Just a quick update on the production of the coming season: Last week we recorded the interview with John McCarthy about the Sustainibility of Human Progress, and we’ll be recording the other parts of the episode and editing it sometime this week.  The interview wasn’t as lively as I was hoping, mostly due to me misplacing my notes when loading the car and being scatterbrained in the unseasonably warm high-90s heat (yes, I know it’s summer.  It’s also California, so I have an excuse for being wimpy in the heat).

Even so, Dr. McCarthy is very professional and gave a great interview in spite of having a largely mentally stumbling interviewer.  Many thanks to him, and we’ll be bringing you the new episodes soon!

 

 Show 4 - Richard Carrier discusses Naturalism: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1152)

Dan the Demented flies solo interviewing Richard Carrier about his book Sense and Goodness Without God, his approach to worldview issues, and his take on ethics and epistemology.

 

 The John Calvin Experiment - Promo: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (458)

Another one of our deeply inane promos - redistribute promiscuously!

 

 Old Coot's History of the Reprobates - Promo: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (303)

The second of our promos brought to in glorious bad taste!

 

 Brigit's Warning - Promo 1: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (129)

The first of several promos that you are all (hint!) welcome and encouraged to put on your podcast and rss feeds to promote the Reprobates.

 

 Molecular Biology with Dr. Zachary Moore: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (460)

Dr. Zachary Moore joins us to discuss molecular biology, evolution, disease, and the ins and outs of genetic engineering and hereditary mutations. Heraflea also joins us for the Reprobates’ News.

 

 Introductions and Apostasy talk: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (471)

This is the premier episode that we made back in April of ‘06. It has gobs of nudity and…oh, right, this is an audio file. Well, it has a lot of entertaining banter.

In this episode we (in the first 20 minutes) introduce ourselves and talk about our personal journeys through the valley of faith to the mountains of reason (or, at least, our struggles to climb them).

From 20:12 to 22:57 , Heraflea (daughter of Heratick) gives us the Reprobates News.

From 21:00 to 29:00, we discuss the etymology of our name. Gene Cook, the Infideguy, Rational Response Squad all get a mention as we talk about the mission of our show.

From 29:00 to 38:00, we talk about the pernicious effect of Walt Disney and the history of Romantic Love as a concept, and the incompleteness of skeptical apostasy from religion.

35:00 to 52:00, we talk about the process of apostasy and the fallout in the personal lives of apostates.

53:00 to 54:35, we talk about upcoming guests and plans for future shows.

54:36 to end, Juila Ecklar’s “Hands of God” from her CD “Divine Intervention”

Hello, and welcome to the Polyschizmatic Reprobates’ Hour. Here with a face for radio and a voice for silent film, I’m Dan the Demented, and opposite me is my lovely, adorable, and devastatingly intelligent co-host Deviant Deb. Joining us on a rotating basis are the Heraflea (daughter of Heratick) and the Missing Lynx, as we discuss vital issues of the species on a haphazard basis in a slipshod manner. We’re not in this for the money, we’re not in this for the fame (though both would be welcome), we’re in this for the…actually, we haven’t figured that part out yet. But on this show we DO advocate unspeakable obscenity such as freedom of inquiry, freedom of speech, freedom of association and personal responsibility. If critical analysis of the issues that you hold dear offends you…well, if you’ve listened to the show you know the rest of the spiel.

The Reprobates, at long last, have a website. And new episodes coming. Confirmed guests in the near future include Scott Sigler and John McCarthy. We’re going to shoot for a less ambitious release schedule in the hopes that we can actually keep up with it. We have another twenty minutes of Richard Carrier, about 30 minutes of Cunning Minx, and some other odds and ends in the archives that’ll be coming out soon to tide you over. In the meantime, enjoy the earlier episodes in their new, glorious, bona-fide podcast form!