Primordial Soup

Primordial Soup

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Primordial Soup episodes

  • Primordial Soup Episode 74
    On tonight’s show:
    We’ll wonder if South Africa could teach America a thing or two about taxing religious people.
    We’ll discover that when people die, they really do stay dead.
    We’ll ask ourselves why the hell a group of witches would want to waste their time casting spells on Donald Trump 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
    And in it's not all that bad tonight:And We’ll geek out about Nasa’s Dragon 2 docking with the international space station!
    44 min
  • Episode 73: Bring and Share with Charles Webster
    On tonight's show we try a new format we want to use occasionally - Bring and Share. Each of the hosts brings a topic currently on their mind and we discuss the shit out of it.
    This week we discussed:
    (Charles) White South Africans should learn a black language
    (Brian) Sending our industry to space on a giant cable
    (Deon) Dick Atheism vs. Humanism
    1 hr 9 min
  • Episode 72: Interview with Philip Viljoen
    On tonight’s show we’ll:
    We’ll be talking to Phillip about autism, vaccinations and his transition from woo to atheism
    We’ll be super disappointed in DC comics for giving in to fundamentalist pressure
    We’ll consider the upcoming insect apocalypse
    We’ll ask ourselves why Prophet Bushiri’s daughter isn’t being employed by the national health service
    And We’ll remind ourselves why we all want to live in Europe
    57 min
  • Episode 71. Measles and Plastic free shopping
    On tonight’s show we’ll:
    Try work out why God loves money laundering criminals with private jets
    Find out why Russia is unplugging themselves from the internet
    Consider the harm of not immunizing children against measles
    And consider the wet grossness of the Hindu KUMBH MELA FESTIVAL
    And in “it’s not that bad” tonight, we’ll look at the rise of plastic-free grocery shopping
    52 min
  • Episode 70. Contraception, Death by circumcision & politics in SA
    On tonight’s show we’ll:
    Find out why the Pope might be a little unhappy about the new guidelines around the contraceptive pill… because, that is of course something he has read a lot about and is a real expert on...
    Hear about Germany’s plans to cut back on fossil fuel mining...
    And remind ourselves “what’s the harm” about religion as we consider the death of a child due to circumcision rituals.
    And we consider the horror of yet another theocratic political party in the south african electoral landscape.
    And finally, we’ll find out that it's not all that bad! No really, it isn’t. There’s a whole book dedicated to the subject of not that badness...
    41 min
  • Episode 68. Primordial Soup relaunches!
    Deon and Brian have brushed off their pc's and relaunched Primordial Soup after a three year sabbatical. In this episode we 
    are not so surprised by the Link between brain damage and religious fundamentalism
    discuss Elon Musk’s stainless-steel rocket
    find out about a Saudi teen looking for asylum in Australia
    introduce our new segments, “It’s not all bad”, “Just for laughs”, and “Thought of the week” 
    We really want to take Primordial Soup to the next level this year. Please add your comments ands feedback to the bottom of this show. Please share the RSS feed or this link with your friends and help us build the Primordial Soup community.
    40 min

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An atheist, leftist, feminist, skeptical take on all things.