Julius Rex Gurney III, professor of History and voice of reason, joins the show for the first time in his role as an esteemed cohost. Mark and Rex are joined by friend of the show Derek Martin, director of the Theater Arts program. The three discuss the role of generational influence on pop culture and the church.

TRANSCRIPT

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All right, welcome to Jessup think I'm your host, Mark Moore. Or should I say one of your hosts, but we will get to that in a second. But I want to welcome back on the show friend of the show, or you only have to be on the show twice to be a friend of the show. So you're now friend of the show. Professor and Director of our theater arts program, Derek Martin. Thank you. Welcome back. Welcome back. I wanted to fix a T shirt for that, like friend of the show. Yeah, we can we can start making started. That could be part of our merchandise. Okay. Okay. That'll be unfolding over this. Okay. Over there. I'll be on the lookout for this. Right. Yeah, be ready. Social media. It'll be out there. But Derek, I'm glad you're here on this episode. Because we do have is kind of a special episode. In many ways. Special in the sense that as as hosts, I've also convinced another friend of the show, to to be a reoccurring co host with me. There'll be a voice and and he is the the one in the only the voice of wisdom and reason. History, Professor of History and theological award winner always throw that in. Julius Rex Gurney the third. So

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do I get my T shirt? Now? You do. Okay. Okay, I feel better about myself.

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And I know, you go we know I mean, we'll mostly be calling you Rex, you go by Rex around the school. But if I had the name Julius Rex guarantee the third, I would have it on a T shirt, and I would wear it around. Totally. I'd be like, this is literally my name.

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So you don't understand what being named Julius gonna be the third means on an elementary school playground. That's true. That's why I'm Rex. That's why I'm right.

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I'm thinking purely college professor.

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Okay, okay. That name is sort of too late now. Right? It's sort of, yeah, it was even on my high school diploma, bizarrely enough, because everybody knows me by that.

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Yeah. Everybody knows you by Rex. So that's cool. That's awesome. That is amazing. One. Rex. And Eric, I wanted you on the show today to discuss an observation that I made recently. So I teach a class entitled scripture and pop culture, which is a really fun class to teach. Because my research mostly consists of watching copious amounts of Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, video prime, HBO, YouTube, YouTube TV, which you do anyway. Yeah. I'm already. So in this way. It gives me a great excuse. Like when people walk into my office, sometimes on my iPad, I'm like, I'm research, research, research and for class, when my wife needs me to help out, I'm like, I'm really busy. Right now. So I'll get to the trash later. This is like the 15th time I'm watching the office. And I'm really it's about who's paying the bills around here. Yeah, exactly. I know, we can get sponsorships by Oh, by the big, the big five. But as I was kind of watching and over break, definitely kind of watching in preparation for the class. I just started to notice something. And I started to notice that within pop culture, there's a heavy amount of what what I've started to call generational influence. And I think often we think of pop culture as new and cutting edge and whatever other words, you want to add there, right? That it's out front of culture. And sometimes we're like, I can't keep up with pop culture type of thing. But what was interesting is I I started noticing, when you actually look at popular cultural artifacts, that they have a heavy amount of generational influence. So the culture creators, the writers, producers, directors, artists, who are kind of creating these really are bringing with them cultural values that they experienced when they