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Dogma Free America Launching New Podcast
« on: Feb 18, 2012, 05:06:08 PM »
It looks like that after episode 200, Dogma Free America will be launching a new podcast in which Rich Orman will focus on the intersection of religion and pseudoscience with law.  I'll probably still tune in anyway but I'm going to miss the old DFA podcast.  Part of what I enjoyed with DFA was that they talked about religious news issues that the rest of the media and most other atheist podcasts ignored but they helped shed light on.  I can understand how reading stories about religion doing extremist actions every other week can become really depressing but there's going to be a serious void now in the atheist podcast world where some important stories we might not ever hear about now won't get covered in the atheist podcast world.  And their new idea for a podcast focusing on a religious or pseudoscience topic of the week just sounds cliched and done to death to me.  If I wanted to hear a podcast about pseudoscience, I'll listen to Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, and if I wanted a podcast focused on religion and the law, I'd listen to the FFRF.  I hope they'll at least keep their light-hearted banter from the DFA podcast in tact when they transfer to the new show.  What are your thoughts about it?
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Re: Dogma Free America Launching New Podcast
« Reply #1 on: Feb 18, 2012, 06:08:17 PM »
I'm looking forward to it.

Do you listen to cognitive dissonance? They hit a lot of the same shit with better humor.
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Re: Dogma Free America Launching New Podcast
« Reply #2 on: Feb 18, 2012, 07:46:38 PM »
Do they have cheesy accents?

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Re: Dogma Free America Launching New Podcast
« Reply #3 on: Feb 18, 2012, 07:52:26 PM »
They say fuck a lot!
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Re: Dogma Free America Launching New Podcast
« Reply #4 on: Feb 18, 2012, 09:54:32 PM »
But they probably don't have Flynn, do they?

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Re: Dogma Free America Launching New Podcast
« Reply #5 on: Feb 18, 2012, 09:55:18 PM »
But they probably don't have Flynn, do they?

I hope not. 
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Re: Dogma Free America Launching New Podcast
« Reply #6 on: Feb 18, 2012, 10:01:32 PM »
Flynn is the best part of the show!
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Re: Dogma Free America Launching New Podcast
« Reply #7 on: Feb 19, 2012, 01:37:58 AM »
I hope they can get Jamie back on one more time before they switch to the new format.  I always liked it when she was on.

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Re: Dogma Free America Launching New Podcast
« Reply #8 on: Feb 19, 2012, 08:48:55 AM »
You know their fight was over ufos? Well, really their fight was over alcohol, but the excuse was ufos.
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Re: Dogma Free America Launching New Podcast
« Reply #9 on: Feb 19, 2012, 08:57:02 AM »
Flynn is the best part of the show!

Ugh he was the secondary reason I quit listening.  He is obnoxious, and not in a good way.  The show was much better with the brother co-hosting, Flynn is just horrible. 
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Re: Dogma Free America Launching New Podcast
« Reply #10 on: Feb 19, 2012, 08:59:50 AM »
Flynn is the best part of the show!

Ugh he was the secondary reason I quit listening.  He is obnoxious, and not in a good way.  The show was much better with the brother co-hosting, Flynn is just horrible.

Umm... Wrong. You sir are insane. Eh, different strokes...

By the way I like it left handed sometimes just as a change of pace.
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Re: Dogma Free America Launching New Podcast
« Reply #11 on: Feb 19, 2012, 09:08:38 AM »
Yeah it is taste.  I just stopped listening for that reason and because the show *at the time I quit* was getting very repetitive. 
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Re: Dogma Free America Launching New Podcast
« Reply #12 on: Feb 19, 2012, 09:11:31 AM »
Yeah it is taste.  I just stopped listening for that reason and because the show *at the time I quit* was getting very repetitive.

Seems it was getting repetitive for the folks involved. They really do a great job of analyzing the law in American stories so I'm excited to see them move toward the law. Course that means more flynn!
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Re: Dogma Free America Launching New Podcast
« Reply #13 on: Feb 19, 2012, 03:35:12 PM »


Ugh he was the secondary reason I quit listening.  He is obnoxious, and not in a good way.  The show was much better with the brother co-hosting, Flynn is just horrible.
How could anyone hate Flynn's small town trivia and his love for the viewers?

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Re: Dogma Free America Launching New Podcast
« Reply #14 on: Feb 25, 2012, 10:58:54 PM »
DFA has a preview of the new podcast format out now and I just checked it out.  If every week is going to consist of this dry boring monotonous reading of law every week, I think I'm going to skip this new show and take Seaotter's suggestion and switch to Cognitive Dissonance.  I don't think I would mind the subject matter so much if they kept to the same format and style that DFA followed but listening to Rich Orman talk about law in his dull sounding monotonous voice every episode sounds almost as much fun as watching paint dry.  I'm especially going to be disappointed if none of the other DFA hosts will be invited back for this boring new show to spice it up and it's just going to be one person talking about their opinion on law.  DFA has officially jumped the shark.