Holy Madness - The Show: Recent Episodes
Tzvi and Meir-Simchah
The podcast for disaffected millennial Jews, intellectual Catholics, and Evangelical Christians of good humor. Questions/comments to holymadnesstheshow@gmail.com or @holymadness.theshow on Facebook
Oh my, we’ve done it again! Another fantastic episode, this time about Iran/Persia, exile, redemption, identity, and way, way more.
(This episode was recorded during the protests taking place in Iran in 2018.)
We discuss Iran as a country (taking care to avoid politics as always), its history, and the Jewish People’s history with Persia - and that takes us to Exile and Redemption, the World to Come, identity, peoplehood, and the unique conception of exile/redemption that the Jewish people has forged and crafted in its development. Come for the banter, stay for the knockout insights, and enjoy the show!
We clock in a little over an hour - it proved to be too hard to cut down the time without sacrificing the various novel insights we had to share.
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Episode 6 is finally here, and with a special guest in the studio! Sarah joins us in our meandering exploration of prayer. We go through some Facebook comments on Meir Simcha’s post on prayer, discuss different conceptions of prayer, introduce theme music for one avid listener (and commenter), and suggest a paradigm shift on what prayer really might be. There is even a suggestion for a great Christian prayer song, too, from your favorite Jewish podcasters, along with quite a few callbacks to concepts introduced in previous episodes as well.
The format is a little different than shows of late, with a more natural conversational presentation than a “tight” sound. We felt that this would be the best way to present the ideas we had, and if you have as much fun listening to it as we did creating it, you’ll be in for a treat!
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Join us as we take a look at Jerusalem, moving from sacred cities and divided cities in general to Jerusalem in particular, and ending up with a deep look at what makes Jerusalem so special in the first place.
(This episode comes at the point where the United States announced its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and faced a UNGA resolution objecting to their accepting a fact…)
We also discuss city-specific mental illnesses, welcome our first special guest into the studio, make some oddly rap-fueled sound gags in opportune places, and feature topical musical breaks throughout.
Merry Christmas to those of you celebrating!
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Grab some latkes and/or eggnog and join us for our fourth episode, where we discuss winter light festivals, light and darkness, metaphors, get into some of the differences between Christmas and Hannukah, reminisce on holiday season growing up, and make a key point about Light in our lives.
We also celebrate our one hundredth download, give some shout outs to our listeners, and throw in some holiday gags too!
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Happy holidays to all!
Join us as we talk about the German migrant issue, teasing apart the political talking points to get into the heart of the matter - identity.
We clocked in at just about an hour here, and hopefully addressed some of the sound issues.
As always, here are links to the articles discussed in the chat:
Economist, Germany article - https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21720578-rest-country-and-large-swathes-europe-will-face-similar-problems
Spectator, Norway article - https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/11/norway-is-hard-on-migrants-but-tough-love-works/
Standpoint, David Goldman article - http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/7031/full
It’s Episode 2!
Where else can you find an earnest discussion of Richard Dawkins, sin and mistakes, evolution, paradigm shifts, and Torah, that isn’t a sarcastic take down of religion, but a search for self improvement and spiritual growth?
Right here!
As always, comments and questions are appreciated - you can follow us on Facebook @holymadness.theshow or email us at holymadnesstheshow@gmail.com.
Enjoy!
Our maiden voyage!
Join us as we discuss a news article about the horrors of daily life in Gaza, and tackle some points about Israel-Palestine.
Article discussed in the podcast available here - https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/1.821771
We explore the issues while keeping our discussions as agenda-free as humanly possible.
Come for the thought provoking conversation, stay for the oftentimes funny results of two guys still figuring out the medium of podcasting, sound editing, and making coherent points.
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