Harper Anderson

Latter-Day Takes

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A podcast about nothing and everything at the same time but through the lens of active members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We talk society, culture, politics, dating (cuz I'm a loser single with loser single friends) and any other issues that come to mind. My hope is that the sentiments can resonate, and the gospel can come across as fulfilling, relatable and not cheesy. Also, I can't help myself but throw in jaded BYU sports takes on a regular basis.

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Harper Anderson

Episodes

EP 13 - Tad Callister - Marriage, Feeling the Spirit, etc. 04.03.2021 45:36

In this episode, a good friend of mine, Tad Callister, comes on to give some insight into marriage, dating, feeling the spirit, church culture vs. doctrine, how to delineate between those two and other various topics surrounding the gospel. Tad is most well known for his book The Infinite Atonement , which is probably one of the more popular modern day books in the church. Hope you enjoy it!

EP 12 - Why I hate BYU, Spirituality vs. Religion, BYU Sports Update 02.03.2021 45:38

In this episode Chase and I discuss the task force at BYU that was created to root out racism. We get into spirituality vs. religion and then close it out with some BYU sports updates, etc. 

EP 11 - CRAZY Gambling Misadventures with Anonymous Friend 25.02.2021 1:07:20

In this episode, my buddy "Vic Vinegar" takes us through his timeline of gambling. How he got into counting cards in BlackJack and Baccarat. He talks about his winnings (which may or may not have been around 1/2 million in one weekend). From there it's banter as normal, and it ends with me randomly sharing one of the more embarrassing preludes to a date I've ever had (1:01:25). 

EP 10 - A girl I dated comes on and calls me a hypocrite 23.02.2021 35:35

Consider this a rebuttal episode from my dating gripes of EP 9. Chanelle, a former flame of mine thought I was being too hard on a girl I took out a couple times in the previous episode. So, she comes in to try and shift my perspective. Does it work? You'll have to find out...

EP 9 - Dating sucks, Gambling vs. Stocks, Rush Limbaugh 18.02.2021 44:03

This episode starts out swapping embarrassing/bad dating stories between Chase and myself. From there we talk about the craziness of the stock market and if it's any different from gambling. And then we get into talking about Rush Limbaugh's death and the reactions on social media to that, etc. Enjoy!

EP 7 - Is Cancel Culture Coming for BYU Football? Ethnic foods, and NCAA College Football is Back! 03.02.2021 45:04

In this episode, Chase and I discuss if it's problematic to eat foreign foods with our own culture's food tools, and whether or not people eat rice with a spoon or a fork. Then we get into NCAA College Football's video game return. After which we spend most of the episode discussing the Wes Wright situation and people coming after him for being what he is, a college football player on Tinder. Enjo...

EP 6 - Manti Te'o, Prophet Vaccination, Marriage Calls for Singles 25.01.2021 42:25

After giving a 5 second update on BYU basketball, Chase and I dive right in to recapping some of the Manti Te'o story from about 10 years ago due to an ESPN documentary on it that aired. Then we talk about the Prophet getting a vaccine and sharing that on social media. We wrap it up talking a little about being single in the church and then what it would be like if the church started doing arrange...

EP 5 - Deep dish pizza sucks, BYU now owns St. Mary's and a really, really asinine tweet 19.01.2021 42:43

In this week's episode we go a little different direction. Starts out normal talking about how much we hate deep dish pizza, and then we get into BYU basketball and their win over St. Mary's and San Francisco respectively. After that, we discuss a tweet that goes after the church and how asinine the thought process was behind it. This may start to be more of a regular occurrence, who knows. 

EP 4 - Post Gonzaga (predictably terrible) loss, BYU football big updates and Jonathan Tavernari… 08.01.2021 34:39

In this episode Chase and I discuss the straight-forward loss at Gonzaga and how BYU is 100% a bubble team. We discuss a couple bright spots, with some concerns for the future of BYU basketball. Then we go over some big updates with BYU football and what that might mean and then we go right into the stupid take of the week: Jonathan Tavernari tweeting out that BYU athletes (members of the church)...

EP 3 - BYU coaching change, BYU basketball superlatives, Jimmer vs. Magic on Twitter 05.01.2021 50:18

In this episode Chase and I discuss the BYU coaching change losing Grimes, players that probably left too early, and the cloudy future of BYU football. Then we get into BYU basketball superlatives and make our guess for who is most likely to break the BYU honor code. Then we finish it out with me quizzing Chase on who tweeted something boring: Jimmer or Magic. 

EP 2 - Post bowl game, embarrassing Jimmer, Gaysom for Taysom 29.12.2020 48:23

In this episode we do some post-bowl game analysis. There isn't much to say, we know Zach Wilson is gone, the future of BYU is interesting, but we focus more on how this team looked compared to other years and how good they really are. Then we get into a story with Chase and an (almost) altercation he had with former BYU linebacker Brandon "The Airplane" Ogletree. From there it goes into assessing...

50 Shades of Blue - EP 1 21.12.2020 51:28

In this episode Chase and I discuss BYU's upcoming bowl game, where we think this team stacks up against other BYU teams in the past, Zach Wilson's improvement from last season to this season, BYU basketball and the savior Mark Pope, how much we hate Coach Krystkowiak, and we sign off with a little Home Alone talk. 