Nonsense Podcast

[arthwollipot]

I'm in the planning stage of a Canberra-based skeptical podcast. I have three, possibly four, correspondents lined up and I have a plan and a structure. The only things I need to do now are settle on a name, arrange hosting and a site, and we can start recording.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Humanists on the Hill?

Capital Critical Thinking?

 

[arthwollipot]

My working title is "Capital Beat" but I probably can't actually use it.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Ah, yes, I see. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Beat

Capital Chat?

 

[arthwollipot]

Something like that, yes.

 

[amb]

Perhaps Arth can get an interview with our first ever lady PM. Wouldn't that be a scoop?

 

[arthwollipot]

Perhaps Arth can get an interview with our first ever lady PM. Wouldn't that be a scoop?

Yeah, like that's going to happen.

 

[amb]

She is agnostic I believe, she may even be atheist, she looks smart enough.

You never know if you don't ask. I know she's extremely busy now, but she is approachable. If you pulled that off, you'd have an audience of a million at least.

 

[arthwollipot]

She is agnostic I believe, she may even be atheist, she looks smart enough.

You never know if you don't ask. I know she's extremely busy now, but she is approachable. If you pulled that off, you'd have an audience of a million at least.

No way. Now that she's PM, every public appearance will be stage-managed by her PR machine. The only way I could get anything is to go to press conferences and join the gaggle, which quite frankly I don't have a great interest in doing.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Lionking's met her... I'm sure he's got her phone number.

 

[quadraginta]

No way. Now that she's PM, every public appearance will be stage-managed by her PR machine. The only way I could get anything is to go to press conferences and join the gaggle, which quite frankly I don't have a great interest in doing.

You don't give yourself enough credit. You bear all the respect and cachet that accompanies a bona fide member of the JREF Forums community.

Your entry will be smoothed by the affirmation of thousands of fellow Forumites.

Well ... hundreds.

Tens?

 

[quadraginta]

Lionking's met her... I'm sure he's got her phone number.

See, Arth?

It's starting already.

(Oh, wait.

Lionking ... .)

Okay, so you've never heard of JREF, but your dedicated and influential podcast fans number in the thousands ...

 

[politas]

She is agnostic I believe, she may even be atheist, she looks smart enough.

From her answer to a direct question, yes she is an atheist, but I doubt she's going to actually say so, preferring to continue referring to herself as a "not religious, non-practising Baptist".

 

[amb]

Judging from the letters to the editor on my local newspaper most admire her for coming out and saying she's atheist, while others think she cannot run the country properly been an atheist. One guess who those writers are.