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INTRO

Our next episode will be the one year anniversary show!

LISTENER CONTEST

• Tara
• Vance
• Cassandra

FEEDBACK – None this time around

THIS DAY IN HISTORY May 16

• 1717 – Voltaire is imprisoned in the Bastille
• 1866 – US Congress dumps the half-dime coin for the Nickel
• 1918 – U.S. Congress passes Sedition Act
• 1984 – Andy Kaufman died – Tony Clifton continues to be seen for years.
• 1988 – US Surgeon general C. Everett Koop compares the addiction of nicotine to heroin and cocaine

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Canadarm on Canadian bank note
• Die and poison used against poachers
• Some atypical Black Widow cannibalism
• What makes people happy?

POLITICS AND RELIGION

• Administration appeals “Morning After Pill” ruling
• TX Judge rules in favor of Cheerleaders
• FFRF is not Pleased
• Rhode Island becomes 10th state to embrace marriage equality
• Delaware was 11th
• Minnesota’s 12th

INTERVIEW – Susan Gerbic

Susan Gerbic leads a team of 80+ Wikipedia editors (in 17 languages) known as Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia trying to change skeptical content on the 5th most popular website world-wide. You can find out more at the project’s blog.

You can find us online at www.htotw.com, follow us on Twitter @AtheistNomads, like us on Facebook, email us at [email protected], and leave us a voice mail message at (541) 203-0666.

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0:00:25 INTRO

• Wesley’s report on Reason Fest
• Contest
  • Prize – Autographed copy of Shelley Segal’s An Atheist Album
  • The Rules – Tell us why it’s important to be an out atheist in no more than 500 words if written or 3 minutes if it’s audio. May be submitted by email or on the voice mail line at 541-203-0666
  • Deadline is 05/11/13

0:07:35 FEEDBACK – Vance

0:11:37 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – May 2, 2011

Osama bin Laden killed

0:12:44 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

• CISPA passes the US House of Representatives again
• Wringing a washcloth in orbit
• Kepler finds earth like worlds
• AquaAdvantage Salmon nears FDA approval

Foundation Beyond Belief now has 1386 members, help them reach their goal of 2500!

0:22:23 POLITICS/RELIGION

• Boston Marathon bombing
• Blasphemy and islamism in Turkey
• Roger Gorley (Amanda Brown’s father) arrested for refusing to leave partner’s bedside
• Boy Scouts propose allowing gay kids, but not adults
• Major leagues prepare for openly gay athletes
• A couple’s second child dies due to reliance of faith healing
• Pussy Riot’s Nadia Tolokonnikova denied parole
• Iceland gives secular organizations equal footing with other non-official groups

0:42:36 INTERVIEW – Jay Novella

Jay has been a skeptical activist for 15 years who serves as a co-host and producer of The Skeptics’ Guide To The Universe, a popular science podcast. Jay is also the producer and director of SGU Video Productions whose videos can be seen on the SGU YouTube channel. He also is the Director of Marketing and Technology for The New England Skeptical Society, a not for profit organization focused on promoting higher standards of education, especially in the areas of science and critical thinking. For the past 3 years, Jay has served on the board of directors for the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism, a yearly conference held in NYC. Jay also is a regular contributor to The Rogues Gallery, a popular science and skepticism blog.

1:55:33 MUSIC – Bleak Harvest by Scott Williams (used by permission)

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Recorded 04/22/13 and 04/27/13 for release on 05/02/13

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This is a live episode, you can find the video on YouTube and since we did the whole thing live on the Hangout on Air, All the editing I’ve done is clean up the audio and truncate the silence, otherwise it is live and unedited.

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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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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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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