AS277: Tommentary on the Harris-Buress Trainwreck, Kaepernick and More
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Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 19 September 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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It’s Tommentary time! I’ve got a few brief thoughts on the Sam Harris Hannibal Buress conversation that went off the rails a bit. After that I offer some brief thoughts on some general themes of the overwhelming number of comments I got about the Smalley episode. Then, an impassioned talk about the Kaepernick controversy. That’s … Continue reading AS277: Tommentary on the Harris-Buress Trainwreck, Kaepernick and More
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to atheistically speaking. This is episode 277 and I'm your host Thomas Smith. |
| 0:37.0 | All right, got a commentary show for you today. Lots of stuff that I plan to talk about. We'll see how much we get to. It's always a battle, but first off, I did have a number of people saying that they did want me to do more commentary and analysis on the Smalley episode. |
| 0:53.7 | I also had a few that were like, nah, move on. |
| 0:56.1 | So I'm going to split the difference. |
| 0:57.6 | I'm just going to say a couple small things about it, |
| 1:01.1 | which are in no way meant to prolong or expand the controversy or whatever. |
| 1:05.8 | I just want to address a few common comments that I got because literally it just hurt to |
| 1:11.3 | have the most comments on anything I've ever gotten and not be able to talk about it on the show. |
| 1:16.0 | So that is absolutely the only reason I care about doing it more because I just want a chance to respond to the just the overwhelming number of comments |
| 1:26.2 | so I hope you'll indulge me on that but it's not going to be the whole show just a just a brief thing. |
| 1:31.2 | But first I just want to give a quick little summary of my overall |
| 1:36.3 | goals and vision with this show because I got a huge influx of new listeners and I |
| 1:41.1 | really appreciate that and I just thought I'd take this small |
| 1:44.0 | chance to just explain a little bit about what I try to do here. My overall goal |
| 1:48.0 | is to look at interesting areas of disagreement. That's what I'm most interested in. |
| 1:52.4 | I kind of I usually try to leave the obvious things to other |
| 1:57.2 | shows and just try to pick that as my niche, that I'm just, I like to pick the things that are that we're not going to agree on, |
| 2:05.0 | that we're, you know, you and I are going to probably have a few different ideas about maybe half |
| 2:10.0 | of us will totally agree, maybe the other half won't, that sort of thing. |
| 2:13.7 | Not to say I don't always do a freebie now and then, because sometimes something is just |
| 2:18.7 | so ridiculous or so prevalent or something I feel like I need to address, then we'll have an example of that today |
| 2:26.8 | because there's something that's really killing me that I just have to talk about, but I suspect |
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