With Christmas just around the corner, we take an episode to discuss our favorite movies about the best secular holiday around!  We know – a lot of people don’t think it is a secular holiday but those of us without religion know that Christmas love everyone, no matter what they believe!  We have a good time talking about the movies we like to watch around this time of year.  If we hit on some of your favorites (or missed one), mention it in the comments!

Our geeky units are engorged and we need to podcast some relief!  This week, Tim and Molly are both taking long, hard looks at some television shows and Nick is talking about an operation.  We don’t want to spoil the episode but Nick’s operation is super appropriate given this is a geeky boner episode.  Wink Wink.  We also read off another listener’s answers to our five questions!

This week, we are joined my remote guest Karen Garst to discuss her book “”  We had a really great conversation about why she put the book the book together and about many of the women who contributed their stories.  Please note that on this particular recording, we encountered some audio issues on our end.  You can still understand everything but there is a bit of an echo.  Hooray for technology!  We linked to Karen’s book on Amazon above.  You can also purchase it through her website, The Faithless Feminist.

It is a very good read and we recommend you check it out!

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For this week’s episode, we sat down with our friend Timmy Iverson, AKA “Timmy the Cripple.”  We talk to him about living with a disability and how many times someone has tried to lay hands on him.  It is an enlightening conversation about how one’s life experiences can be quite different when you have a visible handicap.  It is also a great example of how some people have absolutely no boundaries. Timmy is totally cool with being called a cripple, by the way. He likes it.

Back on Sunday the 6th of November, the three of us joined Brianne Bilyeu on Atheists Talk radio to discuss Ray Comfort’s film The Atheist Delusion.  You can listen to that episode here.  Thing is, we couldn’t swear (full disclosure – Nick swore).  And this is a movie that completely deserves some serious time devoted to swearing.  If you want to watch the movie, you can see it for free on YouTube.  We want to be really clear, though: You don’t want to watch it.  Here’s a link, but don’t watch it.  Listen to us bitch about it.  That should be enough.

We just spend the weekend playing board games at OmegaCon!  We’ve talked about the con several times before.  It’s a chill relaxacon in rural Wisconsin.  Pretty much, everyone spends the weekend wearing pajamas and playing board games.  As is our tradition, we sat down at the end of the con to discuss some of our favorite gaming experiences from the weekend.  You might just be inspired to try out something we played! A few highlights: The Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Dream House, and A Game of Thrones: The Iron Throne.

This week’s episode is all about election day!  If you haven’t voted yet, you should go do it. Since we recorded a week ago, we don’t know how things look now but hopefully we are on the way to a Not Donald Trump presidency (edit: FUUUUUUUUUUUCK).  If we aren’t, well, shit.  We talk a little about the next steps no matter what happens in the 2016 elections and look back at some past elections.

Nick mentioned a video explaining ranked choice voting and here it is!

Tim mentioned a blog post he wrote about Bernie Sanders and that’s here.

And here is the video we mention with Penn Gillette talking about Donald Trump.

This week, we are joined by our friend Nathan Gerber to talk about how his divorced parents used religion as a tool in custody disputes.  Nathan’s father was Jewish and his mother was Lutheran so he was raised both – depending on which house he was in.  Although he apparently wasn’t told he couldn’t have pepperoni on his pizza until it was far too late.  We mostly talk about his Jewish heritage and the times he was actually attacked for being a Jew.  We do get a couple of hits in against the boring-ass music the Lutherans play in church because holy shit is that music boring.

This week’s episode was recorded live at The Phoenix theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Our guest was Jennifer Menken from the Bell Museum and she joined us to talk about the 100th Anniversary of the National Park Service.  Unfortunately, she didn’t do much talking because Tim wouldn’t shut up.  Hopefully we can get Jennifer back to talk about something Tim doesn’t know a thing about.  All that said, this episode is a good (if rapid) review of the history of the National Park service as well as a fine exploration of the different ways Jennifer and Tim pronounce the word “Saguaro.”

It has been a while since we’ve taken a good, hard look at our latest geeky boners!  Nick is finally getting around to reading a book series the rest of us have already read (perhaps you can guess which one that might be).  Molly is reading a book series she read a long time ago.  Tim is dicking around on his phone!  Learn more about the latest stuff that has us filled to overflowing with nerdy delight!

Correction: Tim mentioned that “Prisoner of Azkaban” was released during CONvergence 2000.  It was actually “Goblet of Fire.”  Tim’s a loser.