Episodios

  • Bigun on a Plane and Seneca
    Oct 10 2025

    Fall has arrived, the value of a good name, firefighters versus high school baseball teams, and a bigun on a plane. Plus, a new segment: “Say what?“ And our passage by Seneca: “ The things you run from are inside you.“

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    1 h y 48 m
  • Coco the Monkey and Hippocrates
    Oct 2 2025

    Jane Goodall in memoriam, chitchat at the grocery store, a school teacher’s prank “stinks,” new restaurants in Leeds, and a bad preacher. Also, this week’s passage by Hippocrates: “Everyone wants to heal until the medicine shows up in the form of discipline.“

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    1 h y 21 m
  • English Tests and Wendell Berry
    Sep 26 2025

    Jason gives everybody an English grammar test to settle a score. Plus, old wives' tales, Jason's odyssey out West, a Gen-Alpha glossary, and another end-time prediction is cast into the dustbin of history. Also, this week's passage by Wendell Berry: "The Peace of Wild Things."

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    1 h y 36 m
  • Eli’s Reply and Rainer Maria Rilke
    Sep 19 2025

    Patrick is at the controls solo, sans Drew, Jason, and Tim for episode 85. Guests Mackenzie and Eli join him in a discussion on AI, future generational events, and Eli picks a bone with Drew’s assessment of youth ministry from a few episodes ago; all while Patrick tries to keep Mackenzie on topic. And of course, our passage from Rainer Maria Rilke, “Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.“

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    1 h y 17 m
  • The Assassination of Charlie Kirk and Haruki Murakami
    Sep 11 2025

    The guys discussed the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk. Then several questions or answered: what’s Tim allergic to? Who is the most traveled host of Passages? What’s easier—getting great abs or becoming a millionaire? And do we ever really forget anything? And, of course, this week’s passage by Haruki Murakami: “There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.”

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    1 h y 26 m
  • Fire! and John Wooden
    Sep 5 2025

    A fire scare at Ashville Road, body language, a miracle drug for the eyes, pharmaceutical ads, a tomato festival in Spain, Patrick’s wedding, and another bad preacher segment. Also, this week’s passage by John Wooden: “It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”

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    1 h y 33 m
  • Jason’s Very Bad Day and Dr. Seuss
    Aug 29 2025

    Drew’s back from Ghana, Patrick points out the bland direction fast food architecture has taken, Tim has a list of things left in Ubers and Jason talks about his very bad day. Also, this week’s passage by Dr. Seuss: “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”

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    1 h y 46 m
  • Octopi and Alan Watts
    Aug 14 2025

    Things happen. Lives are changed.

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    1 h y 45 m