Episode #128 of Drunk Ex-Pastors begins with a criticism of our duet of “Baby It’s Cold Outside” that is not homophobic at all. We then share our opinions about HBO’s series Westworld, which recently wrapped up its first season (Jason had some issues with it, but we agreed that it ended with probably the coolest song ever), and Christian changes his tune on Love (the TV show, not the actual thing itself). We take a call on the topic of sleep paralysis and relate it to the biblical phenomenon of demon possession, and then revisit the topic of ranked voting and whether it could have spared us a Trump presidency. We spend a good portion of time pulling our hair out, metaphorically, while listening to a certain infamous televangelist explain how Donald Trump, far from being the antichrist, may in fact be the real Christ instead. Which is weird. Christian’s bieber has to do with people emerging from forests to kill you, while Jason is biebered by constantly being marketed to when he’s not expecting it.
Also, last we checked Donald Trump isn’t the Son of David.
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• My favorite “romance” show right now is “You’re the Worst.” They’re horrible people, you know they’re horrible, and people in the show know they’re horrible, but they’re funny.
• Yes, as a child, I used to have sleep paralysis and I was convinced that it was demons attacking me.
• My main problem with the EV is that the way it works out now three or four states choose who the leader will be. And not even whole states, 20% of the people of those three or four states will choose the next leader.
• I think the solution to the Electoral College is Thunderdome. Two candidates enter, one candidate leaves.
• The deficits are going to explode. But deficits won’t matter now that a Republican is in charge.
• Help the poor? What do you think this is? A Christian nation?
• The goal is turn us into a libertarian paradise where corporations control the government and workers have no power, and the people have no recourse when it comes to being hurt by corporations, their products, or their pollution.
• George Bush won the presidency because the Supreme Court kind of threw it to him.
• Fun fact, only about 19.5% of American voters voted for Trump.
• Oh, sweet Jesus… End Times prophets are dumb.
• Numerology… didn’t God say you shouldn’t do that shit?
• “I like my Messiahs who aren’t crucified…”
• “Jesus… living in poverty… feeding people, giving them free health care… pacifist… Sad.”
• Yes, I can’t see how endorsing a narcissistic man as being chosen by God and giving him the authority of God could go wrong.
• Hey, I started working adding in the new tag. I’ve just got like 12 books already done that I have to go back through. But I just covered God being an asshole: 2 Samuel 24.
• What makes you think this year is going to be over? The way things are going, I expect that we’ll end up stuck in a temporal loop and have to relive 2016 again.
I love “You’re the Worst”. I think I recommended it a while back. Interestingly, the show takes a pretty serious turn for a while that I related to and helped me understand some stuff.
I’ve lived in California and Wyoming, and right now I’d be totally fine with Wyoming losing any electoral weight.
In my experience saying Fuck! breaks sleep paralysis just as well as saying Jesus Christ. Totally anecdotal, but true.
And, I have to say that the discussion about work-life balance was a little odd to me. Single-income households are the exception, not the norm, but your conversation assumes that it’s always a woman sitting at home relying on the husband’s income and wishing he was home more. I think that’s maybe still the case in religious circles and the top income brackets, but single-income households only account for something like 30% of two-parent households in America. Even in my parents’ wealthy suburban neighborhood it’s become pretty rare. Although I agree that often a person who works a lot is avoiding an unpleasant situation at home.