The show "Rick and Morty" managed to get Toby interested in science and multiple realities to the point where he researched some of the science found in episodes and found a book Matt Brady wrote "The Science of Rick and Morty" which goes to show how pop culture can be used as a trojan horse to science.   Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com Marriage Supply

The changing of the decade brings on a reflective sense of meaning and purpose that Matt explains using gazelles, pain, surviving, future you, and yes, transmogrify.   Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com Joybird: joybird.com/BADCHRISTIAN25 Stamps: stamps.com code BADCHRISTIAN Marriage Supply

Merry Christmas! We have sociologist Dr Michael Emerson on today to answer some questions about racism in the American Evangelical church and how it got that way.   Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com Joybird: joybird.com/BADCHRISTIAN25 Marriage Supply

Friend of the show, Dan Koch, uses his new psychology studies to help us understand why there's a perceived gap between the study of science, and religion.   Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com Tooth & Nail: Christmas sales at toothandnailrecords.merchnow.com, and solidstate.merchnow.com Marriage Supply

Dr Ryan Burge is a "quant" political scientist, and a pastor. Through one of his articles on biblical literalism, Toby found a whole rabbit hole of intriguing data he's published about religion in America.   Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com Stamps: stamps.com code BADCHRISTIAN Brooklinen: brooklinen.com code BADCHRISTIAN Tooth & Nail: Christmas sales at toothandnailrecords.merchnow.com, and solidstate.merchnow.com Marriage Supply

With the death of religion as we knew it ten years ago, comes a new birth of substitute religions in politics, cults, conspiracies, and any number of things.   Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com early bird VIP code EMOFOREVER SoFi: sofi.com/BADCHRISTIAN HIMS: forhims.com/BADCHRISTIAN Zip Recruiter: ziprecruiter.com/BADCHRISTIAN Marriage Supply

We catch up with our friend Derek Webb, who had recently gotten divorced last time we talked, and now is re-married, and has a new album coming out. He's been an innovator in the music industry that we've followed the example of, so it's good to catch up and see what he's been doing lately.   Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com early bird VIP code EMOFOREVER Joybird: joybird.com/BADCHRISTIAN25 Tooth & Nail: Norma Jean "Landslide Defeater" Marriage Supply

Nuclear expert Sean Wagner helps us clear up some myths around nuclear energy, how it works, and what the risks and levels actually are.   Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com early bird VIP code EMOFOREVER Quip: getquip.com/BADCHRISTIAN Stamps.com: stamps.com code BADCHRISTIAN Marriage Supply

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Brandon Vedder is the filmmaker of the full length documentary about Dave Bazan titled "Strange Negotiations." Dave Bazan and Pedro the Lion have always been the tip of the spear in vulnerability and being critical of ourselves and of our faith and its systems. Brandon spent years following and filming Dave and was able to capture some incredible insights during the process and conveyed in the film itself.   Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland: emerymusic.com SoFi: sofi.com/BADCHRISTIAN Feals CBD: feals.com/BADCHRISTIAN Marriage Supply