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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Episode 42 – Censorship and the Gay Agenda
This 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!Show notes below the fold:
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Episode 41 – Proofreading Boners
It has been a while since the three of us have explored our geeky boners! Molly gets excited about proofreading in ways that will make no sense to people who don’t care about grammar. Nick runs through a large number of movies that he is looking forward to this year. Tim talks about all the tabletop games he’s been playing lately, including games produced by Molly’s company and Lords of Waterdeep, which was mentioned by Brienne Bilyeu back in Episode 24. Also, For the first time in a while, a listener (Josh Helton) gets a crack at our five questions.Show notes below the fold (including important corrections of what Molly said) :
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Episode 37 – Atheism and AA, Part 1
This week we talk with Marc Baker about his experiences as a atheist who is also a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. In something new for us, we recorded with next week’s guest Zach Nyhus in the room because he is also a recovering alcoholic. Marc shares his feelings about the way AA pushes god as a part of the twelve steps and how he manages to make it work for him. Then, because we read his answers on our Left Behind episode, Marc gets to ask us five questions!Show notes below the fold:
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Episode 36 – Creationist Science Fair
Our guest this week is Rob Callahan, writer and journalist. He joins us to talk about his visit to a Creationist Science fair. He tells us about the creationist scientific method (yes – there is one) and how well some of these kids did adhering to it. He tells us about his experience coming out as an atheist in order to write his article about the fair as well. Most people would probably be surprised to learn his coming out experience is fairly typical. Of course, he also gets a crack at our five questions. Enjoy!And hey! Some publisher out there should help Rob write about the Twin Cities Creation Science Association! Help a writer out!
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Episode 35 – Religulous
Inspired by our talk about asshole atheists, we decided to watch Bill Maher’s film Religulous. Maher himself is frequently referred to as an asshole atheist and he certainly does his best to rile up several believers throughout the movie. We’d all seen the movie before but it elicited strong reactions and got us to think about what made us decide to be “out” as atheists. Molly, especially, has a lot of thoughts on the film. Like, three pages of thoughts. Then we get five answers from the UK!Show notes are below the fold:
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Episode 33 – Asshole Atheists
This week we explore the idea of the asshole atheist. What is the difference between an asshole atheist and a plain old normal atheist? What is the difference between an asshole atheist and a plain old ordinary asshole? We equate the concept with the civil rights movement, feminism and gay rights, which may or may not have been appropriate but hey, we’re edgy! We use a lot of big words, too. Hooray for higher education! We also read Amanda Spektor’s answers to our five questions.Show notes below the fold:
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Episode 30 – Godless Zombies
In what is possibly the longest delay between recording and posting, this week’s episode features Ronn Bauman from the Tortuga Twins. We’ve been saving this one up so long, we’ll be talking about movies that we are excited to see coming out in theatres and most of those movies will be coming out on home video soon. We also spend quite a lot of time talking about zombies as that is one of Ronn’s obsessions. The conversation then slid over to a discussion of how Ronn and Tim are raising their kids. Ronn also establishes a tradition by asking us five questions (which is why Matt asked us five questions a couple of weeks ago.)Show notes are below the fold:
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Episode 29 – Left Behind
This week, we delve headfirst into another in-depth movie episode. Instead of a movie we like, though, this is the absolutely horrible fundamentalist Christian screed, Left Behind. Molly and Nick gave the movie to Tim as a gag gift and so, to punish them, we all sat down together to watch the thing. Friends, it is not a good movie. When we say we suffered for you on this one, you can trust us – we suffered. This podcast is as close as you should ever get to the movie. So please, enjoy! (P.S: We also read Marc Baker’s answers to our five questions)
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Episode 27 – Apropos of Something
This week is part II of our epic Fearless Comedy crossover EVENT! Last week, the three of us appeared on Apropos of Nothing and this week, the hosts of AON appear on our podcast! With three guests, we didn’t have much time for anything but five questions. Salsa and Jena answered our five questions and then Matt, by virtue of being a former guest, asked the three of us his own five questions (a podcast tradition established by Ronn Bauman during a an episode that will air in a few weeks). So that was a mere ten questions and we talked for almost an hour! Matt managed to ask a question that got all three of us to say something sure to anger at least one person listening so keep your ears peeled for that!Show Notes below the fold:
