Episode 114 gets a late start but makes up for it by..I don't know...writing a silent song?

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02:09 Birthdays
08:05 Greg, George, and the Blues
14:45 Word use, repetition, verbal pauses
19:15 On writing songs
32:30 On perfection
43:30 George on current happenings
47:00 Lightning Round
54:50 Gary tries way to hard to find parallels between himself and George
1:03:10 The importance of Star Trek
1:11:30 Georges new DVD 02812 will be available July 11ish at The Amazing Meeting 2013

The dogs keep underfoot as a storm stirs up San Antonio

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George Hrab's website.
Listen to his Geologic podcast.
And here is a picture of George Hrab not recording audio of himself...as far as we know.

Episode 084a Where-in Greg Interviews Everything at Skepticon

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00:01:07 Micah Weiss Skepticon Program Director
00:05:07 Ken and Maria Myrbach Skeptical Entrepeneurs
http://foliumoils.com/        
and
http://www.apopheniacandies.com/
00:11:20 Phil Ferguson Skepticmoney.com
00:17:08 Teresa McBain American Atheists PR Director
00:21:08 Darrel Ray Author Sex and God and The God Virus
00:21:39 Lauren Lane MC and Founder of Skepticon
00:27:49 Jeffrey Markus Executive Director of Skepticon
00:33:55 Keith Lowell Jensen Comedian
httP://rockass.net
00:44:10 George Hrab Musician and Podcaster
http://about.me/georgehrab

And noises in the background make for an interesting listening experience. Bonus points for identifying people and inanimate objects.

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The Big Board no Big Board for this, so here is a random play bill from the 1920's

Make New Friends, But Keep The Old...

I was raised in a liberal christian family.  One of the things I credit with leading me away from religion is that my best friend from childhood, we'll call him "S", was not a christian:  He was a muslim.  Like most Americans back then (1980s) I knew it was a different religion, but I didn't know much more than that.  With muslim and jewish friends, and about a dozen different flavors of christianity in town, some of my first skeptical thoughts about religion were along the lines of "Well, they can't all be right."

At this year's Texas Freethought Convention (co-sponsored by Atheist Alliance of America...though if you hear the AAA's president talk it's the other way around) I made a new friend who was also raised muslim, let's call her "I."  Through the miracle of "the internets" these two friends of mine, old and new, have "met" through me on Facebook.  That interaction led to a recent IM comment from "S".

"So I'm like super intrigued by your ex-Muslim atheist friend, "I". She's really the only one I've ever known to come out and openly express her views. YOU GO GURL!!"

I started off thinking I'd give him a quick reply about how I met "I" at this year's TFC and what I've seen so far...and I just kept going.  So since I wrote a bunch (and haven't posted much to the blog lately) I figured I'd share some of what I wrote back to "S" with you all.  Here's what I wrote: