The Goadkicker Podcast is a place where I take a topic from pop culture (Comics, Movies, Music, TV, Books, and more) and try to look at it from a new light; exploring what that topic says to or about us as human beings. At the end of the show I then try to find an inspirational message in that topics. Think of it as a devotional, with no affiliation to any particular belief system.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 2 days 10 hours 26 minutes
Episode 25: Roger Martinez
in this episode we finish the story of Roger Martinez, the frontman of one of the first Christian metal bands who later turned to a life of atheism and blasphemy. What happens when we are uprooted from our world view and social connections? How frayed...
episode 24: on the variety of nerdiness
In this episode we shed some light on 3 different types of nerds 1. Sports - how the national past time is really just Magic the Gathering for the masses 2. Nanowrimo - why an aspiring writer needs to avoid it and just get to work, and why a writer...
Episode 23: Nerd Genes
On this episode I ask how much of us as nerds is determined by genetics. I also talk about autumn in Iowa & the harvest. On nerd church I ask where we draw the line ethically when it comes to interacting or advertising to us nerds, if one knows we...
Episode 22 - nerd parents
in this episode, recorded LIVE in Council Bluffs, Iowa... We talk about the pros and cons of introducing children into an otherwise perfectly self-indulgent adult nerd lifestyle. We also chat about toy collecting, specifically the results of my...
Episode 21 - Violence
Live from Council Bluffs... It's another episode of Goadkicker. We talk about hijacking meaning in art, the Simpsons, animal cruelty, violence, and during Nerd Church we talk stewardship and the tendency for nerds to hoard. Reach me at Twitter...
Episode 20 - Pokemon GO months later, unchurch
in this LIVE episode, we talk about the need to move on from exciting things... And wonder what happens between childhood and adulthood that we loose the sense of wonder? Then we talk about me starting my own church. Lastly, I explain that I truncate...
Episode 19 part II - Nerd Church/Mike Warnke part 2
In this second half of this LIVE episode we focus entirely on the finale of the Mike Warnke story... the former self-professed Satanic practitioner and expert and Christian stand up comedian who was discovered to be a fraud. We look at what happened...
Episode 19 part I : Accountability, The Magician
In this, the first half of our latest LIVE episode, we talk about stewardship and accountability when choosing WHERE we buy our nerd wares. While we are at it, we talk about a wonderful indie comic called The Magician, published by 5D Comics. The...
Episode 18 - Mike Warnke part 1
On this LIVE episode of Goadkicker we talk about the hypocritical way I stumble around the issues of zoos, eating meat, and guns. Then we look at how Valiant comics is schooling everyone on how to manage a continuity, and how wonderful their summer...
Episode 17: hip hop
in this hastily conceived LIVE episode we apologize for being too real, expose my hip hop fandom, talk about Hip Hop Family Tree, and dissect the four stages of fandom. Thanks forever to Dischord records for allowing use of Nation of Ulysses...