Okay, here we got. Stand by. Three, two, one.

The thinking atheist, it's not a person. It's a symbol. An idea.

The population of atheists in this country is going through the room.

Rejecting faith. Pursuing knowledge. Challenging the sacred.

If I tell the truth, it's because I tell the truth.

Not because I put my hand on a book and made a wish.

And working together for a more rational world.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself.

Much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.

Assume nothing.

Question everything. And start nothing. Question everything.

And start thinking.

This is the Thinking Atheist podcast, hosted by Seth Andrews.

So this is the classic content creator's dilemma, and it just happened to me.

I had a show that was prepped and cued and ready to go out, and it had to do with, first of all, Pete Buttigieg, our former Secretary of Transportation, who is now sort of on the speaking circuit, who is trying to spread a little good sense out there, whether or not you like Pete or would

support Pete, I thought the stuff that he said, and I had sound bites, I thought it was relevant.

It would be maybe a jumping off point for larger conversations about how do we fix the freaking country.

And so that was the first segment.

And then I read this letter from 250 journalists, some of them very high profile here in this country,

in advance of the White House correspondent's dinner, this big annual soire. It's a multi-day event.

And major, major, major league journalists, whether they are print journalists or media

broadcasters or whatever, they show up, there's usually a roast. Trump does not go to this thing.

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