S3E36 - I Don't Trust People That Go To Church Multiple Times A Week: A Conversation With Raquel Ramirez
Release Date: 08/06/2025
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Topics Mentioned In This Episode Include: The Chick-Fil-A Core Four, Being A Math Major, Visiting Mexico, Mongolian Yodeling, Cynthia Erivo, Wicked, Jamiroquai, Abortion, Gun Control, Hunting, California Gun Modifications, Gamey Meat, The Uncanny Valley, Assimilation, The Problems With Growing Up In The Church, God’s Star Chart, Random Chance, The Evidence For Christianity, The Pidgin Translation, Spiritual Gifts, & Speaking In Tongues. PLAYLIST FOR THIS EPISODE: AC/DC – Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (1976) AC/DC – For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) (1981) Def Leppard –...
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Items Discussed In This Episode Include: Panic Attacks, Grunge, Punk Rock, Belle & Sebastian, The Grateful Dead, Songwriting, Bands Changing Members Yet Keeping The Same Name, Immigration, ICE, Assimilation, Social Services, Public Funding, Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Unruly Kids, Twenty Somethings, The Living Wage, Gravity Falls, Growing Up In The Church, Agnostic Atheism, Intelligent Design Theory, Where Does Morality Come From?, Slavery, & Psychological Egoism. PLAYLIST FOR THIS EPISODE: Against Me! – Baby, I’m An Anarchist! (2002) Against Me! – Don’t Lose Touch (2005) Against...
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Topics Discussed In This Episode: Northridge, College Life, Coffee, Matcha, Mean Professors, Ice Cube, The Maria’s, 23andMe, Bad Influences Of Music, The California Accent, ICE, Conflicting News Sources, Police Brutality, Climate Change, Food Insecurity, Climate Denial, The Gender Wage Gap, Lent, Mormons, The All-Knowing All-Powerful God, Not Having All The Answers, The But-Jesus Club, The End Times, The Left Behind Series, The Circle Trilogy, And Being Unequally Yoked. PLAYLIST FOR THIS EPISODE: Alicia Keys – If I Ain’t Got You (2003) Alicia Keys – No One (2007) Alicia Keys – You...
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Topics Discussed In This Episode Include: Being A Newspaper Carrier, Staying In Your Lane, Being Happy To Be 50, Hick-Hop, Neuro-Fighters, Not Liking Movies, Prop 50, Trump’s Cabinet, Epstein’s Island, The Covid Vaccine, Police Presence, A Soft Society, Illegal Immigration, RFK Jr., Church Hurt, Hell, Ghosts, & Angels. PLAYLIST FOR THIS EPISODE: Amy Grant – Breath Of Heaven (1992) Amy Grant – Father’s Eyes (1979) Amy Grant – Grown-Up Christmas List (1992) The Beatles – Hey Jude (1968) Big & Rich – Comin’ To Your City (2005) Big & Rich – Lost In This Moment...
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Topics Discussed In This Episode: Christian Contemporary Music, RadioU, Jiu-Jitsu, The Gracie’s, Indie Music, BMG, Hating America, Slavery, 23andMe, Deportations, Trump, Prop 50, Public Education, Homosexual Content In Children’s Books, Being Sensitive To Spiritual Things, Water Baptism, The Age Of Accountability, Meeting Michael Jackson, And Choosing God. PLAYLIST FOR THIS EPISODE: ABBA – Lay All Your Love One Me (1980) ABBA – The Winner Takes It All (1980) Artie Shaw – Begin The Beguine (1938) Artie Shaw – Stardust (1941) Ben Bohmer – Beyond Beliefs (2021) Ben Bohmer – Home...
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Topics Discussed In This Episode: The Beach Boys, Tool, Evanescence, K-Love, K-Life, The Fish, Christian Screamo, K-Pop, Falling Down The Rabbit Hole Of Korean Entertainment, BTS, Spiders, Public Education, Christian Rap, Forrest Frank, Love Languages, MAGA White Supremacy, Universal Healthcare, School Funding, Single Income Families, The Proverbs 31 Woman, Guns, Good Looking Mormons, Almost Getting Pulled Into A Cult, Living In Israel, Lent, Biblical Submission, Dating Profiles, & The Lord Of The Rings. PLAYLIST FOR THIS EPISODE: Aaron Shust – Ever Be (2017) Aaron Shust – My...
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Topics Discussed In This Episode: Elisha’s Bones, Psychedelic Doc Martins, Tooth And Nail Records, Joy Electric, Guilt Over Secular Music, Wind-Up Records, Birding In Joshua Tree, Abortion, Deportation, The Road Into Ministry, Meeting His Wife, Having A Nervous Breakdown, Why Christianity?, And Having A Balanced Approach To Worship. PLAYLIST FOR THIS EPISODE: Alice In Chains – Them Bones (1992) Alice In Chains – Would? (1992) The Avett Brothers – Good To You (2013) The Avett Brothers – I And Love And You (2009) The Avett Brothers – Pretty Girl From Michigan (2012) Beastie...
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Topics Discussed In This Episode: The Telepathy Tapes, Being A Red-Letter Christian, Tertullian, Who Was The Serpent?, Who Was Yahweh?, Common Origin Stories, Elohim, Israel’s Polytheism, El Elyon, God’s Of War, Sky People, Paleocontact, Ancient Astronaut, Visitations, And Practicing Remote Viewing. PLAYLIST FOR THIS EPISODE: At The Drive-In – Proxima Centauri (1999) The B-52’s – Mesopotamia (1980)
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Topics discussed in this episode include: Growing Up In Arkansas, Inverted Appendixes, Dangerous Childhood Games, Saving Up To Buy A Sailboat, The Harrowing Sea Adventure, Always Closing The Toilet Seat, Which Way The Toilet Paper Is Supposed To Go, The Puking Fest, Ax-Throwing To Break The Ice, Clopening, Political Morality, Subjective Reality, Charlie Kirk, The Queen James Bible, The Aether, Teaching Kids How To Play Minecraft, Saturn’s Titan, Tomorrowland, Genetic Enhancements, And Cloning.
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Things discussed in this episode: Training With Patricia Boyd, Ethnic Cleansing, Public Housing, The War On Drugs, Neo-Liberal Economics, Bullying, Pronouns, Chumash And The Gender Unicorn, Mental Health, Gun Violence, Paul Verhoeven Films, The Less-Dead, Unity Church, Intelligent Design, The New Atheists, Evolution, And Agnostic Atheism. PLAYLIST FOR THIS EPISODE: Arlo Guthrie – Alice’s Restaurant Massacree (1967) Arlo Guthrie – Coming Into Los Angeles (1969) The Beatles – All You Need Is Love (1967) The Beatles – In My Life (1965) The Beatles – Michelle (1965) The Beatles –...
info_outlineTopics Discussed In This Episode Include: Hamsters, Linkin Park, Twenty One Pilots, K-Pop, J-Pop, K-Dramas, J-Dramas, Horror Movies, Living In Korea, Forced Baptisms, Immigration, Racism, Watching News Clips, Big Pharma, Bacon, The Epstein List, Does Catholicism Teach Hatred Of Gay People?, Free Will, The Eucharist, Anxiety, Are All Faiths The Same?, Should Prayer Feel Like A Duty?, How The Bible Was Written, The Afterlife, Forgiveness, And Climate Change.
PLAYLIST FOR THIS EPISODE:
The Academy Is… - Chop Chop (2007)
The Academy Is… - Neighbors (2007)
The Academy Is… - We’ve Got A Big Mess On Our Hands (2007)
The All American Rejects – Gives You Hell (2008)
The All American Rejects – Move Along (2005)
The All American Rejects – Swing Swing (2002)
Arashi – Truth (2008)
Backstreet Boys – I Want It That Way (1999)
Backstreet Boys – Larger Than Life (1999)
The Beatles – Twist And Shout (1963)
BigBang – Bang Bang Bang (2016)
BigBang – Haru Haru (2008)
Britney Spears – …Baby One More Time (1999)
Britney Spears – Oops!... I Did It Again (2000)
Bubba Sparxxx – Ugly (2001)
Dolly Parton – 9 To 5 (1980)
Elvis Presley – Jailhouse Rock (1957)
Eminem – Love The Way You Lie (Featuring Rihanna) (2010)
Fall Out Boy – Dance, Dance (2005)
Fall Out Boy – This Ain’t A Scene It’s An Arms Race (2007)
Fall Out Boy – Thnks Fr Th Mmrs (2007)
Kanon Wakeshima – Still Doll (2008)
KAT-TUN – Aishiteiru Kara (2010)
KAT-TUN – Lips (2008)
Kyd The Band – Brother (2020)
Kyd The Band – Easy (2020)
Kyd The Band – Human (2020)
Kyd The Band – Sad Songs (2020)
Lil’ Rob – Barely Getting By (2002)
Limp Bizkit – Break Stuff (1999)
Limp Bizkit – The One (2000)
Limp Bizkit – Re-Arranged (1999)
Linkin Park – Crawling (2000)
Linkin Park – In The End (2000)
Linkin Park – Numb (2003)
Linkin Park – Papercut (2000)
Los Tuscanes De Tijuana – El Tucanazo (1997)
Los Tuscanes De Tijuana – La Chona (1995)
Mando Diao – Good Morning, Herr Horst (2006)
Mando Diao – Long Before Rock ‘N’ Roll (2006)
Mando Diao – Ochrasy (2007)
Mando Diao – The Wildfire (If It Was True) (2007)
Muse – Feeling Good (2001)
Muse – Hysteria (2003)
Muse – Supermassive Black Hole (2006)
Mutemath – Blood Pressure (2011)
Mutemath – Monument (2015)
Mutemath – Typical (2006)
NF – The Search (2019)
NF – Story (2021)
NF – Time (2019)
Nsync – Bye Bye Bye (2000)
Nsync – It’s Gonna Be Me (2000)
Panic! At The Disco – Death Of A Bachelor (2016)
Panic! At The Disco – I Write Sins Not Tragedies (2005)
Panic! At The Disco – Nine In The Afternoon (2008)
The Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody (1964)
Selena – Amor Prohibido (1994)
Selena – Bidi Bidi Bom Bom (1994)
Selena – Como La Flor (1992)
Super Junior – Sexy, Free & Single (2012)
Super Junior – Sorry Sorry (2009)
Super Junior – Superman (2011)
Twenty One Pilots – Addict With A Pen (2009)
Twenty One Pilots – Guns For Hands (2011)
Twenty One Pilots – Heavydirtysoul (2015)
Twenty One Pilots – Hometown (2015)
Twenty One Pilots – House Of Gold (2011)
Twenty One Pilots – The Judge (2015)
Twenty One Pilots – Jumpsuit (2018)
Twenty One Pilots – Lavish (2024)
Twenty One Pilots – My Blood (2018)
Twenty One Pilots – Neon Gravestones (2018)
Twenty One Pilots – Next Semester (2024)
Twenty One Pilots – Overcompensate (2024)
Twenty One Pilots – Paladin Strait (2024)
Twenty One Pilots – Ride (2015)
Twenty One Pilots – Semi-Automatic (2013)
Twenty One Pilots – Smithereens (2018)
Twenty One Pilots – Stressed Out (2015)
Twenty One Pilots – Tear In My Heart (2015)
Twenty One Pilots – Trees (2013)
Twenty One Pilots – Truce (2013)
Twenty One Pilots – Vignette (2024)