Naked Diner

This week The Naked Diner returns with a guestless Jack and Andy discussing Andy’s recent response column regarding debates between atheism and religon, news about all the big changes going on as Jack fleshes out the new ZXH Podcast Studio, national poltics, a little bit of history and a smattering of pop culture. Show guests return next week. As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing and http://zxh-creative.com And Andy At: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingindisbelief/ or https://twitter.com/laughpurgatory. To support the show, pleas 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, recorded live in Andy’s kitchen, our industrious duo conduct a State of the Podcast Podcast. No guest, bad miss, just Jack and Andy discussing where the show is and where they want it to go. This episode was recorded several weeks ago when Jack was visiting Massachusetts and before Jack’s announcement of a return to the freelance life on last week’s episode. As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing and http://zxh-creative.com And Andy At: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingindisbelief/ or https://twitter.com/laughpurgatory. To support the show, pleas 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, author, illustrator and designer M. Patrick Duggan and Co-host Andy go way back so Co-host Jack lays low while the talk ranges from Duggan’s new books, to crazy road trip stories from the 80’s. You can get Patrick’s new coloring book Myths and Legends from amazon at http://amzn.to/2rRG310 and follow him on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/micduggan As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing and http://zxh-creative.com And Andy At: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingindisbelief/ or https://twitter.com/laughpurgatory. To support the show, pleas 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";

Aron Ra is the former president of the Atheist Alliance of America, the host of the Ra-Men Podcast, a public speaker, video producer, blogger, and vlogger. He is also the former Texas state-director of the American Atheists. Aron will be running for Texas State Senate in the next election cycle in Texas’ District 2. To find more Aron you can visit http://AronRa.com, his campaign page at http://aronra.org, and his patreon at http://patreon.com/aronra As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing and http://zxh-creative.com And Andy At: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingindisbelief/ or https://twitter.com/laughpurgatory. To support the show, pleas 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";

Lucien Greaves is one of the co-founders of The Satanic Temple and the driving force behind greyfaction.org. In this week’s show Jack and Andy sit down with Lucien to discuss Grey Faction’s campaign against Satanic panic inspired Dissociative Identity Disorder treatments, The growth of The Satanic Temple, and non-theistic Satanism as a religion within the secular/atheistic movement. If for more information you can visit https://thesatanictemple.com, https://greyfaction.org, or The Satanic Temple’s Facebook Page. To find Lucien you can follow his twitter feed at https://twitter.com/LucienGreaves As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing and http://zxh-creative.com And Andy At: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingindisbelief/ or https://twitter.com/laughpurgatory. To support the show, pleas 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 Naked Diner Presents audio of our own Andy Hall participating in a panel discussion for the Secular Society of MIT with local ex-Orthodox-Jewish Harvard research scientist Moshe Hoffman. This even was part of the Out And Out series, a set of events for atheists coming from specific religious communities and backgrounds to share their unique experiences with one another, with other secular people, and with religious guests. Regular Naked Diner programing will resume next week now that Jack has returned from galivanting around the country. As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing And Andy At: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingindisbelief/ 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, Well I have good news and bad news. The good news is that this week we have a delightful, though shorter than usual, episode with Author and long-time friend of the show Troy David Loy talking about his latest book Echoes of Forsaken Galaxies. This episode was originally intended to be a bonus show that we had hoped to put out soon, but due to some unforeseen circumstances you’re getting it now! Which brings us to the bad news. The bad news is that you don’t get to hear the original episode we had planned to put out this week until later, and there will be no episode next week. Andy and I have several really great recordings lined up for the podcast including what should be this week’s episode of Andy’s participation on a panel at MIT. However, as you may be aware, here in the U.S. it’s Mother’s Day so I find myself on the other side of the country, dutifully armed with laptop to edit the show, and a thumb drive that contains the audio files which, at some point between Arizona and here decided to stop working. All is not lost, I do still have the original files … on my desktop … in Arizona. But this does require us to take an unfortunate hiatus until I can get back to my hovel. That won’t be until after next week’s episode is supposed to go out though because I will still be traveling. So … we’re going to be compelled to take a week off. Of course this could have been avoided if I had more room on one of my cloud drives … so if you, dear listener, would like to make it so I can afford to upgrade my cloud storage by becoming a Patreon Patron by going to http://patreon.com/nakeddiner Andy and I would certainly appreciate it. You can find Troy’s author page on Amazon at: http://amzn.to/2r6HzPS   As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing and http://zxh-creative.com 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";

Thomas Westbrook is the host of the YouTube channel Holy Koolaid which he descrbes as “1 part friendly humanist; 2 parts relentless atheist with a dash of science and a pinch of history and philosophy”. Holy Koolaid releases every Saturday, and covers the topics of atheism, science, religion, history, and philosophy and try to answer them in ten minutes or less. As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing And Andy At: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingindisbelief/ 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 is a Texas comedian and political activist. Sam was first on the show back in episode 50 back in the days before the current administration while the election was still going on. Now he returns to redux about the state of politics, entertainment and more. You can find Sam on his Facebook http://facebook.com/samsladecomedy and on his twitter http://twitter.com/thesamslade As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing and http://zxh-creative.com 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";

Ali Kellog is the Chapter Head for the Los Angeles chapter of The Satanic Temple. In this week’s wide ranging episode Jack and Andy talk to Ali about the stages of genocides, the events surrounding TST-LA’s Satanic Mass event earlier this year, the Maya, racism, and more. For more information on The Satanic Temple-LA visit: https://www.facebook.com/thesatanictemplelosangeles/ 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";

Jamie Genovese is a blogger and social activist in Southern Illinios. This week Andy goes solo as Jack celebrates his birthday to talk with Jamie about activism in a post Trump world. 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";

Dan Ellis is co-host of the Godless Rebelution Podcast, Secretary of Atheists of Utah, is a Regional Director at American Atheists, AND has a day job. Dan’s a busy guy. This week Jack sits down with Dan for an hour to talk about community building, social engagement, activism and outreach, the subtle difficulties of being a non-believer in red states, and even a little current political topics. 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";

Andre Salais is a Secular Activist and host of the Unbelievers Radio Podcast. His Atheist Candidate Project is a political engagement campaign to recruit and facilitate Atheist politicians in all 50 states. 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";

Gang it’s great to be back and podcasting again! Welcome to the new season of The Naked Diner! We’re kicking things off this time with Travis LaSaffre, Chapter Head for The Satanic Temple-Boston. He’s a good guy, and was part of the driving force in getting The Satanic Temple’s Menstruatin’ with Satan Campaign off the ground which aims to make menstruation products available to all people in need … especially those who may not be able to afford them without assistance. Andy and Jack sit down with Travis to talk about the events and goings on within the TST-Boston Chapter, the trials and tribulations of activism, and The Satanic Temple’s current Fundraiser, the Virtual Run for Reproductive Rights. Welcome back to the Diner everyone! Be sure to subscribe to the show in the podcatcher of your choice because we have some great guests coming up like Humanist, activist, and political consultant Andre Salais; Dan Ellis from Atheists of Utah; Trans-rights advocate Jamie Genovese; West Coast Director for the Anne Frank Museum for Mutual Respect Ali Kellog, and MORE! Talk at you next Monday. 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 gang here we are at the end of 2016 … and what a shitshow of a year it’s been. But just before the show goes on hiatus until March we have one last thing for you. Dese’Rae L Stage from livethroughthis.org, who as you may remember we’ve been raising money for by cursing like sailors for the last few months. This week Jack talks to Des about what she’s been up to since her last time on the show and announces the Grand Total the Naked Diner Podcast will be donating to Live Through This to support Des’ continued effort to raise suicide awareness. To find more Des please visit livethroughthis.org, @lttphoto on twitter, and myriad other places about the internets (just google her, it’s a distictive name … kind of sticks out). If you’re feeling suicidal, please talk to somebody. You can reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 (veterans press 1) or Trans Lifeline at 1-877-565-8860. If you don’t like the phone, check out http://www.crisischat.org or http://www.crisistextline.org. If you’re not in the U.S., you can go to http://iasp.info/resources/Crisis_Centres/ for a link to crisis centers around the world. Alright everbody. This is Jack, signing off until March. Please visit zxh-creative.com for all the past Naked Diner episodes as well as most episodes of my other shows. I’ll see you all in a few months! As always you can find Jack at: https://twitter.com/ledflashing and http://zxh-creative.com … but I am on podcast vacation! So I might not get back to you right away. Music: Schux Famicom – 7th Street. Full album available on iTunes at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/schux-famicom/id757234799 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";