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[March 23, 2011]
A new installment of the Humanist Hour is available for listening. Keep reading to find out about the guests on this month's show.
You can listen to the show using the podcast player in the player below, or download the show here.
For a complete list of The Humanist Hour Audio Podcast episode details, visit: AmericanHumanist.org/hnn/podcast.
In this month's audio podcast, Jes Constantine and Todd Stiefel interview Fred Edwords of United Coalition of Reason, debate the concept that vegan priorities are humanist priorities with surprise special guest, Jason Torpy, and highlight the AHA 70th Annual Conference with AHA staffer, Maggie Ardiente.
Jason Torpy is president of the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers and serves on the Board of Directors of the American Humanist Association. Jason recently wrote an article for the Humanist Network News, AHA's weekly e-zine, called "Why Vegan Priorities are Humanist Priorities." In his short article, Jason claims that you—the enlightened and rational humanist—will suddenly realize the error of your carnivorous ways. You carnivores, or “carnies,” are torturing animals for fun. Harsh? True? Both yes.
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Don’t miss one of the largest gatherings of humanists, atheists and freethinkers from across the country! This exciting four-day event, hosted by the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University and held jointly with the Secular Student Alliance, will feature informative breakout sessions, activist training for humanist leaders, banquets honoring distinguished awardees, book signings by celebrity authors, and more! Maggie Ardiente is the director of development at the American Humanist Association, where she coordinates the AHA's fundraising programs.
Learn more and register at: AmericanHumanist.org/Conference
Fred Edwords has a long history in organized humanism. For 15 years he was executive director of the American Humanist Association and for 12 years editor of the Humanist magazine. Today he serves as national director of the United Coalition of Reason, a national organization that works to raise the visibility of local nontheistic groups all over America. United CoR does this nationally, by conducting campaigns which highlight the fact that nontheists live in every community across America. Locally, we do this by promoting informal cooperation among local groups, hosting local coalition websites, training group leaders, and funding publicity campaigns.
Links from this month's episode:
Rock Beyond Belief: RockBeyondBelief.com
Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers: MilitaryAtheists.org
United CoR: UnitedCoR.org
Register for the AHA 70th Annual Conference: AmericanHumanist.org/conference
Music from this month's episode (in order of appearance):
Theme Song: "Sound Scientist" by Bill
"Franco Un-American" by NOFX
Editor's Note: Though we recommend subscribing to our podcast using a program like iTunes, you can start listening right now by downloading audio file directly:
[February 23, 2011]
A new installment of the AHA's Audio Podcast is available for listening. Keep reading to find out about the guests on this month's show.
You can listen to the show using the podcast player in the player below, or download the show here.
For a complete list of The Humanist Hour Audio Podcast episode details, visit: AmericanHumanist.org/hnn/podcast. 
In this month's audio podcast, listen to Jes Constantine interview her new co-host, Todd Stiefel. Todd Stiefel lives in Raleigh, NC. He is a secular humanist, an atheist and full-time freethought activist. Todd currently serves as the Vice President of the Secular Coalition for America and in many other roles in the Freethought Movement. He has given over $3 million dollars to charities in the Freethought Movement. This is highlighted by $2 million to found the Stiefel Freethought Foundation and $500,000 to the Secular Coalition for America Education Fund.
Join humanists and freethinkers from across the country April 7-10, 2011 at the AHA's 70th Anniversary Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, and meet speakers like Rebecca Goldstein, Steve Wozniak, Jeff Sharlet, Roy Zimmerman, and more!
Tune in to the Humanist Hour podcast next month as we learn more about the United Coalition of Reason.
Links from this month's episode:
Stiefel Freethought Foundation: StiefelFreethoughtFoundation.org
United CoR: UnitedCoR.org
Register for the AHA 70th Annual Conference: AmericanHumanist.org/conference
Podcast RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/HNN_Podcast
Music from this month's episode (in order of appearance):
Theme Song: "Sound Scientist" by Bill
Cover of "I Got Mine" by Words Such as "Burn" (Originally by the Black Keys)
Editor's Note: Though we recommend subscribing to our podcast using a program like iTunes, you can start listening right now by downloading audio file directly:
[January 27, 2011]
A new installment of the AHA's Audio Podcast is available for listening. Keep reading to find out about the guests on this month's show.
You can listen to the show using the podcast player in the player below, or download the show here.
For a complete list of The Humanist Hour Audio Podcast episode details, visit: AmericanHumanist.org/hnn/podcast. 
In this month's audio podcast, listen to Jes Constantine and guest interviewer, Todd Stiefel, speak with Justin Griffith about his experience as an atheist in the U.S. Army and, more specifically, about failing the Spiritual Fitness component of the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness test and turning that experience into a freethought activist opportunity with Rock Beyond Belief. Also: don't forget to celebrate Darwin Day this February 12th! Happy Birthday, Charles!
About Rock Beyond Belief:
Links from this month's episode:
Rock Beyond Belief: RockBeyondBelief.com
Fort Bragg's Military Atheists and Secular Humanists (M.A.S.H): meetup.com
Triangle Freethought Society: TriangleFreethoughtSociety.org
Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers: MAAF.info
Steifel Freethought Foundation: SteifelFreethoughtFoundation.org
International Darwin Day Foundation: DarwinDay.org
Podcast RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/HNN_Podcast
Music from this month's episode (in order of appearance):
"What you want" by Spoonboy
"When I was 4" and "You don't have to be a scientist to do experiments on your own heart" by Jeffrey Lewis
Editor's Note: Though we recommend subscribing to our podcast using a program like iTunes, you can start listening right now by downloading audio file directly:
A new installment of the AHA's Audio Podcast is available for listening. Keep reading to find out about the guests on this month's show.
You can listen to the show using the podcast player in the player below, or download the show here.
For a complete list of The Humanist Hour Audio Podcast episode details, visit: AmericanHumanist.org/hnn/podcast.
In this month's audio podcast, listen to the magical monologist, Jean Shepherd, read an excerpt from his 1966 book, "In God We Trust (All Others Pay Cash)," which originally appeared in the December 1965 edition of Playboy.
About "In God We Trust (All Others Pay Cash)":
A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana. Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd: a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all-American childhood into immensely resonant--and utterly hilarious--works of comic art. In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash represents one of the peaks of his achievement, a compound of irony, affection, and perfect detail that speaks across generations.
In God We Trust, Shepherd's wildly witty reunion with his Indiana hometown, disproves the adage "You can never go back." Bending the ear of Flick, his childhood-buddy-turned-bartender, Shepherd recalls passionately his genuine Red Ryder BB gun, confesses adolescent failure in the arms of Junie Jo Prewitt, and relives a story of man against fish that not even Hemingway could rival. From pop art to the World's Fair, Shepherd's subjects speak with a universal irony and are deeply and unabashedly grounded in American Midwestern life, together rendering a wonderfully nostalgic impression of a more innocent era when life was good, fun was clean, and station wagons roamed the earth.
A comic genius who bridged the gap between James Thurber and David Sedaris, Shepherd may have accomplished for Holden, Indiana, what Mark Twain did for Hannibal, Missouri.
Links from this month's episode:
Jean Shepherd: flicklives.com
"In God We Trust (All Others Pay Cash): purchase @ amazon.com
The Jean Shepherd Podcast (The Brass Figlagee): on iTunes
Podcast RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/HNN_Podcast
Music from this month's episode: "A Chistmas Story" soundtrack
Editor's Note: Though we recommend subscribing to our podcast using a program like iTunes, you can start listening right now by downloading audio file directly:
HumanistNetworkNews.org
[November 24, 2010]
A new installment of the AHA's Audio Podcast is available for listening. Keep reading to find out about the guests on this month's show.
You can listen to the show using the podcast player in the player below, or download the show here.
For a complete list of The Humanist Hour Audio Podcast episode details, visit: AmericanHumanist.org/hnn/podcast.
In this month's audio podcast, "Onward Christian Athletes" author, Tom Krattenmaker, presents his book to AHA's 69th Annual Conference attendees. Also learn more about the largest non-religious ad campaign, launched earlier in November by the American Humanist Association.
About "Onward Christian Athletes":
Players pointing triumphantly to the heavens. Lavishly paid pro athletes proclaiming their Christianity in public every chance they get. Faith Nights at professional sports events. The hand of God proclaimed in every win streak. Pro sports teams are supposed to provide a civic rallying ground where fans of widely varying background and faiths come together. In Onward Christian Athletes, religion expert and commentator Tom Krattenmaker takes us behind the scenes of the conservative Christian movement to evangelize in the club house and enlist pro athletes to promote a specific brand of Christianity outside the mainstream of a religiously and politically diverse America.
Links from this month's episode:
Margaret Downey: Freethought Society
Tom Krattenmaker: tomkrattenmaker.com
Onward Christian Athletes: purchase @ amazon.com
Consider Humanism: considerhumanism.org
Podcast RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/HNN_Podcast
Music from this month's episode:
The Humanist Hour Theme Song: "Sound Scientist" by Bill
Editor's Note: Though we recommend subscribing to our podcast using a program like iTunes, you can start listening right now by downloading audio file directly:
HumanistNetworkNews.org
[October 27, 2010]
A new installment of the AHA's Audio Podcast is available for listening. Keep reading to find out about the guests on this month's show.
You can listen to the show using the podcast player in the player below, or download the show here.
For a complete list of The Humanist Hour Audio Podcast episode details, visit: AmericanHumanist.org/hnn/podcast.
In this month's audio podcast, Jes Constantine interviews Dr. Daniel Lieberman, a professor of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard and Dr. Daniel Howell, author of The Barefoot Book about the benefits of barefoot living and how it relates to humanism.
Links from this month's episode:
Dr. Daniel Lieberman (Harvard's Skeletal Biology Lab): http://www.barefootrunning.fas.harvard.edu/
willPower & grace(R): http://www.willpowermethod.com/willpower-grace
Dr. Daniel Howell (the Barefoot Book): http://www.thebarefootbook.com/
Chris McDougall (Born to Run): http://chrismcdougall.com/
AHA Open House: Stewart/Colbert Rally: Facebook.com/AmericanHumanist
Podcast RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/HNN_Podcast
Music from this month's episode:
The Humanist Hour Theme Song: "Sound Scientist" by Bill
"Barefootin'" by Robert Parker
Editor's Note: Though we recommend subscribing to our podcast using a program like iTunes, you can start listening right now by downloading audio file directly:
HumanistNetworkNews.org
[September 22, 2010]
A new installment of the AHA's Audio Podcast is available for listening. Keep reading to find out about the guests on this month's show.
You can listen to the show using the podcast player in the player below, or download the show here.
For a complete list of The Humanist Hour Audio Podcast episode details, visit: AmericanHumanist.org/hnn/podcast.
In this month's audio podcast, Jes Constantine plays another clip from AHA's 69th Annual Conference, which took place earlier this summer in San Jose, CA. Listen to Bill Nye the Science Guy answer questions from the conference attendees, after accepting our Humanist of the Year award.
The Humanist of the Year (HoTY) award was established in 1953 to recognize a person of national or international reputation who, through the application of humanist values, has made a significant contribution to the improvement of the human condition.
Also hear Jes Constantine's interview with Jason Frye of the Humanist Association of San Diego and the LGBT Humanist Council.
Links from this month's episode:
The Humanist Magazine: thehumanist.org
Bill Nye the Science Guy: BillNye.com
Jason Frye: Humanist Association of San Diego || LGBT Humanist Council
American Humanist Association: AmericanHumanist.org
AHA Open House: Stewart/Colbert Rally: Facebook.com/AmericanHumanist
Podcast RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/HNN_Podcast
Music from this month's episode:
The Humanist Hour Theme Song: "Sound Scientist" by Bill
"I'm a Humanist" by Jim Corbett
Editor's Note: Though we recommend subscribing to our podcast using a program like iTunes, you can start listening right now by downloading audio file directly:
HumanistNetworkNews.org It's official! We've changed our name to The Humanist Hour! A new installment of the AHA's Audio Podcast is available for listening. Keep reading to find out about the guests on this month's show. You can listen to the show using the podcast player in the player below, or download the show here. For a complete list of The Humanist Hour Audio Podcast episode details and transcripts of our show, visit: AmericanHumanist.org/hnn/podcast. In this month's audio podcast, Jes Constantine and guest co-host Jennifer Bardi introduce and discuss clips from AHA's 69th Annual Conference, which took place earlier this summer in San Jose, CA. Listen to Bill Nye the Science Guy accepting our Humanist of the Year award. The Humanist of the Year (HoTY) award was established in 1953 to recognize a person of national or international reputation who, through the application of humanist values, has made a significant contribution to the improvement of the human condition. So typically the HoTY isn't being honored for his or her work in the previous year, as with Time magazine's Person of the Year. Instead, the HoTY is someone whose career and contributions to society are being lauded at the same time that their humanist credentials are being brought to the fore. These folks aren't known as humanists, per se, and they often resist identifying themselves as such even after accepting the award. But the point is they are ambassadors for humanism. They are popular figures in science, politics, business, philosophy, and the arts. Did you know that Ted Turner was Humanist of the Year? Alice Walker? R. Buckminster Fuller? Joyce Carol Oates? Apparently, Turner was one of those who flew in, accepted the award, and promptly left the conference. Others like Asimov, Vonnegut, and the 2009 HoTY PZ Myers hung around all weekend. (Vonnegut's acceptance speech, by the way, was titled, "Why my dog is not a humanist.") So when AHA card-carrying humanists wonder why we don't bestow the HoTY award upon "real" humanists who've been involved with the movement for years we must explain this idea of ambassadorship by the famous. Bill Nye didn't shy away from it, and as you'll hear, he embraced the organization, its members, and its values quite demonstrably. Images from this month's episode: Links from this month's episode: The Humanist Magazine: thehumanist.org Podcast RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/HNN_Podcast Music from this month's episode: Editor's Note: Though we recommend subscribing to our podcast using a program like iTunes, you can start listening right now by downloading audio file directly:
[August 25, 2010]
Bill Nye the Science Guy: BillNye.com
"Sound Scientist" by Bill
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[July 28, 2010]
A new installment of the HNN Audio Podcast is available for listening. Keep reading to find out about the guests on this month's show.
You can listen to the show using the podcast player in the player below, or download the show here.
For a complete list of HNN Audio Podcast episode details and transcripts of our show, visit: AmericanHumanist.org/hnn/podcast.
In this month's audio podcast, Jes Constantine and guest co-host Jennifer Bardi introduce and discuss clips from AHA's 69th Annual Conference, which took place earlier this summer in San Jose, CA. Listen to clips of Meg Bowman and Annie Laurie Gaylor accepting our Humanist Heroine award. Also, learn about the exciting news regarding the HNN podcast.
Links from this month's episode:
The Humanist Magazine: thehumanist.org
Feminist Caucus: AmericanHumanist.org
Freedom from Religion Foundation: ffrf.org
Podcast RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/HNN_Podcast
Music from this month's episode:
"Leftover Girl" by SIRSY
Editor's Note: Though we recommend subscribing to our podcast using a program like iTunes, you can start listening right now by downloading audio file directly:
HumanistNetworkNews.org
[June 23, 2010]
A new installment of the HNN Audio Podcast is available for listening. Keep reading to find out about the guests on this month's show.
You can listen to the show using the podcast player in the player below, or download the show here.
For a complete list of HNN Audio Podcast episode details and transcripts of our show, visit: AmericanHumanist.org/hnn/podcast.
In this month's audio podcast, Jes Constantine introduces clips from AHA's 69th Annual Conference, which took place earlier this month, in San Jose, CA. Listen clips of Wendy Liu accepting our Humanist Pioneer award, answering some questions and answers, and giving AHA an exclusive interview.
Links from this month's episode:
Wendy Liu (American Chronicle bio): AmericanChronicle.com
Buy Everything I Understand About America, I Learned in Chinese Proverbs: Homa | Amazon
American Humanist Association 69th Annual Conference: Humanism 2.0
Podcast RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/HNN_Podcast
Music from this month's episode:
The Shanghai Restoration Project & Bai Hong
"Farewell Shasha" (mp3)
from "Remixed and Restored: Vol. 1" China Records)
Buy at iTunes Music Store
Editor's Note: Though we recommend subscribing to our podcast using a program like iTunes, you can start listening right now by downloading audio file directly:
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