NB: The second half of this episode is available on the SLEERICKETS Secret Show.

Get bonus episodes by subscribing to the SLEERICKETS Secret Show!

SLEERICKETS t-shirts are now available. They look good!

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Theology by Paul Laurence Dunbar

– Nothing in Heaven Functions as It Ought by X. J. Kennedy

– Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell

– Science, Prayer, and the Density of Being by James Matthew Wilson

– Nihilism for the Ironhearted by Algis Valiunas

– Ryan’s Letter to the Editor and Valiunas’ Letter to the Letter to the Editor

– Dan Kois’ disdain for stay-at-home parents

– Ricky Gervais: SuperNature

– Chapo Trap House

– The Boston Comment essays by Joan Houlihan

– James Matthew Wilson’s essays in The Contemporary Poetry Review

Twitter: @sleerickets, @BPlatzer

Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says

Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith