Friday, January 27, 2012

Episode 042: In which Fred Edwords talks about a "Coalition of Reason" while we track orbs


Yes we have another interview this week. A short one with Fred Edwords who is going around the country to talk about the United Coalition of Reason which may be coming to a city near you!

This Week:
00:01:38 Skeptical Birthdays
00:06:35 TFC DVDs are IN!
www.atheistallianceamerica.org

00:09:49 Jessica Ahlquist00:08:47 San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro supports sam sex marriage pledge
evillittleshirts.com
00:14:05 Supreme Court rulings...or not
00:25:06 Obama and contraception
00:35:40 Teens thought they couldn't get pregnant
00:49:20 Interview with Fred Edwords from the United Coalition of Reason
info@unitedcor.org
01:01:50 Lightning Round with an extra bonus ending!
01:15:48 Shout outs and stuff

And the dogs go in and out and in and out and finally stay in until they decide to go out again.

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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Episode 041 ask questions coyly but with great vigor



This Week:
We skyped it in this week, so there are some audio issues: we're fixing them if we ever happen to do this again.
00:02:30 Skeptical Birthdays
00:07:00 Jennifer Ahlquist update
00:12:00 SOPA, PIPA, ACTA
00:21:50 Darel Ray INterview for his new book
"Sex and God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality" available here:
or get it at Amazon.com
01:18:17 Lightning Round

And the dogs wonder where all the voices are coming from even though nobody else is in the house. "Hmmmm," they ponder, "this is odd."


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Not the big board at all.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Episode 040 goes to a yoga instructor for back pain on the advice of a chiropractor

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This Week:
00:01:25 Intro stuff
Skeptical Birthdays: Rasputin, Stephen Hawking, Robert Stack, Andy Rooney, and newcomer Greg Perrine
Jessica Ahlquist Wins Lawsuit
http://www.jessicaahlquist.com
Reason Rally
Http://www.reasonrally.org
The Response is still around?!
http://www.theresponseusa.com
Some shoutouts!
St. Baldricks
http://www.stbaldricks.org/
Song competition between Gary and Greg and Donna's going to do VOSOT vids
Name Donna's video bits!

00:25:50 British Columbia and HIV and HepC
00:32:30 Is science failing us, as a Wired article says?
00:50:00 Yoga Bad, according to the New York Times
00:57:00 Lightning Round
01:07:00 Holistic Chamber of Commerce
http://www.globalorgasm.org
And no: Steve Schweitzer is NOT part of the Global Consciousness Project. My bad.

And the dogs shut down the power coupling to the tractor beam but don't care much about anything else happening.

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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Episode 039 makes a resolution to break all of its resolutions except that one

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This Week:
00:01:45 Birthdays
00:04:30 Saint Baldrick's Foundation
http://www.stbaldricks.org/

00:08:15 Pink vs. Blue kerfuffle
http://weareskeptixx.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/whats-small-and-cute-and-pink-all-over/
http://skepchick.org/2012/01/intellectual-cage-match-ben-radford-vs-a-4-year-old/
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/01/03/we-still-havent-explained-pink/

00:37:25 Cee Lo Green changes some lyrics
http://www.skeptoid.com/blog/2012/01/02/atheism-imagine-and-cee-lo-green/
http://freethoughtblogs.com/greta/2012/01/02/is-all-religion-true-the-cee-lo-green-thing/

00:45:50 Psychic predictions for 2012
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_19647649
http://paranormal.about.com/od/othermystics/tp/Psychic-Predictions-For-2011.htm

00:54:45 Psychic Prediction Bingo
01:02:50 Lightning Round

01:15:00 Resolutions and a bunch of other stuff

Lightning Round Links
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/science/in-play-off-between-old-and-new-violins-stradivarius-lags.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16264752

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html

http://www.amnh.org/education/mat/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/25/scour-moon-ancient-traces-aliens?newsfeed=true

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/12/111222-stonehenge-bluestones-wales-match-glacier-ixer-ancient-science/

And the dogs start to get into the spirit of things and begin voicing their own thoughts.
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Psychic Bingo Cards for Episode 039

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