Brant & Sherri Oddcast

Black Friday Shopping, The Illness of Busyness, Nerd Cred, Sad Church, Gratitude, Brant's Boots, Alien Planet, Religious People, The Great Dental Person Quotes: "Someone said busyness is an illness of the spirit." "I wouldn't take that from Sherri if I were you." "Some people are posing as nerds, but they're not!" "Any rap that starts with Thorin Oakenshield...quality!!" "I wish I was in Victorian England. I hate this century."

Brant and Sherri talk about what it means to be a follower of Jesus in a racially divided American - and church - culture.

Sports Talk, Toughen Up for the Weather, Looking for FB Friends, God's Will, Personal Lowest Sports Moments, God Uses Our Weaknesses, The Holiday Safe Place, Dentist Talk, Gratitude, Talkin' Smack Quotes: "I want to be a part of football fellowship" "We're just as good as the other shows" "God is always after your heart" "We'll put a bust up of your head on a pillar" "You do not want to mess with The Christmas Shoes People"

Searching for the Perfect Parking Spot, Out of the Way Gas Prices, If Jesus Had a Blog, Jesus & Success, Smoothness Tips, Answering the Hard Question, Give Up Makeup?, Dueling Shows, Thanksgiving LotR Ideas, Best Joke Ever, Another Good Joke, Saeed Abedini Quotes: "There may be some poison involved, but other than that you should be fine..." "I want people to see God not us" "Before we put 90 miles on the car for meatballs, let's just be honest and say we want to go to IKEA." "In 4 months from now, all your eyebrow hairs will be replaced by new ones." "That's why it's so deeply hilarious"

Alone Time With God, Social Media & Love, Thanksgiving Day Joke, Franklin Graham, Give Up, Knowing People Through FB, Holiday Safe Place, Grace, Rules, Over-tipping the Waiter/Waitress, You're Welcome Here, Grace...but... Quotes: "Pop culture ad social media are all about love, but they can't provide it" "You railroaded my joke" "We're sitting on folding chairs in the basement of someone's church" "You are living as a Medieval King when you're at a restaurant"

Men and Household Chores, How God's Economy Works, God and the Least of These, Questions For Pets, Worry and Weight, The Trumpets of Probability, Moms Worrying, NYT Watches, Same Suit Guy, Fantasy Football Apologies, Chocolate Blame Quotes: "Too many rats spoil the broth..." "If you got little kids in the house and your overwhelmed you're not alone" "You assume I can operate in the world. And that's not accurate" "I'd like to blame you, Sherri" "God chooses the weak" "Fire up the trumpets of probability"

Uncle Sy Quote, Deal Breaker: Big Red Floppy Shoes, Celebrity and Christianity, Brant's New Boots, Jesus Promised Us Himself, The Thanksgiving Day Joke, College Apps, Fixing Single People, Brant and Influential People, Jesus and the Woman at the Well Quotes: "If you write yourself off and think God can't use you, you're in for a shock.." "There's the man of your dreams squeaking right out the door." "Jesus promised us tribulation and He promised us Himself." "I told her if she doesn't like my book, pretend like it never came in the mail."

The Cool DJ, The Bible Can't Be Myth, The Need For "A Joke", The Viking Toaster, The Hard Book Endorsement, Prayer Circle Tension, Nahgmeh Abedini, The FB Status Song, The Advice Goats BONUS INTERVIEW: Naghmeh Abedini Quotes: "I would like to be a cool DJ" "Am I suppose to believe that the writers of the Bible pioneered a whole new literary genre, realistic fiction, 1,500 years before anybody picked up on it???" "Read this book. Enjoy it. Then tell me how awesome I am" "That's my issue with the Advice Goats..."

Being A Jerk, Pets In Church, Brant on Twitter, Best Buy Black Friday, The Baby Ant Eater, The Hero Treatment, The Need For "A Joke", Forgiving People, Macaulay Culkin Is Alive!, Yelling At God Quotes: "I'm gonna do a big rant. That's what some radio people do" "We're pretty ill prepared for this whole thing aren't we?" "I was a jerk already today" "Your childhood is a relatively short time a relatively long time ago" "We just got the news that Macaulay Culkin is alive" "I think you can be mad at God…just stay engaged with Him. Be verbal. Yell in the car if you have to."

Survival School, Wayward Kids, What People Say About Jesus, Many Ways to God?, Being An Adult, Brant The Accordion Wedding Singing, The iPhone Wedding Proposal, The Good Samaritan, Twitter Ignorance, Chris Tomlin & CURE Quotes: "If 400 flamingos start pecking you. Just go peacefully." "Jesus left it that we have to fully commit to Him or fully walk away" "God made a way to us through Jesus and blew religion apart" "If he would have had 100 ipads he'd be married by now"

Veteran's Day, The Person with the Church Logo Tattoo, Welcome Misfits, Robotic Penguin, How Jesus Looked, Pets In Church, Christians on TV, The Voting Sticker, Spiritual "Searchers" Quotes: "My dogs need Jesus." "Think about how powerful it would be if your a preacher and your trying to get people to make a decision about their eternity and you have a live lion in the sanctuary. Now it's real." "I'm keeping my "I Voted" sticker on forever." "If you're a spiritual 'searcher' that's fine. But if you're not holding out the possibility that there's an actual thing you can find...then you're not really searching are you?" "Be open to the fact that God has been looking for you." "I'm gonna irrationally stick to my guns on this..."

Brant Is Oblivious, The "No" Phone, How Jesus Looked, No Superstition, Robots and God, Brant's Hair Cut, The "Beats" Cord, They Wish It Were True, Men ARE Funny, Knowing God's Will, Bad Hair Cut, God and Simplicity, BONUS-CHRIS TOMLIN INTERVIEW Quotes: "If I'm reading something, there can be explosions going off and I won't hear them. I'm oblivious." "Most people have an image of Jesus in their mind and they're wrong." "God sets us free from karma." "I want my hair back. It's in a landfill somewhere. I'd like it back." "My headphones are from Radio Shack but the cord is from Dr. Dre "Beats". I'm feeling cooler." "Go ahead an admit that every guy is hilarious. All of us."

God and Success, The Big Mansion, Saeed Abedini, Irrational Fears, Growing Spiritually, God and Satan On Your Shoulder?, When to Say Grace, Prayer Peeking, Being Judged At the Gym, Swallowed By an Anaconda, Offense on Social Media, Brant's Social Moves Quotes: "God's idea of success is faithfulness. Just be faithful." "I just need the panic room. I'm going directly there." "I knew a person that was freaked out by knees." "The Flintstones don't quite grasp theology."

Brant Earned a Trip, Political Talk, Worry, Save the Alien Planet, Jesus and Kids, They Wish It Was True, 18 Year Old Congresswoman, Brant and Sherri's Twitter Spouse, Found Out and Forgiven

Beautiful, Election Signs, Problems Praying, Introverts for Office, Brant WANTS to be Clueless, Prayers for Saeed Abedini, Babies May Cry, Raining Pennies, What to do When You Don't Agree With Someone Politically, Taking a Stand vs. Love, Expensive Men's Shoes Producer Sherri's Fave Quote: "I don't think God is gonna stomp on us because we fell asleep praying. I think He's glad we at least started. He wants to be with us." "When you get into a cycle of feeling like a failure, remind yourself that's not how God views you and then find ways to serve other people." "I made 52 cents yesterday without doing anything. It's raining pennies." "I'm sad this is election day. I'm gonna miss the yard signs."

It's Time to Love, Brant=Loon, Christmas Music, Marriage Misunderstandings, Parmesan Cheese Dinner, Grace, Nik Wallenda, Forgetting the Candy, The People Jesus Repelled, Our Show Agenda, No Pets Scrutiny, Awkward Jog of Gratitude, What's in a Person's Heart Sherri's Fave Quotes: "I'm ok with looking dumb if I can just love people for once. I've gotten that frustrated with it. It's time to grow up and love people." "People get judgmental about me having a bowl of Parmesan cheese for dinner. That hurts." "You'll hear us talk about grace a lot because it's the only thing that changes any of us." "Grown man hiding behind a couch to avoid some kid in a Superman outfit. That's how I roll."

Halloween Is Not the Devil's Day, Fantasy Football Injuries, Kamikaze Karaoke, Righteous Anger, Candy Corn, The Candy Apology Song, Lord of the Rings Centerpiece, Married Early, God Redeems, Anti-Toast Propaganda Producer Sherri's Fave Quotes: "When God has His way beautiful things happen. He takes what was intended for evil and He makes it good." "Every Sunday that rolls around is a fresh opportunity for the guys on my fantasy football team to injure themselves in new and exciting ways." "I have a gift and I will not hide it under a bushel." "Celebrating today because it's the last day we have candy corn foisted upon us" "We don't need anti-toast propaganda on this show"

We took the easiest, laziest possible approach to today's podcast. We're just uploading our radio show. To listen daily, check out branthansen.com/stations to find one near you! Maybe!

Disclaimer: You may not want to listen to this, if you don't want to hear contemporary American evangelical church culture lovingly challenged.Both Sherri and Brant are a product of this culture, but think the gift of pastoring has been reduced... to CEO.

Producer Sherri's Fave Quotes: “Is Christian Bale really gonna draw out that many women to see the Exodus movie. Are they really coming to see him flex in front of the Red Sea?” “A lot of the things we call ‘church’ are not rooted in the New Testament. We’ve made up a lot of stuff and I don’t always get the connection” “I didn’t set out to do it. But I’m kinda starting to look like Fabio. I didn’t mean to. My long term goal is to look like Gandalf. Do you think Fabio has to happen to get to Gandalf?” “We’re raising the level of excellence on our podcast with sound effects.”

Sherri's Fave Quotes from the Show (TM) "The great punishment for sin is getting our own way." “There are a lot of different metaphors for hell in the Bible and there are different conceptions about what it will be, but one thing is consistent: isolation.” “Our own sinfulness causes breakdowns in the culture. It doesn’t unite us together.” “God is great to many people until He approaches their bedroom or bank account.” “Wait a minute, Sherri gets to be a Viking? No fair.” “I don’t know anything about Dungeons and Dragons. In the ghetto we were playing Candyland.” (Sherri)

Left Behind Thoughts Podcast Listener in China Why do people hate Lebron? Building up a young man (13 year old dinner) Sherri's Fave Quotes: “I’m not discounting anyone’s opinion, but for the life of me, I can’t figure out why I’m not supposed to like Lebron James.” “Unity that matters is when you genuinely disagree and you still love each other.” “If you’re a young believer you should know, the idea of the rapture is not commonly shared by all Evangelical Christians.” “It has to be hard to be in China with no friends. I’ve been in America with no friends. It’s felt like I’ve had a language barrier.” “When you come along side a man, at any age, and point things out to him out of respect, he’ll totally absorb it.”

Ebola/Christian Doctors Rant Rant Rating Baseball Smack Talk National Smile Day What was your first job? Brant's traveling underwear Producer Sherri's Fave Quotes (TM) “I have a bee in my bonnet.” “You notice none of the Presidents are smiling on dollar bills. That would have made our day. We would have been like ‘this is my last $5, but look at Abe smiling. That guy is just a big cut up.’” “There’s gonna be a knock on the door and it’s gonna be my underwear.” “How many Christian Theocracies are there? Zero” “For all the posing and all the ripping down of the church that happens, we see these Christians who are heroes staying in the Ebola zone to serve.”

Sir Toppings Tipping Story Halloween Dentist Encrustos Loud Eaters Quotes: "Sir Toppings is my idea for a drive thru where you can get toppings for anything you buy. Pepperoni, Sprinkles, Just toppings." "I think it’s wonderful to tip more than a person deserves. I think it’s GRACE!" "There’s something about the tendency of some religious folks to make things off limits to folks, based on their own conscience." "I like GK Chesterson’s conception that nature is like our little sister. It’s something we should protect and love and it makes us laugh and enjoy and there’s a lightheartedness to it and it’s beautiful." "Encrustos is my restaurant concept where everything on the menu you can get encrusted with something else on the menu. It can be in my restaurant portfolio with Sir Toppings." "The more pet peeves a person has, the less interesting that person is to me."

Producer Sherri's fave quotes from this podcast: “The idea of a ‘soulmate’ is completely bogus.” (Lisa) “Women has done a disservice by trying to take over in areas within the church and guys just step back and let it happen” (Lisa) “My mode to getting a boyfriend was to offend everyone I could and then see who thought it was cute and funny.” (Lisa) “Guys aren’t really attracted by church culture. Especially in their 20’s. Seems like their being asked to passive engagement with God where you get to attend this ‘thing’ or plug in to somebody’s flow chart.” (Brant) “In a culture that has a ‘god’ called sex, they think you’re invalid as a human without it." (Brant) "At what age can you reasonably be expected to not act like a complete idiot in public? 3 years old?" (Brant) “Singleness is hard, but we’re all called to trust God with something.” (Lisa)

NFL Criminals? Dispatching Lloyd to Africa U2 and snobs Downton Abbey is NOT a Soap Opera Brant's Motel Problem

Recording the podcast in the woods Hot Topic: Spanking Review of the Hot Topic presentation Comedy Show Nervousness Be glad you had it Blog Talk like a pirate day

Prayer "no" (wanting to say no when someone asks you to open in prayer) Being a blessing to people while single The Moral of the truck guy The New, Improved Airplane Nap The Hell Bucket List Blog Church as a family (are we just 'playing' church?)

The trouble with NOT loving The memorable empathy quote Jesus: Stone Worker? God's Will + Human interaction Short men/Tall Men and divorce More LotR

We find out that Brant 1) wants to live the "koala lifestyle", and 2) is renewing his pledge to be more offensive, at the behest of a commenter. Also: We interview Trey, a friend who lives in the middle east, about ISIS and loving our enemies.

We talk about the power of "my team", what a transparent moment at a radio convention can teach us, and the awesomeness of the "fast pass", among other things...

Sorry for confusing. Re-posting.

The Marriage Debate: The 1 Question No One is Asking New Radio Show Details Why Your Job is Awesome TIP for Celebs: How to Keep Your Embarrassing Photos Private

Brant's blog, "Bump into a Tree" sparked a lot of discussion. We talk about that, plus Diet Pepsi militancy, and a GREAT interview with author Lance Ford about mean Christians, bullies in leadership, and the GOOD news.

Brant and Sherri talk about race, the church, and the St. Louis shooting. Plus, Sherri is TICKED at Bath and Body Works. And Brant talks about being SHOCKED by people you really shouldn't be shocked by anymore...

Brant and Sherri gather around a Mr. Microphone at Sherri's kitchen table and talk about life. For more info, this is Brant's website!