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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.

You can watch Mr. Deity on YouTube, follow him on Twitter, like him on Facebook, buy the DVDs, and donate to help support the show.

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

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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.

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0:00:25 INTRODUCTION

0:01:40 FEEDBACK

• WWII and related stuff
• How to deal with theistic family members

0:15:21 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – December 13

• 1577 – Francis Drake leaves England to explore and plunder
• 1915 – Mystery writer Ross Macdonald is born – Mother asks “WHO DUNNIT?”
• 2000 – Texas seven prison break
• 2000 – Al Gore concedes the presidency
• 2003 – Saddam Hussein captured

0:24:52 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

• Robots are taking the jobs of trained dolphins
• Evidence of ice on Mercury’s north pole
• Duke’s invisibility cloak

0:31:44 POLITICS/CULTURE/RELIGION

• The death of Savita Halappanavar
  • Complaint being filed with the European court of human rights
  • Bishops issue complete BS statement
• The GOP blocks ratification of the UN disability treaty
• The Supreme Court to take Prop 8 and DOMA cases
• Bill O’Rielly’s war on Christmas
  • O’Rielly with Silverman 11/28/12
  • Father Jonathan Morris corrects O’Rielly 12/03/12

0:50:19 MUSIC – Apocalyptic Love Song by Shelley Segal (Used by permission)

0:53:20 Plug for the Northwest Freethought Alliance Conference April 5-7, 2013

0:54:14 INTERVIEW – Kylie Sturgess of Token Skeptic

Kylie Sturgess is the host of the Token Skeptic podcast, blogs at Token Skeptic on Freethought Blogs and regularly writes editorials for numerous publications and CSICOP’s Curiouser and Curiouser online column. She was the co-host for the Global Atheist Convention in 2010 and 2012. An award-winning Philosophy teacher, Kylie has lectured on teaching critical thinking and anomalistic beliefs worldwide. In 2011 she was presented with the Secular Student Alliance Best Individual Activist Award for her activism independent of a university student group and was the Australian coordinator of the 2011 10:23 Campaign. In addition, Kylie is a member of the James Randi Educational Foundation Education Advisory Panel.

1:59:06 BLOOPERS

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0:00:25 INTRO

• Clarification on Mormon underwear from Dustin’s contact
• Temple recommend questions and official rules on the Mormon underwear

0: 14:27 FEEDBACK – Our first hate mail

0:17:19 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – November 29

• 1929 – A Byrd flies over the South Pole
• 1942 – Coffee rationing begins in WW2
• 1963 – Warren Commission formed
• 2011 – Dr. Conrad Murray sentenced

0:28:34: SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

• Robot of the episode – Nuclear radiation proof robot
• Plans to bring back Lonesome George’s species 
• A directly observed exoplanet

0:38:23 POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE

• People are petitioning Obama to succeed from the union
• The BSA and their troubles
  • Idaho law suit
  • Loosing corporate sponsors like Intel and UPS (via Friendly Atheist
• The Pope admits to some of the myth around the nativity story in new book

0:51:44 MUSIC – Eve by Shelley Segal (Used by permission)

0:55:54 FEATURE – Interview with Dr. Rachael Dunlop

Dr Rachael Dunlop has a PhD from Sydney University Medical School and works full time in motor-neuron disease and aging disorders research and is a Vice President of the NSW committee of Australian Skeptics.

She is also part of the Mystery Investigators show for schools and co-organizes the Sydney Skeptics meet-up group, is a reporter on the Skeptic Zone podcast, and contributes to The Sceptics’ Book of Pooh-Pooh blog.

1:53:48 BLOOPERS

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0:0:25 INTRO

0:26:11 FEEDBACK – Dan S

0:38:58 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – November 15

• 1777 – Articles of Confederation adopted
• 1864 – Sherman’s March to the Sea
• 1977 – President Carter hosts Shaw Pahlavi of Iran
• 1984 – Baby Fae dies

1:13:09 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

• Robot of the day – The farming robot swarm
• CRS-1 – Dragon’s first mission – Launch 10/07/12, docking 10/10/12, return and splash down 10/28/12
• Microsoft & 343 Industries crack down on X-Box Live sexism

1:26:59 POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE

• Obama reelected 332 – 206 (electoral college) 51% of the popular vote
• Marriage equality won – Passed by referendum in Maine, Maryland, and Washington, constitutional ban in Minnesota fails
• Congressional races of note:
  • McCaskill kicked Akin’s sexist ass 55% – 39%
  • Donnelly beat Mourdock 50% – 44%
  • Baldwin beat Thompson 51% – 46%
  • It looks like Sinema will win in AZ, but the reports of her non-theism are exaggerated. She appears to more accurately be one of the many unaffiliated.
  • Pete Stark lost to a fellow Democrat, leaving us with no open atheist in the legislature. One campaign issue was the motto.

1:49:31 MUSIC – Saved by Shelley Segal

1:53:40 FEATURE – Interview with Rich and Deanna Joy Lyons from the Living After Faith podcast. You can find Rich’s story in depth in the early episodes, Deanna shares her story in Episode 25.

To find the episode where they interviewed Dustin, check out Episode 19.

2:11:16 BLOOPERS

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0:01:18 INTRO

0:16:11 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Octber 25th

• 1881 – Pablo Picasso born
• 1944 – First Japanese kamikaze attack of the war
• 1973 – Nixon vetoes war powers resolution
• 1980 – ACDC first Billboard top 40 hit
• 1983 – United States invades Grenada

0:40:12 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

• New IBM microscope can view 100x smaller than an atom
• Robot of the week – The Navy’s new “MacGyver-bot”
• Frogs that are reminiscent of X-men’s Wolverine
• An earth sized exoplanet found a mere 4 light years away
• Recalibrating carbon dating

1:10:11 POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE

• 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals rules DOMA unconstitutional
• The pre-election roundup
• D’Souza’s issues

1:43:43 MUSIC – “Probably Gay” by Katie Goodman and Broad Comedy. You can find out more about Katie and the band at wwww.katiegoodman.com (used by permission)

1:48:53 FEATURE – Interview with Sam Mulvey from Ask an Atheist