On the show tonight….

The word of the day is “Ringtonitis”: When that personalized ringtone you added to your mobile phone just doesn’t seem funny or clever anymore and you are completely sick of it. eg “Making the Galaga theme my ringtone was funny for about a week but now it’s giving me ringtonitis.”

I talk a little bit about this highs and lows of my day – being in the Green Guide, losing a host, and getting unceremoniously thrown out of someone’s office – and then move onto The National Conference for Media Reform and play a clip from Bill Moyers opening speech.

Then I talk about Joseph Campbell, one of the 20th centuries greatest Mythology experts and Reginald Finely’s new site Freethinker Finder – a dating site for rational, logical people.

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On the show tonight….

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Brian Shearer, Marty Blevins and Andy Slaughter have been running a great podcast about comics over on their Gravyboy site for a year and I’m very excited to have them joining TPN! I’ve been wanting a comics podcasts since day one of TPN and so I was really excited when Scott Sherman brought these guys to my attention!

If you enjoy comics, actually, even if you don’t, check out their show. You might find out what you’ve been missing out on all these years!

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The word of the day is “Enterdrainment“: Any passive form of entertainment that is so incredibly mind numbing that it sucks the intelligence from the listener or viewer; ultimately over time reducing (or limiting) them to a simplistic proto-human mental state, incapable of cognition or rational thought.

Kind of like this show. 🙂

To give you a break from my attacks on religion, my guest tonight is Mark Pop who is a Sydney-based expert in solar energy and climate change. We talk about the economic and political challenges to solar energy as well as discuss the truthiness of climate change.

Some links from the show:

Blacktown to become Australia’s first “Solar City”

Get the United Nation’s version of “the facts” about climate change at:

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The word of the day is “epiphenomenalism”.

Benjamin Libet did an experiment which suggests that thoughts happen inside our brains BEFORE we are even aware of them:

You don’t believe a country like the USA could be involved in state-sponsored terrorism? The United Nations would disagree. Listen while I tell you about Nicaragua v The USA.

Feb 12 is the birthday of Charles Darwin, one of the greatest minds in human history. Did you know he studied theology?

Now… back onto the subject of faith versus reason. Let me state my premise as clearly as I can, one more time:

To believe something exists (let’s say unicorns) without any evidence to support the theory, is not rational.

To not believe something exists (or to hold no opinion on the matter either way) because there is a complete lack of evidence to support the theory, is completely rational and is not a matter of “faith”. Is it a matter of reason. They are complete opposites.

It’s quite simple.

Oh and one more thing. Science is the on-going pursuit of truth through the search for evidence. It is the only rational model for seeking truth. Every other model dispenses with evidence, reason and logic and are, ipso facto, irrational.

And I vote for logic, reason and evidence. And I also suggest that people who are irrational are a danger to us all. You wouldn’t let an irrational person become President of the United States, would you? Oh… bad example.

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A little early with the show today.

Here’s what I rant about:

Apple has double standards when it comes to copyrights

Sargon I of Akkad, the first Empire builder

IODA PROMONET previews not working

I’ve still only had a couple of people sign up for my $50 Amazon voucher promotion. You know, at this stage, it could be REALLY easy to win.

Check out Miriam’s idea. The old reverse psychology trick. Then go and read her post on her background in self-harm.

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Ze Frank talks about Free Will.

The Periodic Table by Primo Levi

Macromantics
Kill Rock Stars

Hey How come nobody signed up for my promotion? You don’t want a free $50 Amazon voucher?

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A short one tonight, talking about some new books I received today. If you don’t know anything about Marcel Proust or Henry Miller, here’s your chance to get yourself educated. I know some of you rely on me to bring you up to speed in the world, so tonight I help you round out your literary world view.

Oh and I announce a new G’Day World promotion – the blog that sends me the most referrals in the month of January will get a $50 Amazon voucher. But you have to register, so I know you are trying. Please use the contact form below with the subject text “Amazon promotion”.

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My man Daniel Craig… no I mean Daniel Krause aka Dark Meat aka Ladies Love Dark M joins me on the podcast today to talk about CASINO ROYALE aka James Bond 21.

It’s a long one – an hour and twenty! Almost as long as the film itself and we didn’t spend anywhere NEAR the $150 million they did.

On the show we talk about our reactions to the film, the production costs and current box office returns, the plot, Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Caterina Murino, Sir Richard Branson, the producers, the screenwriters, parkour… hell we just don’t know when to quit!

I hope you enjoy it (and live long enough to get to the end).

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Tonight Duncan Riley and I talk about:

Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin – You’ll Believe A Geek Can Fly

Kevin Smith’s Clerks 2 kicked ass

Who Is Barack Obama?

Are You a “resolutionary”?

The World’s Greatest “Fuck You” Ever?

New poll reveals George W Bush America’s #1 Villian

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