In this episode of The Rectable, Cory, Rene, guest host Rob, and the always amazing Dave talk about the recent issues surrounding sports celebrities and their impact on society. 

Here are some related links

https://globalnews.ca/video/4437179/u-s-open-serena-williams-reignites-debates-on-sexism-and-sportsmanship

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/serena-williams-violations-reaction-1.4816450

https://ewn.co.za/2018/09/09/opinion-why-serena-williams-fight-should-make-us-all-feel-uncomfortable

https://www.news18.com/news/sports/opinion-why-serena-williams-shouldnt-have-called-the-umpire-a-liar-after-lying-herself-1872599.html

https://people.com/sports/nike-sales-increase-colin-kaepernick-ad/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/nike-is-enlisting-every-single-nfl-player-as-a-colin-kaepernick-supporter/2018/09/09/1866a9c2-b2d7-11e8-8b53-50116768e499_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b12141b8dbcf

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/09/09/taya-kyle-nike-love-your-gear-but-your-colin-kaepernick-ad-exhausts-my-spirit.html

https://goodonyou.eco/how-ethical-is-nike/

https://youtu.be/jXy6bzKParM

Don't forget to check out Rob's projects  

http://originalmotto.us/ 

https://www.facebook.com/TheOriginalMotto/ 

https://twitter.com/original_motto 

https://www.facebook.com/UnHoly-Babble-271071753529208/

http://unholybabble.com/

https://twitter.com/unholybabblepod

  

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In this installment of The Skeptic Studio Cory, Rene, the doubly amazing Dave, and guest co-host Rob Ray of the Original Motto Project interview Richard A Conn Jr. who is the author of the book The Earthbound Parent (How and Why To Raise Your Little Angels Without Religion) 

Here are some links for Richard and his content

https://www.facebook.com/TheEarthboundParent/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf8hvm3AjUcuzzuTUXpOIjQ

https://amzn.to/2oUK8BJ

http://www.eurasiadvisors.com/ 

 

Here are some links for the Original Motto Project

http://originalmotto.us/ 

https://www.facebook.com/TheOriginalMotto/ 

https://twitter.com/original_motto 

 

From Up North Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mgbJczh3r4 

This next link is a bit of an interview with the documentary film maker https://youtu.be/YrZYDrTuUE0 

 

  

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Sorry about how late these are but here's the Shift to Reason Radio segment from the August 31st recording. Cory, Lisa, Leo, and Rene talk about the grand jury report on the Catholic church in Pennsylvania, GOOP coming to Canada, blue light's effects on the eyes, and race and DNA. 

  

Religious Nuttery

Cory's Story - https://www.npr.org/2018/08/14/636855561/report-reveals-widespread-sexual-abuse-by-over-300-priests-in-pa

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/predator-priests-identified-grand-jury-report-pennsylvania-priest-abuse/

Leo's Story - http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/07/31/catholic-nuns-are-speaking-out-about-their-own-abuse-at-the-hands-of-priests/

Related - https://religionnews.com/2018/08/21/cardinal-mccarrick-scandal-inflames-debate-over-gay-priests/

Woo Report

Rene's Story- https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/medical-experts-criticize-goop-expansion-to-canada-1.4796115 

https://globalnews.ca/news/4407117/gwyneth-paltrow-goop-canada/

Cory's Story - https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/17/17724658/screen-time-blue-light-blindness-science 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2018/08/13/blue-light-phones-tablets-could-accelerate-blindness-study/974837002/ 

Science

Lisa's Story – https://www.sapiens.org/technology/dna-test-ethnicity/

  

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John McCain died and everyone was talking about it, and him for nearly a week (which may as well be a year in the attention span of modern society). In this Rectable session the crew figured they'd hash it out and see where they all stood. 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_John_McCain 

  

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In this episode of the Brainstorm Podcast Skeptic Studio Cory, Lisa, Leo, Rene, and Destin talk to BJ Mendelson. BJ is the author of Social Media is Bullshit and The End of Privacy. We talked to him about social media, politics, and a bunch of other stuff. 

Here are some links

https://bjmendelson.com

https://twitter.com/BJMendelson

Get your copy of the End of Privacy https://amzn.to/2ocB4rH 

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This is a special crossover episode put together by a ton of people in the atheist and skeptic podcast community to show love and support for Marissa Alexa Lennex-McCool. Here are some links to help support Rissy financially while she is recovering from her surgery as well as some links to find content that she has created. https://www.patreon.com/IncitingIncidentPodcast 

https://www.gofundme.com/3z5hf2 

http://rismccool.com 

https://www.spreaker.com/show/2240735 

https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-inciting-incident-podcast 

https://twitter.com/RisMcCool 

 https://www.facebook.com/IncitingIncidentPodcast  

  

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Better late than never, here's the newest(and last) episode from the Brainstorm summer interview series. In this one I talked to Zach Law from the Zachrilegecast. It was a good chat and I had a lot of fun talking to him about podcasting, interviewing, and life.

Here are some links for his stuff

https://www.facebook.com/zachrilegecast/

https://bit.ly/1yDoOAf

https://zachrilege.podbean.com/

https://twitter.com/zachrilege

https://www.patreon.com/zachrilege

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In this episode Cory talked to Jason Noblet about that dirty word, socialism. It was informative and interesting to learn some things that I didn't really have parsed out on my own. Then I finally get around to doing some feedback from the past few weeks. I hope you all enjoy the interview.

Some links

https://www.facebook.com/Dictatorship-Of-The-Swoletariat-371793039976753/

https://twitter.com/MarxistSoccer

Some references

https://www.youtube.com/user/RichardDWolff

https://youtu.be/B3B5qt6gsxY

https://amzn.to/2OqQl3j 

My appearance on Semi-Intellectual Musings isn't up yet but definitely check them out

https://twitter.com/The_SIM_Pod

https://www.facebook.com/thesimpod/

http://thesim.podbean.com/ 

  

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In this episode Cory talks to Youtuber, Chrisiousity about her channel, some of the subjects she's covered in her videos, the atheist movement, and bringing progressive ideals to skepticism.

Here are some links for her stuff

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn1bhOC69Z4TplynafVv7ng

https://twitter.com/chrisiousity

https://www.facebook.com/Chrisiousity-113922822344711/

https://www.patreon.com/chrisiousity

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This is the 3rd in the summer series of Skeptic Studio interviews. In this one Cory talks with Karen Garst author of Women Beyond Belief about her new book Women V Belief. They also touch on Mythcon, a friend leaving the atheist movement, and local politics. 

Here are some links

https://faithlessfeminist.com/

https://www.facebook.com/faithlessfeminist/

Karen's video on Goddesses https://youtu.be/DclnBR8Msqw

https://amzn.to/2Ni8hfU

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