In This Week’s Show, episode 235, we’re gonna wrap up DQB in a lovely smallpox blanket with help from patriotic nurses south of the border.

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while Rangi - the Maori Sky god and ‘great father of men’ - hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying his patience!

Shea’s Life Lesson

This week I learned that geology rocks but geography is where it’s at!

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Did you know the ‘Diamond Sutra’ is the world’s oldest book with a definite print date? Dated “the 13th of the fourth moon of the ninth year of Xiantong”, or 11 May AD 868, it’s a 5 meter long scroll, written in Chinese and currently held in the British Library, and contains lessons from the Buddha, who gave the text its name by declaring the teachings will “cut like a diamond blade”.

So, the day after this episode airs in general release the Diamond Sutra will celebrate it’s 2,887th publishing birthday.

Jim’s Good Gay Whatever

He’s Big Gay Jim on Waiting 4 Wrath - Remotely

But before we get to all that, let’s have a beer!

This Week’s Beer

Pentagram by Surly Brewing

Donated By: Jaded Zappa

* BA Link: http://bit.ly/2ZQWIDn

* BA Rating: 4.15 out of 5

* Style: American Wild Ale

* ABV: 6.66%

* Aaron: 4

* Jenn: 2

* Jim: Rum

* Shea: 6

* Steve: 1

This Week’s Show

Round Table Discussion

PATRONS! Plural! Thanks to Matt B. and Jon H. Also Willow upped her donation so she’s obviously not the evil Willow (Buffy reference for the win!!!!)

Jenn got to meet fellow podcasters and friends of the show Dustin and Lauren of Atheist Nomads, and their tiny pod-producer Kylie while in Boise.

Show updates!

We’ve mentioned this to patrons already (see, #itsgoodtobeapatron) but I’d like to soft-announce forthcoming show changes. We’ve hinted at changes for a while and some, like the new logo, have happened. Others faded away or were so subtle as to not warrant mentioning, however, this one’s a doozy. The changes will accommodate yet unannounced production challenges (that hopefully won’t be apparent in the final show), make over-all production easier on us, and address the terribly depressing state of reading the news in 2019. In a nutshell, we’re going to do a weekly longform topic, driven by a single host - think bigger second halves… whole halves, if you will. We’ll still do beers, a happy closing story, and of course Patrons will still get a unique story and access to any bonus content that happens to happen. So there’s still plenty of reason to visit https://patreon.com/w4w and support the show! We’re aiming for this change to happen in early June, but it may be a bit sooner… I say all of this to say, fear not! The show will still be a drunken, irreverent, silly-good time! Of course we’re interested in your input so tweet us, leave us a message at 513-760-0463, or if you really want to get our attention, the comments section of Patreon is great for that ;)

Headlines Hotshots

DQB Wrap Up!

Let’s talk about You and Me, let’s talk about DQB!

Damnit Humans!

Humans are the worst right? But you know what makes you a better human, donating to us at http://patreon.com/w4w! Not only will it improve your karma it will get you immediate access to this story!

See, this is why I Don’t want to read the news anymore…

* https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-48168144

Everything is dying everywhere and it’s our fault. Proving that you don’t need the infinity stones to board the genocide train, scientists released a 1,500 page report that says, in short,