Category: Podcast

Episode 18 – Midterm Elections

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Secular Hubcast is BACK! After an organizational hiatus the crew is here just in the nick of time to weigh in on the upcoming midterm elections.  What will this time mean for us American humans?
Join Jesse, Chauncey, and Paul to discuss actually getting a payday loan, Russian indictments, interest rates, noisy chairs and so much more!
Read the full text of Chauncey’s article on the Russian attacks happening RIGHT THIS VERY MOMENT!
Brew Theology is our friend, friends are good.  Hear the episode Paul called out here
Flat Earth International Conference!  You know you can’t resist it.  Just say yes.
Host(s): Jesse Gilbertson
Guests: Chauncey Williams, Paul
The views and opinions expressed are those of their respective authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Secular Hub.
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Music: A Himitsu – Adventures (unedited, used under Creative Commons License)
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Episode 17 – Queer Secularism

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Meet Kim.  Hub founder and leader for years, she recently took the opportunity to visit the Secular Hub and speak about gender identity.  Societal norms on the subject are in the process of a great and substantial shift and it’s thanks to all those who have stood up to fight for basic human rights and dignity for so many years.

The fight is never over, however, and it’s people like Kim who have fought and continue to fight.

Looking for help, support, or just more information?

What does it mean to be intersex?  Kim’s website, AISDSD.org, is there for support and information.

Check out The GLBT Center‘s website, and that of the Gender Identity Center.  Human rights for everybody!

The decisions of the Supreme Court are extremely powerful.  Read the wiki article on the Obergefell decision here.  If you’re a glutton for punishment you can actually look at the decision itself

NSFW! NSFW! Trigger Warning!  It’s from the ’80s!

Please note: this episode was recorded at the Hub and there’s a lot of friendly noise in the background.  Too many happy people hanging around.  It peters out around 1/3 of the way through the interview

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Music: A Himitsu – Adventures

Guest: Kimberly Saviano

Host: Jesse Gilbertson

Episode 16 – Evidence Based People

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On the 14th of April, 2018 marchers once again assembled to take a stand and speak out at this historic moment.  In Denver, the very heart of the city was taken over by marchers and demonstrators. 

The message was clear, “We want our leaders to take an evidence-based approach to policy and our world”.

Mike Baumeester and podcast newcomer AJ participated in the march and conducted during-the-march interviews, and Mike even stuck around the Secular Hub’s volunteer tent to put in even more volunteer hours.

Because this episode was recorded during a march and inside Denver’s beautiful Civic Center Park the noise and energy of the event can be heard in the background as well as in the diverse voices of those.

Recorded April 14, 2018.

Topics covered in this episode, for further consideration:

March For Science Denver  or visit the national organization March for Science

Oasis community in Salt Lake City, you say?  Why yes, indeed.  Check out their upcoming events

Where exactly does Brigham Young U fall in the nation’s colleges and universities least friendly to LGBTQ rights?

Speaking of things unfriendly to LGBTQ, conversion therapy is still practiced in many areas.  The bill in Colorado to prevent its application to minors has been stopped for the 2018 legislative session.  As usual.  Let’s all keep up pressure on our elected officials to do the right thing.  Find your own representatives here

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Music: A Himitsu – Adventures

Host(s): Mike Baumeester, AJ

Episode 15 – Center for Science and Wonder “C-SaW”

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C-SaW is similar to the Secular Hub, but for Las Vegas.  A building dedicated to community for the non-religious where all can be treated equal.

According to their own website C-SaW is:

A radically-inclusive, secular community center that provides a venue supporting science education, arts and community-building in ways that were historically served by religious buildings, but without a religious affiliation.

Chauncey visited C-SaW and saw with his own eyes the building where atheists and skeptics (and others, as well) gather and create community.

This discussion reveals some of the similarities and differences in the story of these two different secular community organizations

Check out C-SaW’s website

See also C-SaW’s facebook page as well as its Patreon page

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Music: A Himitsu – Adventures

Host:  Chauncey Williams

Editor: Jesse Gilbertson

Episode 14 – Secular Hub Founders

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Five years ago a small group composed of 21 highly motivated individuals came together to form the Secular Hub.  The Hub has become an important community center for many more people since.  Two of those original founders speak here, discussing what atheism and the secular community was like before the Hub existed and how it has changed since.

These two founders have something else in common as well in that both live with cerebral palsy, and they discuss what it means to live and work in America.

Check out the secular meditation meetup hosted by Sean

or reach out on Twitter:  @secularmindfull

According to The Secular Coalition for Colorado’s website:

Atheists for Humanity Inc. is a 501(c)3 charity non-profit based in Denver, Colorado. Our goals are simple: raise money and awareness for worthy charities and actively work to de-stigmatize atheists and atheism

 

In case you didn’t see it, the Secular Hub got some positive press last year.  Check out the article for a decent characterization of a Sunday morning at the Hub, made possible by the initiative of the founders

 

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Music: A Himitsu – Adventures

Host, Editor: Jesse Gilbertson

Featuring:  Sean and Tristan

Episode 13 – Reasonable Risk with Michael Schaffer

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Secular Hub member and podcast host Michael Schaffer joins the Hubcast this week with a look into Risks, Rewards, and the process of Deciding.

What basis should you use when making decisions in life?  How can you become better at detecting BS thrown your way?  When is it actually a good idea to piss off your neighbors?

Michael discusses this and so much more in life in his podcast, Reasonable Risk.  Check out his podcast, give him five stars, tell him the Secular Hubcast sent you

on Twitter:  @reasonbroker

in Denver real estate

Just like Michael said in the episode, if you want information you should go to the source.  Here’s what the government has to say about the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 

Nimbyism (Not in My Backyard) is alive and well, everywhere from here to Pakistan.  Can you spot it in you neighborhood?  Here’s the episode that was discussed

Special shout out to the fine folks at Thank God I’m Atheist and the TGIA lounge as well as The Scathing Atheist

The Secular Hubcast:  the Voice of Denver’s Secular Hub

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Music: A Himitsu – Adventures

Host, Editor: Jesse Gilbertson

Featuring:  Michael Schaffer

Episode 12 – Talking Street with Anthony Magnabosco

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Anthony Magnabosco is one of today’s rock stars of SE, or Street Epistemology.  Anthony has been leading the way in real engagement with believers of all types, and his hundreds (literally) of Youtube videos demonstrate how he does it and why he is so effective.

Anthony is also a leader when it comes to getting other free thinkers to practice Street Epistemology.  By running training seminars he has gotten many others who have never performed SE before to become familiar with engaging others, asking relevant questions. Anthony ran a brilliant training session in Denver at the Secular Hub with dozens in attendance.

After putting in a long day of helping others Anthony took a little extra time to talk to the Secular Hubcast.  Why does he put himself in front of strangers again and again?

Watch Anthony’s Youtube channel

Follow Anthony on Twitter

Learn about the original Manual for Creating Atheists by Peter Boghossian.

There is also a brilliant app if you can’t remember the steps.

Other groups are practicing SE, such as the one Anthony mentioned in beautiful Portland, OR

Hungry and don’t know where to go?  The Walnut Room.  Pizza. Music. Spirits.

The Secular Hubcast:  the Voice of Denver’s Secular Hub

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Music: A Himitsu – Adventures

Host: Jesse Gilbertson

Featuring:  Anthony Magnabosco

Editing: Paul Schilling

Episode 11 – American Millenials

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Some come to atheism/freethought late in life while others are born into it.  Some poor few never get there at all.  Does America’s newest generation of adults, the Millenials, represent a growing body of nonbelievers or a swing back to a more fundamentalist worldview?

In this panel discussion hosted by Chauncey our Millenial panel discusses faith, the transition from it, and a new worldview which is evidence based.  Is the world becoming more rational or is the pendulum moving back toward fundamentalism?  What do the changes we see in society say about us as a people?

Learn more about pioneering atheist Madelyn Murry O’Hair.  Here is a fun montage from Youtube of some of her public speaking

Richard Dawkins and The God Delusion keep coming up over and over on The Hubcast, for some reason

Check out Tracie Harris, Matt Dillahunty and the rest of the Atheist Community of Austin

The Secular Hubcast:  the Voice of Denver’s Secular Hub

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Music: A Himitsu – Adventures

Host: Chauncey Williams

Millenials:  Elizabeth, Mike, Sam,

Token Gen Xer: Tristan

 

Episode 10 – Military Members

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The Secular Hub hosts a very diverse group of nonbelievers and freethinkers including those who have a military background.  Choosing to serve one’s country and think for one’s self at the same time is how this week’s guests choose to live.  Join us as we speak to Robin and Bill, veterans of the US Navy and a US Army respectively.

These two veterans speak about the years they served, where their travels in the service took them, and what it was like being a nonbeliever while in uniform.  How has it been to get back to civilian life after the order and camaraderie they were previously accustomed to?  What does community and belief mean now?

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Music: A Himitsu – Adventures

Guest(s):  Robin, Bill

Host: Jesse Gilbertson

Episode 9 – We Shall Undercome with Seth Andrews

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On July 8, 2017 Seth Andrews visited Denver and the Secular Hub to debut his new talk “The Satanic Panic – The Witch Hunt of the Late Twentieth Century”

The HubCast was on hand to record an interview about travel, work, community and meeting people, among other topics.  Seth is well versed in apologetics and well spoken when it comes to pointing out their flaws.  His talk was informative, funny, and sometimes touching when he spoke of community and the damage done in the name of faith.

Visit’s Seth’s website

Seeing Seth live is a treat for anyone.  Seth is approachable and fun to talk with.  To see him yourself visit his events page