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0:00:00 INTRODUCTION

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.

You can find us at atheistnomads.com email us at [email protected] or leave us a message at (541) 203-0666.

The music is provided by Sturdy Fred.

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Announcing the Treasure Valley 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.

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Christian Nation or Godless Republic?

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 [email protected] 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.

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0:00:00 INTRODUCTION

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 [email protected] 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?

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We are very pleased to have Teresa MacBain as our guest! You can find more about her below.

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

You can now contact both of us at [email protected], Wesley at [email protected], or Dustin at [email protected]. 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.