I don’t know what happened, but Audacity pretty-much destroyed all my edits and pumped out an empty podcast. I’ll try to figure out how much editing I need to do and get it squared in the next few hours.

Sorry to everyone who downloaded the garbage version. I locked the post for the episode announcement, so hopefully no one else will get a bad version.

–Joe

We’re there, listed under “Religion Inspiration.”
As the site says:
“You can vote Every day voting Resets Everyday at Midnight EST Voting closes December 15th!”

So vote early and vote often!

It only takes a second and they don’t seem to be spamming me from my votes last year, so it looks pretty safe in that regard.

It takes us hours to make each show, you can blow two minutes on this. Do eeeet!

I finally caught up with a number of people who have donated in the past to find out what names they wanted to use and quotes and so forth. There are still several that have yet to respond and I have listed them under just their first name. Other people I just filled stuff in for if I thought I knew what they wanted.

Anyhow, you can go check out the donor page here:

http://www.atheistnews.org/donors/

I am going to look into getting one of those fancy thermometers that shows the total’s that have been donated. More on that later, I imagine.

Meanwhile, thanks again to all the people who have chipped in to help make this show possible!

–Joe

P.S. If you are missing from the donor page and you have donated, please let me know so I can put you on the wall. I am not 100% certain I found all the people who have donated in the wasteland that is my email.

It looks like this week’s Atheist News show might be pushed back a week. I have too much on my plate at the moment to do one and Richard was out of town over the weekend, so I doubt he’s ready for one right this moment.

I have not forgotten about the contributor’s page. It will be updated by Wednesday!

Thanks for all the mail recently, you guys are great!

–Joe

My headphones could not have broken at a better time. I’ve been buying the same kind for quite a few years now but they have been totally discontinued. I bought two pairs on clearance back when we started Chariots of Iron and I think I still have a pair somewhere over at Eli’s, but the pair I’ve been using to record the Atheist News Podcast finally gave up the ghost a couple of weeks ago.

Duct tape fail.

The ones I was getting were these Koss headphones that were re-branded by Radio Shack. They had really long cords and a volume slider on the cord. The up side is that they were cheap, they sounded pretty good, they folded up and they were really comfortable over-the-ear style. The downside is that every single pair I’ve owned had some wonky problems with the volume slider where one earphone goes out and you have to mess with it to get both to work at the same time. They also break pretty reliably after about a year.

So, I did a little research this time out since my old brand is no longer available and I discover Sennheiser, a company that makes headphones that have a price tag that falls somewhere in line with the Gross National Product of Uzbekistan.

Then I see that they make a pair that only costs $40.

Then I see that it is highly rated and is the #1 best seller on Amazon.

OMFG

Then I see that they are on sale for 64% off.

SOLD.

So, I just bought a pair. I don’t think they’ll be here for next show, but hopefully by the show after that!
Thanks to everyone who donated. Since I saved so much on these, I think we might have enough to buy Richard a new mic since his sucks so fucking bad. Any recommendations?

My email has been wonky for a few days now. I think I got it fixed.

Anyhow, if you have tried to send me something in the last week (including the contact form) and got a bounce or suspect that I didn’t get it, go ahead and send it again.

Thanks!

–Joe

The show keeps getting bigger, which is awesome, but it also keeps getting more expensive which is not-so-awesome. If you want to support the show, buy a shirt or click the donate button. Chip in a couple bucks and support indy media, we’re worth it. I’ve been hesitant to ask in the past, and I still am. We choose to do this because we love it and I don’t mind the expense at all when I can afford it. At the moment, the affording it has become a problem. Besides monthly expenses, the show needs some new equipment (I had to duct tape up my headphones before last show. Srsly.)

Because I hate asking for charity but don’t mind prostituting myself, I want to give you a little something for your trouble.

Unlike PBS we don’t have any tote bags or coffee cups to give away. So as an added incentive, you’ll be immortalized on our donor page as follows:

Everything up to “bronze” will be on the donor page and thus can have any content you want. The only exception to this is vulgar or gory pictures or racist/hateful quotations. We will allow links to sites we disagree with as they are clearly associated with your name and are your opinion, this will allow even churches to donate to our cause. God bless ‘em.

For silver and up, It doesn’t matter how much you donate, we’re going to have to agree with to it first.

What are you buying?
You should always know what you’re getting for your donations and I don’t mind telling you. There are three bills I have that are directly related to the production of the show: internet bill, cellphone bill and hosting bill. Grand total these three bills run $3,000 per year. New headphones will run me about $20 plus shipping (I don’t need anything too fancy.) I am considering a better microphone, but that will depend. There is also domain registration, but that is nominal ($10 a year.)

Besides that, I may use funds in excess of these amounts to travel to conventions.

Anything in excess of my expenses + optional travel will be re-invested into the show the best way I can.

The Atheist News Podcast is in no way shape or form a non-profit. Donations to the show are not tax deductible.

Past donors
In order to be fair to those who already have donated to the show, I will be tracking them down and asking them if they want to claim their little chunk of immortality. I’ll mention the button on the show, but I’m not going to flog it to death. Nobody likes a whiner.

Thank you guys and gals for supporting the show!

The podcast plug-in I have is broken so I am adding the podcasts by hand and I guess I screwed something up. It’s fixed now and should be working. Sorry guys.