Joining me for this episode of Wrestling is fellow podcaster and entrepreneur Carmen Erholtz. Hear Carmen share her inspiration for starting a podcast and describe her career journey, which led her to start her own business. Along the way, we discuss our respective podcasting experiences, and we wrestle with questions such as Is college a scam? And should we fear AI? Be sure to find me on Facebook, and check out Carmen’s podcast The Home and Grown Podcast using the link in the description:

Carmen’s pod:

The Home and Grown

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The movie squad featuring my good friends Sterling Harer, Andrea Maikke, and Jonathan Bartsch return to Wrestling. This time we talk Christmas movies from Elf to It’s a Wonderful Life to the Grinch, and of course we engage in the age long debate, Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Along the way we wrestle with Gospel themes in various Christmas movies, and we discuss Marxist

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In Part 2 of my riveting conversation with Mitch Elliott, hear about how his conviction to fulfill the Great Commission led him to become one of the world’s top Donkey Kong players. Along the way we wrestle with how to handle unfriendly responses to the Gospel and how to effectively use social media to evangelize among other things. To conclude, I share the role video games played in me coming to Christ.

Watch the documentary King of Kong: Fistful of quarters for

The King of Kong : Fistful of Quarters (Full Movie) - YouTube

Star Tribune Article Featuring Mitch:

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Mitch’s DK manual, available for free:

Copy of DK Manual Live Google Doc - Google Docs

Joining me for this episode of Wrestling is former professional football player Mitchell Elliot. Hear Mitchell describe his journey from a Division III player to nearly playing for the Minnesota Vikings to his time playing arena football. Along the way, we wrestle with the risks of playing football and the lengths some go to to make it big.

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Returning to Wrestling for this episode is Pastor Emeritus and author Mark Swarbrick, who was featured back in episodes 10 and 11. In this episode, Pastor Mark talks about his latest book a novel, Beyond Redemption: Love and Longing in the Old West, which you can get following the link once it is released. Hear Pastor Mark discuss the basic premise of the book, which revolves around the infamous Wham Paymaster Robbery, what inspired him to write the novel, the novel writing process, and the appeal of the Western genre. Along the way we wrestle with the reliability of Scripture and the checkered history of the Mormon church among other things. Be sure to check out the links in the description to read all about the historical events we discussed and also check out Pastor Mark’s prior appearance on Wrestling.

 Hear more from Pastor Mark:

Episode 10- Mark

Episode 11- Mark

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Wham Paymaster Robbery: Wham Paymaster Robbery

September Dawn Wikipedia: September Dawn - Wikipedia

Mountain Meadows Massacre:

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Joseph Smith’s Death:

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Joining me for this episode of Wrestling are my friends Sterling Harer, Andrea Maikke, and Jonathan Bartsch. Join us as we break down all the hit movies this summer such as Oppenheimer, Barbie. Along the way we wrestle with the themes of the movies such as the ethics of the nuclear bomb and feminism, why some movies performed better at the box office than others, and what makes a movie worth seeing at the theater. Also, hear Sterling share his movie idea! Needless to say, this episode is full of spoilers for pretty much every movie that has come out this summer.

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Joining me for this episode of Wrestling is Jeremiah Powell. Hear Jeremiah describe his various evangelism ventures everywhere from hippy

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