You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to atheististically speaking this is episode 250.

Oh that's a nice round number and I'm your host Thomas Smith I'm also a very nice

round number I'll have you know. Two-50, that reminds me of the fact that I'm here in Chicago waiting to record episode 300 of

cognitive dissonance with Tom and Cecil.

I'm in the hotel room, basking in the horrendous

humid heat, I didn't even mean to do that all iteration, while waiting to go over there

in a few hours and record.

I hadn't planned on recording my episode here,

so that's why the audio quality might not be as stellar,

but I decided to cancel the, well not cancel,

cancel, to delay the episode I had chambered,

which is a fantastic recording with Andrew Torres

about the EU and hate speech laws and all that.

But given the recent events, I think it would be pretty weird and I don't know, not really

appropriate to just ignore the Orlando shooting which is a it's just a nexus of

of everything it's gun control it's homophobia it's Islam it's Trump it's everything

I mean it's it really really just an explosion of everything relevant to to this show and to our community and all that so I'm going to record

some commentary on that and hopefully via Studio Magic on my crappy little

iPhone microphone, it'll sound okay.

We'll see.

Let this be a lesson to any aspiring podcasters.

Whatever you end up hearing, that quality can be achieved with just your laptop and

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