This week we take a brief break from our Two Oil Change Tour episodes to talk to Neil Wehneman of the Secular Student Alliance, about their fundraiser for a Rapid Response Organizer. The RRO will get feet on the ground as quickly as possible the next time someone decides the rights of students are not […]
Sam and Becky return to Phoenix and spend an evening talking with Richard Dewey, President of the Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix , at the Humanist Community Center. Sam get schooled on awesome developments since he was last a Phoenix resident, including updates from the Secular Coalition of Arizona. Topics in the Q&A include military chaplains, the Card Line, and Humanist families. Oh yeah, and the Pope did something weird.
Sam, Becky, and Kent from Backyard Skeptics meet up in Orange, CA to talk about the freethought community in southern California, Ray Comfort, and Catholic hospitals in both California and Washington. In the third segment, we start talking about death, dying, and funerals.
Sam and Becky start their Western US tour in Sacramento with local activists Tom Ikelman and Judy Saint. We discuss Intelligent Design college professors, God on our currency, a personal response to the fall of Prop 8 & DOMA, and audience questions.
In a few hours, Sam is hitting the road to begin the tour. But before he leaves, Mike and Nick join him to talk about some interesting news in the last few days, and catch up on emails. Additionally, we talk with Sunsara Taylor of Equal Time for Freethought on WBAI, about the upcoming Abortion Rights Freedom Ride.
We got some emails in direct response to this episode.
