You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to Atheistically Speaking episode number 81 with your host Thomas Smith.

This week I have a special guest, a listener who posted a very interesting comment and I wanted to

have on because he sounds like he has a such a unique experience from my own which is not hard

that I wanted to kind of get more into it.

So Ben, how you doing?

Not bad, Thomas, how are you?

And hello America.

Yeah, and you know I have a handful of listeners who aren't American, but I know that most of them are.

Yeah, I'm doing well.

I mentioned to you out there.

I've got the new setup all set I want to mention it because I had some

Apologies Ben this will be boring for a second I had some listeners really come through and and donated in order to help me get a new setup.

So I just wanted to thank Brian and Michael.

Brian Gerefords, you know, they're both supporters of the show and they really came through to help me get this new setup which I'm hoping will sound nice and good and we shouldn't have any any hiccups or anything. So apologies for the the brief audio

Boring audio spiel Ben but let's get into it. I just wanted to make sure to thank

those guys though because it was really huge what they did so everyone listeners you all thank them too. No.

All right so Ben can you briefly no not briefly can you not briefly, can you not briefly, very at length give us an idea of your

background and sort of your story here.

Right, okay, so my parentage is Scottish and Bengali. So my mother is Scottish and my father came from Bangladesh and I was born in Scotland which means I hold a thankfully

all the British passport which gets you around in the world a little bit.

Crucially though we moved actually back to Bangladesh and I lived there for the first

eight years of my life and incidentally I guess what's

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