Ep. 042 - Brad Stoneking - Design, Deadtooth, and Why Real Creative Work Still Matters

Yeah, I wasn't raised with, like, witches or shit, you know? Like, I went to church.

I was really Christian until I was in my mid-20s, 9-11, and all the stuff that kind of I started to see what the world that's being taken over by now, these little pockets of, I'm using air quotes on the Christian here because they're very not Christian.

Those people, they started to bubble up around that time.

And, you know, I was in my 20s and, like, kind of going through that, like, what's faith mean to me kind of deal.

And for me, it's just like, I'm good.

I'm good.

You know, like, I don't think anybody really has an idea, like, a handle on, like, what's real and what's not.

And so...

When I make fun of Christians, I'm making fun of the gun-toting hillbilly Christians, not the actual people that care about other people and, you know, feed the poor and, you know, house the sick.

You know, all that.

Those people, those are good people.

And I think good people just exist.

You know what I mean? And I don't know.

I think this kind of this concept of, like, good is owned by religion or whatever, that's what I rail against, you know, more than anything.

I think I've met more Christian atheists than anything else.

I think it's a well-deserved reputation.

I think a lot of Christianity has been hijacked by people.

Me and Brad were talking about this the other day.

A lot of

Christianity

has been hijacked by people, in my opinion, allegedly, whatever I have to say to cover myself, by people that have hateful beliefs and they want to cover it in something that they can justify it with.

And I feel like when I see things like your booth, like, it's just giving those types of people a little bit back of all the trolling that I feel like they're doing

to all these other classes of people.

And I've had a lot of people go, hey, you know, use this rhetoric.

You're not causing them, like, the time for, like—

Yeah, I wasn't raised with, like, witches or shit, you know? Like, I went to church.

I was really Christian until I was in my mid-20s, 9-11, and all the stuff that kind of I started to see what the world that's being taken over by now, these little pockets of, I'm using air quotes on the Christian here because they're very not Christian.

Those people, they started to bubble up around that time.

And, you know, I was in my 20s and, like, kind of going through that, like, what's faith mean to me kind of deal.

And for me, it's just like, I'm good.

I'm good.

You know, like, I don't think anybody really has an idea, like, a handle on, like, what's real and what's not.

And so...

When I make fun of Christians, I'm making fun of the gun-toting hillbilly Christians, not the actual people that care about other people and, you know, feed the poor and, you know, house the sick.

You know, all that.

Those people, those are good people.

And I think good people just exist.

You know what I mean? And I don't know.

I think this kind of this concept of, like, good is owned by religion or whatever, that's what I rail against, you know, more than anything.

I think I've met more Christian atheists than anything else.

I think it's a well-deserved reputation.

I think a lot of Christianity has been hijacked by people.

Me and Brad were talking about this the other day.

A lot of

Christianity

has been hijacked by people, in my opinion, allegedly, whatever I have to say to cover myself, by people that have hateful beliefs and they want to cover it in something that they can justify it with.

And I feel like when I see things like your booth, like, it's just giving those types of people a little bit back of all the trolling that I feel like they're doing

to all these other classes of people.

And I've had a lot of people go, hey, you know, use this rhetoric.

You're not causing them, like, the time for, like—