Becky goes to her roots and talks with Rabbi Jeff Falick about how to be an atheist and a Jew. Sam referees, Mike tries to make sense of it.
Oddly, Jeff manages to build a window into how Sam & Becky’s relationship works.

Becky and Sam caught up with Daniel Dennett, at a town hall meeting in Seattle.   He’s promoting his new book “Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking.”   Additionally, Mike joins us for some emails and news that just makes him happy.

Sam and Libbie talk with author and activist Valerie Tarico about acquisitions and mergers of hospitals into Franciscan and Providence Catholic health care systems in Washington State.

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This week, Sam is joined by Becky and Nick as he talks about a recent argument from “Prager University”, a project by talk show host Dennis Prager.   Sam has blogged about him previously.   We also go over some similarly bad arguments coming out of the media, as well as catch up on a few emails and updates.

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The people who want their opinions codified into law never stop, so we have some new cases to discuss. Becky and Mike join Sam once again as we talk about blasphemy in the US and around the world, as well as updates from the worlds of UFOlogy, makeup application, and bomb detection.