Church & Other Drugs
Welcome to Church & Other Drugs. I am a recovered addict and Christian seeker who tells the stories of the beatdown, up and coming, hard-knocked, and healed up. you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll learn. Conspiracies? Nephilim? Heroin? Comedy? Check. faith|humor|comedy|christianity|spirituality
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213- Tylor, Jed and Heath talk Dune, Travis Sco...
Greetings, congregation! This week, Tylor, Heath and Jed catch up on current events and talk about the Travis Scott tragedy, Kyle Rittenhouse, and the 2024 election. Tylor and Jed give some movie recommendations, and we finally talk about Dune.store...
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212 - Brennen Haga and the Book of Revelation!
Greetings, Congregation! Don't forget to head over to patreon.com and sign up to access the exclusive bonus episodes that have entered a new season: the catsnake crew! This week on the show, Jed brings on Brennen Haga! Brennen reached out to Jed to g...
65 min
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211 - Tylor, Heath and Jed: Catsnake Crew plus ...
Greetings, Congregation! Whelp, the boys are back together. Tylor, Heath and Jed reunite under a new moniker: the Catsnake crew. The Raccoon crew shall forever live on , but welcome the new era of Patreon bonus episodes! So, the episode takes a turn ...
66 min
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210 - A Traumatic Event From Two Perspectives w...
Greetings, Congregation! This week, Jed rekindles a decades-long friendship with a man that was there for some of Jed's most traumatic life events, and the one that very nearly cost him his life. Larry explains his perspective of the events, and then...
66 min
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209 - Live from Furnace Fest & Recap with Kenon...
Greetings, Congregation! The boys had themselves a little adventure down to Birmingham, Alabama to attend Furnace Fest 2021! This was a trip 21 months in the making as COVID had other plans in mind when the fest was originally scheduled for last year...
66 min
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208- Shama Mrema (@Shama4realz) talks comedy, y...
Greetings, Congregation! We have a very special guest this week! One of Jed's favorite up-and-coming comedy/skit performers Shama Mrema (@shama4realz) is on the show! Shama talks about growing up in a strict fundamentalist missionary family, getting ...
65 min
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207 - I Came Into Sobriety On a Stretcher with ...
Greetings, Congregation! This week we have an amazing episode with new friend of the pod, Ryan Benson! Ryan and Jed met in a facebook group for Furnace Fest...the "Woodstock" for early 2000's metalcore kids! They quickly figured out they were both in...
70 min
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206 - Dopey Dave and Jed talk about covid, half...
Greetings, Congregation! This week, Dopey Dave comes back on the show! Dave just made 6 years in recovery and wants to talk to Jed about the phrase "half-measures availed us nothing", then they compare COVID symptoms, and talk about why the last seas...
66 min
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205 - Jed gets COVID-19 with Scott Countryman!
Greetings, Congregation! Well...the inevitable happened. Jed got COVID 19. As Jed explains in the intro, Scott and Jed had an interview recorded last Monday and Jed was feeling..."off". Turns out, he got the VID! Jed was going to jettison the intervi...
52 min
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204 - Jay Sakong from OWEL!
Greetings, Congregation! Jed is SUPER excited about this week's episode. As most of you know, one of Jed's favorite bands is OWEL..and this week, none other than the voice, guitarist, writer and force behind the band, Jay Sakong, comes on the show! J...
60 min
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203 - Open and Relational Theology with Josh Pa...
Greetings, Congregation! Well, you asked for it, I deliver! After a great response from 2 episodes ago, the congregation wanted to hear more about this "open theology" business..so, I called Josh up and we dove head first into it! You'll have to list...
70 min
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202 - Acting, Alcohol, Cocaine & Boxing with Ca...
Greetings, Congregation! This week we have an amazing guest and new friend of the pod..Caitlin Ewald! Caitlin has quite the story- growing up in a military family, going to school in Russia, landing a role in a feature film, and of course, discoverin...
70 min
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201 - Drug Policy, Open Theology, and going fro...
Greetings, Congregation! This episode was incredible to make, and I hope it brings you as much joy. Josh Patterson from the (Re)Thinking Faith podcast comes on the show again to talk about, well, just about everything! The boys discuss current drug l...
89 min
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Not the 200th Episode with Dopey Dave!
Greetings, Congregation! This may be technically the 200th episode...but it's not going to be the 200th episode. Instead, enjoy the banter of two, at this point, long-time friends; Jed and Dave from the Dopey Podcast. If you don't know Dave at this p...
54 min
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199 - Just Another Overdose: How My Dad went fr...
Greetings, Congregation! This is a very special episode, and I am honored to share this story with you. Jason Duncan, former host of Not Your Pastor's Podcast, has recently lost his father to an opioid overdose. Jason's father was a pastor from the 8...
66 min
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198 - Marvel is making a Nephilim movie with Na...
Greetings, Congregation! Jed woke up this morning and watched the trailer for Marvel's new movie, The Eternals, and realized that it is LITERALLY a modern retelling of the oldest narrative the human race knows: the idea that the gods taught mankind e...
64 min
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197 - John and Jed live from Miami!
Greetings, Congregation! Well, all it took was a cross country flight and vaycay to get our illustrious co-founder, John, back on the show! The boys fall back in stride and tell all about the Miami trip that was very nearly disastrous. Excuse the aud...
50 min
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196 - What the is Heaven Like? w/Brandon Autrey
Greetings, Congregation! Back with another exciting episode. Brandon and Jed take a relaxed approach and talk about the normal things..like what the happens when we die? What is heaven like? Is there a ? What's the deal with UFO's? and Jed shares hi...
61 min
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The Broad Highway, episode 1
Greetings, Congregation! You may remember Jed's friend Ben..you know, the guy that got stabbed? Well he's back with his own podcast! I wanted to show him some love so I decided to air his first episode on my feed. If you like what you hear, go give t...
56 min
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195 - Mr. Stutts - The Stuttering, Recovering A...
Greetings, congregation! This week was a fun one. I got introduced to Mr. Stutts, aka Marc Sautter, from our friend recovery mike and knew we were two peas in a pod right off the bat. Mr. Stutts has recently started a podcast, and tells Jed his story...
59 min
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194 - Tyler Harper from Capra shares his journe...
Greetings, Congregation! This week, Jed brings on Tyler Harper from the band Capra to tell his story. Tyler started, like many a troubled musician, to use alcohol and cocaine to escape a lonely existence. After many failed attempts, he was able to ge...
52 min
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193 - What makes someone an Alcoholic? With Chr...
Greetings, Congregation! Back with another amazing episode with a new friend of the pod. Joshua Hagquist led to Father Chris, and Father Chris led to Chris Boss! Chris was raised in Southern Baptist tradition, and later found the Orthodoxy. Chris the...
64 min
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191 - From Punk Rocker to Orthodox Priest with ...
Greetings, Congregation! This week, I had a fantastic conversation with Chris Foley from Luxury! Chris started his faith journey in the evangelical world and quickly found dissatisfaction. Chris was playing in the Tooth & Nail band Luxury when li...
66 min
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190 - The Return of The Beautiful Mistake with ...
Greetings, Congregation! This was an amazing episode for me, as I got to indulge my inner fan-boy and talk to Josh Hagquist from one of my FAVORITE bands, The Beautiful Mistake! Josh talks about what made them record an EP after a 14 year hiatus, wha...
59 min
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189 - Banned from Social Media with Dan Smotz f...
Greetings, Congregation! Whelp, let's see if I get banned by proxy for this one. Dan Smotz comes back on the show to talk about his recent purge from social media. Dan awoke one morning to find out that he and his wife's entire facebook presence had ...
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