Episode 633 – The Tolerance Paradox

This week, we are joined by one of our favorite guests as Tony Miller returns to talk about the Tolerance Paradox. The question before us is does being tolerant of intolerable opinions actually help or does it do more damage? It’s about a lot more than just punching Nazis. Which is totally OK, by the […]

Episode 585 – Pronouns

This week we are once again joined by our good friend, the thoughtful and intelligent Tony Miller! Tony joins us to talk about the history of pronouns and their usage in modern language. What’s the big deal about using someone’s chosen pronouns, anyway? Spoiler: There isn’t one.

Episode 533 – Answering the Hard Questions with Tony Miller

This week, we are once again joined by our friend Tony Miller! Tony works at Renaissance Festivals around the country as Shamus the Insulter but at the end of each day, he becomes Question Man! He will answer any question asked truthfully and he is talking to us about what he does when faced with […]

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 378 – Suing the Devil

It is once again time for our annual Christian Movie night! Ronn Bauman, Byron Miller, and Tony Miller join us to watch “Suing the Devil,” a fundamentalist movie about a guy who may or may not be Australian suing the devil, played by Malcom McDowell. With McDowell, we had hoped this would involve some delightful […]

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 326 – Street Epistemology

This week, frequent guest Tony Miller is back to discuss how to engage with theists on the subject of atheism. We talk about how to approach a conversation with theists in a way that can actually motivate them to think about what they believe. Or maybe it can’t. We talk about conversations we’ve had that […]

Episode 325 – Don Verdean

This week we sit down with movie watching buddies Tony Miller and Byron Miller (no relation) to talk about Don Verdean. Unlike the woefully awful God’s Not Dead films, this movie is a satire of Christian Archaeology starring Sam Rockwell. While Rotten Tomatoes doesn’t think too highly of the movie, we enjoyed it. Your mileage […]

Episode 273 – Evil Demon Queen and the Dick Missiles

This week, we return to the luxurious trailer studios to revisit Christian privilege with frequent guest Tony Miller.  We take a look at the current state of politics in our country as it pertains to Christian power as well as taking a look at how online interactions tend to favor those with religion.  We also […]

Episode 272 – Saving Christmas

Ugh.  We are joined once again by our good friends Ronn Bauman, Byron Miller, and Tony Miller to watch another Christian apologist film.  This time it is Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas.  We thought the movie might be more fun than our previous experiences with the God’s Not Dead series.  Wow were we wrong.  Cameron blamed […]