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#490 Beating Guns with Rex Harsin Jan 23, 2020

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Documentary filmmaker Rex Harsin shares his perspective on gun control and filmmaking from his process of recreating Shane Claiborne's book titled "Beating Guns" into a feature length documentary.

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#489 The Science of Rick and Morty with Matt Brady Jan 15, 2020

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The show "Rick and Morty" managed to get Toby interested in science and multiple realities to the point where he researched some of the science found in episodes and found a book Matt Brady wrote "The Science of Rick and Morty" which goes to show how pop culture can be used as a trojan horse to science.

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#488 Gazelle Transmogrify Jan 09, 2020

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The changing of the decade brings on a reflective sense of meaning and purpose that Matt explains using gazelles, pain, surviving, future you, and yes, transmogrify.

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#487 Race and Church with Dr Emerson Dec 25, 2019

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Merry Christmas! We have sociologist Dr Michael Emerson on today to answer some questions about racism in the American Evangelical church and how it got that way.

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#486 Why Should We Trust Science? With Dan Koch Dec 18, 2019

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Friend of the show, Dan Koch, uses his new psychology studies to help us understand why there's a perceived gap between the study of science, and religion.

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#485 The Rise of the Nones Dec 12, 2019

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Dr Ryan Burge is a "quant" political scientist, and a pastor. Through one of his articles on biblical literalism, Toby found a whole rabbit hole of intriguing data he's published about religion in America.

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#484 Know Any Cool New Cults? Dec 05, 2019

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With the death of religion as we knew it ten years ago, comes a new birth of substitute religions in politics, cults, conspiracies, and any number of things.

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#483 Derek Webb Has a New Wife and a New Album Nov 27, 2019

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We catch up with our friend Derek Webb, who had recently gotten divorced last time we talked, and now is re-married, and has a new album coming out. He's been an innovator in the music industry that we've followed the example of, so it's good to catch up and see what he's been doing lately.

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#482 BCPOD Goes Nuclear Nov 21, 2019

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Nuclear expert Sean Wagner helps us clear up some myths around nuclear energy, how it works, and what the risks and levels actually are.

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