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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Episode 188 Thinks Paleo Diet Gives Us Sad Balloons

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00:00 Intro
03:34 How was Gary's week?
09:19 Greg and Donna saw Penn and Teller
13:05 Donna was on The JediCole Universe Podcast
http://jedicole.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-jedicole-universe-live-all-con-2015.html
13:59 Reason Rally 2016
16:17 Sad Balloons Vs. Treasure Bags
17:24 WWT: Paleo Diet Intro
24:16 WooWooTube: "A Brief History of the Paleo Diet"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y38UVyfw6Eo
85:54 Closing

Harpo doesn't care about Paleo stuff. She knows is anything from the treat shelf is AWESOME!

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Sunday, April 1, 2012

My thoughts: Reason Rally

I'm finally getting around to writing up my take on the Reason Rally. See, I attempted to have a life while I was in the DC area so I was unavailable for the recording of last week's Skeptic Wire podcast. For the record, I did have a life. It was nice to get away from the day job and spend some much needed time with my sister.

Reason Rally was pretty amazing. This is not my first rally/convention/gathering but it was by far the most energetic. And I'll echo what most everyone else said: it was a young crowd. Despite the rain, everyone was happy and ready for each speaker/act. Jamie Killstein killed the crowd with his irreverent humor and Bad Religion rocked it like they were still in their 20s. Additionally Shelly Segal (I hope I spelled that right) was just beautiful and kind. Jessica Ahlquist was awarded her scholarship (+$60,000) for standing up for our constitution. Despite being a teenager, she held her stand with poise and conviction. She also didn't hesitate or stutter during her remarks. And Jamilla Bey!

The day was not without its low points. The rain was definitely a low point. I think it took me a good two days to finally feel dry again. And there were some asshats in the crowd who felt that the semi crowded quarters meant that it was okay to grab my ass. I know this happens in any large crowd and while I don't hold it against the atheist community, I did hate that it happened.

But I got to see old friends (Looking at you Karen, and Richard and Jeorgia and Gary and of course, David!). Got to meet Thinking Atheist and Nate Phelps. Speaking of Nate Phelps, he gave one of the more uplifting and powerful speeches I heard. This is a man who left his entire family behind because he couldn't stand their radical religious adherence. In case you are not familiar, Nate Phelps is the son of Rev. Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church-God hates f@gs.Thank God for IEDs fame.

And hey, I got my boobs signed by Dr. Darrel Ray... I'm currently reading his book Sex and God! It is a book that the anthropologist in me, absolutely adores and finds incredibly sexy.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Episode 046 begins receiving coupons related to the embarrassing things it bought online..only once, it swears!

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This Week:

00:01:00 Skeptical Birthday: Hertz

00:06:28 Ash Wednesday and Lent and shout outs and stuff

00:12:45 Target targetting soon to be moms and habit-forming

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&hp

00:34:43 Women in the military

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/09/women-in-combat-policy-could-change/?hpt=hp_t3

00:45:51 Dawkins hit by a smear campaign

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9091007/Slaves-at-the-root-of-the-fortune-that-created-Richard-Dawkins-family-estate.html

01:06:20 Lightning Round

http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/18/world/asia/nepal-witchcraft-burning/index.html?hpt=hp_t3 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/19/man-trapped-

snowed-car-hospital

http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Weather-folklore-that-came-true/mEjvOoiyLE6EEuO3QgbkLw.cspx

http://www2.wsav.com/news/2012/feb/18/local-woman-kicked-out-church-breastfeeding-baby-ar-3257326/

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/eating/2012/02/more_texas_cities_considering.php

http://www.yoplait.com.au/active-life/

And the dogs decide that- what with all the excitement around the house being re-arranged- three people sitting around yipping and yapping at each

other isn't as interesting as a nice, long nap.

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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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