Off the Clock w/Jon Eks

On this episode of Off the Clock, I’m joined by my friend Molly, who’s a podcaster, my good pal, and one of the most insightful movie watchers I know. Here’s some of what we talk about:

• First question: On a scale of 1-10, how cringe do you find me?
• why we need more people to get into mosh pits to work out their issues
• watching and re-watching bad movies is a compulsion we share
• microdosing birthday parties (or holding quarterly birthday parties with small groups of frineds)
• engaging with and understanding art that is not for you (e.g. a 30 year old woman understanding what’s great about the movie Major League)
• the movie she least liked watching on her show and why (depending on your sensibility, this choice will either be brutally obvious or totally shocking)
• why intelligence and seriousness are not the same thing, but why they’re often confused for each other
• how surreal it is to regularly watch yourself on video and why doing video makes you sweaty as shit
• one of my favorite philosophical constructs: THE JOHARI WINDOW! 
• how apparently I say the word “poor” weird
• television recommendations
• what would you like to see more of, or less of, from men in this country?
• we laugh A LOT

Find Molly at Did That Age Well?

Theme song by Sorry Sweetheart.

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Produced by Deft Communications.

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On this episode of Off the Clock, I’m joined by my friend Eric, who’s a minister, a dad, and a really good hang. Here’s some of what we talk about:

• First question: We record this on a Friday, how far along are you on this week’s sermon?
• the bastardization of Christianity, fighting white Christian nationalism, who Jesus actually was and how dumb “prosperity gospel” is
• the time he got hit by a car on his bike and ended up apologizing to the guy who hit him
• the joy of embarrassing your own kids
• intellectual curiosity vs this country’s occasional impulse toward anti-intellectualism
• the movie Multiplicity with Michael Keaton
• the unconscionable treatment of the trans community and how dumb it is it to get angry at pronouns
• our shared annoyance of alpha bro masculinity
• the transformative power of people singing together
• the danger of people in matching t-shirts
• and yes, cinnamon rolls

Find Eric at First Universalist Church. 

Theme song by Sorry Sweetheart.

Logo by Nebulus Visions.

Produced by Deft Communications.

Engage with the show on Facebook, Instagram and Bluesky.