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 and cut what sounded to me like god damn near everything in her body. Right now she’s stable, but is still in the ICU.

Because his wife is in the hospital, Roger Scott can’t tour, which means he can’t make money, which means he can’t pay the jillion dollars in medical bills he’s about to have rammed up his ass.

This is where the Atheist News Posse comes to the rescue.

We have to help Roger Scott. He’s not only a good man, he’s one of our own. If his alter ego was a religious preacher, rather than an areligious preacher, his house would already be filled with pies and flowers and his community would rally around him. There is no reason at all we can’t rally around Roger. There is no excuse not to!

That’s what I want from you. I want you to click below and PayPal or use your credit card to kick down $10 to Brother Sam, because Brother Sam is royally fucked. Optionally, buy some of his swag over here. This is what I am buying from you guys and gals this year with the karma I have saved up from doing this show. You do this, you don’t have to do anything else I ask for for the rest of the year…

…Except vote during the podcast awards, but we’ll burn that bridge when we come to it.

(The name on the account is the name of his Agency, by the way.)

But don’t stop there. Tell your friends, post this around on the sites you frequent. Let’s help Sam! Go go go!

If you want to put this button on your site, you can do so with the following mess of code:

<form style="margin: 0pt;" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_xclick" />
<input name="business" type="hidden" value="loveofferings@samsingleton.com" />
<input name="item_name" type="hidden" value="Save Our Sam!" />
<input name="return" type="hidden" />
<input name="cancel_return" type="hidden" />
<input name="image_url" type="hidden" />
<input name="bn" type="hidden" value="yahoo-sitebuilder" />
<input name="pal" type="hidden" value="C3MGKKUCCAB9J" />
<input name="mrb" type="hidden" value="R-5AJ59462NH120001H" />
<input src="http://www.atheistnews.org/img/sos.png" type="image" />
</form>

Or, just put a link to his site, he has a donate button on the right hand side.

http://www.samsingleton.com/

Thanks guys!

As for the show: we talk more about Israel and I dig my hole even deeper whilst Richard plays the sensible one. During this conversation, I promise a link to this:

Netanyahu talks shit.

Richard talks about Death, dying and Daniel Dennett: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dennett06/dennett06_index.html

And here we have a video of Woodruff, SC City Council meeting defying the warning from FFRF about prayer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xmxwdGNfpI

We go over a bunch of listener mail and eventually get to the news (now with 100% more doot doot doot goodness!)

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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 cheap and it’s from 2003, so I am pretty sure you can get it running on a TI calculator. Your shitty computer is NO EXCUSE!

Step two:

Download and install Freelancer Mod Manager

This is a program that is needed to install mods. If you run Windows 7, after you install it, you’ll need to run it as Administrator, which you can do by right clicking on the icon for the program and selecting “Run as Admininstrator.” You’ll only ever need to run it once. But not yet, wait till after step 3!

Step three:

Download the “Discovery Freelancer 4.85: Reunion” mod

Step four:

Open the Freelancer Mod Manager (as admin, remember) and use it to install the Discovery Freelancer mod. It’s easy to do. You just point the program at the Discovery mod package and it takes care of the rest. DO NOT ENABLE ANY OTHER MODS. Just don’t.

Step five:

Run Freelancer! I have to run it as Admin to get it to work properly. Your mileage may vary.

Step six:

Click Multiplayer, hit “Yes” (get parents permission first!) select “Internet”, and then Select the “Discovery Freelancer 24/7 Roleplay” server.

Log in and create a character!

You can find me on there as either
moJoe (Smuggler)
Fin (Irish freedom fighter)
or
[NZ]Fin (Irish freedom fighter, different ship)

Toodle around a bit. They don’t really give you any instructions, but if you check out the key bindings in the Options menu [F1] (not escape) you can get a feel for all the stuff you can do. Once you know which way is up, send me a private message. One way you will know if you are beginning to know which way is up is if you can figure out how to send a private message. Cruel but true.

Sign in and mention the show to me and I’ll send you a $1,000,000 in game to get you started. That will buy you a decent fighter or freighter with which to build your empire. Hurry, though. I am not sure how much longer my wife is going to let me play. Ahem…

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 link. Don’t know if it’s the best way but it works.

http://malkinproperties.com/about-us/contact-us

I’ve also written to the City Councilman who wanted to (did?) introduce a resolution compelling the ESB to reverse it’s decision. You can do so by clicking on Email Us here:

http://council.nyc.gov/d22/html/members/home.shtml.

Steve

Give them a shout.

Also, the results are in. You guys like it when we ramble about random stuff on the Atheist News Podcast. This week, we may have taken it a bit too far, but you get what you pay for.

Should we stick to only talking about religious/atheist subject matter on the show?
* Eh, some digression is interesting. (62.0%, 32 Votes)
* No, talk about whatever catches your interest. (27.0%, 14 Votes)
* Yes, that’s why I listen. (12.0%, 6 Votes)

There is a new poll this week on the site

Should I bring back the doot doot doot doot music before the atheist news segment officially begins?
Go cast your vote! The fate of… absolutely nothing… depends upon it…!

That’s it.

Oh, check out the site, I am posting a nutty proposal there for all you gamer nerds.

Ok, now that’s it.

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