Episodes

  • Episode 69: The Only Game In Town

    Episode 69: The Only Game In Town
    Jul 17 2024
    In this antepenultimate episode: "Canada Bill" Jones and why he played a poker game he knew was crooked. Have you ever attended a church that openly preached that their group was the only right one, or at least the rightest one by far in the area? (Or did they just live like this was the case?) In Brethren circles, non-membership has its privileges. Sports and poker metaphors. Teaching people they can't simply go to another church intensifies the fighting over everything in the group you've made the only game in town. How many drummers does one man need? A lot of painstaking technical trickery, trying to make a blast from the past blast rather than crash. Closing in prayer as a way of forestalling an open discussion. Additional Musicians Troy Tuttle: guitars Bill Ranger: bass George Turcotte: drums Chris Metcalfe: drums
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    1 hr and 38 mins
  • Episode 68: Wasp Tent

    Episode 68: Wasp Tent
    Jul 3 2024
    This week, the Wikkid Podcast gets NSFW (Not Safe For A Worship Service). Kristian Kitsch. Kristian Krap so crappy you can't decide whether you're too Christian or too cool to own it. Heathen spatulas. Should there be Christian Archie comics? What would a Christian version of The Archies band play like, Sugar, Sugar? Growing up with that sacred/secular line. A discussion of two paintings, on an audio-only podcast. Are The Carpenters too wholesome to comfortably sit on the shelf next to Neil Young and Tom Waits? A juvenile British sense of humour about sex and the body. Obscenity? It's all in your polka dot undies. Additional Musicians Evan Sauve: drums
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    1 hr and 40 mins
  • Episode 67: Fade From Sight

    Episode 67: Fade From Sight
    Jun 19 2024
    Sometimes, in a lot of church flocks, certain sheep just... vanish, never to be seen again. And sometimes people are kind of glad, especially if they are boring, annoying or discontented sheep. And sometimes that sheep is you. Additional Musicians George Turcotte: drums Troy Tuttle: additional rhythm guitar
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Episode 66: Champions

    Episode 66: Champions
    Jun 5 2024
    Trying to get to know the Unknowable a bit without claiming to know all the right answers. Growing up with an all-inclusive Universal Belief Package, you tend to walk around acting like you have all of the right thinking about anything much that matters much. Especially eternal stuff. Some of us were champions at that. This is about the process of repenting of unearned certainty of this kind. Additional Musicians Evan Sauve: drums
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    1 hr and 56 mins
  • Episode 65: (I Don't Know) What You'd Like

    Episode 65: (I Don't Know) What You'd Like
    May 22 2024
    Reaching some conclusions about worship. Realizing that, given how different various people's preferences are as to worship styles, and how opinionated they are as to what they like, I had no idea what God might or might not like. If worship is for his benefit rather than our own, then surely everything's not equally good? (He didn't much like Cain's bloodless, vegan sacrifice, did he?) Can worship be so much about us and our tribe and providing a curated emotional experience that we've left God out of his own party almost entirely? Additional Musicians: Evan Sauve: drums
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    2 hrs and 1 min
  • Episode 64: No One's Right

    Episode 64: No One's Right
    May 8 2024
    Why can't we just get along? Ecclesiastical war. Is all the dividedness actually worse than putting up with some guy you believe is wrong about something? Did the apostles foresee streets lined with unaffiliated churches that have little or nothing to do with one another? Additional Musicians George Turcotte: drums Troy Tuttle: additional rhythm guitars Bill Ranger: bass guitar and backing vocals
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    1 hr and 59 mins
  • Episode 63: Sunday's Coming

    Episode 63: Sunday's Coming
    Apr 24 2024
    A song presenting the unpopular idea that perhaps, all too often, church attendance is more about making much of Christians rather than much of God. Working on mixing a drum kit without it blasting the whole mix full of low midrange mud. All the different musical approaches to a single religious song. Should the worship team try to outdo Lady Gaga? The vegan, bloodless sacrifice of Cain. The idea that there are basic moods trying to be achieved in modern evangelical churches: feelbad or feelgood services. Happy clappy, or smells 'n bells. That some services are about quiet, inner, meditative silence, and ones that are about jubilant, group exhuberation. And that people argue over how much their church services succeed or fail at helping them feel the way they want to be helped to feel. Additional Musicians George Turcotte: drums Bass guitar: Tyler King
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    2 hrs and 11 mins
  • Episode 62: Episode 0 : We're Back!

    Episode 62: Episode 0 : We're Back!
    Apr 10 2024
    The pre-episode for the upcoming Season 5, which will deal primarily with troubles connecting to church and worship services, and also with church splits/divisions. A bunch of backlogged thought and life updates.
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    1 hr and 5 mins