Episode 480 – A Festival in a Pandemic
This week we are joined by frequent guest Tony Miller. He is once again in town for the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. We talk to Tony about spending a year without a job and how he navigated that problem. We also talk a lot about precautions both Tony and Tim are taking this season because there’s […]
Episode 324 – Are We Losing?
This week, we sit down in the luxurious trailer studios with Riki Robinson and frequent returning guest Ronn Bauman. The question before our panel – are we losing? Is the secular movement falling further and further behind because of the rise of things like Donald Trump? The answer, like the question itself, is complex. And […]
Episode 275 – Hard Science Boners
It’s been over two months since we’ve had any geeky boners! Not surprisingly, this timetable corresponds to the two months we’ve all been working at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival and we haven’t been reading/watching as many things. Tim has been so immersed in the Festival, it’s actually his boner (he talks about singing this song). […]
Episode 221 – Revisiting Christian Privilege
This week marks our final recording from the 2016 Minnesota Renaissance Festival. We sit down in the beautiful trailer studios with our good friend Tony Miller to take another look at Christian Privilege in America. Tim spends a fair amount of time discussing the false equivalence between Tim Tebow and Colin Kaepernick. We also talk […]
Episode 218 – Triggered!
We have begun that time of the year where we are recording in the beautiful trailer studios! We are joined by frequent contributor Ronn Bauman to talk about the idea of Trigger Warnings. We’ve discussed this issue before and because it is a pretty big deal right now, we will no doubt discuss it again. […]
Episode 117 – Renaissance Boners
This episode is pretty mellow because we were all operating at high levels of sleep deprivation. The 2014 Minnesota Renaissance Festival is behind us and yet this geeky boner episode is filled with memories of a season just gone by. Molly, though, does manage to get hard about something that is not the festival so […]
Episode 113 – Someone is Wrong on the Internet
This week we recorded our episode on site at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival with Byron Miller, proprietor of Broomhilde, where you can get handmade brooms, walking sticks, and wands. We talked with Byron about getting into arguments on the internet. Specifically, we talked about what we will argue about and what arguments we choose to […]
Episode 62 – Religion and Characterization
This week we talk about playing a character who believes in something that you don’t. All three of us are performers at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival and we have to think about what our characters believe and if that belief differs from our own. Tim, for instance, plays a character who is Catholic. Molly and […]
Episode 47 – Why are we Atheists so Angry?
Waaaay 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 […]
Episode 11 – Indiana Jones Boner
Another installment of our geeky boners! Molly geeks about the Renaissance Festival, Nick geeks about his new job and Tim geeks about Indiana Jones. We talk about the odds of aliens visiting our planet vs. the odds that god exists. Because we are geeks, we dis on George Lucas for a little while. Then we […]