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  • The Skeptic Wire Episode 124 Coffee Brains Integrative Medicine UFO
    00:03:35 Birthday
    00:13:25 Coffee good, coffee bad
    00:24:30 Left and Right brained people do not use more of either side of the brain
    00:32:55 Does Integrative Medicine Work
    00:46:00 Website or Webshite
    http://www.antisuperstition.org/
    00:59:00 UFO in San Antonio
    http://youtu.be/btU4Dwrq6j8
    01:16:45 What we learned
    And Harpo finds that burying a doggie treat inside is quite a Sisyphusean task
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    1 hr 22 min
  • The Skeptic Wire Bonus - George Hrab 60 minutes of 21812
    George Hrab And The Geologic Orchestra
    21812: A Gneiss Night Out
    [first half of the concert]

    1. The Coelacanth Sighs
    2. When I Was Your Age
    3. Everything Alive Will Die Someday
    4. Simple Simian
    5. God is Not Great
    6.The Assumption
    7. Ms. Information 
    8. 50 Stories
    9. Speak to You
    10. Think for Yourself
    11. Subdivisions
    12. Geo’s Mom Reads Jay-Z Lyrics
    13. Convenient
    The Geologic Orchestra
    George Hrab: guitar, piano, drums, vocals, purple suit
    Eric Kenlin: drums, vocals
    Vinnie Puccio: bass
    Ross Brown: percussion, vocals
    Andy Kowal: trumpet, arrangement
    Dave Painchaud: trumpet
    Steve Bridges: tenor sax, alto sax, flute, arrangement
    Neil Wetzel: baritone sax, tenor sax, flute
    Dale Gerheart: trombone
    Special Guests
    Geo’s Mom: Myra Hrab
    Vocal on Think For Yourself: Alisa B. Anderson and Jillian Rhys McCoy
    Intro and vocal on Death from the Skies: Phil Plait
    Producer: George Hrab
    Executive Producer: BJ Kramer
    DVD includes:
    • Full two hour concert
    • 5.1 Surround Mix
    • Audio Only MP3 version of the show
    • Geo's Commentary Track
    • Mortimer's Commentary Track
    • Documentary: Making a Gneiss Night Out
    • LIVE Ask George
    • plus more...
    DVD available at CDBaby.com/GeorgeHrab
    1 hr 2 min
  • The Skeptic Wire Episode 123 Dementia Harassment and Hoagland
    00:00 Intro
    03:07 Science Fiction - theories
    07:27 Skeptical Birthday
    12:31 Dementia
    33:03 Sexual Harassment
    69:57 Website or Webshite Web Of Trust enterprisemission.com
    77:56 Closing
    For once Harpo gets the last word
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    1 hr 25 min
  • The Skeptic Wire Episode 122 Meat Space Demons
    01:30 Faisal Sayeed al Mutar talk coming to you
    04:30 Birthday
    06:55 Lab grown meat has been cooked and eaten
    18:30 Kepler update: what do we do with it
    23:15 Russian meteor may have brethren and sistren
    and other cool spacey meteory and sciencey historyery things
    40:35 A bit of The Cross found in Turkey
    47:50 Website or Webshite Web of Trust
    boblarson.org
    demontest.org
    internationalschoolofexorcism.org
    1:01:35 Lightning Round
    And Harpo recites poetry in original Olde English Dogge dialect
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    1 hr 15 min
  • The Skeptic Wire Episode 121 Email Monogamy and Advertising
    02:20 Birthday
    13:15 Webshite Web Of Trust candidate
    26:00 Listener mail getting churching at the food place
    35:30 Monogamy and apes and evolution
    26:05 Lightning Round
    01:01:00 Summary
    01:05:00 How not to attract advertisers while still pushing advertisers and other podcasts
    And Harpo once again joins in with many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
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    1 hr 12 min
  • The Skeptic Wire Episode 120 ICR Poes and EVs
    02:00 SW gets a shout out from InKredulous yay
    05:40 Birthday
    12:30 First steps toward skepticism
    16:15 Institute for Creation Research wants scientists
    30:15 Kirk Cameron is put upon
    40:15 10 Commandments kerfuffle
    48:45 Greg missed the joke
    57:10 Scientific American misses a good story
    And Harpo settles in to a long summers toy chewing.
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    1 hr 20 min
  • The Skeptic Wire Episode 119 TAM Indulgences
    06:15 Birthday and reality TV discussion
    11:50 Webshite for Web Of Trust plus a brief relapse into the previous WOT
    21:20 TAM Recap by Greg Meeting folk
    28:15 Some of the changes this year
    34:40 Some of the talks
    48:45 6 types of atheists and branding (the marketing kind)
    http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/07/15/the-six-types-of-atheists
    http://www.atheismresearch.com
    1:15:15 Tweeting for less purgatory
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/16/vatican-indulgences-pope-francis-tweets
    1:16:15 Jenny McCarthy on The View Donna is not happy
    http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/07/15/jenny-mccarthy-the-view/
    1:20:13 Garys Summary
    1:22:00 Next song challenge love song for our NSA stalkers
    And Harpo is happy to indulge us all with her views.
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    1 hr 35 min
  • The Skeptic Wire Episode 118 Song Challenge In America
    02:00 Vegas and Weddings
    05:00 Birthdays
    08:15 Hemant Mehta speaks in San Antonio
    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/08/friendly-atheist-informs-megachurch-weve-heard-all-of-it-before/
    20:00 American Atheists unveil monument in Florida
    http://www.catholicvote.org/top-10-awkward-facts-about-the-atheist-monument/
    35:50 Ray Comfort has a new quote mine video
    46:24 Song Challenge
    48:55 Gregs Song
    1:03:45 Garys Song
    And Calli and Maese eat at you...mmmm dog food again and SOMEthing is outside woohoo
    Go to the blog for song lyrics
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    1 hr 20 min
  • The Skeptic Wire Episode 117 Tobacco Pot and Perceptions
    03:00 Intro and weeks doing
    07:00 Birthdays
    12:15 Mummies and tobacco and hallucinagen use
    19:00 World Health Organization tobacco control project
    23:00 Fisher cat weasel harmed by illicit drug trade
    28:40 Live Science article gets it wrong...maybe
    41:20 Perception changes reality plus food perception and cutlery
    59:50 Lightning Round
    And Harpo uses big dog words in an attempt to impress everybody.
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    1 hr 10 min
  • The Skeptic Wire Episode 116 Filibustering the earth
    04:50 Donna's "Celebrity Corner"
    10:00 Birthday
    23:20 US Supreme Court decisions this week DOMA and Proposition 8
    35:15 Texas State Rep. Wendy Davis filibusters n Senate Bill 5
    54:22 Grounding/ earthing woo
    http://youtu.be/8KxsaZxXEZ0
    http://www.greentidings.com
    http://www.earthrunners.com
    1:18:30 Richard Dawkins meme video
    http://youtu.be/GFn-ixX9edg
    And the dogs gloat with how they never get sick since they are always grounded. Except for those times they get sick.
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    1 hr 28 min

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