This week on the DeRP, Iowa heads to Ohio, the host crew tries to distinguish between real and fake floods, turns out Charles Shultz can’t stand Peanuts, Lilly borders on the verge of being a not-niceist, Matt is disturbingly good at spewing nonsense, "Hey Jude" is the number one overall pick in the first ever Beatles' song draft, and Mackenzie Hyslop of the "Mini Mics with Mac" podcast on TikTok joins the team, dropping the bomb that Matt has been enthusiastically saying her family's name wrong for more than two years.   ..read more

In this week’s episode, the crew reacted to the first round of voting in the College Mascot Bracketeering Challenge (The Tree Lives!), and then things took a turn for the Biblical.  What was meant to be a brief sample of what the lunchtime Gen Z College and Early Career group would be like on Sundays became a deep theological dive for the rest of the podcast.  Come on in and dive along with us!  ..read more

This week the host crew takes a guess at which fake part of the fake Titanic was recently purchased for more money than any real part of the real Titanic ever was, Lilly makes sandwiches, Troy and Chu prove that they know very, very little about women, the crew reflects on how "newsworthy" Kate Middleton's photoshop skills should be, and Pastor Matt saves Handel's Messiah.  ..read more

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This week on the DeRP, Lilly forgets what day it is, Troy and Ioanna go on a double date to Target, "Florida Men" continue to lead the world in embarrassing news headlines, a German sculpture gives birth to a stupid American, the host crew prepares for Ash Wednesday next week by discussing what they could give up and what they couldn't, and then they agree to let each other choose what they'll give up or take on for the 40 days of Lent ..read more

This week the DeRP crew debates the pros and cons of pushing a man off a bridge, identifies the behaviors of the chivalrous gentleman, and just generally enjoys a heaping dollop of discussion by four of our usual rawgabbit blatherskite hosts while Troy was off wankling his guitar somewhere ..read more

This week on the DeRP there's a pop quiz from Matt on what life was like a quarter century ago, a genius Allied strategy from World War 2 with some highly questionable questionable ethics, the long and distinguished line of groups and individuals who have not solved the Israeli-Palestinian conflict grows by one podcast, the pros and cons of "de-extincting" some species wiped out by hunting or by Charles Darwin, America gets stolen by four British guys, and the host crew decides some real competitions shouldn't exist, and some fake ones should.  Let the games of the Diaper Olympiad begin ..read more

The DeRP discusses discrimination, the ethics of making a fortune off of a $3.99 Goodwill purchase, which of the hosts should make Shohei Othani money, and more--including an epic existential, extraterrestrial, theological rabbit hole that Pastor Matt hopes none of his seminary professors will hear.  ..read more

The Grinch takes on Buddy the Elf, the hosts give their thoughts on some creative shenanigans pulled by some elves on the shelves, and it turns out that none of us have been hit by enough meteors yet to have a shot at winning the Powerball lottery ..read more

The DeRP crew overcomes a dramatic Christmas Movie Bracketeering first-round shocker to cover such diverse topics as life in the little town of Bethlehem in the Heritage parking lot, Buddy the Elf, college rejections, God's will, songs that we can't leave unfinished, Christmas music rules, the height of Matt's new Darth Vader, and their thoughts on the best smells in the world ..read more