Episode #160 of DXP begins with what by all accounts is a pretty sweet celebrity voice impression. We then take a call from a listener who shares his personal experience with No One (he’s an atheist now), which leads to a lengthy discussion of the relationship between divine omnipotence and human responsibility (hey, we were drunk). We take three voicemails (three!) which, we think, have something to do with community or something. After mulling over the idea of actually starting a church, we launch into “Mansplaining Match” and “Messed-Up Math” (the former has to do with parents and the latter with threesomes). Jason takes a call about why he bothers being Catholic, after which our “True Bromance” segment features Christian reading a 1994 letter from Jason. Christian’s bieber has to do with bottoms, while Jason is biebered by an improper balance of quotation marks.
Also, we should TOTALLY start a church.
Tim Harris
Fellows you each keep making mistakes on the holocaux body counts. Around 10 minutes in, Christian says “12 million” (also in episode 124). Two things. First, proper etiquette requires that the number of goys should always be less than the number of jews; since the latter is pegged at 6, the max number allowed for goys is 5, giving a total of 11, not 12. When Wiesenthal came up with the goys-also-suffered idea, in order to increase the interest in the holohaust, 5 million was the number, and you should honor that. But moreover, second, the 5 million is being taken back now because it had the opposite effect of what Wiesenthal intended. It just confused a lot of goys. It’s back to zero goys again, leaving only 6 million dead in the leaky shower rooms, not 12. You can read more about it here:
http://www.jta.org/2017/01/31/news-opinion/united-states/remember-the-11-million-why-an-inflated-victims-tally-irks-holocaust-historians
If you’d like me to repeat this info into your voice mail, tell me and I’ll do so.
Zack Day
I really appreciated this episode. The question and response about Jason’s acceptance of Catholicism are similar to my own. I was a very strong calvanist who had started that path toward Rome, but when I was taking the catechism course I finally had to confront the fact that although I have a deep and abiding appreciation for Catholicism- it’s symbolism, art, and culture- appreciation is not the same thing as belief. Two weeks ago I finally told my wife and close friends that I’m agnostic. I miss having faith, but podcasts like yours have helped me understand that it is better to be true to what the evidence, Rationality, and human experience say.