Passages

A new Grind My Gears segment, things you didn't need to learn from school, the 2025 nominees for the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, and Tim's latest handyman project. Plus, this week's passage by Carl Jung: "Where your fear is, there is your task."

Debates swirl over what's going in on the site of the old Guadalajara in Leeds, someone bit a woman's chin off in Rainbow City, the Nephilim, the debate continues over the lights in the New Jersey sky, and the MLB deliberates over rules regarding payroll in professional baseball. Also, this week's passage from a holocaust inscription on a cellar wall: "I believe in the sun even wh...

Business lingo and Gen Z Slang. Plus, Valentine's humor (sort of) from Jason. And this week's passage by Mark Twain: “The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”

The Super Bowl is approaching, and the guys discuss their favorite dips. Also, Phil Collins remembers the Alamo (in a weird way), and more bad church signs. And as always, this week's passage by Tennessee Williams: "In memory, everything seems to happen to music."

Drew and Jason discuss the Colombians president's clash with Trump, why kids should eat their vegetables, bad church signs, drones, and this week's passage by Mo Willems: “If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”

The guys recap Donald Trump's inauguration and discuss this week's passage by Friedrich Nietzsche: "When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago."

The Passages crew delve into deep waters, asking tough questions: What was A.J. Brown reading on the sidelines? Will Gen Z survive? Are mattress stores a front for organized crime? What is a spanner? Also, they finally get around to this week's passage by Vernon Law: "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson after."

Hand sanitizer, conspiracy theories, snow days, and Trump's latest press conference at Mar-a-Lago. Another Bad Preacher segment, and this week's passage, a Chinese proverb: "The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it."

Happy New Year! Drew discusses DBS, Y2K fears return, and this week's passage by Lewis Carroll: "It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

Episode 51

The fellas talk about anything the passengers request... ANYTHING!

Will the Menendez brothers get a resentencing trial? Also, SEC tiebreakers, Jason tells Thanksgiving jokes, and a top ten list of Thanksgiving food. Another bad preacher segment. And this week's passage by Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "I am a part of all that I have met."

Drew and Jason discuss the Tyson fight, a manhunt in Leeds, insurance fraud in a bear suit, bad preachers who use the KJV only, and this week's passage by Ovid: "He lives well who is well hidden."

Trump's cabinet picks, monkeys in SC, Alabama foods you have to try, and UAPs. Plus, another bad preacher segment. And this week's passage by Thomas Merton: "The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many...

After an in-depth analysis of the 2024 election, the guys play another Bad Preachers clip and discuss this week's passage by R.C. Sproul: "When I think I’m unfairly hated, I try to remember that I am unfairly loved."

A discussion on the upcoming presidential election, Halloween jokes, and Saudi Arabia's Mukaab project. Also another bad preacher segment! And this week's passage by Eric Hoffer: "The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.”

Halloween candy, Trump works at McDonald's, and the upcoming election. Plus, this week's passage by Madeleine L'Engle: “We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.”

Bona fide moves in high school football, the necessity of faith for freedom to endure, and free speech is in trouble in the UK. Also, a new segment is introduced: Bad Preachers! And, as always, this week's passage by Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius: "We were born for cooperation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of upper and lower teeth. So to work in opposition to one another is...

On the verge of an Oasis reunion, the boys discuss their dream reunion tours. Also, talk of dentistry nightmares, brain wave theft, and Pete Rose emerges. And, of course, this week's passage by E.E. Cummings: "To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody but yourself--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight--and never...

The death of a mall walker brings out the humanity of Galleria shoppers, Jason's afraid of clowns, and Blockbuster bit the dust. Also, this week's passage by Eckhart Tolle: “When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation, or accept it. All else is madness.”

What's in your favorite chicken? Also, the second assassination attempt against Donald Trump, Japan's huge centenarian population, and this week's passage by Wendell Berry: "Grief gives the full measure of love, and it is somehow reassuring to learn, even by suffering, how large and powerful love is."

Tim is unable to tear himself away from fantasy football, workplace cubicles, social media faux pas, and "gifts of sincerity" from North Korea. Plus, this week's passage by don Miguel Ruiz: "Whatever happens around you, don’t take it personally… Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are...

Our first listener request episode! You choose the topics! You choose the passages!

The discussion starts heavy with a study of hell. Then the boys lighten up, making comparisons between KJP and Miss South Carolina and sharing a little Rock News! Also, they discuss this week's passage by Glennon Doyle: "But I find myself worrying most that when we hand our children phones we steal their boredom from them. As a result, we are raising a generation of writers who will never...

Olympic recaps, the dangers of pets, and Tim kills a mouse. Also, this week's passage by Elie Wiesel: "When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.”