S3 E02 Mur Lafferty: Playing For Keeps [37:35m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (284)

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 (374)

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 (288)

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 (285)

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.

 

 S2, E9: Podcast Novel Spectacular!: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (961)

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!

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

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Richard Carrier, who will be coming back later this year/early next year for one or two episodes, has posted a glowing review of the Reprobates Hour in his longer essay recapping his various media appearances. Excerpted here:

The best net radio show I ever recorded, definitely my personal favorite, was a lengthy in-studio interview for the Polyschizmatic Reprobates Hour, which was recorded quite a while ago, though it aired much later. You can listen to this online here (it’s free): Episode 4 (Season 1). This is a great example of why I like in-studio recordings and absolutely loathe phone-in shows. Not only is the quality and editing far superior, and not only was it more comfortable to record, but with face-to-face interaction the show is more lively and entertaining. Likewise, because I was right there with him it was much easier to understand and react to my interviewer (rather than misunderstanding each other, getting confused or unclear, talking past each other or over each other, or exchanging a monotonous series of canned questions and lengthy monologues). The difference shows here.

I also love this episode because Dan the Demented is an awesome interviewer. His questions and comments, and his particular interests, took the show in very interesting directions that allowed me to actually expand on my philosophy in ways that go well beyond everything I’ve published. You will understand my worldview, and many elements of my take on philosophy, far better from listening to this show. The ostensive topic was how my naturalism differs as a worldview from that of other naturalist philosophers, and in answering that I go through all five Aristotelian divisions of philosophy, but I don’t just summarize my book (thanks mostly to Dan). I got to talk a lot more about aesthetic philosophy, for example, something too few seem interested in (a curious fact that also comes up in the interview). I am usually asked to talk about the same boring old topics, like the resurrection or historicity of Jesus, or summarizing Sense and Goodness without God over and over again. This show was a lot more fun.

Dan’s philosophy is to get atheist authors to talk about things they aren’t usually asked to discuss, but which they know quite a lot about, which makes his show more interesting than most. I’m certain my fans will love my interview with him. Even my enemies might enjoy it. It’s only an hour, and we recorded another hour’s worth, but Dan hasn’t figured out how to edit that other material yet. We might record a bit more to fill it out and generate another show (as promised at the end of episode 4). We’re also going to do a show next year on, ironically, Rodney Stark’s awful treatment of ancient science. I’ll blog about these when they air.

Be sure to check out soon-to-be Dr. Carrier’s articles on infidels.org and his blog at richardcarrier.blogspot.com

Thanks for the blurb, Richard!