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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Due to circumstances beyond our control, we were unable to bring you the John McCarthy interview last week.  If time permits, we will put it up on the feed this coming Saturday morning - if it does not, we’ll do you a 2-for-1 next week at the normal time.

Meantime, check the feed on Thursday for a special short edition of the Reprobates to tide you over!

Can’t get enough of Dan the Demented?  Well, you’re in luck!  He’s now a regular on Apologia.  Come on over and hear a civilized discussion between Christians and Atheists about the vital issues of Christian history, ethics, philosophy, secularism, and just about anything else we can think of talking about.  Head on over to http://www.drzach.net/apologia.htm and check it out!

 

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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!