Off the Clock w/Jon Eks
My name is Jon Eks and I spent more than a decade talking to people about work on the award-winning Jon of All Trades Podcast. I’m sick of talking about work. I want to talk about everything else in our lives. Men are traditionally not good at this. So, I’m talking to people I love, respect, and admire. I’m trying to embody the axiom “Be the change you want to see in the world.” Expect candor, vulnerability, profanity, and a wide range of topics.
Off the Clock w/Jon Eks
Eric and His Cinnamon Rolls
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Jon Eks
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.