Merry Christmas from Geeks Without God
Yeah, sure. I said it. Merry Christmas.
It’s Tuesday morning and it’s Christmas and just in case you are done with your family Christmas festivities, Geeks Without God is there with you. We talked about Christmas for this weeks’ show and honestly, we all like Christmas.
We realize that makes us poor foot soldiers in the war on Christmas but so be it. We will be filled with the spirit of secular Christmas today and you can too by listening to our podcast. It’s even extra long because we spent a lot of time talking about Christmas cookies.
However you celebrate the holidays (and whatever holiday you celebrate), enjoy this week’s episode!
Time for a Tuesday Morning Cuppa Geeks Without God
We recorded this week’s episode almost two months ago and I’ve felt awful that it hasn’t gone up until now. I mean, we always knew it wasn’t going up until mid December but Brianne was a lot of fun and when you know you have a fun episode waiting out there, you want to post it now!
Brianne Bilyeu writes the Bidork blog on Freethought Blogs, which I enjoy a great deal. She does a lot of photoblogging, which is something that I wish I had more time to do. We talked about photoblogging a big on the podcast.
In fact, we talked about all sorts of stuff. The conversation is sort of all over the place. And a lot of fun. So have a listen if that’s your thing!
Geeks Without God is Here! Again!
This week Geeks Without God is all about our December Geeky Boners. I talked about going to Butt-Numb-a-Thon and speculated on a lot of stuff I thought we’d see. I’ll probably do my write up of the event in the next day or two (it takes a while) but you can listen to some of the reasons that I love the event so much. We also got to read off a reader’s answers that were sent to us from Malta! How awesome is that???
As always, I have a blast recording Geeks Without God so please have a listen!
And hey, our fundraiser for camp quest is going great! We are over $300 but our goal is $500 so please help us meet and exceed that goal by clicking here!
Geeks Without God Gets Charitable
This week’s Geeks Without God is live and it features an interview with fellow Atheist Voices of Minnesota contributor, Norm Barrett Wiik. In the weird conincidence category, Norm also wrote an essay on summer camp and “Wiik” is prounounced “Wick.” I can confirm we are not the same person, however, because we were both in a room together. Also, he said on the podcast that he was too young to remember the Iranian hostage crisis and I was most definitely not.
Norm is also on the board of directors for Camp Quest Minnesota, which is a super cool secular summer camp. The aim of the camp is to teach kids about critical thinking, which is something that is lacking in our school cirruculum. It is not “Jesus Camp for atheists.
Nick, Molly and I are really interested in helping Camp Quest Minnesota so in addition to having Norm on our podcast this week, we are doing a holiday fundraiser for them! If you click through to our website, you will see a widget to donate directly to Camp Quest! You could also just click here and it will take you directly to the donation page. Our goal is to raise $500 or more in the next month, which will be enough for us to provide a scholarship for one child to attend camp.*
So if you are like me and you don’t want to give your charity dollars to the salvation army this year, think about givng a few bucks to Camp Quest instead. Help us reach (and exceed) our goal.
*Note – $500 is enough to provide a scholarship. That doesn’t mean Camp Quest Minnesota will use the funds for that purpose. That is up to them. There are no strings attatched to our donation. We’d like them to use the funds for whatever purpose they think is best.
Tuesday Morning Geeks Without God Features a Very Drunk Molly
This week is the second of two episodes we recorded at Omegacon. If you listened to the first one, you will know that Nick and Molly had been drinking before and during the first podcast. By the time we recorded the second one, Molly was pretty drunk. Drunk Molly is, quite honestly, really god damned funny.
We did manage to spend some time talking about Fearless comedy, which was theoretically the goal behind the podcast. We also spent a while talking about sex education, which was not at all what we had in mind. All in all, it was quite the recording session. Enjoy!
New Monday Morning Silliness
This week’s Vilification Tennis web updates include a few new things by yours truly. The re-make of Red Dawn naturally inspired me to think about what the next re-make of Red Dawn might be like. So I wrote a Movie Dick article about it.
We also recorded a podcast right after our Vilification Tennis show on Friday night. It’s a little bit different from most of our podcasts. We skipped fucked up news and spent a while talking about the show we’d just done. We also talked about a lot of other comedy ideas, including rape jokes. Seriously – trigger warning. If that is the sort of thing that bothers you, I would hope you have already decided not to listen to our podcasts.
Matt got on a roll near the end of the podcast that will either offend the hell out of you or entertain you. I can’t say which. If you like it, great. If you don’t keep in mind he hit his head pretty hard earlier that evening.
Geeks Without God is Sober this week!
We have a guest on our podcast this week! And, unlike last week’s podcast, everyone is sober! Matt Allex, of the Apropos of Nothing podcast, joined us to talk about atheism and how talking about his beliefs convinced one of his listeners to come out of the closet.
As a personal aside here, I always hope that talking about my atheism will help others be more out about theirs. Being an atheist doesn’t have to be about activism or convincing others that god doesn’t exist. I feel like we all need to take a moment to cry “we are here, we are here, we are here” in a Wholike fashion because – well – we are here.
I’m quite inspired by Matt’s story because he did exactly what I want to do. He talked about his atheism in a way that helped someone else start to cry out that he is here. Good for him.
Our conversation was great. Matt is very smart and very funny and he has a favorite sandwich that will kill you if you eat it. Have a listen!
New Geeks Without God – now With More Liquor
This weeks Geeks Without God was recorded live at Omegacon and we were pretty drunk. Actually, Nick and Molly were pretty drunk. So drunk, in fact, that I think it is fair to qualify that we were all drunk even though I technically wasn’t drunk at all. We recorded in front of a live audience and shared booze with them. I even tried some. Boy was that a mistake.
We talk about games and movies and a little bit about the gay marriage amendment. Also annoying mega churches. There’s a little bit for everyone! Please listen!
Monday Morning Comedy Orgy!
Lots of new content over at Vilification Tennis this morning and I had a hand in most of it!
First, you can check out an article I wrote about the aftermath of the recent election.
You can also read a new Movie Dick article that explores the most important reason for the success of Skyfall.
And finally, we have recorded a Vilification Tennis Podcast at the convention. It was recorded late at night and everyone was pretty drunk. And by “pretty drunk,” I mean “completely wasted.”
So please listen, read and enjoy!
Listen to a New Episode of Geeks Without God Right After you Vote!
Hey everybody, Tuesday means a new Geeks Without God episode! This week, we talked with Bill Lehto, who edited Atheist Voices of Minnesota. The book features several essays by Minnesota Atheists, including one by me. My first (and likely last) published work!
Bill talked with us about the process of putting the book together and it was a really interesting conversation. Also, if you listen to the podcast, you will learn how you can win a free signed copy of the book! What a deal! Go listen if you want!
And whether or not you listen, please make sure you get out and Vote No.
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