Episode 859 Small Talk Is An Open Ended Exchange Of Personal Trivia

Episode 859 Small Talk Is An Open Ended Exchange Of Personal Trivia is an episode of the Brant & Sherri Oddcast that aired on January 11 2019.

Synopsis
00:00 Introduction segment

00:16 Introduction to Brant and Sherri

01:15 The world we are yearning for, it's called the kingdom of God, it's how the story ends

02:15 Let's talk about self-righteousness! Sherri tells a story about finding a political argument in the reviews of an app.

03:34 Brant talks about heaven.

04:53 Brant tells a story in the bible about Jesus telling a man to sell everything he owns. It's not about giving everything away, but identifying with God and the poor.

06:28 Sometimes it's important to reflect.

06:45 (interruption) Breaking Animal News: people look at rats as an animal, but in Zimbabwe rats are going into landmine zones to defuse them, people call them hero rats. We don't want you to go away from this thinking of these rats as diseased or gross, but heroes.

08:03 Deal Breaker: the guy of your dreams, he's a scientist, the deal is he has to take a picture of your face in every morning when you get up, he has to post it in an online forum with other scientists. It's not a deal breaker for the guest.

09:15 Question: What if you walking into Best Buy and phone cases where $4000, and the laptops and TVs are $1 or $0.50. You walk out and find out people are talking about saving up for phone cases? That's our culture, we value all the wrong stuff.

10:39 Listeners are getting angry about Listener Uniforms being delay, Jason protested about the delays of the listener uniforms. Brant is excusing himself because he has too many ideas, and technology is always changing.

11:44 Getting a dog is great for socially awkward people, we skip the small talk and you can answer information about your dog.

12:37 Brant tries to explain small talk to Sherri: It's an open ended exchange of personal trivia.

14:20 Would you rather have a life with not much of a story, or a life with a bunch of wild stories? Stories always have some kind of struggle, imagine a movie with no conflict.

15:12 Ending segment

Quotes
(as listed on the page)

“We’re worse off air. Be thankful this is all you get.”

“I don’t want you walking off from this breaking animal news cast thinking disease.”

“It’s good to have just a little bit of spiritual maturity on this program.”

“Our culture values all the wrong stuff.”

“Small talk is classified as anything that makes me uncomfortable.”

“There’s no great story without struggle.”

Synopsis on the page
The World We Yearn For, Self-Righteousness, Heaven, Identifying with the Poor, Breaking Animal News, Deal Breaker: A Picture of Your Face on Social Media, Valuing the Wrong Thing, Listener Uniform, Social Puppy, The Story and the Struggle;