podcast gold. We also introduce a much-needed, little-desired segment called follow-up—which will eventually envelope the whole show.
Perhaps most importantly, we did get to ten iTunes reviews, so you get to hear how why we picked our podcast name.
For our main topic, we put Jim on the psychiatrist’s couch and discuss how his unrequited pursuit of a pastorate affected his career and, you know, his emotions and stuff. We even manage to use the phrase "side hustle," so you know this is going to be awful.
We didn't mention (m)any links in this episode, but you should still go review us on iTunes. I’d like you, but if you haven’t done it yet, you don’t deserve a link.
You're not good at your job and everyone suspects it. It's only a matter of time until people in your life really notice how bad you are at everything and abandon you one by one.
If you've ever thought like this, you'll identify with our main topic, which is imposter syndrome or fear of incompetence—a fear which David has been realizing he's had most of his life. Jim grills him on the subject for your personal enjoyment.
Our intro is a surprise, so we can't tell you about it, because then you won't be surprised. Frankly the element of surprise is all this show ever had going for it anyway.
As I write these notes, I can't think of any mentioned links so go Google them for yourself. We're no help.
David kicks things off by bamboozling Jim and then reading some confessions, not the theological kind. They also talk a little bit about kidney stones, because those are kind of a big deal.
For the main topic, once we get past Jim’s subtle drug references, we discuss Jim’s relation to confessions, the theological kind. Specifically, our topic is confessoinalism. We attempt to define it, we discuss Jim’s affinity for confessions despite not having one, talk about what sorts of things he thinks should go into one, and of course get severely distracted along the way.
In the after show, we discuss Eternal Functional Subordination and Eternal Generation because of some things that come up during the main segment that we thought needed to be clarified.
Mentioned Links
The First London Baptist Confession
Family Worship – book by Donald Miller
Training Hearts, Teaching Minds – book by Star Meade
The ERAS/EFS Controversy – blog post by Tony Arsenal
To kick things off, David has an idea that is guaranteed to help keep the episode shorter and Wirecutter recommended.
For our main topic, after a couple of more serious, weighty episodes, we decided to ease back a bit and talk about our backgrounds in sales and marketing. We talk about lessons we’ve learned trying to convince people to buy things and then talk about how that might have affected our theology.
Lastly, in a segment that probably could have been an aftershow, we talk about churches using marketing techniques to bring get people to sit in their chairs and stay there.
Mentioned Links
Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller
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In this episode, we kick things off by reading Mitch Hedberg quotes and making ourselves (and probably no one else) laugh. From there we dive straight into the metaphorical toilet and discuss depression and anxiety, and the roles those dark guests have had in our lives. As always, we make an effort to discuss how these things have affected our theology, just so we can say our podcast is still about what we said it would be about.
Mentioned Links
Mitch Hedberg Youtube
Joe Thorn video about depression
Competent to Counsel by Jay Adams
All of Grace by Charles Spurgeon
Introduction to Reformed Scholasticism
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Can you imagine us as pastors? Well, believe it or not. At one point, we both imagined ourselves as pastors. In this episode, we discuss that and the effect it may have had on our theology and sanity.
Mentioned Links:
Matt Chandler - Jesus Wants the Rose - YouTube
Tech Reformation Podcast
Tech Reformation Slack
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In this episode, Jim learns to correctly pronounce "perspicuity," but at what cost?
For our main "serious" topic, Jim grills David on issues like the use of the word "reformed" to discuss New Calvinism and what it means to be reformed. After that, we chat about "Semper Reformanda" and then Jim bamboozles David into explaining his non-MacArthurianite cessationist views.
Mentioned Links
Always Abusing Semper Reformanda by R. Scott Clark
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rain. We talk about his "two sets of books" and end up discussing how much the opinion of others plays a roll in the positions that we hold or would be open to changing.
We promise you, it sounds more interesting than it actually is.
Mentioned Links
The Faith of Christopher Hitchens
The ERAS/EFS Controversy by Tony Arsenal
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In this episode, The tables turn and Jim gets to interrogate David and ask him about all kinds of questions about how he got to be the way he is. Topics include moving from dispensationalism to new covenant theology to covenant theology, his journey into confessionals, and a rousing discussion of Federal Vision theology in the after show.
Also we finally say what our names are in this one, so there’s that.
Mentioned LinksSola Scriptura and the Regulative Principle of Worship (PDF) by Brian Schwertley
OPC Article on Federal Vision
R. Scott Clark on the Federal Vision
In episode #1, we talked about ways in which we’re similar (being Calvinists). In this episode, we decided to start talking about how we’re different. To kick things off we talk about Matt Chandler’s use of the phrase “theological orphan” in relation to reformed charismatics, then we talk about how it relates to Jim in regards to his various theological distinctives
In the after show, David rants a bit about reading old books before reading new ones—or something like that.
We didn’t really mention any links this time, so chill out. Here’s a cool video, though, if you really must have something
Welcome to our very first episode of The Lightest Form of Flogging. We apologize in advance for any discomfort you will experience while listening.
Jim kicks things off by complaining about dumb theological quotes set on pretty pictures and placed on Instagram. After that, we stagger into our main segment, desperately trying to stick to the main topic, which is how we got to be reformed. This episode is sort of like a really lame origin story or something.
Mentioned Links:Tim Challies Instagram
Unsplash.com
The Instagram post we said we’d make (give us a follow, yeah?)
Revival by Martin Lloyd Jones
Chosen by God by RC Sproul
The Reformed Pubcast – the show that started all the other annoying reformed podcasts.
The Reformed Pub – A Facebook group to which we’ll annoyingly refer dozens of time just in the first few episodes. With 20k+ members, it's hard not to mention it.