The Skeptic Wire

00:05:00 Birthday (and I think it is succussion and not concussiing)

00:14:50 Fruitarianism and Ashton Kutscher

00:29:05 Dogs evolved human companionship on the trash bin

00:40:30 Popes dove attacked by seagull and Catholic Church suddenly thinks that fetuses are not humans protected by law

00:52:00 Are homosexual men happier than straight men

And Harpo attempts perfusions of a doggy kind but really does not understand what that means or even if it is possible.

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00:01:00 Hellos, being sick, and a discussion of how editing the podcast works

00:07:10 Birthdays

00:19:30 Web of Trust healingcancernaturally.com

00:26:45 Texas Freedom Network reports on Bible studies in Texas classrooms

http://www.tfn.org

00:52:50 Condom use doesn't feel worse than not

01:04:50 Skeptics for the Protection of Cancer Patients in Houston donate money for cancer research

And Harpo debates, and whines, and cajoles.

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00:03:00 Corrections, updates, and Donna has a new Movie Review Podcast called Less Than Perfect

00:10:00 Greg argues on the internet

00:14:30 Birthdays

00:22:00 Altruism in chimpanzees

00:37:30 Conspiracies galore

livescience.com

00:52:10 Tamiflu and flu prevention myths

01:07:05 Lightning Round

And Harpo just will not be ignored, but is

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00:00 Credits, introductions, how was your week

02:24 Skeptical Birthday

11:45 The power of positive thinking

29:16 Garys Airplane Story

30:30 The Flu Vaccines No coughing edited out

54:14 Lightning Round!!!

Harpo, Calli, and Maese are oddly quiet …too quiet!

We are sorry about the long delay in releasing this episode. Gary will be back in town next week, so then we will have no technical difficulties!

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00:07:00 Birthdays...three of em

00:21:15 Original Dominos founder given a reprieve on paying for birth control...er...healthcare

00:28:20 Global warming may cause more geological events

00:33:30 Picture of a planet being formed

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/captured-in-actual-pictures-the-swirling-birth-of-planets/266831/

00:36:30 NASA stuff Martian Rose, asteroids , etc

http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/03/16329185-curiosity-rover-studies-rocks-and-a-flower-on-mars?lite

Song Challenge

00:46:15 Song Challenge

00:48:45 Garys Song Mr. Creosote

00:57:15 Gregs Song Junk Food Junkie

And Harpo howls unheard while Calli and Maese vie for their spot on the couch.

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00:01:00 Birthday

00:08:40 Alien bones found in Mexico...not

00:14:00 The holidays: secular versus nonsecular outlooks

00:34:30 Iowa Supreme Court on women being irresistably sexy

00:52:45 Things we liked about the year

00:57:30 10 Weird animals of 2012

http://www.livescience.com/25707-10-weirdest-animal-discoveries.html

And Calli tries to break in but is denied by the power of the Mute tool.

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Live and uncut from The Lion and Rose you did not ask for it but we are giving it to you anyway with special guests Teacher Mike, Debzilla, and Mechazilla and no internet access WTF Lion and Rose

00:02:40 Birthday

00:07:15 Westboro Baptist Church versus Anonymous good or bad

00:23:30 atheistcensus.com

00:36:00 Mayan Alpaca lips

00:52:00 Lightning Round

And oh my is it loud in there even after we requested the music to be turned down. Dogs got nothing on pubs, man.

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00:03:00 Intro stuffs

Donna wins an award, but you cannot see the short film... yet

00:05:45 Birthday

00:09:00 American Atheists have a new billboard and Dave Silverman on OReilly

00:13:30 Facebook comments

00:17:40 A horrible segue into shopping

The article that prompted it:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-why-behind-the-buy/201212/is-your-brain-holiday-shopping

00:19:50 Shopping and psychology up first is smells

00:27:45 Product placement and haggling

00:43:40 Pricing and emotional appeals

00:56:45 Who perpetrated the Piltdown man hoax

And Harpo just wants to go out and BUY SOMETHING THERE ARE SALES ON LETs GO

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00:03:00 Donnas 46 Hour Film Experience Mostly Donnas though

00:06:30 A Mean Birthday

00:20:35 Listener mail

00:27:00 WOT via Robert P

world.banoosh.com

00:40:45 Liquid Robotics achieves world record for autonomous vehicle distance

http://liquidr.com/news_events/press/2012/2012-12-05-pacx-arrival-australia.html

Correction: the desert autonomous vehicle track is 150 miles

00:47:00 Greg gets mad about gay reversion therapy opinion

http://skepticwire.blogspot.com/2012/12/sharing-sickening-hate-filled-opinion.html

01:10:00 Lindsay Lohan hits a psychic and Gary leanrs that the word gypsy is racist

01:19:17 Lightning Round

01:24:20 Announcements

And Harpo does her best impersonation of an attention hound

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00:10:25 Birthday

00:16:25 NASAs non announcement abuot Mars and a real announcement about Mercury

00:24:00 Bigfoots afoot get their DNA figured out

00:39:40 Facebook memes stop it

Sour sop graviola fruit and cancer plus the privacy and copyright notice

00:53:30 Mark of the beast in our high schools RFID IDs

01:09:00 Lightning Round

01:16:00 Peer pressuring Greg

And Harpo gets upset at the peer pressure Gary And Donna give Greg to drink.

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