SRP Radio Podcast S1:E9 The Stink Of Jesus

The Stink Of Jesus

On today’s show . . .

Finger Pointers and Drama Queens

Narcissism! It seems, these days, that the second worst thing you can call somebody is a Narcissist. Right behind calling him a Nazi. I’d say it’s even worse than calling him a Republican. And that’s saying a lot!

The word “narcissism” has been trending upward since 2013, according to Google Trends. Why is that? I think it’s because we’re living in an age of ever increasing sensationalism.

Used to be, we all watched the same TV shows on the same TV channels at the same time. We all watched the same movies at the same theaters. We listened to the same music on the same radio stations.

Not anymore. Niche markets are multiplying faster than mass shootings. That means advertisers have to work harder to get our attention. That means, more explosions in our movies. More profanity in our music. More bodily functions in our porn. And more and more ridiculous claims by our politicians. Not to mention our daily dose of moral outrage, manufactured by the news media.

Which is worse? The politicians that stoke the news media? Or the news media that lights up the Internet? The answer is, neither . . . both . . . they’re a co-dependent couple. The politicians are finger-pointers, and the news media are drama queens!

And by “news media”, I’m not talking about peons like me. I’m talking about the so-called serious news sources that are owned by the same corporations that are sabotaging our environment, our infrastructure, and our political system.

What’s the answer, folks? Awareness! And that’s why we’re going to discuss these things with Jan the Man on this week’s segment of “Word Smatter”.

The Christian Brand

I was raised in a sea of neuroses. Otherwise known as Hand-Raisin’ Tongue-Speakin’ Demon-Castin’ Fundamentalist Evangelicalism. The only thing we didn’t do was handle snakes. That was for the weirdos in West Virginia. But pretty much everything else associated with the Modern Jesus Movement of the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s was a daily part of my life until I was in my 20s and old enough to start thinking for myself. Including a singular kinkiness that I call Christian Sex.

City Life

The comedy of small-time, street-level, workaday power struggles.

Real Men

Just in my lifetime, what women say they want in a man has changed from decade to decade. But what they do and how they choose men . . . that has pretty much remained the same for millennia.