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Friendly Atheist Podcast

Ep. 2 - Karen Stollznow, Author and Skeptic

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2014

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Karen Stollznow is a linguist with a background in history and anthropology. She is also the author of God Bless America, Haunting America, and her newest books Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic and Not What The Dr. Ordered. She has contributed to several publications including Psychology Today and Skeptic, and she is a research fellow of the James Randi Educational Foundation. We spoke with Karen about "foreign accent syndrome," speaking in tongues, and her exploration of different kinds of believers (from Quakers to Satanists). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Jessica Blumky.

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And you're listening to the podcast for Friendly Atheists.com.

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And today we are here with Dr. Karen Stolesnow, who is a doctor in linguistics

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with a background in history and anthropology, and she is the author of several books including

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Hunting America, God Bless America,

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and her newest book, Language Myths, Mysteries, and Magic.

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Thanks for joining us, Karen.

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Thank you for having me, and yeah, yeah surprisingly that last one doesn't have America enough.

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What exactly do those three things, the myths, the mysteries, the magic. What do those have in common?

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I'm sorry, you kind of cut out there.

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