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Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Tom’s straight younger brother Andy returns for his yearly appearance on the podcast to educate us on this year’s Super Bowl matchup between the Chiefs and 49ers! Beyond merely giving us the players to look out for, Vegas’s odds for the winner of this game, and his own prediction, he also educates us on a truly shocking Taylor Swift lyric. We dive into all the T-Swift and Travis Kelce storylines, along with the often loud objections to their media coverage. Is toxic masculinity out of control?!
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➡️ Who do you got in this year's Super Bowl? What are your thoughts on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's media coverage?
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➡️ “Growing Pains” by Layup; 100% clearance through Musicbed.
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Alex is announced as our newest regular YOB contributor, and we get right into analyzing his blogs! We start with discussing a reflection of last fall’s YOBBERS retreat written by his mom and how this unique blog even came to be on our site. We also go behind the scenes and into greater depth with his recently posted blog about holding hands with his straight guy friends: one story in which a friend reached across a restaurant table to hold his hand, and another in which Alex extended his own hand toward a friend while walking with him in the park. How did fears of PDA impact both of these hand-holdings, and what other fears or insecurities did Alex wrestle with – both in the receiving and expressing of such open same-sex physical touch?
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➡️ Have you held hands with a male friend, straight or otherwise, in a public setting? What fears and/or triumphs have you experienced in the realm of physical touch with other men?
LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE
➡️ Alex's 2023 retreat blog: "Renewing Hope and Forming a Liturgy for Brothers at the YOBBERS Retreat"
➡️ Alex's mom's 2023 retreat blog: "Impressions of the YOBBERS Retreat from the Heart of a Mom"
➡️ Alex's hand-holding blog: "The Healing Power of Holding Hands with Another Man"
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➡️ “Growing Pains” by Layup; 100% clearance through Musicbed.
Friday Jan 12, 2024
Friday Jan 12, 2024
Matthew returns for a second go on the podcast as we dive into Gen Z fashion trends! Have the '80s and '90s just had a baby and its name is Gen Z? How do we feel about the enlarging of pants, the sprouting of pearl necklaces, and a resurgence in New Balances and Champion sweatshirts? Beyond their fashion choices, how do we feel about this generation's greater openness about sexuality and same-sex friendships? Tom poses some community fashion questions to Matthew as we get to know him better, namely how many hats, shoes, and flannels he owns. Finally, we look back at our fifth camp retreat held a few months ago, reveling in our victorious volleyball match against a group of teenagers. Matthew also shares with us a snippet of what he shared at the retreat when he got to speak for us one night, including the reminder that God is working and loves to work on us slowly.
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➡️ What are your go-to fashion preferences, whether you're Gen Z or otherwise? Did you attend this past YOBBERS retreat and have any fond memories to share? And should Matthew get a thigh tattoo in his 40s??
LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE
➡️ YOBBERS Retreat Blog Archive
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➡️ “Growing Pains” by Layup; 100% clearance through Musicbed.
Saturday Dec 23, 2023
Saturday Dec 23, 2023
Dawson, formerly Adam in previous podcasts, returns to help Tom celebrate Christmas this year! Dawson shares why he celebrates Christmas in February in addition to December, and Tom tells a Christmas tale of the first man he ever feared. We reference the "Fancy Christmas" recently spent with our YOBBERS community, including someone’s goal to appreciate Jesus’ humanity during what can be a complicated, if not lonely Christmas season. We also give a little Survivor 44 and Survivor 45 recap for all the Survivor fans in our midst in this final podcast of 2023!
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➡️ Do you have any unique Christmas traditions? How do you feel about Christmas this year? Is it difficult to remember Jesus through whatever complicating dynamics you experience during the holidays?
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➡️ “Growing Pains” by Layup; 100% clearance through Musicbed.
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Aaron returns to the microphone after a nearly yearlong hiatus! Tom catches up with our former YOBcast regular, and "Mr. Finance" gives us his financial forecast for 2024. Aaron also shares about Posture Shift, a nonprofit ministry he's gotten more involved with this year as a member of their advisory council. The guys share some Posture Shift event stories, including the first time Tom publicly identified as asexual on a Posture Shift panel, while Aaron recently met one of our YOBBERS from Scotland at a Posture Shift event! Check out the links below to learn more about this incredible event and organization, along with their Guiding Families resource.
LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE
➡️ YOBcast 065: Loving LGBT+ People w/ Bill Henson
➡️ Guiding Families: Fifth Edition
COMMENT ON THIS EPISODE
➡️ Have you ever been to a Posture Shift event? Do you have any Posture Shift stories to share?
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➡️ https://www.yourotherbrothers.com/2023/12/18/yob-convocast-076-tom-aaron-pitch-posture-shift
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MUSIC CREDIT
➡️ “Growing Pains” by Layup; 100% clearance through Musicbed.
Saturday Dec 02, 2023
Saturday Dec 02, 2023
It's our post-Thanksgiving episode! Matt returns to share how he celebrates Thanksgiving with his Navajo family, including which food takes the central place of the traditional American turkey. He also educates us with a Native American fact to help us commemorate Native American Heritage Month. For the rest of our conversation, Matt and Tom discuss the topic of "Side A" friendship -- that is, friendships with gay believers with an affirming theology or an acceptance of same-sex relationships. Matt mentions a new Side A friend, and Tom discusses his own recent experience with a Side A person, comparing it with a stilted interaction from over a decade ago. Has there been growth, and what does connection despite differing beliefs look like?
LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE
➡️ YOBcast 062: "Side A" Friends
➡️ YOBcast 065: "Side A" Friends Q&A
COMMENT ON THIS EPISODE
➡️ Do you have any "Side A" friends? How do you connect with people of significantly differing beliefs, or is it difficult finding common ground?
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➡️ https://www.yourotherbrothers.com/2023/12/02/yob-convocast-075-tom-matt-are-making-side-a-friends
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➡️ “Growing Pains” by Layup; 100% clearance through Musicbed.
Friday Nov 17, 2023
Friday Nov 17, 2023
Tom welcomes first-time guest and longtime community member Daniel to discuss journeys with body image and pursuit of the ideal! They share their adolescent vantages from both sides of the scale, Daniel overweight and Tom underweight, and how the gym and general fitness practices have factored into their lives in adulthood. There’s also a good amount of Enneagram talk with Daniel as a Nine and Tom as a Four chiming in from those perspectives (or is Daniel actually an Eight?). Despite the lack of the ideal body or ideal life, is there something of value we can offer the world in our seeming lack?
LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE
➡️ Tom's book, Struggle Central: https://store.yourotherbrothers.com/product/struggle-central/
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➡️ Have you struggled with your body image or sense of self-worth? How do you find peace in pursuit of the ideal?
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MUSIC CREDIT
➡️ “Growing Pains” by Layup; 100% clearance through Musicbed.
Friday Oct 20, 2023
Friday Oct 20, 2023
Jesse returns to discuss the summer’s biggest, if not most polarizing box office hit, Barbie! Tom reads off some community feedback from our Discord as we dive into hyperfemininity versus hypermasculinity, individuality versus relationships, and all the funny, moving moments from this film as it charts a new path forward for Barbie Land and, indeed, all of humanity. Is Barbie a Side B movie to those who can accept its message?? We hope you always remember, dear listener: you are Kenough.
LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE
➡️ Jesse's sexuality ConvoCast: Jesse Falls Under the Asexual Umbrella as Demisexual
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➡️ Did you see Barbie? What moments stood out to you? Did you gain any new insights or perspectives from this film?
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MUSIC CREDIT
➡️ “Growing Pains” by Layup; 100% clearance through Musicbed.
Friday Sep 22, 2023
Friday Sep 22, 2023
We finish our SPANNING THE SPECTRUM sexuality series by learning more of Tom’s story as Erin returns to take over hosting duties! Tom shares a new term he’s still feeling out for himself: androsexual, or an attraction to masculinity. He shares about his attraction for mostly straight men, going all the way back to another boy in first grade. He also discusses being on the asexual spectrum and the shame of “missing out” on such a significant part of the human experience. To close this episode, Tom and Erin look back on the previous 9 episodes of this series, giving love to all our wonderful contributors!
LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE
➡️ Tom's first book, Struggle Central: Quarter-Life Confessions of a Messed Up Christian
➡️ YOB ConvoCast 063: Matt is Gay and Christian, But Not a Gay Christian
➡️ YOB ConvoCast 064: Marshall Prefers Not to Sexually Identify as Anything
➡️ YOB ConvoCast 065: Alex Explains His Two-Way Tension as a Bisexual Christian
➡️ YOB ConvoCast 066: Ben is Queer in a "Mixed-Orientation Marriage"?
➡️ YOB ConvoCast 067: Adam is Cross-Oriented, a Heteroromantic Homosexual
➡️ YOB ConvoCast 068: Keegan Sees the Beauty Beyond One Type of Person as a Bisexual
➡️ YOB ConvoCast 069: Jesse Falls Under the Asexual Umbrella as Demisexual
➡️ YOB ConvoCast 070: Matthew Finally Comes Out as a Plain Old Gay
➡️ YOB ConvoCast 071: Erin Resonates with Queer Culture and Pansexuality
COMMENT ON THIS EPISODE
➡️ How do you feel about this term, "androsexual"? What episode or story resonated most with you in this series? Did you learn anything new about sexuality?
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➡️ “Heart of a Brother” Spotify playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9_-P-9jAEy3Ise3zagEOWdnpdlyAcuaW
MUSIC CREDIT
➡️ “Growing Pains” by Layup; 100% clearance through Musicbed.
Saturday Sep 09, 2023
Saturday Sep 09, 2023
Erin returns to help us SPAN THE SPECTRUM of our community from a woman's perspective! She updates us on her developments with Your Other Sisters, including a pivotal experience at Revoice this summer where she met some prospective YOS members as well as fellow YOB members for the first time. Sexuality aside, Erin discusses a general resonance with queer culture and then explains how her sexuality most aligns with pansexuality: an attraction for people regardless of gender. She also discloses being somewhere on the asexual (ace) spectrum. Erin shares some of her journey of self-discovery with sexuality, growing up in purity culture as a woman, living in Cambodia doing missions work, eventually dating men, and getting back to America on the other side of a pandemic. It's our penultimate episode of this summer sexuality series as we soon wrap things up with our finale!
Erin's Pirates of the Caribbean costume:
LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE
➡️ Erin's first ConvoCast: Tom & Erin Want Your Other Sisters to be a Thing!
➡️ Erin's guest blog: "How Your Other Brothers Has Impacted Me as a Woman"
COMMENT ON THIS EPISODE
➡️ Do you resonate more with queer culture than straight culture? How did purity culture shape your sexuality and sense of self-worth? Does pansexuality also best fit your sexuality?
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➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-other-brothers-podcast/id1142011465
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✉️ Mail us: Your Other Brothers / P.O. Box 843 / Asheville, NC 28802
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➡️ “Heart of a Brother” Spotify playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9_-P-9jAEy3Ise3zagEOWdnpdlyAcuaW
MUSIC CREDIT
➡️ “Growing Pains” by Layup; 100% clearance through Musicbed.