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Recorded on 09/08/12 for release on 09/13/12 – Hey, it’s only a day late. 0:25 INTRODUCTION A little more on e-cigs, thanks to Skeptics with a K. 6:34 THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1814 – Key pens Star-Spangled Banner 1993 – Israel-Palestine peace accord signed 1996 – Tupac Shakur dies 2004 – Oprah gives away nearly 300 new cars 27:26 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY Google Listen is dead Curiosity update DARPA’s new 28 mph Cheetah Organic foods are not any healthier or better for the environment 42:19 POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE The newest Popemobile is electric Christian monastery in Israel vandalized Romney moves back to the middle Or maybe not…. The Democrats have added a little god to to their platform 55:23 FEATURE Recently the Skeptics Guide to the Universe and Skeptics with a K both covered the FDA’s recent warning letter issued to British homeopathic manufacturer A. Nelson & Co, but they missed some nuances that Dustin’s experience with the FDA might help with. A. Nelson & Co Alfa Vitamin Laboratories Kare-N-Herbs Healing Ways Dragon Herbs You can find us online at www.atheistnomads.com email us at contact@atheistnomads.com, leave us a voice mail message at (541) 203-0666, find us blogging at www.dwnomad.com, and like us on Facebook. Theme music is provided by Sturdy Fred.

Recorded on 08/25/12 for release on 08/30/12 After issuing a correction, covering this day in history and the latest in science and politics, we talk with Dr. Robert M. Price about the historicity of Jesus, the Q gospel, the future of Christianity, and BBQ. INTRODUCTION FEEDBACK Kristi – with correction on genetic resistance to HIV 06:08 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – August 30 30 BCE – Cleopatra commits suicide 1918 CE – Vladimir Lenin shot 1967 – Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Supreme Court justice 1980 – Christopher Cross has his first of two #1 hits with “Sailing” 16:46 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY A bonobo makes stone tools The origin of the Indo-European language group The Texas West-Nile outbreak 26:49 POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE Akin, Romney, rape, and abortion – article 1, article 2 Obama and Romney on faith (Via Friendly Atheist) 38:55 INTERVIEW Dr. Robert M. Price, PhD is Professor of Biblical Criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute as well as the editor of The Journal of Higher Criticism. His books include Beyond Born Again, The Widow Traditions in Luke-Acts: A Feminist-Critical Scrutiny, Deconstructing Jesus, and The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man. Forthcoming titles are The Crisis of Biblical Authority, Jesus Christ Superstar: A Redactional Study of a Modern Gospel, The Da Vinci Controversy and The Amazing Colossal Apostle. He is also host of the Human Bible and the Bible Geek. You can find us online at www.atheistnomads.com, email us at contact@atheistnomads.com, leave us a voice mail message at (541) 203-0666, find us blogging at www.dwnomad.com, and like us on Facebook. Theme music is provided by Sturdy Fred.

***As an experiment I’ve embedded both the MP3 and Ogg into the same file. Let me know if this causes issues for either feed.*** 00:00 INTRODUCTION 01:41 FEEDBACK Kudos from Neil and mixed reviews on iTunes. If you think there’s room for improvement and we know there is, please email us at contact@atheistnomads.com with specifics on what we can do better. 05:27 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – August 16 1896 – Gold discovered in the Yukon 1948 – Babe Ruth dies 1958 – Madonna is born 1977 – Elvis Presley dies 1972 – Moroccan king survives attack by own air force 12:59 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY Curiosity has landed Curiosity pictures OTA software upgrade Only a 2MP camera? Two HIV patients now non-reactive Neolithic logging Size does matter, at least it does if your a rhinoceros beetle Ozone hole forming over the US 30:14 POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE Sikh temple shooting. For more information on Sikhism check out the article in Wikipedia Giant idol found in Turkey New photo of Nessie Taped German Olympic beach volleyball player, but not the good kind, pervert 44:33 INTERVIEW SGT Justin Griffith, USA, is the Military Director for American Atheists and was the project lead for the original Rock Beyond Belief at Fort Brag and SSgt Christopher Herr, USMC, is the project lead for Rock Beyond Belief 2 that is being planned for Camp Pendleton. The official Rock Beyond Belief website Rock Beyond Belief on Freethought Blogs Facebook – Rock Beyond Belief | Justin Griffith | Chris Herr | Paul Loebe Rock Beyond Belief/Justin Griffith on Twitter ***The views expressed by our guests are their own and do not represent the views of the DoD, US Army, or US Marine Corp.*** You can email us at contact@atheistnomads.com, leave us a voice mail message at (541) 203-0666, find us blogging at www.dwnomad.com, and like us on Facebook. Theme music is provided by Sturdy Fred.

Okay, this episode was supposed to be released on 08/02/12, but life got in the way. More on that next week. Sorry about that. – Dustin 00:00 INTRODUCTION Fun on Facebook Shooting in Colorado 13:10 THIS DAY IN HISTORY 02 August 1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait 02 August 1934 – Hitler becomes the Fuhrer 02 August 1939 – Wes Craven of Freddy Krueger fame was born 02 August 1776 – Delegates sign the Declaration of Independence 25:15 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY Orion parachute test Congress warned about hacked drones Mayan water management DARPA’s new acoustic fire suppression Non bruising or browning Canadian genetically modified apple might hit market soon 44:35 POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE Boy Scouts maintain anti-gay policy Washington’s Facebook voter registration – If your a Washington resident register now and vote yes on Referendum 74 Colorado Shooting Texas Republican blames Dark Knight shooting on Attacks on Christianity (Via Rock Beyond Belief) Justin Griffith is investigating his DoD source Only the Christian victims will go to heaven It’s all because of evolution 59:59 MUSIC To lighten the mood before the interview, we have Roy Zimmerman‘s Evolution 101 (used by permission). 64:27 FEATURE Joining us for the second half of the show is Mike Sieber, the artist and blogger behind “The Atheist Pig” comic strip. You can find Mike on his website at theatheistpig.com and on Twitter @TheAtheistPig. Mike’s take on the BS surrounding the Colorado shooting. Theme music is provided by Sturdy Fred.

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 contact@atheist or leave us a message at (541) 203-0666. The music is provided by Sturdy Fred.

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.

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 contact@atheistnomads.com 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.

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 contact@atheistnomads.com 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?

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 contact@atheistnomads.com, Wesley at wesley@atheistnomads.com, or Dustin at dustin@atheistnomads.com. 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.

Welcome to the first episode of the Atheist Nomads. Why we are starting this podcast. News, including: OTC HIV test, see also the manufacturer’s BPAC briefing document. Religion or just bad singing causing outcry? Will Peter Blatty going to sue Hoyahs Will people stop the insanity? Wesley tells his story. Dustin tells his story. Dustin interviews Roy Zimmerman “Ted Haggard is Completely Heterosexual” by Roy Zimmerman (used with permission) Yes, this episode sucks, but hang in there and we’ll get better.