Episode #68 – Tigeh Beateh!
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No Rapture. Life goes on.
Bob Woodward hires Geoff as his personal massage therapist!
Are you TBM? Mitt Romney is. But ARE YOU??
Ladies, stop pining away after President Uchtdorf. You are coveting. COVETING!
A Merrill Lynch employee allegedly gets sacked for being “too Mormon.” Lame.
Geoff has a ball reviewing a review of the recent box office flop, “Priest.” It pertains to LDS people, don’t worry.
And…temple closures, temple open houses, updates on the Brock case, and Huntsman hates utah!
Link:
- MoBach begins new season
- Rapture Poll
- Open house of Quetzaltenango Temple
- Boise Temple closing… FOREVER! K, not really.
- Huntsman hates Utah
- Bishops in the Brock case not prosecuted
- “Priest”!
- Stop dreaming of becoming Mrs. Uchtdorf
- Merrill Lynch discriminates
- TBM = dumb
- This is not what the Mormons do in Rome
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I vote 'nay' for the Mormon Bachelor/ette. I've never heard a word of it outside of this podcast, and I assume you only know about it because you know the people behind it. I regard it as the obscure YouTube hobby of a few connected SoCal single girls. It doesn't seem related to Mormon news or events. I'll stop now to prevent further belittling it with a diatribe against its overdone TV show namesake.
As to the term 'TBM', of course Joanna Brooks didn't invent it but it has been mostly used in limited Internet venues for some time. You should read that article you linked at FPR; it's a good summary. I probably first heard it from writings of ex-Mormons who wanted a way to label Mormons who were "still drinking the Church Kool-Aid." Since then I've noticed that the word is also used by other types of people. It seems like it's often meant as a quick-and-dirty label for simple believers who insulate themselves from the diverse outside world where faith is complicated. This isn't the kind of conversation for Church meetings. You'll come across it on the Bloggernacle or other discussion boards where Mormons like to argue and need a word for card-holding, fully-invested, unquestioning Church members. Most Mormons don't go to websites like that.
Lastly, you guys really don't seem to like Peggy Fletcher Stack, but she's a pretty smart and respected lady. Somehow Geoff had first hand knowledge of all the details she got wrong in her Crystal City article, but don't write her off like Coppins or the Mormon Times. She went to Berkley's Graduate Theological Union, helped found Sunstone magazine, and has led the Tribune's religion department ever since. I'm not really sure what was wrong with her Rome article, other than the BustedHalo essay being a cheap premise for covering the significance of an LDS temple in the central city of Christendom.
I say put out as much diatribe as you want on the MoBach. I don't know how old you are, Rich, but I do see plenty of MoBach activity on Facebook from people I know do not know the folks behind it in any way. I do think it is a lame production (And I'm an alumnus of it!), but that said, it's a wonderful outlet for us in terms of something to mock. See what happens when MoBach is off the air? We unnecessarily tear into Peggy Fletcher because we have nowhere else to address it!
I will say this, though – As much fun as I genuinely have ripping into MoBach and enjoying good site traffic on our end from it, it often feels "beneath" us, which is saying something! We set a pretty low bar as is! It also gets tiring keeping up on it. But heck, "Mormon news" is a pretty loose term, and some people think that covering MoBach in a strictly condescending way is worthwhile.
Interesting note on the TBM. I read through the article we linked, and I figured it was originally conceived as a pejorative. I still think it's a dumb acronym, though.
I'm reasonably new to the world of The Stack, but lately I feel that the articles we find are just a mess. Sure, sometimes we go out of our way to find a reason to grind an axe with someone, but of the ones I've noted of late, I think calling it out is warranted. The Crystal City thing was just horrendous reporting. I don't know if she's LDS or not (and if so, how "TBM" she is), but that was about as researched as a high school newspaper article.
That said, I didn't think the Rome one was all that of note. I wasn't going to bother mentioning it at all.
Enter Al Doan.
Sure, I could have probably just edited that part out, but I left it for the sake of leaving it. We try to edit to a minimum on TWiM, though I certainly do excise stuff in post-production.
And after reading your comment, now I worry that perhaps TWiM has taken too negative of a turn. Here's to a sunnier Episode 69!
-Geoff
Mo-Bach is growing, I think it's a good idea to, for lack of better words, hitch your wagon to theirs. And it's vastly popular outside of SoCal.
Speaking of, Rick Buck moved to Happy Valley this weekend to be with Mel. A fellow former Bach-ette ran into him yesterday. Makin' the big move for love, I suppose.
Anyway, I just wanted to say that I'm with the TWiM boys. Rich, no offense, but don't take it so seriously. Lighten up bud! It's all in entertainment! And more often than not I 100% agree with G & Al.
Lest we forget Brittany, I'm with Rich on the MoBach, it was fun in the beginning, but I've grown tired of being E! News for the SoCal bunch. It is fun, I don't think we should ignore it, but perhaps we can just do a shake down of all the dates in one post, and not weeks on weeks of poorly done videos and awkward dates.
Though when the mormon version of Cheaters comes up, I'm all in … for sure.
Al
Well, Brother Doan, you do have a point. It would be a lot of work to do all the dates as they come. But, it's so fun to read. Even when you mocked me I enjoyed it.
OOOH, Mormon Cheaters… I likey.
I like the name "The Stack". I think we should make it stick. And Rich, do you have some gems of hers that you can think of in recent years that would be worth mentioning? I can't seem to find anything noteworthy from her camp. We will do right by you and her I swear it, I just can't find anything redemptive yet …. help?
-Al
1. The Mormon Bachelor makes me so uncomfortable with its awkward awfulness that I can't even stand to watch to see it lambasted. Geoff – are you ever concerned that your name is connected to it, and comes up with a google search (It does – I just checked!)?
2. "TBM" is used quite a bit around the bloggernacle. I think it's used by church-themed blog writers/readers, but 100% unfamiliar to others.
3. I think Al may have plagiarized his Come Sail Away experience… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJlVirycg-0
Sarah – I just got turned onto freaks and geeks this last weekend and about fell out of my chair when I saw my experience played out! Except they didn't keep slow dancing, that show is brilliant!
The awkwardness & bad editing MAKES MoBach. I actually rewatched my date with Dr. Buck recently & laughed the entire time.