Podcast #574: Spotify, Corruption, and Atypical Christians

About this episode

The episode discusses corruption, compares art forms, and explores cultural connections among generations.

We kick off this episode of the show by considering various ways a person today might "take the black" (little Game of Thrones reference there). We compare our lists of all-time Spotify streams, and then play a TikTok about Trump's recent DOJ deal, discussing whether such corruption is relatively new or whether it was just more hidden in times past. We compare TV and movies as forms of art, and then we do another segment of "Pastor Jack's Off" where Jack Hibbs whines about Muslims or something. We close with the suggestion that the cultural touchstone that just may unite Gen-Xers, Millennials, and Gen-Z is Survivor.

People in this episode

Host: Drunk Ex-Pastors

Topics covered

• corruption
• Spotify
• cultural touchstones
• art comparison
• TikTok
• Christianity

Keywords

• corruption
• Spotify
• Game of Thrones
• Jack Hibbs
• Survivor
• TikTok
• Trump

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Spotify, DOJ

Books & works: Game of Thrones

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