Archive | May, 2010

64: Selected Apocrypha — Thomas & Barnabas

After the Hindu podcast debacle, we go back to our roots in this one. Nice, familiar, Western religion, filled with slavery, nonsensical tirades against sex and children, and old-fashioned antisemitism: the Acts of Thomas and the Epistle of Barnabas. Ahhhh, it’s good to be back. Plus, the Mims Carter Skunk Dick of the Week and [...]

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63: Hinduism

Well, you asked for it. Leighton does all of the research and most of the talking, and I sit back and attempt to add some color to the weird, weird story of Hinduism. If you’ve ever wondered what the hell is going on with the third largest religion in the world, well, we can’t really [...]

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Draw Muhammad Day!

While editing the new podcast on Hinduism, I noticed it was “Draw Muhammad Day.” Well, we here at Irreligiosophy couldn’t let that pass by unnoticed, so we put our intrepid starving Thai children to work. It took multiple threats of watching Kent Hovind videos, but here’s what they finally came up with: New podcast up [...]

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62: The Comics Scare of the 1950s

Finally! More than you ever wanted to know about comic books and the puritanical busybodies who almost destroyed them. We discuss the events leading up to the hysteria of the 1954 Senate hearings on juvenile delinquency, as well as the key players such as Bill Gaines of EC Comics and the dreaded Dr. Fredric Wertham. [...]

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New Episode Forthcoming

Thanks for your patience. This week has seen some health problems in the family and a minor surgery, as well as Leighton’s finals, which are tonight. Give us a day or two more to get our shit together, and we should have another podcast out by Friday or Saturday. Here’s a hint as to the [...]

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Interview with Skeptical Review

[leighton]You ever have one of those transcendental experiences due to someone comparing you to something completely off the wall? I just finished up an interview with Karl wherein he said I was “… pretty much freakin’ Wolverine, in my books.” I hate to be the one to point out the obvious, but there may be a [...]

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It’s that time again

Whenever the choice is between putting out a mediocre podcast and putting out none at all, we choose the lazy way out and take the week off. So we’ll see you next week with what we hope is a decent podcast. In the meantime, listener and Irreligiosophy Apostle Emma has sent us the “Irreligiosophy Drinking [...]

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