Brant & Sherri Oddcast

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.”