Talk Heathen 09.34 08-24-2025 with Dr. Ben and Sofia Spina

Talk Heathen

Atheist Community of Austin

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🗓️ 24 August 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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0:00.0	The weather. Tomorrow, expect a... Biting cold front. Mmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching their peak in the afternoon.
0:23.0	Not in the mood for miserable weather?
0:25.5	Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.
0:28.6	Sun Express, nonstop sunshine.
0:32.0	As we approach spooky season,
0:37.0	let's remember that demons are only manifestations of cultural anxiety and nothing more.
0:41.7	When a sequel to a popular children's movie about witches came out a few years ago,
0:43.3	many believed it was demonic.
0:47.0	One mother in Round Rock, Texas, very close to where I am now,
0:52.7	was invited on the local news to talk about how she could feel a door to demons being opened into her home.
0:55.5	She was on the news to warn other parents about this.
1:00.2	The news presented this information with the same level of credulity as they do important public health information. How will a child in Round Rock, Texas, ever be able to distinguish between
1:06.2	science and superstition when we live in a culture where even the local news presents anti-demon measures
1:12.4	as though they are as important as information about the seasonal flu or a deadly car crash on
1:18.2	I-35. So do you think demons ought to be warned against on the local news? Do you think that I'm an
1:23.6	agent of demons simply by claiming they don't exist? Or do you agree with me that demons have far too pervasive an impact on our culture now? And I'm an agent of demons simply by claiming they don't exist. Or do you agree with me that
1:28.2	demons have far too pervasive an impact on our culture now? And it's time we address that.
1:33.2	Either way, give us a call because the show is starting now.
1:42.4	Welcome, everyone. Today is August 24th, 2025. I'm your host, Dr. Bend, and with me today is
1:49.1	Sophia Spina. Welcome. How are you this fine, fine Sunday? I'm doing pretty all right, actually.
1:56.4	Yeah. Yeah, I'm pretty good. Kind of getting over the, the hype of, you know, being in the library all together and now we're back.
2:02.9	I know, yeah.
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