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Joseph Laycock is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Texas State University whose research focuses on American religious history and sociological approaches to religious studies. He is the author of “Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds“, “Vampires Today: The Truth about Modern Vampirism“, and has contributed to many other books and journals.

This week Jack and Special Guest Co-host Jim Miller from Arizona’s Crit Hit Tabletop Gaming Convention sit down with Joe to talk about gaming and the Satanic Panic of the 80’s and 90’s.

As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing and at his blog at http://patheos.com/blogs/infernal and if you like the show please consider becoming a Patreon Patron at https://www.patreon.com/NakedDiner

Well it’s the day before US Election 2018 and Jack and Andy are going guestless to talk about our pending election, make predictions, rant, elaborate, complain, kvetch, and motivate. Remember, we are two cis white guys; we’ll be fine no matter what happens. But we’re also Atheists, so we’re very concerned. We’ll see you at the polls, gang. Get out there and do your patriotic duty, you can listen to us while you’re standing in line. See you next week when, with any luck, we’ve all managed to triage some of this mess.

This week Jack and Andy talk with Dale McGowan about music (not Atheism, not Satan, not Foundation Beyond Belief, not any of that …. MUSIC), because music is Dale’s first love and the subject of his new podcast How Music Does That, which Dale describes as his “favorite parts of teaching” to get people excited about music and musicology.

McGowan graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 1986 with a double major B.A. in anthropology and music theory. In 1991 he received an MA in Instrumental Conducting from California State University, Northridge. In 1999 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in music theory and composition.

From 1991 to 2006, he was associate professor of music at St. Catherine University, a Catholic women’s college in Minneapolis/St. Paul. His experiences at the college are satirized in his 2002 novel Calling Bernadette’s Bluff and the 2010 sequel Good Thunder. In 2012 he began writing Atheism for Dummies for the popular For Dummies book series.

In 2014 McGowan became National Director of Ethical Education at the American Ethical Union and is a former director of engagement at the multi-faith website Patheos.

You can find Dale all over the interwebs in all the the regular places 

As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing and at his blog at http://patheos.com/blogs/infernal

And Andy At: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingindisbelief/ or https://twitter.com/laughpurgatory

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Adam Kotsko is an American writer, theologian, religious scholar, and translator, working chiefly in the field of political theology. He served as an Assistant Professor of Humanities at Shimer College in Chicago, which was absorbed into North Central College in 2017. He is especially known for his interpretative work on Slavoj Žižekand Giorgio Agamben, as well as his writing on American popular culture.

Jack and Andy are talking to Adam because of his two most recent books “The Prince of This World” and “Neoliberalism’s Demons“, both published by Stanford University Press. The prior is a discourse on the evolution of the character of Satan in our cultural milieu, and the later a reflection on the political demonization of minority voices in society.

You can find Adam on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/kotskoadam, or on Twitter @AdamKotsko

As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing and at his blog at http://patheos.com/blogs/infernal

And Andy At: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingindisbelief/ or https://twitter.com/laughpurgatory

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Godless Engineer is youtube’s resident Atheist, ex-christian, from Alabama. You can follow his show on the Youtubes or the Facebooks, whatever works for you!

As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing and at his blog at http://patheos.com/blogs/infernal

And Andy At: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingindisbelief/ or https://twitter.com/laughpurgatory

If you like the show please consider becoming a Patreon Patron at https://www.patreon.com/NakedDiner

Caitlin and Damian are representatives of Satanic Australia, who along with Satanic New Zealand have recently launched nationwide Blood for Satan campaigns in their countries to support the efforts of the Red Cross. Jack and Andy chat with the two in a discussion about that project along with Australian politics and their efforts starting nationwide Satanic organizations down under.

Tom McDonald is a Brooklyn based comedian, animator, and writer. his videos have been seen at NYTVF 2018, Hollyweb Fest 2017, Channel 101 NY, Stareable Pick of the Week, ComedyCake.com, Vulture, and at venues throughout New York City. In 2017 he won Best Animation at the Channy’s and Best Onscreen Duo the same awards in 2016. You can check out his videos on Vimeo or his Youtube Channel.

Thomas Westbrook from Holy Koolaid returns to the diner to talk about his new campaign to aid survivors of Catholic Priest abuse, The Faithless Forum convention of youtube atheists, and more!

This week Andy and Jack sit down with Lana Navalia and Sadie Satanas, the Chapterheads of TST-Santa Cruz to talk about their recent excursion to the Baphomet Rally in Arkansas, the Santa Cruz chapter’s adopt-a-beach, the history of persecution by the religious of the LTGBQ+ community, veganism, and more.

Checkout TST-Santa Cruz via their facebook page here https://www.facebook.com/TSTSantaCruz/

Or on twitter here https://twitter.com/tstsantacruz

As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing and at his blog at http://patheos.com/blogs/infernal

And Andy At: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingindisbelief/ or https://twitter.com/laughpurgatory

If you like the show please consider becoming a Patreon Patron at https://www.patreon.com/NakedDiner