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Friendly Atheist Podcast

Ep. 83 - Ask Me Anything

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2015

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

For this episode, I just answered a whole bunch of questions sent in by listeners! They include: - How can we help the "victims of religion"? - What are the differences between atheists who were once religious and those who have never been religious? - Are there any original atheism-related thoughts left to have? - How has the pressure to generate content changed the way that you interact with people and respond to issues? - Am I less "friendly" than I used to be? - How did I go from math teacher to full-time atheism blogger? And how much does that pay? - What tips do I have for young atheists trying to start a secular school group? - Have I ever been discriminated against due to my beliefs? - What are the positives of religion and the negatives of atheism? - How can "Nones" organize better to leverage our increasing numbers into political and social action? - What do I do to produce so much content? - Will I be speaking at the upcoming Reason Rally and how should it be different from the first? - Why bother with YouTube and podcasting? - Since the religious demographics are shifting so rapidly right now, will we continue heading down the "right path" as a country? - Why do you talk over your guests during podcasts? - Why do I post so many articles and videos on marginal preachers and religious people? - Do I always read the comments? - How do I select guest bloggers? - Will religion ever disappear completely? - How will my wife and I deal with religion with regards to our child? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everyone. No music today, just me. And let me explain why we're doing this today

0:07.0

instead of your usual interview and music like we always have. In the past month or so there's been a lot of stuff coming up and going on in my life and

0:17.7

Jessica's life and it's just been a little harder to record podcasts on a regular schedule but we've been doing it for like a year and a half

0:25.3

now and I'm determined to get out a podcast that is interesting for you and interesting for

0:31.0

me and her every week until we just decide to stop this.

0:35.0

So just to give you a quick heads up I know we mentioned this on the previous

0:39.2

podcast but Jessica got married a month ago so that's really exciting for her and as anyone who has gone through a wedding

0:46.6

experience knows it's super busy leading up to the event and after you're done you just want to relax for a bit and settle into your new life and stuff.

0:54.8

So that's what's going on on her end.

0:57.8

And on my end, exactly a month

1:04.0

so it's been a month of living with a newborn and dealing with all the stuff you expect with a newborn

1:10.0

she's healthy beautiful baby girl. So that's fun. That's been kind of in the

1:16.0

background of everything else I do and I don't want to talk about it just because I

1:21.9

don't know I feel really weird about telling people about what's going on in my personal life so

1:26.5

But there is a baby and it's interesting and it's fun

1:30.4

And that's that's what's going on.

1:32.8

That's why it's been hard to get into a studio to do any of this.

1:35.5

But again, I wanted to get something out,

1:37.1

so that's why I'm just gonna talk into a microphone for now.

1:39.5

And if you guys like doing the Q&A thing, just with me, we'll keep it going again in the future,

1:45.3

but I hope we have another recorded podcast with an interview this time next week.

1:50.2

But anyway, I asked you on Facebook and my website to ask me questions.

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