S3 E02 Mur Lafferty: Playing For Keeps [37:35m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (468)

And now, Episode 2 of Season 3, featuring the Grand-Dame of podcasting herself: Mur Lafferty.

Be sure to check out her website here, where you can listen to the excellent Heaven series, The Takeover audio drama series, and many other wonderful works of fiction and geeky essays.

And head on over to Amazon while we’re talking and pick up her new book, Playing For Keeps. Do it today, if you can. This is one talent that the world deserves to discover, and pushing her out into the limelight with her first novel here is a big step towards that discovery.

 

 Double Trouble! Tee and Pip storm the Reprobates Lair!: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (558)

That’s right, boys and girls, the Reprobates Hour is BACK! To kick off season 3, I’ve got Double Trouble for you - Tee Morris and Phillipa Ballentine join me to talk international travel, sexual politics, nude beaches, scotch, cigars, podcasting, and…what was the other thing? Oh, yeah! Writing! Their new books: Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Pitcher’s Pendant, and Digital Magic, respectively.

Find out what happens when you mix midori, beer, vodka, and tea with three very disreputable reprobates indeed!

Hera Flea returns with the most off-the-wall Reprobates News ever!

Click here to listen to Tee Morris’s first Billibub Baddings book, “The Case of the Singing Sword.”

Click here to listen to Philipa Ballantine’s “Chasing the Bard”

Click here to listen to Dan the Demented’s new novel “Antithesis”

 

 Kiwis in Hell: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (535)

During a moment of theological epiphany, Tee Morris and Dan the Demented discover the truth about New Zealanders.

An outtake from the Season 3 premier episode.

 

 Tee's Cigar: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (505)

Later today, the premier of the third season of the Reprobates Hour debuts.  We recorded far more for this episode than we could possibly use, so I’ve excerpted a couple of the funnier outtakes for bonus comments here.

So, for your dis-edification, here’s Tee Morris, Phillipa Ballantine, and myself talking about Tee’s “cigar” and who gets to smoke it.

 

 Important Podcast Fiction News [4:11m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1083)

It’s been really busy around the Reprobates Lair here recently, but fear not! More episodes are coming, and they’re fun ones, too!

Meantime, check out the promo on the feed. This one is important. You see, there’s only a few days left to pick up Scott Sigler’s Infected.

If you haven’t heard the podcast, you’ve been missing out. I’ll be posting a proper review in a couple days when I have time, but for now suffice it to say that even if you don’t like horror, you’re probably going to enjoy this book. Check out the Amazon reviews and get your copy - and try to get it before the 14th of April so that your purchase will count towards the New York Times Bestseller list. If Scott can make the list, it’s going to mean good things for ALL podcast authors - Sigler, Harwood, Lafferty, Hutchins, Wallace, myself, and all the others who are creating excellent free content for all of you guys out there in podcastland.

If you don’t want to go to Amazon, hit B&N.com or go to a local brick-and-mortar store and look for the book with this disturbing cover:

 

 S2, E9: Podcast Novel Spectacular!: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1162)

Well, my delightfully demented friends, your patience has been rewarded. This week (okay, month) we have two - count them - TWO of the top tier new media pioneers in the country. First, crime novelist Seth Harwood author of the Jack Palms series comes on to talk about the arrival of Jack Wakes Up on Amazon.com and the sales event he has modestly titled “Palms Sunday.”

Then, in between guests, Hera Flea regails us with tales of Amazon Women, feminism, Parisian fashion, public nudity, and the Vatican’s reaction to Seth Harwood.  Music for this segment from George Hrab and Jonathan Coulton.

Coming back from the Reprobates News, J.C. Hutchins, author of the 7th Son trilogy, joins us to talk about 7th Son, his new projects, and the Ministry of Propaganda. It’s an action packed hour of creative overdrive this week, don’t miss it!

 

 S2 E3: Michael Shermer on Markets, Morality, and Freedom [42:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2273)

This week, Dr. Michael Shermer of the Skeptic’s Society joins us to talk about his latest book “The Mind of the Market,” in which he looks into the evolutionary history of economies, morality, decision making, and human nature. Covering a number of interesting topics that will be new to most listeners, Dr. Shermer lays out food for thought from the provocative to the near-utopian, but manages not to take off on flights of fancy while doing it.
I met Dr. Shermer at Google after he gave an extensive talk on his new book and the implications of his research for how we understand business, ethics, and public policy. That talk is available through the authors@google series on youtube, and is embedded below.

Hera-Flea again brings us the Reprobates’ Newscast, aided with the smooth musical stylings of George Hrab and Jonathan Colton.

Promos Included:

The Going Linux Podcast

Two Smokin’ Hot Freethinkers

See Michael Shermer’s Google Talk on YouTube

On Tuesday I met up with Michael Shermer down at the Google campus in Mountain View. We sat down and talked for about half an hour about his new book “The Mind of the Market” and various subjects related to it. Skepticism - both the generic and the brand name varieties - keeps getting more sophistocated, and we at the Polyschizmatic Reprobates Hour are attempting to keep you abreast of the developments in our own peculiar, schizmatic, and surrealistic way.

The show is coming soon. This one’s gonna be a keeper.

-Dan the Demented

Well, we’ve been quiet here for the last little while.  We ran to the end of shows we had in the can just as things were getting crazy with the holiday season and various other end-of-the-year activities.  But we’ll be back soon, with episodes featuring Michael Shermer, Richard Carrier, and yes, even the long-awaited two-parter featuring John McCarthy.  Hope you all watch your feeds starting Feb 1.  There’ll be some great stuff coming your way!

-Dan the Demented

 

 S2 E7: The Value of Horror with Robert Price [87:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1580)

Dr. Robert M. Price returns to discuss his other, more secret career as an H.P. Lovecraft scholar and his lifelong love affair with horror and fantasy fiction. We talk about the spiritual and aesthetic value of the macabre and the fantastic, and the movies, books, and TV shows that tickle the cockles of our geeky hearts.

Hera Flea is back with a special terror edition of the Reprobates news, not to be missed. Special music for the Reprobates News provided by Jonathan Coulton. His songs “Re: Your Brains” and “Furry Old Lobster” help her tell the story of zombie activists and self-posessed calamari. Not to be missed!