Humanists Take on the World

By Dustin Williams, Lauren Studley

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May 04, 2013Episode 26 – Bouncing Around with Jay Novella
0:00:25 INTRO
Wesley’s report on Reason Fest
Contest
Prize – Autographed copy of Shelley Segal’s An Atheist Album
The Rules – Tell us why it’s important to be an out atheist in no more than 500 words if written or 3 minutes if it’s audio. May be submitted by email or on the voice mail line at 541-203-0666
Deadline is 05/11/13
0:07:35 FEEDBACK – Vance
0:11:37 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – May 2, 2011
Osama bin Laden killed
0:12:44 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
CISPA passes the US House of Representatives again
Wringing a washcloth in orbit
Kepler finds earth like worlds
AquaAdvantage Salmon nears FDA approval
Foundation Beyond Belief now has 1386 members, help them reach their goal of 2500!
0:22:23 POLITICS/RELIGION
Boston Marathon bombing
Blasphemy and islamism in Turkey
Roger Gorley (Amanda Brown’s father) arrested for refusing to leave partner’s bedside
Boy Scouts propose allowing gay kids, but not adults
Major leagues prepare for openly gay athletes
A couple’s second child dies due to reliance of faith healing
Pussy Riot’s Nadia Tolokonnikova denied parole
Iceland gives secular organizations equal footing with other non-official groups
0:42:36 INTERVIEW – Jay Novella
Jay has been a skeptical activist for 15 years who serves as a co-host and producer of The Skeptics’ Guide To The Universe, a popular science podcast. Jay is also the producer and director of SGU Video Productions whose videos can be seen on the SGU YouTube channel. He also is the Director of Marketing and Technology for The New England Skeptical Society, a not for profit organization focused on promoting higher standards of education, especially in the areas of science and critical thinking. For the past 3 years, Jay has served on the board of directors for the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism, a yearly conference held in NYC. Jay also is a regular contributor to The Rogues Gallery, a popular science and skepticism blog.
1:55:33 MUSIC – Bleak Harvest by Scott Williams (used by permission)
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Recorded 04/22/13 and 04/27/13 for release on 05/02/13
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April 18, 2013Episode 25 LIVE – Foundation Beyond Belief with Dale McGowan
This is a live episode, you can find the video on YouTube and since we did the whole thing live on the Hangout on Air, All the editing I’ve done is clean up the audio and truncate the silence, otherwise it is live and unedited.
0:01:40 INTRO
0:02:38 INTERVIEW – Dale McGowan
Dale is editor and co-author of books including Parenting Beyond Belief, Raising Freethinkers, Voices of Unbelief, and Atheism For Dummies (2013). He presents workshops for nontheistic parents across the United States and was named 2008 Harvard Humanist of the Year. Dale created Foundation Beyond Belief in 2009 and launched the charitable giving program in 2010. He now serves as the Executive Director of Foundation Beyond Belief.
0:52:24 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – April 18
1775 – Revere and Dawes warn of British attack
1906 – The Great San Francisco Earthquake
1989 – Chinese students protest against government in Tiananmen Square
1:02:37 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
Flat tire? There’s a bot for that.
A fusion rocket?
Peru’s glacier loss
Jurassic Park 4’s dinosaurs won’t be very modern
The Ocellated icefish has no hemoglobin
The new bird flu
1:18:28 POLITICS/RELIGION
North Carolina’s proposed state religion nixed by House Speaker
International Pressure mounts for the release of Bangladeshi bloggers
Egypt arrests satirist
Malala Yousafzai is back in school
Amina Tyler is threatened with stoning by the head of Tunisia’s “Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.” European group Femen launches a Topless Jihad in support. (NSFW)
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1h 35min
April 05, 2013Episode 24 – We are Atheism with Amanda Brown
0:00:25 INTRO
Dustin’s New Equipment
Wesley’s furlough has been reduced
NFA 5 Was Canceled
New Plans for Episode 25 – Recording live as a Google Hangout on Air on 2013-04-06 at 2:00 PM MDT.
0:09:28 Foundation Beyond Belief 2500 Member Challenge
0:10:06 FEEDBACK
Exaggeration
Why didn’t I hear about you sooner?
Music
0:16:51 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – April 4
1818 – America adopts flag design with one star for every state
1933 – Man who took NASCAR mainstream is born
1968 – Dr. Martin Luther King is assassinated
1949 – NATO established
1975 – Microsoft founded
0:25:49 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
Genetically modified immune cells and clear leukemia
Three Parent Babies
New vaccine delivery system
0:37:33 POLITICS/RELIGION
New Pope
Mormon leader’s attempted rape and penis biting
North Dakota bans abortion past the 6th week
Melissa Rogers takes over the White House office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships
Same Sex Marriage
AAP is in favor of Same Sex Marriage
Conservatives accepting same sex marriage
Roberts get’s some motivation
Slactavisim?
Justice Sotomayor takes down an anti-gay argument in one minute
How are they going to rule
1:09:04 INTERVIEW – Amanda Brown
Amanda Brown is a co-founder of We Are Atheism, sex and sexuality researcher who worked with Dr. Darrel Ray on the Sex and Secularism survey, and is a co-founder and the coordinator of ReasonFest.
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1h 58min
March 21, 2013Episode 23 – Hispanic Atheists with Jose Alvarado
INTRO
THIS DAY IN HISTORY, March 21st
1800 – Pope Pius VII was crowned with a papier-mâché tiara
1980 – Wesley, your not so humble host is born
1980 – Carter tells U.S. athletes of Olympic boycott
1989 – Sports Illustrated reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling
1999 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon
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SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
Human glia make mice smarter
What makes this round of global warming special?
Sagittarius A* gets ready to eat a cloud
POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE
Public library in Salem, MO gets in some hot water for blocking pagan websites
Deadly riots over “atheist” bloggers in Bangladesh
Cardinal Keith O’Brien forced to step down
Christian college fires woman for getting pregnant
MUSIC – Pamelides El Ateo by Komando Arturo (CC-BY-NC-SA)
INTERVIEW
Jose Alvarado is the organizer Chicago Latino Atheists and fund raising chair for Hispanic American Freethinkers
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March 07, 2013Episode 22 – Nailed with David Fitzgerald
INTRO
Don’t forget to to register for the Northwest Freethought Alliance Conference
FEEDBACK
Russ about NFA5 accommodations
“Pastor” Dustin and porn
FBB 2500 Member drive
THIS DAY IN HISTORY – March 7
1870 – Wyoming allowed women to be jurors
1942 – First 5 black American men become pilots at Tuskege, Alabama
1965 – In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully break up a group of 600 civil rights marchers
1981 – The first homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
BigDog can throw blocks
Symbiosis and photosynthesis
Telepathic cybernetic rats
SpaceX Dragon flight delays
Several herbal Viagras found to not be so herbal after all
Curiosity switches to the backup computer
POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE
Da Pope iz gawn
Pontifical scandal
Public opinion could be a factor in the Supreme Court’s Prop 8 Ruling
The Obama Administration weighs in against Prop 8
Turkish PM compares Zionism and Islamophobia to crimes against humanity – Kerry is not amused
MUSIC – “I Don’t Believe in Fairies” by Shelley Segal (used by permission) website | bandcamp
INTERVIEW – David Fitzgerald
David Fitzgerald is an author and public speaker best known for his book NAILED – Ten Christian Myths that Show Jesus Never Existed at All. He also writes erotica under the psudenum of Kilt Kilpatrick
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1h 53min
February 25, 2013Episode 21 – The Hereafter
INTRO
You can help support the Atheist Nomads
Adding Libsyn for CDN file hosting
Considering dropping Ogg support
Moving the feed to Feedburner
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Tell your friends about the show
Northwest Freethought Alliance Conference
FBB’s 2500 member goal
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1944 – Tojo makes himself “military czar”
1948 – NASCAR Founded
1972 – Nixon Visits China
1994 – Double Agent Aldrich Ames arrested
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
Some “recent” human evolution has been found to be the cuase of some of the more steriotypical East Asian traits
Hermaphroditic Sea slugs lose and regrow their penises
Russia hit by meteorite
POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE
The Pope resigns?!? First to do so in almost 700 old
Irish bookie gives Dawkins 666:1 odds
Trouble at the WBC:
Megan and Grace Phelps-Roper leave
Lauren Drain poses for the NOH8 Campaign
Iceland might block porn
The Hitch Bar (via Friendly Atheist)
MUSIC – He’s Coming Back by Ensomniak (Used by permission)| Facebook | YouTube | bandcamp
FEATURE – Life after death
Abrahamic Religions
Christianity – From most to least grotesque
Catholic
Dualist
Heaven if you’re really good
Purgatory if you’re mostly a good Christian
Hell for the wicked/unbaptized
Mainstream Protestant
Dualist
Predestination or free will
Heaven or hell at death or the second coming
Mormons
Dualist
Celestial Kingdom – The most heavenly, only for those who have lived upto the ordinances and covenants
Highest degree – only for those sealed in celestial marriage, get to become gods
Two lower degrees – likely become angels
Terrestrial Kingdom – For good people who don’t qualify for the celestial kingdom
Telestial Kingdom – Those who have not accepted Christ, 1000 years of spirit prision
Seventh-day Adventist, Jehovah’s Witnesses
Monist
“Soul sleep” at death
Righteous go to heaven at the second coming
The wicked are raised, judged, and destroyed
Islam
Dualist – nafs
Predestinarian
Resurrection
The good, including Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Sabians go to heaven
The wicked get severe pain and shame
Judaism
Probably a bodily resurrection
People will get what’s coming to them
Eastern Religions, neoplatonism, Gnosticism, paganism, Kabbalah (Jewish), Cathars (Christian), Alawi Shias (Muslim), Druze, Rosicrucians
Dualistic
Reincarnation
Karma
Release
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1h 33min
February 11, 2013Episode 20 – Mr. Deity with Brian Keith Dalton and Tom Vilot
0:00:25 INTRO
Don’t forget about the Northwest Freethought Alliance Conference
Dustin rants about precious bodily fluids
0:00:43 FEEDBACK – Ben
0:14:18 THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1812 – Earthquake causes fluvial tsunami in Mississippi
1968 – Forensic evidence solves a crime
1984 – First human satellite
1990 – Soviet Communist Party gives up monopoly on political power
2002 – President George W. Bush announces plan for “faith-based initiatives”
0:28:50 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
Eighth century gamma ray burst
The quadruple helix
The dung beetle may navigate by the milky way
0:34:03 POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE
The Pope app
Bishop apologizes for cover up
Noah’s Ark replica has opened
Obama on same sex marriage
0:52:00 INTERVIEW
We are joined by Brian Keith Dalton and Tom Vilot of the Mr. Deity webshow where Tom plays John the Baptist and Brian is Mr. Deity himself.
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1:51:01 BLOOPERS
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1h 53min
January 25, 2013Episode 19 – Charity, the JW’s, and Black Atheism with Bridget Gaudette
0:00:25 INTRO
Wesley was on Just Skeptics
Register now for the Northwest Freethought Alliance Conference
FEEDBACK – None this time around 0:04:39 THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1908 – Boy Scouts movement begins
1935 – First canned beer goes on sale
1943 – Von Paulus to Hitler: Let us surrender
1965 – Winston Churchill Dies
0:21:23 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
The cost of big brains
Climate change:
New federal report on climate change with dire predictions
Could impact volcanism
Higher sea level increases than earlier thought
Record temps in the US in 2012
4 billion light year wide quasar group found
The ISON comet is coming
0:37:33 POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE
The 2013 flu outbreak and vaccination
Rock Beyond Belief 2 rejected by Camp Pendleton
Reverend Giglio withdraws from the Inauguration
Hemant’s take on the initial announcement
0:52:05 MUSIC – “Invisible Light” by Josh Woodward (Creative Commons – By) 0:56:45 FEATURE – Interview with Bridget Gaudette Bridget is the Development Coordinator at Foundation Beyond Belief. She’s also an ex-Jehovah’s Witness with a focus on Black atheism, humanism, and sex-positive dialogue. She writes for Friendly Atheist, Skeptic Money, and emilyhasbooks and you can also find her on Twitter and Facebook. Religious “Toys” discussed in the interview 1:56:58 BLOOPERS
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1h 58min
January 10, 2013Episode 18 – God’s Sexually Transmitted Infection with Dr. Darrel Ray
0:00:25 INTRO
Northwest Freethought Alliance Conference – Come see us live!
Dustin was quoted in the Idaho Statesman
0:09:07 FEEDBACK
Regarding the holidays
More on “Do No Harm” from Ben
Thanks to Paul and Brian for the kind words
0:17:00 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – January 10
1901 – Gusher signals start of U.S. oil industry
1920 – League of Nations instituted
1946 – First meeting of the United Nations
2008 – World’s cheapest car debuts in India
0:26:16 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
Space hedgehogs
MRSA in UK Dairies
30,000 Year old engraved stone
Carbon nano tubes might not be that great after all
Possible habitable planet found
0:37:07 POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE
Rape in India
The Miami-Dade Commission takes a step back (via Americans United)
Google’s helping with the Dead Sea Scrolls digital library
The Pope raises a red herring in his Christmas address
0:50:05 MUSIC – Josh Woodward – Golden Sunrise (License CC-BY)
0:55:05 FEATURE – Interview with Dr. Darrel Ray
Dr. Darrel W. Ray is the founder of Recovering From Religion, as well as the author of four books, two on organizational team issues as well as The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture and Sex and God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality. He has been a psychologist for over 30 years, practicing counseling and clinical psychology for 10 years then moved into organizational psychology and consulting. He has been a student of religion most of his life and holds a MA degree in religion as well as a BA in Sociology/Anthropology and a Doctorate in psychology.
Recovering from Religion
Secular Therapist Project
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BLOOPERS
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1h 55min
December 28, 2012Episode 17 – Atheist Music, Morality, and Post-Jewish Life with Shelley Segal
0:00:25 INTRO
0:03:08 FEEDBACK
Editing failure – Sorry
Thumbs up from someone who would prefer to not be named
Voice mail regarding Episode 14 and the discussion on ethics and “Do no harm”
0:17:33 THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1831 – Darwin and the HMS Beagle set out from Plymouth Harbor
1944 – FDR seizes control of Montgomery Ward’s factories for WW2
1968 – Apollo 8 returns to Earth
2004 – Peyton Manning breaks single season TD pass record
0:24:43 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
The Robot-App Store
A poisonous primate in Borneo
We’re crashing two spacecraft into the moon
A zebra fish caused to grow limbs in a lab
0:30:51 POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE
The Pope blesses the Ugandan “Kill the Gays” parliamentarian (Via WWJTD)
Judge allows FFRF’s Big Mountain lawsuit
PA rules that “Freethought Today” and similar literature is as good as a church bulletin
0:40:57 INTERVIEW
Shelley Segal is an Australian ex-Jewess famous for “An Atheist Album”. We’ve already heard a few of her songs on the show, but this time we get to hear from her directly. She even plays “My Morality” live for us.
You can find Shelley on her website and buy her music on Bandcamp.
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1h 47min

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