Naked Diner

Lucien Greaves is the co-founder of The Satanic Temple. Jack and Andy talk to Lucien about Grey Faction, The new ‘Hail Satan?’ documentary and more. You can find Lucien on Twitter, Patreon, as a semi-regular contributor on For Infernal Use Only, and of course for information on The Satanic Temple you can go to the organization’s website. As always you can find Jack at: Twitter and at his blog at For Infernal Use Only And Andy At: Laughing in Disbelief or Twitter If you like The Naked Diner Podcast please become a Patreon Patron amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "zxcr-20"; amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; amzn_assoc_region = "US"; amzn_assoc_title = "From Guests of the Show"; amzn_assoc_linkid = "f8f2941afc01beac7b0a804f20960bae"; amzn_assoc_asins = "1449479677,0982853718,B005FYCGIK,B00TA2IB7I";

This week on the show ‘DeadAir’ Dennis Maler is in his own studio with Co-Host Andy while Jack takes a week off. amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "zxcr-20"; amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; amzn_assoc_region = "US"; amzn_assoc_title = "From Guests of the Show"; amzn_assoc_linkid = "f8f2941afc01beac7b0a804f20960bae"; amzn_assoc_asins = "1449479677,0982853718,B005FYCGIK,B00TA2IB7I";

Atheist Comedian and MMA trainer Ian Harris is back in the diner this week to talk politics, gym training, religion and more. You can find Ian’s 2 comedy specials, Critical and Thinking, and ExtraOrdinary on Amazon. Plus, you can check out Ian’s podcast with Ty Barnett (also called Critical and Thinking) on all your favorite podcatchers. As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing and at his blog at https://patheos.com/blogs/infernal And Andy At: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingindisbelief/ or https://twitter.com/laughpurgatory If you like the show please consider becoming a Patreon Patron at https://www.patreon.com/NakedDiner amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "zxcr-20"; amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; amzn_assoc_region = "US"; amzn_assoc_title = "From Guests of the Show"; amzn_assoc_linkid = "f8f2941afc01beac7b0a804f20960bae"; amzn_assoc_asins = "1449479677,0982853718,B005FYCGIK,B00TA2IB7I";

Phil hosts the Hangover Haze Podcast and this week he sits down with Jack and Andy to talk about his show, addiction recovery, comedy, and more. Find more Phil at the Hangover Haze Facebook page As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing and at his blog at https://patheos.com/blogs/infernal And Andy At: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingindisbelief/ or https://twitter.com/laughpurgatory amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "zxcr-20"; amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; amzn_assoc_region = "US"; amzn_assoc_title = "From Guests of the Show"; amzn_assoc_linkid = "f8f2941afc01beac7b0a804f20960bae"; amzn_assoc_asins = "1449479677,0982853718,B005FYCGIK,B00TA2IB7I";

Suzanne runs the No Longer Quivering Blog on Patheos. This week she sits down w/ Jack and Andy to discuss living in Costa Rica, the Quiverful Movement, crazy fundamentalist shenanigans, giant insects, and more! Find Suzanne at her blog As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing and at his blog at https://patheos.com/blogs/infernal And Andy At: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingindisbelief/ or https://twitter.com/laughpurgatory If you like the show please consider becoming a Patreon Patron at https://www.patreon.com/NakedDiner amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "zxcr-20"; amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; amzn_assoc_region = "US"; amzn_assoc_title = "From Guests of the Show"; amzn_assoc_linkid = "f8f2941afc01beac7b0a804f20960bae"; amzn_assoc_asins = "1449479677,0982853718,B005FYCGIK,B00TA2IB7I";

Hemant Mehta is, of course, the erstwhile proprietor of Patheos.com’s Friendly Atheist blog, which covers topics of religious over-reach, scientific discovery, and separation of church state issues. He is also the author of several books including The Young Atheist’s Survival Guide and I Sold My Soul on eBay. Hemant is also a former high school math teacher. Jack and Andy invite Hemant into the Diner to talk about secular activism, blogging, common core education, and more. Find more Hemant at the Friendly Atheist, or at the blog’s Facebook page, or on the Twitters. As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing and at his blog at https://patheos.com/blogs/infernal And Andy At: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingindisbelief/ or https://twitter.com/laughpurgatory If you like the show please consider becoming a Patreon Patron at https://www.patreon.com/NakedDiner amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "zxcr-20"; amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; amzn_assoc_region = "US"; amzn_assoc_title = "From Guests of the Show"; amzn_assoc_linkid = "f8f2941afc01beac7b0a804f20960bae"; amzn_assoc_asins = "1449479677,0982853718,B005FYCGIK,B00TA2IB7I";

Hey gang! It’s the holiday season and this week Jack and Andy have been busy making our social rounds and doing all the things. So we’re delving into the vaults for a Classic Naked Diner episode! We’re going all the way back to July of 2016 for a talk we had with the amazing Geek Gal Sarah Hodge Weatherbe. Because it’s mid-December and everybody could use a nice, not political episode to chill out to and take a breather while gearing up for that fight you expect to have with your racist uncle in about a week. Fear not though! Gentle listener. Next Monday we’ll be back with the Friendly Atheist himself, Hemant Mehta, to get you in Xmas eve spirit. Sarah, erstwhile proprietor of Panels by Geek Gal http://www.panelsbygeekgal.com, is a true nerd and hoo-wee did we have a lot of fun getting our geek on. We know we’ve been hitting the serious topics pretty hard lately and I’ve got to say it was really nice to just have a straight-up literary discussion about comic books, urban legends, and geek culture to give us some breathing space before we jump back into politics or religion again (which I assure you we will, I’ve seen our calendar). Besides it’s the holidays, you don’t want a big heavy thinky show, do you? Nah. So we made you this, which we think is just the thing to pair with a hotdog or burger to jumpstart your geeky BBQ conversations about whether Wolverine would beat Batman in a fight or if the Baba Yaga and Krampus summer together in the Mediterranean. Big fun! You can check out Sarah at her site and over at her twitter As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing and on Patheos at https://www.patheos.com/blogs/infernal/ And Andy At: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingindisbelief/ or https://twitter.com/laughpurgatory. amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "zxcr-20"; amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; amzn_assoc_region = "US"; amzn_assoc_title = "From Guests of the Show"; amzn_assoc_linkid = "f8f2941afc01beac7b0a804f20960bae"; amzn_assoc_asins = "1449479677,0982853718,B005FYCGIK,B00TA2IB7I";

This week fellow Patheos blogger from “Without a Crystal Ball” Katie Paulson is back in the diner for an extra-long double-length episode! The conversation just.kept.going and we couldn’t just leave all that goodness on the cutting room floor. Stop in for a whirlwind talk about atheism, special needs parenting, drugs, crime and more! You can find more Katie on her patreon at https://www.patreon.com/withoutacrystalball2, on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/withoutacrystalball/) As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing and at his blog at http://patheos.com/blogs/infernal And Andy At: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingindisbelief/ or https://twitter.com/laughpurgatory If you like the show please consider becoming a Patreon Patron at https://www.patreon.com/NakedDiner amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "zxcr-20"; amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; amzn_assoc_region = "US"; amzn_assoc_title = "From Guests of the Show"; amzn_assoc_linkid = "f8f2941afc01beac7b0a804f20960bae"; amzn_assoc_asins = "1449479677,0982853718,B005FYCGIK,B00TA2IB7I";

Sam Slade is a comedian and radio personality who began his career as a producer and on-air personality on the Dudley and Bob Show on KLBJ-FM, a producer at ESPN Austin and Clear Channel, and hosted and produced his own show on KMAC radio. Since Sam’s last visit to the Diner he has gotten married and this week will be starting his own podcast The 20-Minute Morning show. You can find more Sam on Facebook and Instagram As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing and at his Patheos blog For Infernal Use Only at http://patheos.com/blogs/infernal And Andy At: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingindisbelief/ or https://twitter.com/laughpurgatory. To support the show, please consider visiting http://patreon.com/nakeddiner amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "zxcr-20"; amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; amzn_assoc_region = "US"; amzn_assoc_title = "From Guests of the Show"; amzn_assoc_linkid = "f8f2941afc01beac7b0a804f20960bae"; amzn_assoc_asins = "1449479677,0982853718,B005FYCGIK,B00TA2IB7I";

Comedian Nathan Timmel is back in the diner for a talk about post-election politics, patenting and … other things that start with P. You can find more Nathan on his website at http://nathantimmel.com, and also check out his podcast Idiots on Parade at https://soundcloud.com/idiots-on-parade As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing and at his Patheos blog For Infernal Use Only at http://patheos.com/blogs/infernal And Andy At: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingindisbelief/ or https://twitter.com/laughpurgatory. To support the show, please consider visiting http://patreon.com/nakeddiner amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "zxcr-20"; amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; amzn_assoc_region = "US"; amzn_assoc_title = "From Guests of the Show"; amzn_assoc_linkid = "f8f2941afc01beac7b0a804f20960bae"; amzn_assoc_asins = "1449479677,0982853718,B005FYCGIK,B00TA2IB7I";

This week Ben Rosenfeld from http://www.bigbencomedy.com/ is in the Diner to talk to Jack and Andy about his experiences in comedy, parenting, and growing up as a Russian Jewish immigrant. Ben has three comedy albums: the iTunes #1 best selling comedy album The United States of Russia (2018 – iTunes – released by Comedy Dynamics), the Amazon Top 5 best selling comedy album The Russian Optimist (2016 – iTunes – released by Comedy Dynamics / New Wave Entertainment) and Neuro Comedy (2012 – iTunes). As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing and at his blog at http://patheos.com/blogs/infernal And Andy At: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingindisbelief/ or https://twitter.com/laughpurgatory amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "zxcr-20"; amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; amzn_assoc_region = "US"; amzn_assoc_title = "From Guests of the Show"; amzn_assoc_linkid = "f8f2941afc01beac7b0a804f20960bae"; amzn_assoc_asins = "1449479677,0982853718,B005FYCGIK,B00TA2IB7I";

Joseph Laycock is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Texas State University whose research focuses on American religious history and sociological approaches to religious studies. He is the author of “Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds“, “Vampires Today: The Truth about Modern Vampirism“, and has contributed to many other books and journals. This week Jack and Special Guest Co-host Jim Miller from Arizona’s Crit Hit Tabletop Gaming Convention sit down with Joe to talk about gaming and the Satanic Panic of the 80’s and 90’s. As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing and at his blog at http://patheos.com/blogs/infernal and if you like the show please consider becoming a Patreon Patron at https://www.patreon.com/NakedDiner amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "zxcr-20"; amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; amzn_assoc_region = "US"; amzn_assoc_title = "From Guests of the Show"; amzn_assoc_linkid = "f8f2941afc01beac7b0a804f20960bae"; amzn_assoc_asins = "1449479677,0982853718,B005FYCGIK,B00TA2IB7I";

Well it’s the day before US Election 2018 and Jack and Andy are going guestless to talk about our pending election, make predictions, rant, elaborate, complain, kvetch, and motivate. Remember, we are two cis white guys; we’ll be fine no matter what happens. But we’re also Atheists, so we’re very concerned. We’ll see you at the polls, gang. Get out there and do your patriotic duty, you can listen to us while you’re standing in line. See you next week when, with any luck, we’ve all managed to triage some of this mess. amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "zxcr-20"; amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; amzn_assoc_region = "US"; amzn_assoc_title = "From Guests of the Show"; amzn_assoc_linkid = "f8f2941afc01beac7b0a804f20960bae"; amzn_assoc_asins = "1449479677,0982853718,B005FYCGIK,B00TA2IB7I";

This week Jack and Andy talk with Dale McGowan about music (not Atheism, not Satan, not Foundation Beyond Belief, not any of that …. MUSIC), because music is Dale’s first love and the subject of his new podcast How Music Does That, which Dale describes as his “favorite parts of teaching” to get people excited about music and musicology. McGowan graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 1986 with a double major B.A. in anthropology and music theory. In 1991 he received an MA in Instrumental Conducting from California State University, Northridge. In 1999 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in music theory and composition. From 1991 to 2006, he was associate professor of music at St. Catherine University, a Catholic women’s college in Minneapolis/St. Paul. His experiences at the college are satirized in his 2002 novel Calling Bernadette’s Bluff and the 2010 sequel Good Thunder. In 2012 he began writing Atheism for Dummies for the popular For Dummies book series. In 2014 McGowan became National Director of Ethical Education at the American Ethical Union and is a former director of engagement at the multi-faith website Patheos. You can find Dale all over the interwebs in all the the regular places  As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing and at his blog at http://patheos.com/blogs/infernal And Andy At: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingindisbelief/ or https://twitter.com/laughpurgatory If you like the show please consider becoming a Patreon Patron at https://www.patreon.com/NakedDiner amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "zxcr-20"; amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; amzn_assoc_region = "US";

Adam Kotsko is an American writer, theologian, religious scholar, and translator, working chiefly in the field of political theology. He served as an Assistant Professor of Humanities at Shimer College in Chicago, which was absorbed into North Central College in 2017. He is especially known for his interpretative work on Slavoj Žižekand Giorgio Agamben, as well as his writing on American popular culture. Jack and Andy are talking to Adam because of his two most recent books “The Prince of This World” and “Neoliberalism’s Demons“, both published by Stanford University Press. The prior is a discourse on the evolution of the character of Satan in our cultural milieu, and the later a reflection on the political demonization of minority voices in society. You can find Adam on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/kotskoadam, or on Twitter @AdamKotsko As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing and at his blog at http://patheos.com/blogs/infernal And Andy At: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingindisbelief/ or https://twitter.com/laughpurgatory If you like the show please consider becoming a Patreon Patron at https://www.patreon.com/NakedDiner amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "zxcr-20"; amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; amzn_assoc_region = "US"; amzn_assoc_title = "From Guests of the Show"; amzn_assoc_linkid = "f8f2941afc01beac7b0a804f20960bae"; amzn_assoc_asins = "1449479677,0982853718,B005FYCGIK,B00TA2IB7I";