The Boys Read The Bible

EDIT: I had to reupload this episode because of some technical issues. The last one was for some reason only 30 minutes, so if you listened to that already, sorry, now you can relisten to it.

We talk about frogs and fleas. Daniel joins us.

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I would have named this episode something else based on the unanimous thematic take-away discussed towards the end, but I am not allowed to. We sadly have to read some begats, but Alex takes some shortcuts to avoid most of it for you all. Max's recording drops very early in the episode, so I tried to cut in such a way that it isn't super weird for us to be talking to an invisible voice. Moses begins the ten plagues of Egypt, involving snakes and blood.

Guests: Alex, Luke, Nic, Max

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We read the story of Moses and the burning bush, and obviously talk about all of the various interpretations that go along with "talking to a burning bush". We read more receipts, and Moses gets recruited to lead a slave revolt. We are sadly not joined by any guests. If you want to be one email us. Also God tries to kill Moses???

Guests: Alex, Luke, Nic

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We talk about midwives for way too long on this episode and fall into a googling hole. More importantly, we finally start the second book of the bible, Exodus, and Luke does an extremely long powerpoint presentation that only the guests can see (sorry audience) about what to expect in Exodus and what kind of historical context to include in our expectations for the book. We are joined by Cassidy, our original number 1 fan and early guest for the christening of a new book of the bible.

Guests: Alex, Luke, Nic, Cassidy

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We finally finish the book of Genesis. You probably didn't think we would, but we did it to spite each other and our audience. We say goodbye one last time to a few more favorites, and we attempt to decipher the sometimes vague and sometimes extremely benign prophecies of Israel. Lee has a difficult time staying on the call, and I summarize the entire first book of the bible for you all at a super human speed.

Guests: Alex, Luke, Nic, Lee

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A lot of people die, and Joe's master plan (maybe?) goes through without a hitch, as it always does for him. Blessings are transfered through family members in a confusing and extremely specific fashion. Alex is not here for this episode and we also had technical difficulties in the beginning, so if it sounds like we'd been chatting for a bit at the top of the episode, its because we were. The cut is right before Angelo makes the fig comment. Don't worry though we didn't read any bible without you. Angelo is looking for descendants so if you're interested leave a review.

Guests: Luke, Nic, Angelo

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This episode is riddled with technical issues. Alex's audio is spotty because his original recording didn't upload so I had to use our backup, and Noah's call drops half way through from the recording. If the conversation sounds weird, it's because I tried to edit out any portions where we were talking to people who's audio failed to record, and I tried to mark sections where that occurs so it's less confusing!

Joseph boldly claims the title of Egypt's ruler, and also justifies the terrible things he went through to help god save some people from a famine. There are also more begets and a family reunion. We cry at the end.

Guests: Alex, Luke, Nic, Noah

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It is still about Joe, and he is still gaslighting his siblings - which we do tire of, but Ben points out that in Joseph's defense he was sold into slavery so he can have a little bit of gaslighting as a treat. Also, Alex and Nic share their own dreams for interpretation and Ben touches a Bible for the first time in his life.

Sorry if Ben is quiet and my audio is weird, we shared a microphone and he's soft spoken and I am loud so just listen extra hard for him. I tried to make him more audible when he speaks amidst the blistering shouts of Nic and Luke.

Guests: Alex, Luke, Nic, Ben

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Joseph is at long last reunited with his brothers that tried to kill him and sell him into slavery. He spends the entire family reunion lying to them about his identity and their innocence in an extremely dramatic fashion, but who wouldn't after what they did.

Guests: Alex, Luke, Nic, Indu, New Nick

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Joseph institutes agricultural planning practices in Egypt, something that they probably should have instituted earlier, and gets in tight with pharaoh and his sun stuff.

Also, I am sorry for the wildly inconsistent audio volume between episodes, I just sat back down to edit the episode backlog for the first time in a while and I have no idea what the right volume is right now. Also there are now ads and I haven't figured out how to remove or vet them, so sorry if we accidentally sponsor something terrible.

Guests: Alex, Luke, Nic, Max, Noah

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