Back in my day we didn’t have cell phone video and doorbell cameras. If something epic happened all we could do was tell somebody. Which is why old people today start so many stories with “back in my day…”
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iMonk Radio Podcast #9
“Broadcasting from the theological Mecca of southeast Kentucky, the bustling metropolis of Oneida… this is Internet Monk Radio.”
In this episode: the personality of Evangelicalism; CCM Patrol; and iMonk gets an iMac. (CCM Patrol became Patrol Magazine in 2007.)
Satur-deja Vu
Tom Brady has more Super Bowl rings that each of these NFL teams. But wait, isn’t that all the NFL teams? Yes, it is. Tom Brady has seven rings. The New England Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers each have six. All six Patriot wins came with Brady playing quarterback. He then went to Tampa Bay and won a seventh time in 2021 meaning that he single-handedly has more Super Bowl wins than any NFL franchise. So although he’s not going to the big game this year, try not to feel too bad. Overall he’s doing okay for himself.
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I’m working through the early podcast episodes in my archive. The very early ones are somewhat sporadic so last week was #5 and you haven’t missed anything. There are no appetizers in the intro that lead to a longer discussion at this point. So it’s more like
On today’s episode: Vytorin working on cholesterol numbers; the line between internet and real world pastoral care; The Missionary Headache is available on the iMonk archive site; irreconcilable differences between Roman Catholics and Evangelicals.
The World is a Smaller (Digital) Place
Long distance telephone service used to be a thing. When AT&T was split from Bell Systems (sorry about the ancient history from my childhood) federal regulators sought to bring competition to the long distance marketplace. AT&T, US Sprint, MCI and others advertised heavily to woo customers to choose them as their long distance carrier. It used to be that the longer the distance a call covered the higher the rate was. I myself may have been given a stern talking to for running up a huge phone bill, over $150, while talking to a girl over Christmas break while in college.
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In the past 30 days we have lost John Madden, Betty White, Sidney Poitier, Bob Saget, Meatloaf and Louie Anderson. As far as I know none of these deaths are being blamed on Covid. Betty White was only a few days short of a hundred. Louie Anderson had been admitted to the hospital earlier this week and was fighting late stage cancer. It will be several weeks before the coroner releases any more information on Bob Saget.
Here’s a fun fact I just learned: Louie Anderson was originally cast with Bronson Pinchot in Perfect Strangers. When the show got picked up they didn’t feel the chemistry was right between Anderson and Pinchot and Anderson was replaced by Mark Linn-Baker. The Lou Appleton character became Larry Appleton and the show ran for eight seasons.
iMonk Radio Podcast #5
Thanks to generous listeners and fellow fans of Michael Spencer, I have added to my collection of podcast episodes over the years. I can’t go all the back to the beginning but I do have some early single digit episodes. Special thanks to “Eclectic Christian” Mike Bell for sharing these early installments.
Satur-deja Vu
I am not the world’s biggest sports fan but my readers know I follow two teams very closely, the Atlanta Braves MLB team and the SEC Georgia Bulldogs. Prior to this week, the last time the Bulldogs were national champions Jimmy Carter was still in office. (Reagan had been elected but not inaugurated as of New Year’s Day 1981).
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Here is an interview with Michael Spencer from October of 2008. This is actually episode #2 of the brand new (at the time) SBC Voices podcast hosted by Tony Kummer. I’m not finding the Cornerstone 2009 interview/panel discussion right now but I may be able to go back into my own blog archives and pull it out. I will either post that next week or go back to iMonk Radio Podcast #5. I don’t have the first one but I do have ep’s 5 and 8 so down in the single digits.
Satur-deja Vu
Wait, what? We’re not saying that anymore? Lake Superior State University has released their annual list of the words and phrases most of us are tired of hearing and the rest of us need to drop. If Jimmy Humphrey were in fact to stop using at the end of the day the Jimmy’s Table podcast would drop from 30 minutes to only 10. While the list makes a humorous commentary on our culture at a given moment in time I do not recognize their authority in this matter. At the end of the day appeared on their list a decade ago and you may notice that people still say it. At best Lake Superior operates at an advisory capacity with no enforcement whatsoever.
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The Master's Table 