You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to atheistically speaking this is episode 298 and I'm your host Thomas Smith

Wow well how do I introduce what you're about to hear I would say the first thing would be if you decide to listen on, do so

realizing that there is a lot of profanity in this episode. It's not very

typical of my show, but this was not a very typical episode of my show.

Sometime back when I was tweeting a lot about the election and sort of the aftermath

and my thoughts.

I ran into two listeners, Dustin Dark and Mike,

who were, I don't know how to put it. I thought they were a little more Trump supporters.

Turns out they actually weren't Trump supporters, but they both expressed

feelings that the left was kind of overreacting and that the

basically we disagreed in a number of ways and my thinking was in the wake of all

this stuff about the bubble and the fact that everybody's getting their news from only the sources they like and nobody we need to understand the other side all that stuff stuff that I actually do value on this show, understanding both sides, I do value that.

I wanted to have, I wanted to attempt to have them on.

It didn't go well, in fact it went really, really, really badly. And there are a number of reasons for that that I'll get to. First off, I want to say I don't, I hesitate to even do this, but in case anyone wants to hear the train wreck that is the full recording, it's way too long, I think it's over two hours.

It'll be on Patreon. I'll just, I'll throw it up there. I don't even really recommend you listen to it, but I think I think some people will want to they'll want to gain a full understanding of it and you can find that on Patreon.com slash atheist. What you're about to hear is the first part of it that was actually my first ever guest edited show. I want to thank Cecil from Cognitive Dissidence for

doing the edit. I have to trust Cecil's editing fingers. I hope he did well.

I listened to it sounded good to me,

but I don't have a clear memory of everything that was said.

So I don't know, maybe, maybe it made me sound worse

than I don't realize.

Who knows?

We'll see.

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