Evan Extemporaneous

Evan had the pleasure of attending Turning Point USA's AmericaFest 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona, in the wake of the tragic assassination of the group's founder, Charlie Kirk. Turning Point USA is a conservative activist group focused on galvanizing and energizing the conservative movement, with a primary focus on young people in high school and college. Evan gives his thoughts on where the c...

Evan wraps up the second of a two-part duology wherein he takes live questions and answers from a listener on some of his "hot takes" on modern trends in Christian dating. Part 1 focuses on the mild and medium level questions. Part 2 focuses on the spicy and super spicy questions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

In another first for the podcast, Evan has on his first guest host to the show - Kai McAlister, currently a toxicology and pharmacology PhD student at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Evan and Kai share an enduring friendship and mutual interest in extremely nerdy topics, including the subject of focus in today's episode: artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous vehicles (AV), also com...

In a first for the podcast, Evan takes live questions and answers from a listener. This is the first of two planned parts, where Evan gives some of his "hot takes" on modern trends in Christian dating. Part 1 focuses on the mild and medium level questions. Part 2 will focus on the spicy questions. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

Evan takes us into his over 20-year fascination with and love for the works of C.S. Lewis. He walks down memory lane, starting with Mere Christianity, the Great Divorce, and his first time watching the 2005 adaptation of the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and proceeds all the way through to the last Lewis book he read, and the last novel "Jack" ever wrote, Till We Have Faces.  Pay at...

This week's episode takes us into a new world we now live in - a world without pennies. (At least, new ones being produced.) What are some of the benefits and disadvantages of eliminating the humble penny?  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Reference https://www.npr.org/2025/11/09/nx-s1-5600908/the-us-will-stop-making...

Evan gives a high-level overview of the Biblical concept of the Antichrist, and relates it to Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel's current obsession with his own version. Are they the same? What should we do in light of Thiel's spiels? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  References and Additional Materials  https://ww...

This is a re-upload to fix some issues with the original recording. In the inaugural episode of the Evan Extemporaneous podcast, Southern California resident Evan Buck expounds upon the background of the show's name, and sketches out his mission, vision, and values for the project moving forward. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...