quote [ Take two guys who?ve been best friends for 20 years, put them in pastoral ministry for a while, let them both be sufficiently battle-scarred by their former churches, then stick them in a room with microphones and whiskey, and this podcast is what you?ll get. ]

quote [ I thank God every day that Facebook and Twitter, instagram, vine, Youtube, all of it, did not exist when I went to High School. I can't imagine the dumb stuff I'd have been caught saying and doing.... ]

quote [ President Obama, a.k.a. the boss-in-chief, decided to give federal employees a holiday present a little early. He issued an executive order Friday giving them the day after Christmas off. ]

quote [ A senior executive at Uber suggested that the company should consider hiring a team of opposition researchers to dig up dirt on its critics in the media ? and specifically to spread details of the personal life of a female journalist who has criticized the company. ]

quote [ Sure, Matthew Gibson was remorseful.

But paranoia ? not a heavy heart ? apparently sent the Watauga County man on a frantic, sleepless trek to Arizona, where he confessed to a murder that happened 17 years ago, police said. ]

quote [ Most Americans likely never have seen nor heard of Mr. Corden, unless they made it to Broadway two seasons ago and caught his Tony Award-winning performance in ?One Man, Two Guvnors,? or ran into some episodes of a BBC series he cocreated called ?Gavin and Stacey,? in which he played a supporting role. He also starred in the cult hit Hulu series, ?The Wrong Mans.? ]

quote [ I guess it's a good time to mention that I've been lurking in & recording 4chan's raid IRC channels for a few weeks ]

quote [ Extremist anti-gay US pastor is accused of engineering the Uganda 'Kill The Gays' bill, saying LGBT people are the 'new Nazis' and recommending Russia's 'gay propaganda' laws.

For the first time, a federal US judge has ruled a persecution of LGBT people is a crime against humanity. ]

quote [ Police in Ferguson, Missouri, once charged a man with destruction of property for bleeding on their uniforms while four of them allegedly beat him.
?After Mr. Davis was detained, did you have any blood on you?? asked Davis? lawyer, James Schottel.
?No, sir,? Beaird replied.
...
?And what do you allege that Mr. Davis did unlawfully in this one?? the lawyer asked.
?Transferred blood to my uniform while Davis was resisting,? the cop said.
?And didn?t I ask you earlier in this deposition if Mr. Davis got blood on your uniform??
?You did, sir.?
?And didn?t you respond no??
?Correct. I did.? ]

quote [ I want to throw my hands in the air, after reading a mean Twitter comment, and say, "All right! You got it. You figured me out. I'm not pretty. I'm not thin. I do not deserve to use my voice. I'll start wearing a burqa and start waiting tables at a pancake house. All my self-worth is based on what you can see." But then I think, Fuck that. ]