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Celebrating at the Bridge - Can you Beat Steve Ghikadis at Trivia?
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#22
Today at 12:00 PM

Contest 1 - Michigan & Ontario
Steve's Updates
Contest 2 - Current Events
Show's Update

SHOWNOTES
SteveGhikadis.com
Kellie King's Talk at Sunday Assembly Nov 8th

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Andrew Seidel - Humanity for the Win
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#21
Last Sunday at 5:00 PM

Andrew Seidel's Words
Fighting Christian Nationalism
Love Letter to Exvangelicals and others Deconstructing

SHOWNOTES
Andrew's full speech at BAHACON


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"Zog's Big Questions" with Adam Rice
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#20
10/16/2026

Who is Zog?
Adam Rice's background
Empowering Kids to Ask Questions

SHOWNOTES

zogsbigquestion.com
vote.zogsbigquestion.com



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Don't Pray For Me
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#19
10/02/2026

"Can I Pray For You?"
Dave Says No in his Substack

SHOWNOTES
Dave Warnock's Substack

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Susan Huckle: What The Flat Earth?
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#18
09/18/2026

The Earth Is Flat?! And Other Things My Mother Taught Me
Susan's New "Momoir"

SHOWNOTES
Susan's Instagram
Get the Book on Audible or Barnes & Noble (see Linktree for more options)
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Susan's National Tour

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Godless Engineer - Rocket City Reason
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#17
09/04/2026

John Gleason (Godless Engineer)
What's on Tap at Rocket City Oct 23-25

SHOWNOTES
RocketCityReason.Com
Call The Line - LIVE Show

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Clearly Written by Boys - Karis Burkowski & David Fitzgerald
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#16
08/21/2026

A Fantastic New Book
The Female Voice in the Bible
Feminism: Past, Present, Future

SHOWNOTES
Clearly Written by Boys


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Logical Leo Follows the Evidence
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#15
08/07/2026

Guest Essay - Why I am Not Religious: The Evidentiary Case

References

Adams, M. M. (1999). Horrendous evils and the goodness of God. Cornell University Press.

Benson, H., Dusek, J. A., Sherwood, J. B., Lam, P., Bethea, C. F., Carpenter, W., Levitsky, S., Hill, P. C., Clem, D. W., Jain, M. K., Drumel, D., Kopecky, S. L., Mueller, P. S., Marek, D., Rollins, S., & Hibberd, P. L. (2006). Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients: A multicenter randomized trial of uncertainty and certainty of receiving intercessory prayer...


Helen Greene: All Zygotes Go to Heaven
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#14
07/17/2026

Putting the Human in Humanism
Mental Health and Humor
Finding Your People

SHOWNOTES

FreeThinkers Fireside
Skeptical Scott on the Fireside
Skeptical Inquirer Article
Noah Stainbrook (Storm Chaser)


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Live from GR Pride - DeBaptized
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#13
07/03/2026

Michigan Atheists

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Bored with a Carpenter
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#12
06/19/2026

A Review of "More Than a Carpenter" Part 2 or 2

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More Than a Carpenter
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#11
06/05/2026

A Review of Josh McDowell's "More Than a Carpenter"

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BAHACON '26 with Jeff Brooks & Jason Freer
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#10
05/15/2026

BAHACON, the Maple Kind - Aug 21-23, 2026
Bob Barnes' Legacy
Borders and Speakers

SHOWNOTES

BAHACON.com

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Minneapolis Love Letter - Recorded Live - First Atheist Con - Matilda Miller
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#9
05/01/2026

Recorded "Live on Location"
Mama Mephistopheles
Minneapolis Patriots

SHOWNOTES

American Atheists

Mephi's Linktree 

BAHACON in Sarnia, Ontario (Aug 21-23)

Rocket City Reason Conference, Alabama (Oct 23-25)


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SEX! & Secular Leadership with Dr. Darrel Ray
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#8
04/08/2026

Sex & God

Secular Leadership

Cohort #3 Begins May 2nd

SHOWNOTES:

https://secularleadership.org/

Enroll HERE

Zoom link for this Sunday's Preview Meeting on 4/12

Darrel's books

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Promise Backlund & Gospel of Lies
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#7
04/03/2026

Gospel of Lies

The Music of Caydus

The Need to Create

SHOWNOTES

Pre-order GOSPEL OF LIES

Caydus Music

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Dave Warnock
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#6
03/20/2026

Carpe the Fuckin' Diem
Jan 2021 Interview
Feb 2023 Beach Week

SHOWNOTES

Dave's Book: Childish Things
Original 2021 Full Interview
Original 2023 Full Interview
Dave's 2025 Interview on The Thinking Atheist

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Kellie King, Detroit Atheist Queen
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#5
03/06/2026

Kellie's Childhood

Deconstruction

Secular Acitivism & Community

SHOWNOTES

Detroit Atheist Queen YouTube Channel

20/20 episode brought up in interview

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Drop the Supernatural
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#4
02/28/2026

A Quick Hello to New Listeners

4 Dangers of Supernatural Thinking

We are the Creators

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Ways to Human with AJ Ruley
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#3
02/06/2026

Argentina & Sept 11

American Christianity

Science Enthusiast

Dave Warnock

SHOWNOTES

AJ's Youtube channel: Ways to Human

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Mayor of Hell
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#2
01/16/2026

Go to Hell

Sworn in / Impeached

Satanic Panic


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Season 3 Launch with Brad Onishi
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#1
01/02/2026

SHOWNOTES
Straight White American Jesus (SWAJ)

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David Teachout & Humanity's Values
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#27
12/19/2025

From Pastorship to Psychology

Recovering From Religion

Determining Your Values Without a Deity

SHOWNOTES

LifeWeavings.net

HumanitysValues.com

David's Essay 



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"Extraordinary Popular Delusions of Our Times" with Daniel Martin
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#26
12/05/2025

Alternative Medicine

Money Delusions

Religion and Politics

SHOWNOTES

Daniel Martin's Book: Extraordinary Popular Delusions of Our Times

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Cosmic Kyle Capturing the Wonders of Space
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#25
11/21/2025

An Uncle Inspires Kyle to Think

Astrophotography

Nebulas, Comets, and the Moon (Oh My!)

SHOWNOTES

Cosmic Kyle on Facebook

Kyle Brewer on Instagram

Kyle's images and story as featured on Seestar



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"The Way" with Author Larry Jordan
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#24
11/07/2025

Retirement = "Sell all your Possessions and Follow Me"
Deconstruct & Reconstruct
"You Might Be Right"
Everything's Related, Everything's Connected
"Otherwise"

SHOWNOTES

Larry's Book "The Way"
Larry on Patheos
My Stroke of Insight (Youtube)
The Tao of Physics


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Lord, Have Mercy
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#23
10/17/2025

The Exhumation of Mercy Brown

SHOWNOTES

The Internet Explorer's Podcast with Jimmy

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Micah Allen Losh - Author, Artist, ExJW
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#22
10/03/2025

Deconstruction from Jehovah's Witness Cult

The Need to Create, The Motivation to Try

Micah's Works

SHOWNOTES

micahallenlosh.com


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I Was Wrong - Choosing Out
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#21
09/19/2025

An Admission

Courage

A Clip with Jimmy & Friends

SHOWNOTES

Jim's Original ReChoice Episode (Parts 1 & 2 Unedited in Full)

The Internet Explorer Podcast

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Literary Lee, Inbred Religious Certainty, DJT as Deity
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#19
09/05/2025

AFormerBelieverReads.com

Critical Thinking in Education

Skeptical Heroes

"Inbred Religious Certainty" - Bart Ehrman

Trump as Sacred Scripture

Where is LifeWise active?

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BONUS: Ding Dong James Dobson's Dead
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#19
08/22/2025

John Paulk's Recollection

Focus on the Family's Legacy

John Paulk's Youtube Channel

John Paulk's Instagram

[email protected], 503-442-1111

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Kyle Butler - Deconverted ExPastor Embraces Life
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#18
08/15/2025

"Here's Another Episode of..."

Not-so-sweet 16 as a Pastor

Deconversion + TikTok

Kyle's Tiktok

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LifeWise, LifeWRONG - Molly & Zach - Secular Education Association
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#17
08/01/2025

Back to School 

LifeWise and Sneaky Ninja Jesus

Public Schools & Christian Nationalism

Is your school adopting LifeWise?

Secular Education Association

SEA's YouTube

SEA Facebook

Donate to the Secular Education Association

[email protected]

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BONUS: John T. Scopes Monkeys Around
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#16
07/22/2025

We celebrate the John T. Scopes Trial that ended 100 years ago today

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Kristyn Merkle's Deconstruction
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#15
07/18/2025

The DaVinci Code

RTS - Religious Trauma Syndrome

Julia Sweeney's "Letting Go of God"

Our Beloved Reverend Colleen Squires

Unitarian Universalism


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Freedom Drumsticks & A Patriotic Message from Andrew Seidel
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#14
07/03/2025

July 4th 

Light-up Drum Sticks

Andrew Seidel's Call to Action

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Reasonable Rob's Questimony (Part 2)
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#13
06/20/2025

Sexism in the Church

Cognitive Dissonance

Rob's Values and Principles Today

Seth Andrews' Talk at BAHACON

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Reasonable Rob's Questimony
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#12
06/06/2025

Christian School on Day 1 Emphasized Hell

Kicked out of School... for what?

Indoctrinated through school and radio... now what?


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"Humanism from the Heart" with Author Steve Ghikadis
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#11
05/23/2025

Steve's Season 1 episode

Steve's book

Building Bridges & Crossing Them

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Wonderful Music, Terrible Bible Lyrics: Joshua & Prez (part 2)
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#10
05/16/2025

Joshua & Prez = Trysten & Sayge on Tiktok

More Bible Verses set to Music

Where are They Now?

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