Inappropriate Conversations

242: Rambling About Tom

I honestly could describe this as a re-blogging, or re-broadcasting, of someone else's podcast.
Except for the occasional clip in compilation shows, I've never done this before. My friend Tom (The Ramble Redhead) died this month. Cancer took him quickly, and it was a shock to those who knew him and loved him. Wanting to hear his voice again and knowing his podcast was no longer available online, I went to my personal archives. 

Past Ramble Redhead shows included interviews with Taylor from Pod Is My Copilot, Christina from Greetings From Nowhere, Toppie from The Smellcast, Margaret Cho, and more -- including me. The majority of this Inappropriate Conversations podcast is sharing Tom's interview with me from September 2015. 
Those of us who knew Tom will never forget the redhead from Indiana who loved us all.

Different Drummer: Thomas Kiel

Thomas Scoffs (Lent Roll 35)

“People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense.”
John Wesley

John 20:19-31 (the demand of Thomas for proof and evidence gives us the name Doubting Thomas, along with the meme “He’s right behind me, isn’t he?”!)

#IC 47: Hypocrisy and Intensity (2/28/11)

 

Woman at the Well (Lent Roll 34)

"I remember the time that you told me, you said, 'Love is touching souls.' Well, surely you touched mine because part of you pours out of me in these lines from time to time."
Joni Mitchell

John 4:1-30 (despite what most evangelicals today would describe as “living in sin” when she met Jesus at a well, He sent this Samaritan woman off to share the Gospel, telling people in her town Whom she had just met … and He didn’t order her first to move out of her living arrangement or “sin no more”)

#IC 113: Raised on Robbery (2/15/13)

#IC 150: Opening the Scriptures (9/23/14)

Joni Mitchell - Blue

 

Report of the Burial Guard (Lent Roll 33)

"Old James Dean Monroe hands out flowers at the Shop-N-Go, hopes for money but all he gets is fear. And the wind blows up his coat, and this he scribbles on a perfume note: 'If I'm not here, then you're not here.'"
Sheryl Crow

Matthew 28:11-15 (the right amount of bribery can hide/ignore almost anything)

#IC 196: The Sound of Protest (4/23/17)

Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow

 

Soldiers Mock Him (Lent Roll 32)

"I rope-a-dope with righteous bobbin' and weavin', and let the good get even."
Chuck D. (Carlton Douglas Ridenhour)

Mark 15:16-20 (abuses of power included assault, spitting, mocking, and more)

#IC 17: Majority Rule and Minority Experience (6/30/10)

Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet

 

Getting a Head (Lent Roll 31)

"But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, though I have seen my head [grown slightly bald] brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet -- and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid."
T.S. Eliot

Matthew 14:1-14 (it’s shocking that the execution of a prophet as a prize for an impromptu dance at a birthday isn’t the most offensive thing about the fate of John the Baptist, whose head was “served” on a platter before party guests)

#IC 75: Reason, but No Rhyme, to Poetry (12/3/11)

93: Poetry Providing Perspective (7/1/12)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Waste Land and Other Poems

 

Sabbath and Mercy (Lent Roll 30)

"Sometimes shalom is disruptive. Sometimes peace making makes people uncomfortable. Sometimes these are conversations we'd rather not have or truth we would rather not acknowledge. Speaking truth to power is rarely comfortable for anyone."
Sarah Bessey

Matthew 12:1-14 (whether by healing people or picking grain, Jesus broke the law constantly in the eyes of his legalistic critics)

#IC 223: Torment as Tactic (1/29/20)

Walk The Earth 44 (6/24/17)

Jesus Feminist

Field Notes for the Wilderness

Walk The Earth #6 (12/9/13)

#IC 134: Gender Segregation (12/14/13)