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.

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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

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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We were really looking forward to doing the live show, getting to hang out with Darryl Ray and Shelley Segal, and getting to meet some of you. It’s always nice to be able to put a few faces to the numbers I see in the download stats. However, there is talk, rumor, and innuendo a muck so keep your eyes and ears open. In the mean time, Wesley and I are working on a plan to do something live for Episode 25. The tentative plan at this point is to do a Hangout on Air on April 6 and we’ll try to make it as interactive as possible, including a Q & A session at some point, although the details on that are still to be determined.

I hope to have the details worked out by the end of the week and will post an update at that time.

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
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  • Considering dropping Ogg support
  • Moving the feed to Feedburner
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• 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.

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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• 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.

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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Anyway, check back here on Saturday, December 8, 2012 at approximately 2:00 PM MST if you want the unedited live BS.

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

This should be awesome, although you’ll get to see us before I get to take the editorial knife to it… Another nice thing about this is you’ll be able to provide feedback as we go along. You won’t want to miss this.

0:00:25 INTRO

0:08:13 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – October 11th

• 1925 – Elmore Leonard is born
• 1962 – Pope opens Vatican II
• 1975 – Bill Clinton marries Hillary Rodham
• 2002 – Jimmy Carter wins Nobel Prize
• 2008 – Blind driver breaks land-speed record

0:20:55 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

• A possible alluvial fan in Mars’ Gale Crater
• Snakes on a plane with lasers
• California approves driverless cars
• The Catlin Seaview Survey confirms a new seahorse species

0:30:39 POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE

• Nazis, Buddha, and meteorites
• Innocence of Muslims film maker jailed for probation violation
• Google takes down anti-candidate video in Brazil
• Ambassador Stevens’s death was orchestrated by al Queda
• Russia’s new blasphemy law (via WWJTD)

0:39:12 MUSIC – “The F You Song” by Arthur Thomas Heist (Used by Permission)

0:40:21 FEATURE – Interview with Chris Hofstader

Chris Hofstader blogs at www.hofstader.com addressing topics of skepticism and vision impairment as well as the 21st Floor blog. He’s a semi-retired freelance hacker.

I became familiar with Chris when he did a guest post on Skepchick about accessibility in the atheist/skeptic communities

Web Accessibility Initiative

1:44:14 BLOOPERS

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0:00:25 INTRODUCTION

0:12:38 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – SEPTEMBER 27TH

• 1540 – Jesuit order established
• 1938 – Franklin Roosevelt appeals to Hitler for peace
• 1938 – Poland Surrenders
• 1940 – The Tripartite Pact is signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan
• 1959 – Khrushchev ends trip to the United States

0:27:55 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

• Users: Apple iOS 6 maps are a mess
• SpaceX is headed back to the ISS
• Curiosity Update
  • Astronomy
  • Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science (AEGIS)
• The evolution of gliding

0:42:02 POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE

• The crazy BS going on in the Middle East in protest to the “innocence of Muslims”
  • Google rejects request to remove clip
  • Summary on dwnomad
  • BBC
  • Wikipedia
  • Interactive Map
• Chase Community Giving results – Secular Student Alliance $50,000, Foundation Beyond Belief $20,000, and Camp Quest $20,000

0:52:01 MUSIC – The Existential Blues by Arthur Thomas Heist (Used by permission)

0:54:23 FEATURE – Interview with JT Eberhard
JT Eberhard blogs at What Would JT Do on Patheos and also contributes to AtheismResource.com. He is a co-founder of Skepticon, lead in the organizing of Skepticon 1, 2, and 3, and served as the Secular Student Alliance’s High School Specialist for a year and a half. Now JT is a full time writer and public speaker.

Aside from discussing his activism and writing, we discussed many topics of geeky interest.

Also joining us briefly was JT’s roommate Cambrige.

2:00:10 Poor Unfortunate Souls as performed by JT Eberhard in his operatic karaoke style. (Used by permission)

2:04:16 BLOOPERS

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0:25 INTRODUCTION
A little more on e-cigs, thanks to Skeptics with a K.

6:34 THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• 1814 – Key pens Star-Spangled Banner
• 1993 – Israel-Palestine peace accord signed
• 1996 – Tupac Shakur dies
• 2004 – Oprah gives away nearly 300 new cars

27:26 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

• Google Listen is dead
• Curiosity update
• DARPA’s new 28 mph Cheetah
• Organic foods are not any healthier or better for the environment

42:19 POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE

• The newest Popemobile is electric
• Christian monastery in Israel vandalized
• Romney moves back to the middle
• Or maybe not….
• The Democrats have added a little god to to their platform

55:23 FEATURE

Recently the Skeptics Guide to the Universe and Skeptics with a K both covered the FDA’s recent warning letter issued to British homeopathic manufacturer A. Nelson & Co, but they missed some nuances that Dustin’s experience with the FDA might help with.

• A. Nelson & Co
• Alfa Vitamin Laboratories
• Kare-N-Herbs
• Healing Ways
• Dragon Herbs

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After issuing a correction, covering this day in history and the latest in science and politics, we talk with Dr. Robert M. Price about the historicity of Jesus, the Q gospel, the future of Christianity, and BBQ.

INTRODUCTION

FEEDBACK
Kristi – with correction on genetic resistance to HIV

06:08 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – August 30

• 30 BCE – Cleopatra commits suicide
• 1918 CE – Vladimir Lenin shot
• 1967 – Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Supreme Court justice
• 1980 – Christopher Cross has his first of two #1 hits with “Sailing”

16:46 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

• A bonobo makes stone tools
• The origin of the Indo-European language group
• The Texas West-Nile outbreak

26:49 POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE

• Akin, Romney, rape, and abortion – article 1, article 2
• Obama and Romney on faith (Via Friendly Atheist)

38:55 INTERVIEW

Dr. Robert M. Price, PhD is Professor of Biblical Criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute as well as the editor of The Journal of Higher Criticism. His books include Beyond Born Again, The Widow Traditions in Luke-Acts: A Feminist-Critical Scrutiny, Deconstructing Jesus, and The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man. Forthcoming titles are The Crisis of Biblical Authority, Jesus Christ Superstar: A Redactional Study of a Modern Gospel, The Da Vinci Controversy and The Amazing Colossal Apostle. He is also host of the Human Bible and the Bible Geek.

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00:00 INTRODUCTION

01:41 FEEDBACK

Kudos from Neil and mixed reviews on iTunes. If you think there’s room for improvement and we know there is, please email us at contact@atheistnomads.com with specifics on what we can do better.

05:27 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – August 16

• 1896 – Gold discovered in the Yukon
• 1948 – Babe Ruth dies
• 1958 – Madonna is born
• 1977 – Elvis Presley dies
• 1972 – Moroccan king survives attack by own air force

12:59 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

• Curiosity has landed
  • Curiosity pictures
  • OTA software upgrade
  • Only a 2MP camera?
• Two HIV patients now non-reactive
• Neolithic logging
• Size does matter, at least it does if your a rhinoceros beetle
• Ozone hole forming over the US

30:14 POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE

• Sikh temple shooting. For more information on Sikhism check out the article in Wikipedia
• Giant idol found in Turkey
• New photo of Nessie
• Taped German Olympic beach volleyball player, but not the good kind, pervert

44:33 INTERVIEW

SGT Justin Griffith, USA, is the Military Director for American Atheists and was the project lead for the original Rock Beyond Belief at Fort Brag and SSgt Christopher Herr, USMC, is the project lead for Rock Beyond Belief 2 that is being planned for Camp Pendleton.

• The official Rock Beyond Belief website
• Rock Beyond Belief on Freethought Blogs
• Facebook – Rock Beyond Belief | Justin Griffith | Chris Herr | Paul Loebe
• Rock Beyond Belief/Justin Griffith on Twitter

***The views expressed by our guests are their own and do not represent the views of the DoD, US Army, or US Marine Corp.***

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00:00 INTRODUCTION

Fun on Facebook
Shooting in Colorado

13:10 THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• 02 August 1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait
• 02 August 1934 – Hitler becomes the Fuhrer
• 02 August 1939 – Wes Craven of Freddy Krueger fame was born
• 02 August 1776 – Delegates sign the Declaration of Independence

25:15 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

• Orion parachute test
• Congress warned about hacked drones
• Mayan water management
• DARPA’s new acoustic fire suppression
• Non bruising or browning Canadian genetically modified apple might hit market soon

44:35 POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE

• Boy Scouts maintain anti-gay policy
• Washington’s Facebook voter registration – If your a Washington resident register now and vote yes on Referendum 74
• Colorado Shooting
  • Texas Republican blames Dark Knight shooting on Attacks on Christianity (Via Rock Beyond Belief)
  • Justin Griffith is investigating his DoD source
  • Only the Christian victims will go to heaven
  • It’s all because of evolution

59:59 MUSIC

To lighten the mood before the interview, we have Roy Zimmerman‘s Evolution 101 (used by permission).

64:27 FEATURE

Joining us for the second half of the show is Mike Sieber, the artist and blogger behind “The Atheist Pig” comic strip. You can find Mike on his website at theatheistpig.com and on Twitter @TheAtheistPig.

Mike’s take on the BS surrounding the Colorado shooting.

Theme music is provided by Sturdy Fred.

00:00 INTRODUCTION

Fun on Facebook
Shooting in Colorado

13:10 THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• 02 August 1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait
• 02 August 1934 – Hitler becomes the Fuhrer
• 02 August 1939 – Wes Craven of Freddy Krueger fame was born
• 02 August 1776 – Delegates sign the Declaration of Independence

25:15 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

• Orion parachute test
• Congress warned about hacked drones
• Mayan water management
• DARPA’s new acoustic fire suppression
• Non bruising or browning Canadian genetically modified apple might hit market soon

44:35 POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE

• Boy Scouts maintain anti-gay policy
• Washington’s Facebook voter registration – If your a Washington resident register now and vote yes on Referendum 74
• Colorado Shooting
  • Texas Republican blames Dark Knight shooting on Attacks on Christianity (Via Rock Beyond Belief)
  • Justin Griffith is investigating his DoD source
  • Only the Christian victims will go to heaven
  • It’s all because of evolution

59:59 MUSIC

To lighten the mood before the interview, we have Roy Zimmerman‘s Evolution 101 (used by permission).

64:27 FEATURE

Joining us for the second half of the show is Mike Sieber, the artist and blogger behind “The Atheist Pig” comic strip. You can find Mike on his website at theatheistpig.com and on Twitter @TheAtheistPig.

Mike’s take on the BS surrounding the Colorado shooting.

Theme music is provided by Sturdy Fred.

1. For about an hour this morning, there was an internal network issue at the data center at the hosting company that resulted in a loss of connection from the virtual private server (VPS) and the MySQL server. Without access to the database WordPress doesn’t work. That was from roughly 8:30 – 9:30 AM MDT.
2. There have periodically been issues for the last couple of months due to memory allotment overages on the shared hosting plan, so I upgraded to a VPS. Since they charge per MB of RAM I’ve been experimenting with different memory levels so as to keep the costs to a level where I won’t feel the need to start soliciting donations. I will likely continue to fine tune memory levels since memory saturation (using all available memory) is very bad and having to needlessly pay for memory we don’t need is also bad. I was toying with different web server applications immediately before the outage, so it looks like it didn’t go through until the outage was resolved and I was at work. Oops. I learned my lesson. Save stuff like that for days off or as soon as I get home from work.

I will be monitoring resource usage closely for the rest of the evening and before and after work the next two days, but then I’ll be headed to southern Oregon for my brother’s wedding, which by the way I’m officiating.

Dustin got a tattoo to commemorate the five year anniversary of his apostasy and talks about that very dark weekend leading up to his freedom.
You can find Dustin talking about some of the sexual issues he ran into on Living After Faith

0:10:04 THIS DAY IN HISTORY July 19

• 1779 – The Penobscot Expedition
• 1799 – The discovery of the Rosetta Stone
• 1884 – Arthur declares the power quarantine immigrants.

0:17:04 NEWS

• Science
  • The Boson Finding
  • Nearly complete Australopithecus sediba found
  • Giant South American reptiles
  • Pluto’s newest moon
• Politics/Religion/Culture
  • Gates and Ballmer’s support for Ref 74
  • The Catholic Church’s liability problem
  • Teresa MacBain is the new American Atheist PR Director

0:31:20 – INTERVIEW

Joining us for the feature segment is Jerry DeWitt, Executive Director of Recovering From Religion. Jerry is a former Pentecostal minister and the first graduate of the Clergy Project. We discuss the Clergy Project, Recovering from Religion, how his recovery has gone, Amerigod, and so much more.

You can follow Jerry on Twitter.

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Dustin got a tattoo to commemorate the five year anniversary of his apostasy and talks about that very dark weekend leading up to his freedom.
You can find Dustin talking about some of the sexual issues he ran into on Living After Faith

0:10:04 THIS DAY IN HISTORY July 19

• 1779 – The Penobscot Expedition
• 1799 – The discovery of the Rosetta Stone
• 1884 – Arthur declares the power quarantine immigrants.

0:17:04 NEWS

• Science
  • The Boson Finding
  • Nearly complete Australopithecus sediba found
  • Giant South American reptiles
  • Pluto’s newest moon
• Politics/Religion/Culture
  • Gates and Ballmer’s support for Ref 74
  • The Catholic Church’s liability problem
  • Teresa MacBain is the new American Atheist PR Director

0:31:20 – INTERVIEW

Joining us for the feature segment is Jerry DeWitt, Executive Director of Recovering From Religion. Jerry is a former Pentecostal minister and the first graduate of the Clergy Project. We discuss the Clergy Project, Recovering from Religion, how his recovery has gone, Amerigod, and so much more.

You can follow Jerry on Twitter.

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The music is provided by Sturdy Fred.

Media Coverage
Boise Weekly
KBOI 2
Christian Post

If you want to find your local coalition or start one, check out the United Coalition of Reason.

Media Coverage:
Boise Weekly
KBOI 2
Christian Post

If you want to find your local coalition or start one, check out the United Coalition of Reason.

0:00 Intro

1:20 This Day in History – July 4

• 1976 – The Clash play their first gig
• 1776 – Signing of the Declaration of Independence
• 1826 – Jefferson and Adams die
• 1997 – The Pathfinder lands on Mars

7:57 News

• Flame can delete files
• Ancient Saharan dairy farmers
• China’s first manual space docking
• US sues to get tyrannosaurus fossils returned to Mongolia
• Fundamentalists use Nessie to “disprove” evolution
• EU rejects ACTA
• SOPA backers criticize netizens
• A majority of Americans would now vote for an atheist
• Vatican hires a PR guy

36:02 Is the United States a Christian nation?

55:39 Farewell

56:59 4th of July PSA

59:56 Out takes

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“I’m as mad as hell” speech taken from a clip found on YouTube and is originally from the motion picture “The Network” (1977) and is available on Amazon.com.

The music for this episode is “Stars and Stripes for Ever” by John Philip Suza and performed by the US Marine Corps Band.

0:00 Intro

1:20 This Day in History – July 4

• 1976 – The Clash play their first gig
• 1776 – Signing of the Declaration of Independence
• 1826 – Jefferson and Adams die
• 1997 – The Pathfinder lands on Mars

7:57 News

• Flame can delete files
• Ancient Saharan dairy farmers
• China’s first manual space docking
• US sues to get tyrannosaurus fossils returned to Mongolia
• Fundamentalists use Nessie to “disprove” evolution
• EU rejects ACTA
• SOPA backers criticize netizens
• A majority of Americans would now vote for an atheist
• Vatican hires a PR guy

36:02 Is the United States a Christian nation?

55:39 Farewell

56:59 4th of July PSA

59:56 Out takes

If you’d like to contact us, you can email us at contact@atheistnomads.com or leave us a message at (541) 203-0666.

“I’m as mad as hell” speech taken from a clip found on YouTube and is originally from the motion picture “The Network” (1977) and is available on Amazon.com.

The music for this episode is “Stars and Stripes for Ever” by John Philip Suza and performed by the US Marine Corps Band.

Think of podcasts like software development. The alpha builds are out of the way, now we’re moving into beta testing.

We then geek out for a bit talking about how Skype for Linux has finally made it out of beta and jumped from version 2.2 beta to 4.0. Dustin then rambles on about his current KDE setup.

0:04:15 THIS DAY IN HISTORY: June 21

• 1788 – US Constitution Ratified
• 1813 – The French are defeated in Spain
• 1892 – Mormon Soldier, Lot Smith killed by Navajos
• 1982 – Hinckley acquitted for insanity
• 1990 – Iran devastated by earthquake

0:16:09 SCIENCE

• Curiosity has received some software upgrades.
• Voyager 1 is about to pass into interstellar space!
• The bonobo genome has now been sequenced.
• Humans may have not been the first European artists after all.
• “Humans evolved from primitive sharks new research suggests” and “Shark-headed human ancestor swam with fishes” – Decent articles, shitty titles.

I guess we never stopped geeking out…

0:24:13 OTHER NEWS

• Two Michigan representatives removed from the speakers schedule for using offensive medical terms.
• New Catholic/GOP proposal is for the government to pay for contraceptives

0:38:31 Dustin contacted Samuel Pipim, but he hasn’t responded yet. You can contact him too.

0:39:47 Dustin talks about how he ditched cigarettes.

0:46:31 We then talk about our local groups, Wesley’s Kitsap Atheists and Agnostics and Kitsap County Skeptics and Dustin’s West Valley Freethinkers, Cosmos Coffee Club, and Idaho Atheists.

If you’d like to contact us, you can email us at contact@atheistnomads.com or leave us a message at (541) 203-0666.

On a side note, I edit the podcast using Audacity. After I split the stereo recording into two separate mono tracks I take a 5-10 second segment where that track is virtually silent to generate the noise profile for noise removal on that track. I then do the same thing to the other track. Then after cleaning things up I’m now trying a few new things, including truncate silence with a compression ratio of 4:1 and minimum and maximums of 200 ms and 500 ms, respectively, although next time I’m thinking about possibly 100 ms and 250 ms. I then added 4 db of base boost at 200 Hz, then normalized both tracks together. I also tried splitting high and low level editing into separate passes, but I don’t know that it really helped, although the fact I made two passes definitely allowed me to catch more ums, stutters, mouse clicks, etc. Any suggestions from the pros out there?

Think of podcasts like software development. The alpha builds are out of the way, now we’re moving into beta testing.

We then geek out for a bit talking about how Skype for Linux has finally made it out of beta and jumped from version 2.2 beta to 4.0. Dustin then rambles on about his current KDE setup.

0:04:15 THIS DAY IN HISTORY: June 21

• 1788 – US Constitution Ratified
• 1813 – The French are defeated in Spain
• 1892 – Mormon Soldier, Lot Smith killed by Navajos
• 1982 – Hinckley acquitted for insanity
• 1990 – Iran devastated by earthquake

0:16:09 SCIENCE

• Curiosity has received some software upgrades.
• Voyager 1 is about to pass into interstellar space!
• The bonobo genome has now been sequenced.
• Humans may have not been the first European artists after all.
• “Humans evolved from primitive sharks new research suggests” and “Shark-headed human ancestor swam with fishes” – Decent articles, shitty titles.

I guess we never stopped geeking out…

0:24:13 OTHER NEWS

• Two Michigan representatives removed from the speakers schedule for using offensive medical terms.
• New Catholic/GOP proposal is for the government to pay for contraceptives

0:38:31 Dustin contacted Samuel Pipim, but he hasn’t responded yet. You can contact him too.

0:39:47 Dustin talks about how he ditched cigarettes.

0:46:31 We then talk about our local groups, Wesley’s Kitsap Atheists and Agnostics and Kitsap County Skeptics and Dustin’s West Valley Freethinkers, Cosmos Coffee Club, and Idaho Atheists.

If you’d like to contact us, you can email us at contact@atheistnomads.com or leave us a message at (541) 203-0666.

On a side note, I edit the podcast using Audacity. After I split the stereo recording into two separate mono tracks I take a 5-10 second segment where that track is virtually silent to generate the noise profile for noise removal on that track. I then do the same thing to the other track. Then after cleaning things up I’m now trying a few new things, including truncate silence with a compression ratio of 4:1 and minimum and maximums of 200 ms and 500 ms, respectively, although next time I’m thinking about possibly 100 ms and 250 ms. I then added 4 db of base boost at 200 Hz, then normalized both tracks together. I also tried splitting high and low level editing into separate passes, but I don’t know that it really helped, although the fact I made two passes definitely allowed me to catch more ums, stutters, mouse clicks, etc. Any suggestions from the pros out there?

Sorry about the sound quality, we’re still learning and fine tuning things.

You can now contact both of us at contact@atheistnomads.com, Wesley at wesley@atheistnomads.com, or Dustin at dustin@atheistnomads.com. You can also leave us voice mail at (541) 203-0666 and we may even play your message on the show.

This Day in History

• First Salem witch hanging
• Franklin flies a kite during a thunderstorm
• Alcoholics Anonymous founded
• 2LiveCrew arrested for obscenity

Samuel Pipim

• Wikipedia
• Adventists Today
• Spectrum 06/06/12
• Spectrum 06/08/12

Other news

• Skinny Dinosaurs
• Japanese dock washes on shore in Oregon
• NASA’s new spy satellites
• Arctic mega-bloom
• The fetal gnome can now be sequenced before birth
• LGBT caveman

Teresa MacBain is the Executive Director of the Clergy Project and joins us for the second half of the show. She is a former Methodist pastor and the first woman to graduate from the Clergy Project.

You can donate to the Clergy Project’s fund through the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

Connect with Teresa at her blog, follow her on Twitter, or like her on Facebook.

Sorry about the sound quality, we’re still learning and fine tuning things.

You can now contact both of us at contact@atheistnomads.com, Wesley at wesley@atheistnomads.com, or Dustin at dustin@atheistnomads.com. You can also leave us voice mail at (541) 203-0666 and we may even play your message on the show.

This Day in History

• First Salem witch hanging
• Franklin flies a kite during a thunderstorm
• Alcoholics Anonymous founded
• 2LiveCrew arrested for obscenity

Samuel Pipim

• Wikipedia
• Adventists Today
• Spectrum 06/06/12
• Spectrum 06/08/12

Other news

• Skinny Dinosaurs
• Japanese dock washes on shore in Oregon
• NASA’s new spy satellites
• Arctic mega-bloom
• The fetal gnome can now be sequenced before birth
• LGBT caveman

Teresa MacBain is the Executive Director of the Clergy Project and joins us for the second half of the show. She is a former Methodist pastor and the first woman to graduate from the Clergy Project.

You can donate to the Clergy Project’s fund through the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

Connect with Teresa at her blog, follow her on Twitter, or like her on Facebook.

1. Why we are starting this podcast.
2. News, including:
   • OTC HIV test, see also the manufacturer’s BPAC briefing document.
   • Religion or just bad singing causing outcry?
   • Will Peter Blatty going to sue Hoyahs
   • Will people stop the insanity?
3. Wesley tells his story.
4. Dustin tells his story.
5. Dustin interviews Roy Zimmerman
6. “Ted Haggard is Completely Heterosexual” by Roy Zimmerman (used with permission)

Yes, this episode sucks, but hang in there and we’ll get better.

1. Why we are starting this podcast.


2. News, including:
   
   
   
   • OTC HIV test, see also the manufacturer’s BPAC briefing document.
   
   
   • Religion or just bad singing causing outcry?
   
   
   • Will Peter Blatty going to sue Hoyahs
   
   
   • Will people stop the insanity?
   
   
   
   
3. Wesley tells his story.


4. Dustin tells his story.


5. Dustin interviews Roy Zimmerman


6. “Ted Haggard is Completely Heterosexual” by Roy Zimmerman (used with permission)