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We are four ordinary Americans who happen to be atheists. In this podcast we discuss topics that are relevant to non-believers. New episodes may not be available on Spotify.

  1. 5d ago

    Ep#498: Garlic and Honey... Yum!

    Announcements: Help Stop a Bill That Gives Religious Exemptions to Vaccine Requirements @2:01 House cancels votes, cutting week short, adjourning until after midterms @3:55 Follow-ups: Mitch McConnell has, yet again, gone missing - should he step down @5:17 Eric Schmitt v Jack Smith @7:33 Politics: Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees @14:00 The US lays groundwork for possible military action in Cuba @15:09 Trump Approves $2.8 Billion Arms Sale to Israel, Including 40,000 One-Ton Bombs @16:32 White House Defends Trump’s Ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico in Court Filing @17:17 RAF Fairford Terror Plot: 6 Unanswered Questions @19:14 How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center @21:37 Forklift truck seen 'repeatedly smashing into Kennedy Center pillar' amid Trump takeover Trump Says His Arch Would Be a ‘Military Complex’ @28:20 Trump Officials Eject 750,000 From Obamacare Markets, Claiming Fraud @29:28 News: Saudis Give European Oil Buyers No Supplies for Next Month @34:14 Joe Rogan Calls Trump Fans 'F**king Nuts' @35:19 Health/Medicine/Science: RFK Jr. headlines sold-out anti-vaccine conference alongside Andrew Wakefield @37:19 The speech RFK, Jr. ‘looking at chemtrails,’ Cassidy grills surgeon general pick on vaccines - Live Updates @40:58 New FDA nominee @42:53 RFK Jr.’s movement now has corporate sponsors @45:03 Religious Nonsense: In Germany, right-wing ‘Christfluencers’ hope to follow the US religious right @48:50 Jehovah’s Witnesses allow blood-derived products @50:28 The Curious Case Of America’s Most Atheist State @53:48 Conspiracies: TikTok influencers promoting a home remedy that could cause botulism @56:28 Mat Staver: Send Money To Stop Drinking Fetuses - Joe.My.God. @59:10

    Ep#498: Garlic and Honey... Yum!

  2. Sep 16

    Ep#497: SCOTUS decisions and Nosferatu

    Follow-ups: Reflecting Pool Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Damage @1:08 News: Republican Convention Flashes Hasan Piker Pic on Jumbotron @2:31 Budget Talk @7:59 Trump’s Name Must Stay Off Kennedy Center, Judge Rules @11:33 Trump slams Supreme Court for rejecting his push to restrict mail ballots @13:59 Supreme Court Again Blocks Republican-Backed Missouri Voting Map @15:05 Charlie Kirk Statue @15:46 Trump removes military text slamming the Confederacy at Arlington Cemetery @17:55 EPA eliminates limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants @19:18 Russian Businessman With Putin Ties Paid for Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Party @21:21 Politics: Trump calls on Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian diesel fuel @22:53 Trump whisperer melts down at return McConnell: 'Wheeling a corpse around' @26:42 Top State Dept Official Stopped Exhibit Of Bull Statue @32:13 Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested @36:25 Health/Medicine/Science: Measles caused death of PA infant, coroner says @39:10 A fourth measles death is reported in Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejects mom's bid for son's school vaccine exemption in New York @42:40 Missouri parents are opting for religious exemptions @43:32 Indiana Supreme Court considers religious exemption to abortion ban @44:53 Why Is RFK Jr. Ignoring Outbreaks? @47:05 Army Doctor Investigates 2,544 Troop Death Reports After COVID Vaccines @49:10 Religious Nonsense: Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus. @51:51 The Religious Behavior Index: How Engaged Are Americans, Really? @56:33 Conspiracies: How 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Are Still Shaping Our World @1:00:17 DK Metcalf on anger management, Aaron Rodgers, Antarctica @1:05:03

    Ep#497: SCOTUS decisions and Nosferatu

  3. Sep 9

    Ep#496: Get outta here, whitey!

    Follow-ups: Measles deaths, 3 in 2025 @2:42 Kennedy asked to remove Pennsylvania measles death from CDC tally @3:09 CDC Judge Once Again Blocks Mail-In Ballot Rules @4:33 News: Realty Agent loses job @6:31 Global warming will exceed limit, UN says @10:55 Politics: Natalie Harp exposed in 'creepy' Oval Office appearance @14:04 Do D.E.I. Bike Paths Exist? @15:50 Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones @18:28 Trump Billboard @22:51 Trump to Break Ground on Arch Before Getting Approval @24:44 Smithsonian’s Secretary to Resign as Trump Tries to Rule the Institution @27:16 Secretary of the Army Resigns After Clashing With Hegseth Over Firings @30:45 Pentagon Gives Polygraph Tests to Joint Staff Members @38:27 This is fine - JD @47:57 Vereinigte Arabische Emirate sollen Netanyahu vor Hamas-Attacke am 7. @45:10 Trump Voter Breaks Down After His Brother Dies in ICE Custody @49:51 Health/Medicine/Science: a new analysis shows a 57% spike in refusals of Vitamin K shots @1:00:07 Religious Nonsense: Eiffel Tower management under fire @1:01:20 Final Stories: Influencer, 43, dies after penis enlargement surgery goes wrong @1:04:44 Holy Prepuce @1:12:28

    Ep#496: Get outta here, whitey!

  4. Sep 2

    Ep#495: Dolly Floods News Media

    Lake America @2:32 Follow-ups: C.I.A. Chief Delivered Bleak Assessment of Russia’s War in Secretive Moscow Visit @5:29 Kalshi Permanently Bars George Santos From the Platform @6:29 News: Milo Yiannopoulos, Right-Wing Agitator, Deported Home to U.K. @7:50 Pilgrims in Flood-Stricken Nepal Sought the Divine at Sacred Mountain @11:06 To Dolly somehow? @14:25 Death Toll Rises in Grand Canyon Flood as Search Continues @15:24 Rabid goats @17:13 Politics: Whistle-Blower Says USPS Is Proceeding on Mail Voting Plan Before Midterms @20:07 Trump Administration Updates - Trump gives piece of Yosemite to developer @24:11 Judge Throws Out Key 9/11 Confession as Tainted by Torture @29:32 AP report on new documents RFK Jr. lied repeatedly in his Senate testimony @32:01 Senator Ron Wyden is calling for a criminal investigation. RFK Jr. Suggests 'Fabricated' Measles Deaths, Spreads MMR Misinfo @33:47 C.D.C. Director Challenges Pennsylvania’s Report of Two Measles Deaths @35:06 'Buffoon' JD Vance makes 'horrible' blunder with disrespectful 9/11 comment @37:58 Religious Nonsense: Massachusetts’ Top Court Bars Statues of Catholic Saints at City Building @41:05 Children in a Faith-Healing Sect Keep Dying. The State Lets It Happen. @42:23 Florida Catholics slap down state AG by rejecting religious vaccine exemptions @44:51 Nationalist Preacher @47:45 Health/Medicine/Science: F.D.A. Approves New Covid Vaccines, and They Should Be Available Soon. @54:10 F.D.A. Approves Daraxonrasib That’s Poised to Transform Pancreatic Cancer @58:08 He Said He Was the World’s Healthiest Man. Then Came a Stunning Diagnosis @1:02:15 Selling Immune Tolerance as Disease @1:05:16 Final Stories: Americans Still Skeptical That UFOs Are Aliens @1:09:10

    Ep#495: Dolly Floods News Media

  5. Aug 26

    Ep#494: The Mouth of Trump

    Announcements: Public comment period on the Thomas Paine Memorial @3:57 News: Kennedy Center threat @5:00 CIA director 'on secret trip to Moscow' as US military plane lands at airport @5:39 Supreme Court Allows Trump to Pursue Mail Voting Limits, for Now @11:05 Politics: Unhinged White House response shows senator’s ‘Natalie’ barb struck a nerve @14:23 FBI Agents Search Eric Swalwell’s Home as Part of Federal Sexual Assault Inquiry @25:10 Ken Paxton and the Curious Case of the Missing $1,000 Pen @27:28 Religious Nonsense: Supreme Court asked to block Ten Commandment displays @35:29 Colorado district to reject controversial reading curriculum @37:34 Survivors Just Built the First National Database of Accused Protestant Abusers @38:38 Health/Medicine/Science: Neurologist with MAHA ties to lead NIH’s child health institute @40:59 How Louisiana’s New Surgeon General Wants To Transform Public Health @42:57 Two Unvaccinated People Died from Measles in Pennsylvania, Officials Say @44:02 Kentucky health officials have announced a new measles outbreak @47:28 Kindergarten vaccination rates @47:38 CDC's Zombie Programs @49:07 Pseudoscience: Structured Water: Distilling the Science from the Non-Potable Claims @50:27 Final Stories: Colorado GOP Gov Nominee Claims to Have Battled ‘Demons’ @52:32

    Ep#494: The Mouth of Trump

  6. Aug 19

    Ep#493: Vax pushback and Dick Cheney reemergence

    Announcements: National Park Service public opinion @1:14 Elections @2:44 Follow-ups: Greenland forces Trump-linked US oil firm to delay drilling @4:33 Trump signs bonkers order that cuts vaccines, promotes ones that don't exist @7:04 Fact check: Trump makes numerous false and misleading claims Bill Cassidy on vaccine executive order: ‘This is just a stupid thing to do’ @13:05 “Trump is dismantling public health, one executive order at a time” (The Hill) “RFK’s anti-vax crusade is cause for his removal” (New York Daily News) “Trump's Vaccine Order Will Show Up in My ICU” (MedPage Today) The gospel of science denial, from Galileo to RFK Jr. @15:50 Supreme Court Again Rejects Trump’s Appeal of E. Jean Carroll Payment @16:32 News: California Endorses Dangerous Autism Pseudoscience @17:05 Navy and USS Lincoln’s Problems Are Tied to Attacks on U.S. Base Early in War @18:54 South Korea @26:19 And lest we forget @28:47 Karoline Leavitt Leaving the Role @30:54 Kennedy Center Board Decides to Inscribe Trump’s Name on Building @34:09 White House Seeks to Lift Development Ban in National Forests @36:05 Politics: Undercover Operation Targeted Minnesota ICE Protesters, Labor Unions @37:00 I Was Dick Cheney’s Cardiologist. I Have Questions About Trump’s Health @39:32 Pseudoscience: Company Offering ‘100% Human-Written, Never AI’ Medical Research @45:37 What happens when medical students rely on AI? @49:49 Final Stories: David Grush @54:06 Marco Rubio addresses UAP government cover-up @

    Ep#493: Vax pushback and Dick Cheney reemergence

  7. Aug 12

    Ep#492: Greenland food cart hideaway

    News: After Aid Cuts, US Announces $2 Billion for Christian Groups @1:22 Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill @2:48 Politics: Religious Liberty Commission lawsuit dismissed @5:38 Dan Patrick directs Texas Senate to study ways to further religion @8:54 Lt. Gov. Beckwith wants Indiana candidates to attest belief @10:17 Trump hid in catering truck in secret plane swap over Iran threat @12:21 Max Miller tangent @17:55 Trump-backed candidate Amir Hasaan in Michigan loses @19:25 Health/Medicine/Science: Trump signs executive order on childhood vaccine recommendations @23:50 Report: Trump mad RFK Jr. hasn’t cut more vaccines or proven autism link @25:06 Stop 'Harassment' of Fauci, Scientists Urge Politicians @26:39 Dr. Anthony Fauci repeatedly invokes the Fifth in Senate hearing Ripple Effect Why? Anecdote Dinosaur soft tissue @32:16 Circumcision and Autism: What a New Study Found @37:35 The Peptide Wild West @40:24 Maharashtra allows homeopaths to prescribe allopathic medicines @44:12 Good news Moderna's mRNA flu shot earns FDA approval after rollercoaster review @46:20 Austin ISD vaccination rates surpass 95% after sharp rebound @47:11 Religious Nonsense: Young Latinos abandoning churches to be "nones" @48:01 Final Stories: Posts claim Earth will 'lose gravity' for 7 seconds on Aug. 12, 2026 @49:03

    Ep#492: Greenland food cart hideaway

  8. Jul 29

    Ep#491: Lettuce, Tate Bros, and the Arc de Drumpf

    Follow-ups: Burnham Becomes Prime Minister @2:16 New lawsuit accuses Kim Davis of hiding inherited property @4:33 News: Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 @6:44 Lettuce at Taco Bell in 5 states confirmed as a source of diarrhea-causing parasite @12:34 “Why settle for bad, when it’s possible to achieve worse?” @16:12 Tates @17:28 Appeals Court Revives Tylenol Lawsuits @25:40 Saudi Nuclear program @27:50 Trump at Correspondent’s Dinner @31:32 Arc de Trump @37:49 White House Teleprompter Operator @41:09 Politics: Military chaplains say promotions are tied to pushing Christian ideology @45:28 KY Mayor on McConnell @47:09 Darline @51:19 Gorsuch Challenges Conservatives' Idea Of White, Christian U.S. Founding @52:55 Health/Medicine/Science: Two Trump health nominees crash and burn in tense Senate hearing @54:14 Cassidy cites autism website change in support of CDC nominee @56:46 Government Overhauls Teen Pregnancy Program @58:15 Religious Nonsense: Poor CHOOSE Act standards mean squandered taxpayer dollars @59:15 Pseudoscience: Be Wary of Barbara O’Neill’s Health Recommendations | Quackwatch @1:01:03

    Ep#491: Lettuce, Tate Bros, and the Arc de Drumpf
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