Serious Inquiries Only
Join Thomas for some critical thinking on questions of science, philosophy, skepticism and politics. These serious topics are discussed with some serious guests, but in an entertaining and engaging way! This is not your typical interview podcast; it’s a friendly dialogue, conducted thoughtfully and with plenty of humor. It's Serious Inquiries Only; but like, not boring or anything.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 805
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
SIO141: Hillary for President 2020; Jen Keane Update on #Repealthe8th
Am I kidding? I don't know, maybe I am, maybe I'm not. You'll have to listen and find out! With news that Bernie is running in 2020, I've got some reaction to the reaction, beginning with a sort of a…
01:05:35 |
Thu 31 May 2018
SIO140: Surviving Gay Conversion Therapy, with Tim Rymel
Time Rymel grew up under the incredibly dogmatic and restrictive religion of Pentecostalism. At a young age, Tim realized he just wasn't attracted to women like he was "supposed" to be. But, his inte…
01:01:00 |
Thu 24 May 2018
SIO139: Eli Bosnick on Meditation
The funniest guy I know is here to talk about... meditation? Turns out Eli has a wealth of knowledge on the practice, and has become something of an evangelist for it. Eli had a pretty heartbreaking …
00:59:57 |
Thu 17 May 2018
SIO138: BJ Mendelson on Internet Privacy
***For 30 dollars off your first week of HelloFresh, visit hellofresh.com/seriouspod30 and enter seriouspod30.*** BJ Mendelson has a number of fascinating stories to tell us today! He went viral in 1…
01:03:59 |
Thu 10 May 2018
SIO137: Christianity No Longer Makes Sense, with Evan Davids
On the show this week is Evan Davids, author of the book Christianity No Longer Makes Sense and owner of a hilarious dog who can't catch food! (yeah, that dog!) Despite having written an anti-Christi…
00:50:08 |
Fri 04 May 2018
SIO136: Don't Surf on Tsunami, and Other Disaster Advice from Mika McKinnon
Mika McKinnon is a geophysicist, science communicator, sci-fi science consultant, and all around badass! We talk about her awesome job as part Bond Villain, part MacGyver. AFter that, Mika gives us s…
01:06:06 |
Thu 26 Apr 2018
SIO135: Alix Jules on Silverman, Starbucks and S'more
Alright that was shameless alliteration, I admit it. But the truth is that outrage brigade member Alix Jules is here to speak on a wide array of issues and I think you'll find him as informative and …
00:55:13 |
Thu 19 Apr 2018
SIO134: Nuclear Power is Critical to Saving the Environment, with Evan McDonell
***For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit hellofresh.com and enter seriouspod30*** Part of the value I believe the skeptic community could provide to our society is in leading on issues of …
00:56:53 |
Thu 12 Apr 2018
SIO133: Jen Keane on #IStillBelieveHer and #Repealthe8th
Recently in Ireland, a verdict was finally reached in a high-profile rape and sexual assault case involving famous rugby players. When it was announced, there was cheering by many men and despair amo…
00:51:52 |
Thu 05 Apr 2018
SIO132: Ezra Klein Out-Sam-Harrises Sam Harris
Today's episode is full of drama. So naturally, I have to talk about why there is drama and what I am trying to do in all this. One key question is: which issues do atheists tend to say "eh, agree to…
00:50:18 |
Thu 29 Mar 2018
SIO131: Horseshoe Theory and Centrism with Peter Coffin
Peter Coffin has a popular YouTube channel where he makes Very Important Documentaries(tm) that are both entertaining and thought provoking. He was last on to discuss the Marketplace of Ideas as a fl…
00:57:04 |
Mon 26 Mar 2018
SIO130: Is Antifa Winning?
Recently there have been a few articles to this effect, because of something Richard Spencer said in a video. What should we make of it? On this show, this topic dates back to the Nazi punching deba…
00:45:24 |
Thu 22 Mar 2018
SIO129: Atheists (and Lawyers..) In Foxholes
Today I'm joined by Victoria Gettman and Geoffrey Blackwell! Vicki has a military background and currently serves as Texas State Director at American Atheists, as well as Executive Director for South…
00:39:53 |
Mon 19 Mar 2018
SIO128: Every Vote Matters!!! and Listener Voicemail
The Democrats picked up a +20R seat in the House! Or did they? Some people are alleging that Lamb is too centrist or even conservative. I analyze that a bit, and then talk about a couple other news i…
00:55:17 |
Thu 15 Mar 2018
SIO127: Rise of the Nones! with Kristi Winters
**For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit hellofresh.com and enter seriouspod30 Dr. Kristi Winters is back on the show to talk about a rising demographic group in America - the Nones. That i…
00:57:10 |
Mon 12 Mar 2018
SIO126: Lawrence Krauss Responds To Allegations
Well Lawrence Krauss released his statement on the accusations. It's 9 pages long and about what you'd expect. I've got a lot of thoughts that I wasn't able to get to last week so we're doing anothe…
00:49:46 |
Thu 08 Mar 2018
SIO125: Are We Headed for Another Depression? with Dr. Robert S. McElvaine
A few months back in the midst of the Republican tax reform bill, Dr. Robert S. McElvaine wrote an article for the Washington Post about the parallels between our current situation and the Great Dep…
00:57:22 |
Mon 05 Mar 2018
SIO124: Lawrence Krauss Accused of Sexual Misconduct; Interview with Monette Richards
This is a doozy of an episode. Lawrence Krauss was recently accused of a range of sexual harassment and misconduct. I believe his accusers. It's documented quite thoroughly by BuzzFeed. Since people…
01:19:29 |
Thu 01 Mar 2018
SIO123: David Silverman of American Atheists
David Silverman joins us to talk about an awesome convention coming up in AAcon2018! I really valued David's response to the nonsense that happened in Milwaukee last September, and he's putting his m…
00:57:40 |
Mon 26 Feb 2018
SIO122: Yes, I Want To Take Away Your Guns
No the title isn't just clickbait. I've decided I do want to take your guns away. I'm tired of Democrats saying they don't actually want that, and then being labeled as such by the right anyway. So w…
00:48:06 |
Thu 22 Feb 2018
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