Episode 377 – Believing Stupid Things
Our road friend Byron Miller shows up to help us answer the question “why do people believe stupid things?” Not just religion but messed up conspiracy theories, homeopathy and all other manner of stupid things? It turns out there has been some research around what makes people believe stupid things and we delve into a […]
Episode 376 – Ronn’s Mom is Stupid
This week, we have one of our returning Renaissance Festival friends over to talk about his stupid mom. Not really, although it does come up. Ronn Bauman asks us to think about the new show William Shatner is hosting on the poorly named History channel, and how his mom just keeps believing really stupid things. It’s […]
Episode 375 – The Good Place
With season four about to drop, we finally do an episode about “The Good Place.” This comedy serious about the afterlife is about as good a show as you can find on TV right now and we talk about why. We do, of course, spoil the shit out of the first three seasons so if […]
Episode 374 – Secular Weddings
This week we are re-joined by our good friend Tony Miller, who is once again in town for the Renaissance Festival! As all of us are atheists who perform at weddings (as officiants and as singers), we talk about what choices we make as secular officiants. Are we willing to do a religious ceremony or […]
Episode 373 – Good Enough
This week we get a little bit serious as we look at the current social and political landscape to ask what can we do that is good enough. We can’t do everything but at times it feels like we can’t do anything. So where is the happy (or not so happy) medium? We also want […]
Episode 372 – Hidden Gems Secret Boners
This week, we didn’t have a lot of ideas for an episode (Tim wasn’t done with “The Good Place” yet – that episode is coming) so we decided to talk about some things that might be a little older but deserve their own boner episode. So we go into our geeky vault and make some […]
Episode 371 – London Boners Falling Down
Hey friends! It’s time for us to take another sordid look at our geeky boners! Tim is planning another trip (yawn), Molly is excited to be running again, and Nick is playing another video game he likes (yawn). So yeah – we are still nerds and we’re still talking about it! This episode was recorded […]
Episode 370 – Marvel Phase 4
This week, we dive into the recent announcement of the MCU Phase 4. There is a whole lot of Marvel stuff coming both in movie theaters on on the new Disney streaming service! There is more from the heroes we know and a whole lot of stuff coming from heroes we don’t know! We sift through […]
Episode 369 – Midsommar
This week, Josh Humphrey rejoins us to talk about Midsommar, the new film by Ari Astor. We are going to take a deep dive on the movie so there will be spoilers. There will also be spoilers regarding Astor’s previous film: Hereditary. There are some significant religious themes in this cult film (wherein we mean […]
Episode 368 – Letterkenny
Somewhere in Ottawa, there’s a little town named Letterkenny. Or maybe there isn’t. We haven’t bothered to check. Whether or not the town actually exists, the TV show about the residents of that town is super funny and we spend an episode devoted to the show because we are geeks and we like to encourage […]