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0:01:40 INTRO

0:02:38 INTERVIEW – Dale McGowan

Dale is editor and co-author of books including Parenting Beyond Belief, Raising Freethinkers, Voices of Unbelief, and Atheism For Dummies (2013). He presents workshops for nontheistic parents across the United States and was named 2008 Harvard Humanist of the Year. Dale created Foundation Beyond Belief in 2009 and launched the charitable giving program in 2010. He now serves as the Executive Director of Foundation Beyond Belief.

0:52:24 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – April 18

• 1775 – Revere and Dawes warn of British attack
• 1906 – The Great San Francisco Earthquake
• 1989 – Chinese students protest against government in Tiananmen Square

1:02:37 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

• Flat tire? There’s a bot for that.
• A fusion rocket?
• Peru’s glacier loss
• Jurassic Park 4’s dinosaurs won’t be very modern
• The Ocellated icefish has no hemoglobin
• The new bird flu

1:18:28 POLITICS/RELIGION

• North Carolina’s proposed state religion nixed by House Speaker
• International Pressure mounts for the release of Bangladeshi bloggers
• Egypt arrests satirist
• Malala Yousafzai is back in school
• Amina Tyler is threatened with stoning by the head of Tunisia’s “Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.” European group Femen launches a Topless Jihad in support. (NSFW)

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0:00:25 INTRO

• Dustin’s New Equipment
• Wesley’s furlough has been reduced
• NFA 5 Was Canceled
• New Plans for Episode 25 – Recording live as a Google Hangout on Air on 2013-04-06 at 2:00 PM MDT.

0:09:28 Foundation Beyond Belief 2500 Member Challenge

0:10:06 FEEDBACK

• Exaggeration
• Why didn’t I hear about you sooner?
• Music

0:16:51 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – April 4

• 1818 – America adopts flag design with one star for every state
• 1933 – Man who took NASCAR mainstream is born
• 1968 – Dr. Martin Luther King is assassinated
• 1949 – NATO established
• 1975 – Microsoft founded

0:25:49 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

• Genetically modified immune cells and clear leukemia
• Three Parent Babies
• New vaccine delivery system

0:37:33 POLITICS/RELIGION

• New Pope
• Mormon leader’s attempted rape and penis biting
• North Dakota bans abortion past the 6th week
• Melissa Rogers takes over the White House office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships
• Same Sex Marriage
  • AAP is in favor of Same Sex Marriage
  • Conservatives accepting same sex marriage
  • Roberts get’s some motivation
  • Slactavisim?
  • Justice Sotomayor takes down an anti-gay argument in one minute
  • How are they going to rule

1:09:04 INTERVIEW – Amanda Brown

Amanda Brown is a co-founder of We Are Atheism, sex and sexuality researcher who worked with Dr. Darrel Ray on the Sex and Secularism survey, and is a co-founder and the coordinator of ReasonFest.

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INTRO

THIS DAY IN HISTORY, March 21st

• 1800 – Pope Pius VII was crowned with a papier-mâché tiara
• 1980 – Wesley, your not so humble host is born
• 1980 – Carter tells U.S. athletes of Olympic boycott
• 1989 – Sports Illustrated reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling
• 1999 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon

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SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

• Human glia make mice smarter
• What makes this round of global warming special?
• Sagittarius A* gets ready to eat a cloud

POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE

• Public library in Salem, MO gets in some hot water for blocking pagan websites
• Deadly riots over “atheist” bloggers in Bangladesh
• Cardinal Keith O’Brien forced to step down
• Christian college fires woman for getting pregnant

MUSIC – Pamelides El Ateo by Komando Arturo (CC-BY-NC-SA)

INTERVIEW

Jose Alvarado is the organizer Chicago Latino Atheists and fund raising chair for Hispanic American Freethinkers

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INTRO

Don’t forget to to register for the Northwest Freethought Alliance Conference

FEEDBACK

• Russ about NFA5 accommodations
• “Pastor” Dustin and porn

FBB 2500 Member drive

THIS DAY IN HISTORY – March 7

• 1870 – Wyoming allowed women to be jurors
• 1942 – First 5 black American men become pilots at Tuskege, Alabama
• 1965 – In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully break up a group of 600 civil rights marchers
• 1981 – The first homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death

SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

• BigDog can throw blocks
• Symbiosis and photosynthesis
• Telepathic cybernetic rats
• SpaceX Dragon flight delays
• Several herbal Viagras found to not be so herbal after all
• Curiosity switches to the backup computer

POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE

• • Da Pope iz gawn
  • Pontifical scandal
  • Public opinion could be a factor in the Supreme Court’s Prop 8 Ruling

The Obama Administration weighs in against Prop 8
Turkish PM compares Zionism and Islamophobia to crimes against humanity – Kerry is not amused

MUSIC – “I Don’t Believe in Fairies” by Shelley Segal (used by permission) website | bandcamp

INTERVIEW – David Fitzgerald

David Fitzgerald is an author and public speaker best known for his book NAILED – Ten Christian Myths that Show Jesus Never Existed at All. He also writes erotica under the psudenum of Kilt Kilpatrick

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INTRO

• You can help support the Atheist Nomads
  • Adding Libsyn for CDN file hosting
  • Considering dropping Ogg support
  • Moving the feed to Feedburner
  • If each of our current listeners donate $0.67 per year our costs would be covered.
  • Tell your friends about the show
• Northwest Freethought Alliance Conference
• FBB’s 2500 member goal

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• 1944 – Tojo makes himself “military czar”
• 1948 – NASCAR Founded
• 1972 – Nixon Visits China
• 1994 – Double Agent Aldrich Ames arrested

SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

• Some “recent” human evolution has been found to be the cuase of some of the more steriotypical East Asian traits
• Hermaphroditic Sea slugs lose and regrow their penises
• Russia hit by meteorite

POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE

• The Pope resigns?!? First to do so in almost 700 old
• Irish bookie gives Dawkins 666:1 odds
• Trouble at the WBC:
  • Megan and Grace Phelps-Roper leave
  • Lauren Drain poses for the NOH8 Campaign
• Iceland might block porn
• The Hitch Bar (via Friendly Atheist)

MUSIC – He’s Coming Back by Ensomniak (Used by permission)| Facebook | YouTube | bandcamp

FEATURE – Life after death

Abrahamic Religions

• Christianity – From most to least grotesque
  • Catholic
    • Dualist
    • Heaven if you’re really good
    • Purgatory if you’re mostly a good Christian
    • Hell for the wicked/unbaptized
  • Mainstream Protestant
    • Dualist
    • Predestination or free will
    • Heaven or hell at death or the second coming
  • Mormons
    • Dualist
    • Celestial Kingdom – The most heavenly, only for those who have lived upto the ordinances and covenants
      • Highest degree – only for those sealed in celestial marriage, get to become gods
      • Two lower degrees – likely become angels
    • Terrestrial Kingdom – For good people who don’t qualify for the celestial kingdom
    • Telestial Kingdom – Those who have not accepted Christ, 1000 years of spirit prision
  • Seventh-day Adventist, Jehovah’s Witnesses
    • Monist
    • “Soul sleep” at death
    • Righteous go to heaven at the second coming
    • The wicked are raised, judged, and destroyed
• Islam
  • Dualist – nafs
  • Predestinarian
  • Resurrection
  • The good, including Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Sabians go to heaven
  • The wicked get severe pain and shame
• Judaism
  • Probably a bodily resurrection
  • People will get what’s coming to them

Eastern Religions, neoplatonism, Gnosticism, paganism, Kabbalah (Jewish), Cathars (Christian), Alawi Shias (Muslim), Druze, Rosicrucians

• Dualistic
• Reincarnation
• Karma
• Release

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0:00:25 INTRO

• Don’t forget about the Northwest Freethought Alliance Conference
• Dustin rants about precious bodily fluids

0:00:43 FEEDBACK – Ben

0:14:18 THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• 1812 – Earthquake causes fluvial tsunami in Mississippi
• 1968 – Forensic evidence solves a crime
• 1984 – First human satellite
• 1990 – Soviet Communist Party gives up monopoly on political power
• 2002 – President George W. Bush announces plan for “faith-based initiatives”

0:28:50 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

• Eighth century gamma ray burst
• The quadruple helix
• The dung beetle may navigate by the milky way

0:34:03 POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE

• The Pope app
• Bishop apologizes for cover up
• Noah’s Ark replica has opened
• Obama on same sex marriage

0:52:00 INTERVIEW
We are joined by Brian Keith Dalton and Tom Vilot of the Mr. Deity webshow where Tom plays John the Baptist and Brian is Mr. Deity himself.

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1:51:01 BLOOPERS

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0:00:25 INTRO

• Wesley was on Just Skeptics
• Register now for the Northwest Freethought Alliance Conference

FEEDBACK – None this time around 0:04:39 THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• 1908 – Boy Scouts movement begins
• 1935 – First canned beer goes on sale
• 1943 – Von Paulus to Hitler: Let us surrender
• 1965 – Winston Churchill Dies

0:21:23 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

• The cost of big brains
• Climate change:
  • New federal report on climate change with dire predictions
  • Could impact volcanism
  • Higher sea level increases than earlier thought
  • Record temps in the US in 2012
• 4 billion light year wide quasar group found
• The ISON comet is coming

0:37:33 POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE

• The 2013 flu outbreak and vaccination
• Rock Beyond Belief 2 rejected by Camp Pendleton
• Reverend Giglio withdraws from the Inauguration
• Hemant’s take on the initial announcement

0:52:05 MUSIC – “Invisible Light” by Josh Woodward (Creative Commons – By) 0:56:45 FEATURE – Interview with Bridget Gaudette Bridget is the Development Coordinator at Foundation Beyond Belief. She’s also an ex-Jehovah’s Witness with a focus on Black atheism, humanism, and sex-positive dialogue. She writes for Friendly Atheist, Skeptic Money, and emilyhasbooks and you can also find her on Twitter and Facebook. Religious “Toys” discussed in the interview 1:56:58 BLOOPERS

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0:00:25 INTRO

• Northwest Freethought Alliance Conference – Come see us live!
• Dustin was quoted in the Idaho Statesman

0:09:07 FEEDBACK

• Regarding the holidays
• More on “Do No Harm” from Ben
• Thanks to Paul and Brian for the kind words

0:17:00 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – January 10

• 1901 – Gusher signals start of U.S. oil industry
• 1920 – League of Nations instituted
• 1946 – First meeting of the United Nations
• 2008 – World’s cheapest car debuts in India

0:26:16 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

• Space hedgehogs
• MRSA in UK Dairies
• 30,000 Year old engraved stone
• Carbon nano tubes might not be that great after all
• Possible habitable planet found

0:37:07 POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE

• Rape in India
• The Miami-Dade Commission takes a step back (via Americans United)
• Google’s helping with the Dead Sea Scrolls digital library
• The Pope raises a red herring in his Christmas address

0:50:05 MUSIC – Josh Woodward – Golden Sunrise (License CC-BY)

0:55:05 FEATURE – Interview with Dr. Darrel Ray

Dr. Darrel W. Ray is the founder of Recovering From Religion, as well as the author of four books, two on organizational team issues as well as The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture and Sex and God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality. He has been a psychologist for over 30 years, practicing counseling and clinical psychology for 10 years then moved into organizational psychology and consulting. He has been a student of religion most of his life and holds a MA degree in religion as well as a BA in Sociology/Anthropology and a Doctorate in psychology.

• Recovering from Religion
• Secular Therapist Project

1:53:41

BLOOPERS

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0:00:25 INTRO

0:03:08 FEEDBACK

• Editing failure – Sorry
• Thumbs up from someone who would prefer to not be named
• Voice mail regarding Episode 14 and the discussion on ethics and “Do no harm”

0:17:33 THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• 1831 – Darwin and the HMS Beagle set out from Plymouth Harbor
• 1944 – FDR seizes control of Montgomery Ward’s factories for WW2
• 1968 – Apollo 8 returns to Earth
• 2004 – Peyton Manning breaks single season TD pass record

0:24:43 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

• The Robot-App Store
• A poisonous primate in Borneo
• We’re crashing two spacecraft into the moon
• A zebra fish caused to grow limbs in a lab

0:30:51 POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE

• The Pope blesses the Ugandan “Kill the Gays” parliamentarian (Via WWJTD)
• Judge allows FFRF’s Big Mountain lawsuit
• PA rules that “Freethought Today” and similar literature is as good as a church bulletin

0:40:57 INTERVIEW
Shelley Segal is an Australian ex-Jewess famous for “An Atheist Album”. We’ve already heard a few of her songs on the show, but this time we get to hear from her directly. She even plays “My Morality” live for us.

You can find Shelley on her website and buy her music on Bandcamp.