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Serious Inquiries Only

SIO85: PZ Myers

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

News, Atheism, Skepticism, Democrat, Left, Liberal, Politics, News Commentary, Progressive, Religion

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2017

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Joining me on the show for the first time is biologist and blogger PZ Myers! I wanted to get PZ's view of the atheist movement and how it has evolved, from his perspective. He has a fascinating story to tell, and we barely scratched the surface! Check out his blog Pharyngula. Leave Thomas a voicemail! (916) 750-4746, remember short and to the point! Support us on Patreon at: patreon.com/seriouspod Follow us on Twitter: @seriouspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seriouspod For comments, email [email protected]

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0:00.0

You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries. This is episode number 85.

0:33.8

I'm your host Thomas Smith.

0:35.3

All right, for this week's interview,

0:36.6

I'm bringing you a nice long one with PZ Myers.

0:40.1

We talk about so much.

0:41.4

We talk about atheism plus. We talk talk about kind of I wanted to get his

0:44.4

view of the movement how it went from his angle because we haven't actually spoken before

0:49.0

I know a little bit about it but definitely not the whole story and I'm sure a lot of people listening

0:53.3

don't know the whole story and if you don't know PZ he is of course a biologist he has

0:58.0

been very involved in the atheist movement from the beginning from as he'll

1:02.0

describe and he writes his blog foringula and he also

1:06.6

runs the free thought blogs network he's someone I'm very glad to finally have

1:11.9

spoken to I think you'll enjoy the interview so without further ado here we go

1:28.5

I'm joined right now by PZ Myers PZ it is so good to talk to you for the first time we've never spoken or met but I feel like I feel like now is a good time.

1:34.0

Yeah, well there's there's billions of people I have not spoken to or met.

1:38.0

That's true. I'm just one of those billions.

1:40.4

We're just reducing that number by one.

1:51.1

I am so excited to talk to you because you know I followed you for a long time and I think that there's a lot from my perspective anyway There's there's a progression I've definitely gone through.

1:53.8

Now having gone through this mythosis Milwaukee thing, I think I see a little better where

1:57.9

you've been coming from for years.

2:02.0

So I was really curious. I had the idea because I met somebody at this

2:08.4

mythosse Milwaukee event who came up to me and said,

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