Ep. 221 - David Ellis Dickerson, Writer for "The American Bible Challenge"

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode, Hemant spoke with David Ellis Dickerson. He's a writer mostly known for his many appearances on "This American Life," telling stories about growing up a conservative Christian in Tucson, Arizona. In 2013, he became an Emmy-nominated game show writer for his work on the Christian game show "The American Bible Challenge," which aired on the Game Show Network and can now be seen on Netflix. We spoke about how our paths inadvertently crossed about a decade ago, how an atheist gets a job writing for a Christian game show, and what "SEX DUO" has to do with the Bible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemant Meta for the Friendly Atheist Podcast.
0:05.0	This is a bonus episode that we wanted to put out there because not too long ago,
0:10.0	I saw this TED Talk that really I found interesting and I thought a lot of you would find it
0:16.6	interesting too and so I got in touch with the person who delivered it and asked him to talk
0:21.7	about it and the gist of it is that he is an atheist who
0:25.5	wrote questions for a Bible game show. So you'll hear about his story in a little bit.
0:31.8	If you like what you're listening to please go to
0:33.6	Patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast. Here's the brief introduction about who you're
0:40.3	about to listen to. David Ellis Dickerson is a writer from all over
0:45.3	who's mostly known for his many appearances
0:47.8	on public radios this American life,
0:50.0	telling stories about growing up a conservative Christian
0:53.1	in Tucson, Arizona.
0:54.8	He's been also been a greeting card writer,
0:57.5	a video blogger, a graphic novel editor,
0:59.8	a planetarium script doctor,
1:02.0	and in 2013, he became an Emmy-nominated game show writer for his work on the Christian
1:07.1	game show The American Bible Challenge, which aired on the game show Network and can now be seen on Netflix. That's the story he was talking
1:15.7	about in this TED Talk that just came out. So I had a chance to talk to him about how our paths
1:21.7	inadvertently crossed about a decade ago,
1:24.0	decade ago, how an atheist even gets a job
1:27.5	writing for a Bible game show
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