Zachrilege Cast #250 — Alison Gill

I didn’t plan to have a somewhat extensive conversation about Richard Dawkins’ poorly thought out tweet about trans people, but you have to report the news. Alison Gill is the Vice President of Legal and Policy at American Atheists. She has managed state-level advocacy on issues such as conversion therapy, bullying prevention, education discrimination, health and wellness, youth homelessness, and data collection. Looking for a Dungeons and Dragons Dungeon Master? You’ve come to the right place.

Links

The Richard Dawkins tweet fallout

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/04/12/richard-dawkins-is-still-denying-the-basic-humanity-of-trans-people/

https://www.atheists.org/2021/04/american-atheists-richard-dawkins-trans-people/

https://www.atheists.org/about/staff/

Interview with Aron Ra last year (secular survey)

https://twitter.com/aron_ra/status/1258107561800237058

https://www.secularsurvey.org/

American Atheists

https://www.youtube.com/user/AtheistsDotOrg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9izcD1vkvc

https://twitter.com/AmericanAtheist?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

https://www.atheists.org/

Live Read

https://rewirenewsgroup.com/multimedia/podcast/texas-is-trying-to-take-trans-kids-from-loving-parents/

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Zachrilege Cast #249 — Neil the 604 Atheist

What’s the 604 all about? Is it the number of hot peppers this guy needs to be satisfied? Neil started as a Christian raised by Jews, took the side road to paganism and ended up in our camp. We talked about his background, meeting his birth family, the conferences that helped him in the community and doing three hour post shows. 

Links

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOkKPs3juZb9iwFn7Z29-Lw

https://twitter.com/604atheist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5j55DF6mCY

Live Read

Empathetic Atheist joins Thought Adventure to talk about his Muslim “journey”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9o_fE9QIFc

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Itunes

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Zachrilege Cast #248 — Trevor Poelman

Trevor started as an evangelical and ended up an atheist content creator. On youtube of all places. Youtube! You should see the ads. In any case, he went from a believer to poking holes by doing a podcast and later video essays, and he’s built a nice following. We talked about his transition, deciding to do an expose on the John 3:16 guy, and why tuxedo cats are the best.

Links

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC_w8GsmIp-6dHhdVHqcVgg

https://twitter.com/trevorpoelman

https://twitter.com/beliefitornot

https://beliefitornot.wordpress.com/

https://www.instagram.com/beliefitornotpodcast/?hl=en

Live Read

Hasan Piker on unions and infrastructure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGQ_hSYkdcU&t=1909s

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Itunes

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Zachrilege Cast #247 — Jessica Bluemke Greiff

Once I had Hemant on, I had to complete my The Friendly Atheist podcast set. Jessica convinced Hemant to start a podcast and they have been happily recording every week. We discuss the transition of the show from strictly interview based to story based, how she started a podcast with her husband, the critical issue of who is super straight, and what it’s like to record a God Awful Movies episode. 

Links

https://jessicabluemkegreiff.com/about/

https://friendlyatheistpodcast.com/

https://greiff.podbean.com/

https://twitter.com/jessbluemke

Episode of Jessica on God Awful Movies

https://www.stitcher.com/show/god-awful-movies/episode/292-the-god-question-82605842

Hasan Abi talking about recent shootings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdixuCBdUYI

The Daily on how America got here on gun control and how Joe Biden has been at the center for decades

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/podcasts/the-daily/colorado-atlanta-mass-shootings-gun-control.html

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Itunes

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Zachrilege Cast #246 — Casey Brinck

With a rare opportunity for secularism to make big gains in America, we have one organization that can help. Casey Brinck is the Director of Policy and Government Affairs for the Secular Coalition for America. We talked about his religious upbringing, being an atheist in a foxhole and being an atheist in Republican congressional staff. 

Secular.org

https://twitter.com/seculardotorg?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

https://twitter.com/caseybrinck

https://www.facebook.com/SecularCoalition/

https://www.instagram.com/secular_coalition/?hl=en

Live read: Hasan Piker's youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hR37tDGG0U

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Itunes

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Zachrilege Cast #245 — Hemant Mehta

So he sold his soul but that’s not totally accurate, and he did win on Jeopardy but he’s not the best trivia nerd and he doesn’t do karaoke. What does Hemant Mehta do? Sometimes he regrets creating the Friendly Atheist tag but it has stuck from visiting churches in the 2000s (first decade) to his podcasting/youtubing/blogging life to 2021. 

Hemant links:

Links

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsgjnUBCB9xbUXQfMg0pd8A/videos

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/category/podcast/

https://twitter.com/hemantmehta

Live Read: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa1Tgv9Rq4s

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Itunes

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Zachrilege Cast #244 — Ethan Michael

When you have an opportunity to serenade a fellow youtuber with LL Cool J, you do it. Ethan Michael is Your Friendly Neighborhood Atheist and he’s posting almost every day on his channel. Hear about his full lineup, taming a feral cat and how he builds community.

Ethan links

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2gP0_M55bXggL2CaZO7G4g

https://linktr.ee/YFNAtheist

https://twitter.com/YFNAtheist

Live Read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWCoesjDqG8&fbclid=IwAR3yHKs68eAyfGBoz0FA0yY5tkZFHG2vH_JK7EfnXBWo-XL-5FQTUcSS8i4

https://www.stitcher.com/show/god-awful-movies/episode/288-run-hide-fight-81875236

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Zachrilege Cast #243 = Let’s Get Podunkadunk With Chris and Lyman

Chris returns and Lyman returns (eventually) to talk black ice, the Biden administration, mint chocolate chip ice cream, and the Capitol insurrection. Which state is meaner and or dumber, Tennessee or Georgia? It’s a tough one. 

https://thepostmodernpolymaths.com/

Live Read

https://rewirenewsgroup.com/multimedia/podcast/supreme-court-election-conspiracies-and-abortion-cases/

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Itunes

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Zachrilege Cast #242 — Dustin of Atheist Nomads

This week I brought back Dustin Williams of Atheist Nomads. We talk about the show, the upcoming 400th episode, his run through co-hosts, growing up 7th Day Adventist and the Boise atheist scene. 

http://atheistnomads.com/

https://twitter.com/atheistnomads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq8fIECSB9U

Live Read

https://soundcloud.com/edgeofsports/natalie-weiner-on-the-failures-of-sports-white-feminism

Zachrilege Cast #241 — Bryce Blankenagel

It's a rare fourth appearance for Bryce as we talk about the Road to Carthage. What do you do when it's time to take a break from a podcast to do an even more daunting project? How do we compare Joseph Smith to Donald Trump? What's in his glass? 

Links:

https://twitter.com/nakedmormonism

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/

MythVision series (episode one)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3MrfYfbpcQ&t=2s

https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2054/3/2/article-p212.xml

Live Read

The Last Hero https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0036S4DQA/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

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