The Atheist News Podcast

First, and most important, Roger Scott Jackson (AKA Brother Sam Singleton: Atheist Evangelist) and his wife Cari need your help. Sam Singleton, in case you don’t already know, is a traveling Atheist Evangelist (stand-up comedian) who roams across our great nation spreading the bad news. He is a fictional persona of Roger Scott’s. Consequently, he is not a terribly rich man. Persona’s rarely are. Just days ago, his wife Cari had a bad accident and broke, cracked, sprained, punctured... more

Ever wonder to yourself: “Gee, I wonder what rockstar’s like Joe Prova do with their free time…?” No? Really? How about: “Gee, I’d like to get in a space ship, explore space, trade slaves and drugs for money, and blow up capital ships with Joe Prova! YEEHAAHH! ROCK ON!!!’ Well, you just might be in luck. Step one: Buy and install Freelancer: http://www.amazon.com/Freelancer-Jewel-Case-Pc/dp/B000NJFMR4 http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?PID=7376420&style=games&frm=froogleother http://store.purplus.net/freelancerpc.html It’s... more

It’s hot… I am lazy and am not going to do a long synopsis this week. But, I did promise some info during the show. First, a letter from Steve [Last Name Withheld] Hi Joe, Can you give the owners of the Empire State Building some love on the next podcast, and encourage listeners to do the same? I’m sure they’re getting it from all sides on this one. http://wcbstv.com/local/mother.teresa.snub.2.1740885.html I sent the management company a congratulatory note through the below... more

Here are a couple of the pictures you folks sent in for Draw Mohammad Day. (You have to click “Read More” to see them”) SP sent me this one. Work a Comcast logo into this somewhere and my vision will be complete. Z sent me this rather touching family picture of the prophet. He looks like just another Atheist News podcast listener standing next to a ghost with morbid fashion sense. See, we’re not so different after all. AHAHAHAHAHAH. This is special.... more

Richard and I had a lot of fun making this episode, though we did a fair bit of ranting and digressing. Consequently, I put up a new poll about show subject matter that you can check out on the Atheist News website. It seems unlikely that we’ll ever stop rambling, but we could constrain our topics of focus if you cats dig it. Or we could go off about damn near anything. We’re wild like that. We did start the show off with some pretty big news: I will no longer be co-hosting the Chariots... more

I accidentally posted Episode 028 of the Atheist News Podcast in “stereo.” It has since been fixed. Sorry, my darlings. Download away! –Joe  Read More →

This week we kick it off the news podcast with little talk about the young lady who was recently fired from her teaching position at a Catholic school because she joined Atheist Nexus and said that she didn’t believe in God on Facebook. We might have some more in depth info from that direction in the very near future. Stay tuned. In the news this week, it’s more yammering about circumcision. A lot more. I know that it doesn’t directly have much to do with atheists or atheism in... more

The ol’ Atheist News podcast… Well golly. It’s been a while hasn’t it? In my defense, only most of the wait for this show is due to the paralyzing haze of lethargy that has settled on me since I quit smoking. Once we got it recorded, my power went out and my computer decided it wouldn’t start up again for several days. Yes, yes, I keep saying I’m going to fix it, but then, a few days later, it starts up again and works for another three months and I can’t... more

Yes, show releases have been a bit inconsistent as of late. I apologize. Everyone has been busy and coordinating a recording time has been a pain. Plus I quit smoking, so I am being a whiny, reclusive biotch. Thanks to everyone who has emailed me showing concern, but I am still alive. I promise we’ll get another episode up soon. Peace out, –Joe  Read More →

Texas keeps threatening to secede from the union, and at this point you wouldn’t catch me trying to talk them out of it. The Texas Board of Education has just voted to remove Thomas Jefferson from the state history curriculum. Thomas. Fucking. Jefferson. Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on the way out. If you aren’t an American, you probably already know who Thomas Jefferson is and can skip ahead a bit, but for those of you educated aboard this sinking ship of a country I live... more

In the first of our Atheist News Special Reports we conduct a short interview with a Post Graduate student and Saint Petersburg native Michael Middlebrooks who claims to have had a rather unpleasant run-in with the Governor of Florida. We made several attempts to contact the Governor through both the Governor’s office and Charlie Crist’s senatorial campaign office, but were unable to obtain a comment. If you are a Florida resident and would like to reach the Governor to weigh in on this... more

If someone wants to bother trying to explain the Holy Tri-Force to me–and they manage to convince me that three things can be three things and also be one thing at the same time–I’ll stop calling Catholics polytheists; until then they are out of luck. The saints and angels business doesn’t do much for your cause, I might add. Polytheists or no, they are still jerks. Another thing that needs to be explained to me is what the hell orphans and spousally-abused women have to do... more

I am sick and high on cold medicine for this show, Richard is… well, Richard. We had a spot of technical difficulty, but we soldiered through it. I am still sick and high on cold medicine as I post this, so I am going to keep it short. Don’t forget to check out the new poll I just put up! Oh, and here is the picture I promised in the show: Atheist News this week: Christian group utilizes gross misrepresentation to dodge hot lesbians, hate crimes are now belief systems, Jenny McCarthy... more

This is pretty-much the “Haiti Show.” When disaster strikes, so–apparently–do the disingenuous and the mentally unsound. We talk a lot about the atheist “identity” and toss around some ideas and opinions about the place where charity and the nebulous identity of atheism meet. Not that we actually reach any conclusions, mind you. And hey, I promised on this show that I’d paste in a link to the official form for complaining to the IRS about the abuse of tax... more

Richard is back from the “Heads VI” meeting and we talk a bit about what went on during this pow-wow of the high muckity-mucks of atheism. We didn’t have a whole lot of time to spend on it during the show, but I promise we’ll get Richard either on the Chariots of Iron podcast or on a special “extra” edition of the Atheist News Podcast to talk more about the meeting. As an extra-special treat during our closing credits, ALROmega agreed to let us turn you out with... more