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The Substance

The Substance

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A podcast aiming at being Biblical, Thoughtful, and Human. Join Philip, Trevor, and Vincent every week as we engage the culture without the culture war. KC based! Socials: www.facebook.com/thesubstancepod www.twitter.com/thesubstancepod www.instagram.com/thesubstancepod Support: Click the button below, or you can hit us up on the Cash App at $thesubstancepod Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thesubstancepod/support
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best The Substance episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to The Substance for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite The Substance episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Merry Christmas, y'all! It's been an eventful year and we hope that you all have a nice time of rest over the holiday season.

We're joined here by Tim and Jay Winterstein from the Saints & Cinema podcast. Tim in a Lutheran pastor in Washington State, he writes about movies over at The Jagged Word, and does programming for a couple film festivals in different states. Jay went to film school and is the Senior Programmer for the Newport Beach Film Festival. They love engaging with movies, whether "serious" or just for fun, so they reached out and suggested we talk about how we can engage with and enjoy films that are made all over that spectrum.

Movies discussed: The Boondock Saints, Christmas Vacation, Dumb and Dumber, The Rock, Jackass Forever/Jackass 4.5, The Evil Dead, Calvary, A Hidden Life, Silence, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Spotlight, and After Yang.

Due to scheduling challenges, our Christmas movie episode recording has been delayed but feel free to go back and listen to past year's Christmas shows!

Christmas Movie Episodes:

Little Women (Ep #27)

Elf (Ep #80)

The Matrix Resurrections (Ep #83)

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The Substance - 154: Felicia Wu Song Replay (Ep. 89)
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05/13/24 • 69 min

Hi friends! We are in a busy season at the moment and are working on a number of exciting things for The Substance and to help give us some time to do things at a high level, we are going to take a few weeks to replay some classic episodes from our 150+ show library. This episode was remarkable for how high it made it on our highest download charts when our guest doesn’t have a traditional social media presence. What she does have however, is a track record of high quality work and an email list of folks who love what she does. Our conversation about personal and spiritual formation in a technology saturated world was really valuable for us and as it doesn’t look like our world will be having less tech anytime soon, this should be just as relevant for the foreseeable future. If this is your first time listening to this, we hope you like it! Let us know on social media or email us a note or a voicemail and tell us what you think. Reminder that we are still collecting for a thank you gift for Editor Dave for his great work at The Substance for the last year or so and if you send us something for him on CashApp ($thesubstancepod) make sure to let us know in the notes that it's for him! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thesubstancepod/support
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One more show before the year is over! We were really hoping to get this recorded and published before Christmas but scheduling did not allow it. That being said, we are so happy to have artist Stephanie Stalvey back on the show to discuss the follow up to our previous discussion with her in Ep #136 (link below), 1944's The Curse of the Cat People. The previous film, Val Lewton & Jacques Tourneur's Cat People, was an unexpected delight because of how thoughtfully and skillfully it dealt with shame and repression regarding female sexuality, along with it being genuinely thrilling and scary at times. This one is almost equally surprising for how it seemingly turns on a dime and, tonally, hardly bares any resemblance to its predecessor. This time, directed by Robert Wise who went on to direct films like Star Trek: The Motion Picture, West Side Story and The Sound of Music (!), the film shifts and is something akin to a child's fairy tale and deals with themes of parental expectations, the dangers of being controlled by fear & anxiety, and the saving power of kindness. It's a wild swing but, for us at least, it really works. Plus, it's a low key Christmas movie! Check it out for free at the link below and enjoy! Be sure to send us an email or message and let us know what you think of the film! Links: Watch The Curse of the Cat People free (legally) in HD! Listen to Stephanie's Cat People episode! Previous Substantive Cinema Episodes Fear Not! by Josh Larsen (book) Shoutouts: A Bug's Life A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll The Dark Dark: Stories by Samantha Hunt Follow Stephanie: Website Instagram Look for "Pure" in print January 2026! Follow Us: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Share Your Questions/Suggestions/Feedback With Us: Email: [email protected] Phone: 913-703-3883 Support Us: NEW OPTION! We have finally joined Patreon! Support the show with an individual donation on CashApp to $TheSubstancePod or become a monthly Patreon supporter at patreon.com/TheSubstancePod --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thesubstancepod/support
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Once again, we recorded this episode a while back (a number of months ago, in this case) but due to the lamentable state of many things in the US, our episode this week feels eerily timely.

For our first Noirvember Substantive Cinema epsiode of 2024, we are looking at one of Samuel Fuller's most celebrated and highly regarded films, Shock Corridor. In the movie, Johnny Barrett, a journalist in pursuit of fame and acclaim, poses as a lunatic in order to infiltrate a mental institution where a murder has taken place. Can he keep his sanity long enough to solve the case and what will be left of him if he can?

In our discussion we cover: how Sam Fuller bluntly portrays America's various psychoses (nationalism, racial hatred, and the worship of violent power) in the three eyewitnesses that Johnny needs to interrogate, the legacy of Fuller's work in filmmakers like Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Spike Lee, and Jim Jarmusch, the role of journalism in a free society, and more!

Watch Shock Corridor on the Internet Archive

Listen to Mike, Spencer, and I talk about The Naked Kiss, Fuller's follow up to Shock Corridor which also stars Constance Towers.

My discussion of Fuller's war films on The Stacks

Forty Guns episode of The Criterion Connection

Follow Mike's work at Weirding Way

Shoutouts

Spencer: When the Clock Broke by John Ganz

The Surrealism of Friday the 13th

Mike: The Good Fairy

The Strawberry Blonde

Philip: The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch

If you're newer to the show be sure to check out our library of 150+ episodes with folks like Karen Swallow Prior, Jemar Tisby, Tyler Huckabee, Kaitlyn Schiess, Propaganda, Josh Larsen, Stephanie Stalvey, and John Carroll Lynch.

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The Substance - 2: Substantive Media Roundup 2018
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01/13/19 • 81 min

We look back on 2018 and the media that we enjoyed or was most impactful to us.

3:43 Films:

•Wreck It Ralph 2 iTunes | Amazon

•First Reformed iTunes | Amazon

•Black Panther iTunes | Amazon

•Creed 2 iTunes | Amazon

•Incredibles 2 iTunes | Amazon

•Won’t You Be My Neighbor? iTunes | Amazon

•Blackkklansman iTunes | Amazon

•Blindspotting iTunes | Amazon

22:35 Podcasts:

Buried Truths, Revisionist History (on Education and Football), This American Life The Problem We All Live With, Native Speaks, Serial (Season 3), Stuff You Missed In History Class: How Hawaii Became a State, Journeywomen, Risen Motherhood, ESPN 30 for 30, Invisibilia (guy trapped in his body), StartUp, The City, Better Call Saul, Good Place, The Director’s Cut, iFanboy, Total Soccer Show

48:45 Books:

•Letters of John Newton Amazon

•New Eusebius iTunes | Amazon

•Saints and Sinners iTunes | Amazon

•Crazy Busy iTunes | Amazon

•Why We Love the Church iTunes | Amazon

1:00:00 Music:

Check Out the Music and Johnny Cash playlist on Apple Music!

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The Substance - The Substance - Landing January 13th!
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12/30/18 • 1 min

Get ready for The Substance: Discussions on Faith, Culture & Theology landing January 13th on iTunes and other podcast providers.

Tell your friends!

@thesubstancepod

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**Vote for The Substance as Kansas City's Best Local Podcast

Kyle Strobel joins us to talk about God-honoring ways to use power for the good of those around us and for ourselves.

Buy The Way of the Dragon/Lamb

Buy Beloved Dust (Kyle mentioned it as "Part 1" to Dragon/Lamb)

Shoutouts:

Harry Potter

Patrick Rothfuss Kingkiller Chronicles

Book 1

Book 2

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We love sharing great movies with you all and it's especially enjoyable to highlight a film that is generally overlooked or that a majority of people may not be familiar with. This week we are looking at David Lynch's 1999 film The Straight Story. The movie is best experienced without knowing much about it (so if you haven't seen it before, stop reading and watch it now!) but it's a beautifully human, true story about a 73 year old man and the lengths he went to to try to reconcile with his older brother before anything else happened to them. More than one of us on this episode consider it a perfect film.

Our guest for this conversation is Relevant Senior Editor Tyler Huckabee. Tyler is a movie lover and has been a David Lynch fan for a long time. We talk about how The Straight Story is both an anomaly in Lynch's filmography as well as how it make complete sense. And be sure to listen all the way through for a great celebrity crush story that Tyler was generous enough to share.

**We are taking next week off for Easter Sunday to rest and enjoy the time with loved ones and hope you all have a wonderful, restful time. Feel free to share a favorite older episode with a friend and we will be back in your feeds the following week on 4/24!**

Buy/Rent The Straight Story on iTunes

Shoutouts:

Station Eleven (HBO Max)

X-Men Hickman Amazon & Hoopla

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https://relevantmagazine.com

The Relevant Podcast

Cape Town podcast

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This week we are sponsored by Chris Hotchkiss, American Family. If you're in the Kansas City area, reach out to Chris for a quote or second opinion at:

Website: https://agent.amfam.com/christopher-hotchkiss/ks/overland-park/10100-w-87th-st-ste-300

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The Substance - Special Announcement
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03/24/19 • 1 min

Not a normal episode this time - check out the announcement for all the details.

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We hope you all had a wonderful Easter and are excited to be back in your ears!

On this episode we are joined by Hannah Chao of SOLA Network. SOLA Network is a Christian platform designed to influence the next generation of Christians (and current & older ones as well) specifically with a focus on Asian Americans, both creating content directly relevant to their experiences as well as being a platform to highlight and publish writers within that community to the larger American Church.

We cover a number of topics: the unique experiences that members of varying Asian American communities endure (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.), California geography, the benefits and challenges that Asian Americans are currently experiencing due to their increased representation in pop culture, the state of "Women's Ministry" in the modern Church, the "controversy" surrounding the Disney Pixar movie Turning Red, and more!

If you enjoy the show, consider taking 30 seconds and writing a 5-Star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and sharing with a friend who would also enjoy it! 😃

Resources Mentioned:

What's Wrong With Having Sex Before Marriage?

Japanese Christians in Internment Camps

Subscribe to the SOLA Newsletter

Asian American Leadership Conference

Shoutouts:

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Running

Follow Hannah:

SOLA Website

Twitter https://twitter.com/loudhannah

Taylor Swift Stan account

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This week we are sponsored by Chris Hotchkiss, American Family. If you're in the Kansas City area, reach out to Chris for a quote or second opinion at:

Website: https://agent.amfam.com/christopher-hotchkiss/ks/overland-park/10100-w-87th-st-ste-300

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 913-268-8200

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How many episodes does The Substance have?

The Substance currently has 171 episodes available.

What topics does The Substance cover?

The podcast is about Christianity, Religion & Spirituality and Podcasts.

What is the most popular episode on The Substance?

The episode title '143: Substantive Cinema | The Curse of Cat People feat. Stephanie Stalvey' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on The Substance?

The average episode length on The Substance is 66 minutes.

How often are episodes of The Substance released?

Episodes of The Substance are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of The Substance?

The first episode of The Substance was released on Dec 30, 2018.

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