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.  

Today, we answer the leading question every journalist has been asking: Atheist Church? Becky and Sam catch up with Sanderson Jones, comedian and one of the brains behind the Sunday Assembly. He talks about how he wants to grow, and takes Sam’s gentle-but-insistent questions about dogma and authority head on.

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.