Tweets & Tonic Podcast

It's hard to know who's telling the truth anymore. Walking into a voting booth, a church or even binging a Netflix show, uninformed, is no longer an option. Buying a jersey for your child is no longer a popularity contest but a battle for their mind.

Political hot topics are intertwined in every aspect of our lives, from your streaming channels to your favorite sports teams; and even in your pulpits. If you are looking for a cultural commentary on those infamous 280 characters brought to you by the little blue bird, known as twitter, pour yourself a drink, because this is the podcast for you.

Georgia beat Florida, but lost to South Carolina. Has the Razorback football team hit rock bottom? Clemson is running and running and running. What does it take to be a successful as a coach at Notre Dame? Derrick Brown. That's all. Florida State has fired their head coach. Baylor has gone from 0-7 to 8-0 in 2 years. Memphis had the best day in their football program's history. Oregon won and Utah won, so what will come of the Pac 12 championship?

Host Mandy Asberry sat down with her husband Arron to talk about some tweets regarding racism in our country today. There were several things that happened in the news this week dealing with topics that are sensitive to the racial reconciliation movement. President Trump made a statement comparing his impeachment inquiry to a lynching and was defended by some Republican lawmakers like Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. There were many who were obviously outraged by the use of the term lynching.

This happened in the same week that it was announced that the new memorial to Emmett Till was made bulletproof because of continual vandalism.

We were able to highlight some great work being done by leaders like LaTasha Morrison through her organization Be The Bridge and her new book also titled Be The Bridge: pursuing God's heart for racial reconciliation. We also talked about shows like The New Question hosted by Austin Channing Brown, Jenny Booth Potter and Chi Chi Okwu.

We hope that today's conversation will spark worthwhile conversations and change in your life as it has ours.

From the scoffing of male evangelical leaders, to the Twitter storm caused by the GM of the Houston Rockets, no topic was off limits in our discussion on what power is doing to our country. Host Mandy Asberry was joined by author, executive pastor, wife, mom and Crossfit enthusiast Jenny Day Jones. We take a look at Hillary Clinton's claims that Tulsi Gabbard is the "chosen one" of Russia, while also examining the friendship of Ellen Degeneres and George W. Bush. While it was a big week on Twitter, it was hard to look past President Trump's tweet on his "great and unmatched wisdom" that Mitt Romney called an abandonment of our allies. We left no stone unturned when talking about the theme of power throughout our lives.