What's Trending with Dan
Dan brings the week's viral stories and the hosts react.
22 conversations · 11 episodes · 2014–2015
22 conversations
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What's Trending: Christians and public morality
- How active should Christians be in speaking out publicly about issues of morality?
A host (addressed in the audio as "Dan") brings the Bristol Palin news — the abstinence-education advocate pregnant a second time out of wedlock — and asks how active Christians…
From No. 239 · Faithful in the Means
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Tonight's lineup
A host previews the show: item #10 from the time.com list 'What I gained when I lost my religion' (more realistic expectations about life), What's Trending with Dan, Dear LFTP advice, and a roundtable on puzzling teachings of Jesus introduced by Dave Herrick.
From No. 210 · What Do You Say to a Dying Teenager?
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Launching the 'What I Gained When I Lost My Religion' series
Ben introduces a Time Magazine article by a former evangelical Christian listing 10 benefits of losing his faith.
From No. 204 · Losing My Religion
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Trending preview and guest introduction
Dan previews his three trending topics — a woman who accidentally sent a nude selfie to her father, the viral Steven Spielberg dinosaur photo, and migrants crossing the southern border — framed as working out how a follower of Jesus should react to the news.
From No. 198 · The Border Crisis and the Church
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What's Trending: KFC kicks out a girl over facial injuries
- What should the parents of a disfigured child asked to leave a restaurant do: sue, accept it, or retaliate?
The host addressed on-air as Dan runs the What's Trending segment with three news items. The first: a KFC employee asked a three-year-old named Victoria, whose face was badly…
From No. 195 · Talking to Quitters
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Show open from the Pathway Studios
A host opens the live show from the Pathway Studios in Johnston Proper, previewing the night's lineup: an interview with author and blogger Jon Acuff, Boova's 'pope-style advice' segment, and 'what's trending with Dan.'
From No. 192 · June 2, 2014 Podcast w/ Jon Acuff
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What's Trending: the $3 million stolen Nikes
- Is it ethical to buy or sell something that may have been stolen?
Dan (addressed by name) leads the news segment: authorities confiscated $3,000,000 worth of Nike shoes at a Radcliffe, Kentucky home — thousands of pairs meant to ship from a Tennessee Nike distribution center to Texas, bound for a flea market.
From No. 192 · June 2, 2014 Podcast w/ Jon Acuff
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What's Trending: Scout Willis and gendered public exposure
- Is there a difference between publicly exposing a man's chest and publicly exposing a woman's chest?
Dan reports that Bruce Willis' daughter Scout Willis walked topless in New York City to protest social media's treatment of women's bodies.
From No. 192 · June 2, 2014 Podcast w/ Jon Acuff
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Show rundown and the 'What's trending with Dan' renaming gag
A host runs down the night: the trending-news quiz, a new Bible-reading study, Ten Commandments TV ratings, dear-lftp advice, and a laughter-in-the-Bible quiz.
From No. 186 · The Passion Rewatched
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Trending: Loch Ness Monster on Apple Maps — do monsters fit a biblical worldview?
- Where do things like monsters and dinosaurs fit in a biblical worldview?
Dan runs the trending-news quiz: a supposed Loch Ness Monster sighting on Apple Maps prompts the question of where monsters and dinosaurs fit in a biblical worldview.
From No. 186 · The Passion Rewatched
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Trending: couple married 70 years dies 15 hours apart
- Is it possible to get married in today's world and expect to stay married seventy years?
Dan reports on an Ohio couple — Helen, 92, and Kenneth, 91 — married 70 years who died 15 hours apart after eloping to Kentucky with $5.
From No. 186 · The Passion Rewatched
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Trending: Ice Road Truckers star kidnaps a prostitute named Snow White
- What was the Ice Road Truckers star's biggest mistake: soliciting, kidnapping, or trusting the prostitute's phone number?
Dan reports that a star of Ice Road Truckers was charged with kidnapping, extortion, and coercion of a Las Vegas prostitute called Snow White after a debit-card dispute.
From No. 186 · The Passion Rewatched
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What's Trending with Dan explained
- How are we supposed to interact with the culture — as 'nice' Christians or bold ones?
Dan Hudson lays out the game rules: he presents three trending stories and the panel must pick the response Dan deems appropriate.
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Trending: graham cracker ad controversy
- Is it homophobic to be upset with a company portraying the homosexual lifestyle as wholesome?
Dan Hudson presents the first trending story: a graham cracker company drew backlash for an ad showing a gay couple with a child, then printed the negative feedback and had artists turn it into a 'love' sculpture.
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Trending: viral dog-in-a-coat-sleeve video
- What's the appropriate response to a dog video getting 400,000 views in a few hours?
Dan Hudson presents the second trending story: a 22-second video of a dachshund barking inside a coat sleeve on the floor, with 407,000 views in about a day.
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What's trending with Dan: the Kaufman family sailing rescue
- Was the Kaufman family's decision to sail around the world with small children responsible?
Dan's trending-news quiz opens with the rescue of Eric and Charlotte Kaufman and their daughters Cora (3) and Lyra (1), whose sailboat broke down 900 miles off Mexico with a sick one-year-old, ending in a U.S.
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What's trending with Dan: Dappy's hashtag face tattoo
- How do you know if you have gone too far chasing popularity?
The trending quiz continues with rapper Dappy, who tattooed a hashtag below his right eye and posted it to Twitter so his face would 'trend forever' — unaware Twitter was reportedly phasing out hashtags.
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What's trending with Dan: NY fire vs. police charity hockey brawl
- Is the New York fire-vs-police charity hockey brawl embarrassing or expected?
The final trending story: the annual New York firefighter-vs-police charity hockey game erupted into a 25-minute bench-clearing brawl (police won 8-5).
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Tonight's lineup preview
A host previews the show: Trending with Dan (three news stories), Pope-style advice, a deferred Secular vs. Solomon game, and introduces Story Time, which a host kicks off.
From No. 182 · Trending with Dan
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Trending with Dan: woman fakes pregnancy
- How accountable should a person be for their actions if they are legitimately sick?
Dan reads the first trending story: a Canadian woman convinced her boyfriend and town she was pregnant with quintuplets, donations poured in, and doctors later revealed she was never pregnant.
From No. 182 · Trending with Dan
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Trending with Dan: final scores
Dan tallies the points game: one host finishes well ahead after a five-point answer on the first story, another clawed back from negative one, and the scoring is admitted to be loose and subjective.
From No. 182 · Trending with Dan
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What's Trending with Dan: McConaughey's Oscar speech
- What do you think of public figures thanking God for their accomplishments?
Dan Hudson presents three trending topics. First: Matthew McConaughey thanked God in his Oscar acceptance speech for Dallas Buyers Club, prompting Christians to celebrate him as a spokesman while nonbelievers mock.
From No. 180 · Noah: The Verdict