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  • Episode 50 – National Park Boners

    DSC00656We have a week filled with geeky boners of all kinds.  Not your usual geeky topics, mind you.  Rather, we talk about things like marathons and nuclear missle launch facilities.  Because when you talk about what makes you geek out, it isn’t always comics or movies or TV.  Sometimes it’s the stuff that just makes our geeky little hearts beat faster.  We also talk about video games so we manage to bring it back to a core geek topic.  We also read five answers by Stacy from California!

    Also, we have a brief blurb for Camp Quest Minnesota at the end of the episode.  Over the holidays last year, we raised enough money to support one scholarship for a child who otherwise couldn’t afford to go.  If you have kids in the right age range, now is the time to sign them up!

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  • Episode 49 – Comedic Theory and the Atheism of Doom

    This week’s episode features a conversation with comedian Joseph Scrimshaw, author of Comedy of Doom.  Joseph sat down with us to talk about comedic theory, atheism and his new Kickstarter campaign for Flaw Fest.* Joseph is also a podcaster and Molly will be appearing on a live recording of his podcast, Obsessed: with Joseph Scrimshaw at CONvergence this year.  We talk about all of this and more in our far reaching conversation that, of course, includes five questions of doom!  We also have a chance for you to win Joseph’s Comedy album “Verbing the Noun!

    *Note – since the episode was recorded, Tim’s band, The Dregs, have been signed up to write and record a song should the Kickstarter be successful.

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  • Episode 48 – CONvergence 2013!

    This week we spend the entire episode geeking out about our favorite convention, CONvergence, where we recorded our first two episodes.  The convention starts exactly one month from the posting date of this episode! We try to talk about all the cool stuff we’ll be doing there this year but there is just too much.  We have to sum up.  If you’re interested in learning about the convention and finding out about opportunities to see us at the con, this is the episode to listen to!  Come join us for nerdy-gras!

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  • Episode 47 – Why are we Atheists so Angry?

    Skep-Tech/Greta ChristinaWaaaay back at Skep-Tech, we had the opportunity to sit down and record a podcast with Greta Christina to talk about her book – “Why are You Atheists so Angry – 99 Things that Piss off the Godless.”  Not only did we have an opportunity to talk about a lot of things that piss us off, we asked Greta our five questions.  Among other things, we got to learn about her secret geeky hobby which, we have to say, is pretty awesome.  Also, in the tradition of Geeks Without God giving away stuff, we have a copy of Greta’s book to give away!  Just listen to the podcast and you will learn the very simple rules you need to follow to be a winner!

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  • Episode 46 – Beauty and the Beholder

    This Week’s episode starts off with a story about how Molly got kicked out of class in college because she wasn’t a Christian.  While it sounds like the big problem is that her professor was an asshole, it serves as an inspiration for a conversation about beauty and whether or not the artistic contributions of religion give religion any intrinsic value.  Tim spends a lot of time bragging about all the shit that he’s seen that Molly and Nick haven’t. We also read Mark Everhart’s set of answers to our five questions.  This time we even tried the sandwich!!!

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  • Episode 45 – Politics and Atheism

    Way back in January, there was a silent auction at the Fearless Launch party.  One of the items up for bid was a guest spot on Geeks Without God.  Months later, we finally got the winner of the epic bidding war on the podcast.  Eric Jacobson, the big winner, joined us to talk about his experiences in local politics and we get to talking about what it will take to get atheists into a position where they can actually have an impact on the political process.  We also talked about the (then upcoming) historic vote for marriage equality in Minnesota. For his donation, of course, Eric also got a crack at our five questions.

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  • Upcoming Episode Guide for Spring!

    We have mapped out the next several weeks of our podcast and we know you want to know what’s coming your way!  Here’s a sneak preview of this month’s Geeks without God-ery.

    May 14th – Atheism and Politics

    Eric Jacobson won the right to be a guest on our podcast at the Fearless Comedy silent auction in January!  The topic of his choosing is atheism and politics.  Given the current role of atheism in American politics, this could be the shortest podcast we’ve ever recorded.

    May 21st – Aesthetics

    Molly will let us know how she got kicked out of a college classroom for arguing about aesthetics.  This promises to be a serious episode about what is beautiful and whether or not god has anything to do with determining such things.  Spoiler: We don’t think god has anything to do with it.

    May 28th – Greta Christina

    Recorded at the Skep-Tech conference, we talk with Greta about her book “Why Are You Atheists So Angry?”  Greta has the most interesting geeky hobby ever.  We’ll also give listeners a chance to win one of her books!

    June 4th – CONvergence Preview

    Our favorite local convention is coming up and this week we’ll be previewing what we are looking forward to at what Nick fondly refers to as “Nerdy Gras.”

    June 11th - Parenting and Atheism

    We will joined by Tim’s wife Pat to talk about raising kids without faith and how they are working to make sure their children are raised to think skeptically.  That or we are going to discuss the depiction of atheists in popular culture.  Pat hasn’t decided yet.  Either way, it’ll be interesting!

    June 11th – Joseph Scrimshaw

    Due to an illness, we had to re-schedule Pat for a later episode.  Instead, we were joined by comedian Joseph Scrimshaw.  We talked about his Kickstarter project, comic theory and “hopeful atheism.”


  • Episode 44 – The Left Behind Board Game Drinking Game

    photo 1-2This week’s episode was recorded live at Omegacon Spring! Friends of the show Brianne Bilyeu, Stephane Zvan and Jason Thibeault joined us this week to play the Left Behind Board Game! We had been operating under the assumption that to do so would be a hoot.  What we didn’t count on was one of the worst designed board games ever. Given how awful the movie was, we should have guessed.  We did our best to make the experience entertaining but in case it’s all too much, we came up with a drinking game you can play during the episode.  The board game won’t get any better but the episode will probably improve a LOT.

    Here are the rules (feel free to add your own rules in the comments):

    Take a drink every time moonshine soaked cherries are passed out or someone mentions consuming one

    Take a drink whenever we make a Ghostbusters reference

    Take a drink every time someone mentions game theory

    Take a drink every time someone says the game sucks

    Take a drink every time someone lands on a Carpathia square

    Take a drink every time someone says “Flightplan.”

    Take a drink every time we get a question about the bible correct

    Take a drink any time someone mentions Omegacon

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  • Episode 43 – Too Much Goat Food

    This week’s episode was recorded in Tim’s hotel room at Omegacon Spring.  Having spent the entire weekend playing games, we talk about some of our favorites before making a lengthy segue into  a story involving Molly’s birthday, a petting zoo and an empty change machine.  We also learn about an epic Japanese game show that Nick watched in the O-Con movie room. Once we finish our random geekery about the convention, we take time to read the answers to our five questions by our friend (and fellow Omegacon attendee) Timothy Iverson.

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  • Episode 42 – Censorship and the Gay Agenda

    Skep-Tech/Zach WeinersmithThis week’s episode was recorded live at Skep-Tech 2013.  We sat down for a conversation with Zach Weinersmith, creator and illustrator of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.  After talking about reasons that artists shouldn’t charge $.25 per drawing at a comic convention, we moved on to censorship in the arts, Wikileaks and the Hays code. We also talked about tons of cocks.  Yep.  That happened. We even started to search for evidence of the gay agenda!  While the search was not terribly successful, it left us excited to learn more!

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