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Part quiz show, part offbeat trivia, and all awesome. We here are nuts about trivia and pub quiz! And we are darn sure there are people out there who share our unusual obsession. Play along and laugh along as Karen, Colin, Dana, and Chris school each other on some of the weirdest and most interesting facts about our funny little world. Do you relish beating your friends at Trivial Pursuit? Do you blab out the answers at the gym when Jeopardy! is on? And don't you just loathe badly worded que ...
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Podcast for Dummys is a podcast featuring the cast of the sketch comedy troupe Common Sense for Dummys, as they discuss their experiences behind the scenes and in the entertainment industry, and converse about anything else that may come to mind!
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In the second season of Anatomy of Next, explore every aspect of going to Mars, transforming it into a habitable world, and building a new branch of human civilization. How do we bring a cold, dead planet back to life? Can we build an atmosphere on Mars, thaw the frozen plains, and build an ocean? How do we seed a barren land with life, and make a red Mars green? Then, it’s everything from politics and education to money, music, and architecture. What does it mean to be human on an alien world?
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The Louisiana Purchase kicked off Westward Expansion in the United States. Then came the transcontinental railroad, Homesteading and factory towns. Even the Industrial Revolution aided rural communities with new farming technology and access to bigger markets. But one day in 1971, Rural America was cancelled. In today's episode we cross paths with …
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Pastor Clayton wraps up our Stupid In Love series with a recap of all four weeks. If you would like to know more about the movement of Jesus and who we are, we would love to invite you to www.metachurch.tv. Also, you can subscribe to our YouTube Channel and wherever you listen to your podcast. You can follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Support th…
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Welcome to Week 3 of our "Stupid in Love" series with Pastor Clayton! This week, we delve into the modern dating culture and explore how we can respond to it by focusing on becoming who we are in Christ. If you would like to know more about the movement of Jesus, we invite you to visit us at www.metachurch.tv. Support the Show.…
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In our second week of our Stupid in Love series Pastor Clayton shows us that in all things, Jesus, and His Word - the Bible, are our models for how to live life. And, our model for how to be attractive and attract the right kind of people! But, to understand that, we have to understand how our culture currently thinks about attraction and how that …
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We begin our new series, Investigating Easter. Pastor Clayton takes us back to the very beginning and shows us that we can't fully understand Easter until we understand Christmas. If you would like to know more about the movement of Jesus, we invite you to visit us at www.metachurch.tv. Support the Show.…
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