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Sunday May 29, 2022
Sunday May 29, 2022
Heathen Highlights is a new feature here at The Comical Heathen. We share some of our favorite clips from the past 2 seasons.
Today's feature is from our Season 1 interview with Steve Hofstetter. In this one, he answers my question, "Is religious satire important?".
Full episode here:
https://comicalheathen.podbean.com/e/the-comical-heathen-episode-one-steve-hofstetter/
Steve Hofstetter's website: http://www.stevehofstetter.com/
Steve's YOUTUBE channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/thehofstetter
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Sunday May 22, 2022
Sunday May 22, 2022
Heathen Highlights are a new feature here at The Comical Heathen. We share some of our favorite clips from the past 2 seasons.
Today's feature is from our Season 2 interview with Lewis Black. In this one, he discusses how September 11th affected him and his comedy.
Full episode here: https://comicalheathen.podbean.com/e/the-comical-heathen-s2-e8-lewis-black/
Lewis Black's website: https://www.lewisblack.com/
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Sunday May 15, 2022
Sunday May 15, 2022
Heathen Highlights is a new feature here at The Comical Heathen. We share some of our favorite clips from the past 2 seasons.
Today's feature is from our Season 2 interview with Lewis Black. In this one, he discusses how September 11th affected him and his comedy.
Full episode here: https://comicalheathen.podbean.com/e/the-comical-heathen-s2-e8-lewis-black/
Lewis Black's website: https://www.lewisblack.com/
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Sunday Apr 03, 2022
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
Welcome to our most recent Live Q&A episode! With special guest Myq Kaplan and co-host Jeff Gedert, we tackle fan and social media comments and questions on the theme of "Religion vs Spirituality." Included topics are, what does this even mean, a second foray into Jedi-sim, and the role of 'shrooms in ones spiritual journey. We also discuss whether or not comedy is an art, who would win in a Celebrity Deathmatch-like contest, and the appropriation of "eastern" ideas by "western" Judeo-Christians on a spiritual journey. Original broadcast live March 20.
Myq Kaplan's website: https://myqkaplan.com/
Myq's previous appliance on The Comical Heathen: https://comicalheathen.podbean.com/e/the-comical-heathen-s2-e2-myq-kaplan/
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Saturday Feb 05, 2022
Saturday Feb 05, 2022
After coming across some recent "news" reports of ghost sightings during the ongoing pandemic, I realized it was time to bring back special guest Ben Radford, investigator of the extraordinary extraordinaire! Ben is a Research Fellow at the Center for Inquiry, having researched many topics in addition to ghosts, such as UFOs, chupacabra, and Killer Clowns. He also recently published his own article on this pseudoscientific pseudonews. This episode includes guest co-host Aaron Kozbial and my rant about why I think ghosts and transformers are basically the same thing now!
Ben's website: http://benjaminradford.com/
Ben's podcast, Squaring the Strange: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/squaring-the-strange/id1226273233
Ben's book on ghost-hunting: Investigating Ghosts: The Scientific Search for Spirits https://www.amazon.com/Investigating-Ghosts-Scientific-Search-Spirits/dp/0936455160/
Aaron's website: https://professorofcomedy.com/
Show notes:
"Quarantining with a Ghost? It's Scary" By Molly Fitzpatrick https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/style/haunted-house-ghost-quarantine.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
"Haunted house reports on the rise during pandemic, says paranormal researcher" by As it Happens, CBC radio. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-friday-edition-1.5571716/haunted-house-reports-on-the-rise-during-pandemic-says-paranormal-researcher-1.5571882
"The Science (and Non-Science) of Ghosts" by Ben Radford. https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/the-science-and-non-science-of-ghosts/
"When Sony Accidentally Launched Camcorders That Could 'See Through' People’s Clothes" by Aditya Tiwari
https://fossbytes.com/sony-accidentally-launched-camcorders-see-peoples-clothes/
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Saturday Jan 15, 2022
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
Season 2 Episode 10: John Poveromo
Show Notes
Featuring a conversation from February of 2021, shortly after John and I had just done our part to help set the record for longest live-streamed comedy show! Crazy stuff like running for city council and directing The Merry Wives of Windsor knocked this one back a smidge but I am proud to share it with you now! Includes my rant about the importance of evidence in wild claims, as inspired by the dozens of lost court cases by Alex Jones and Donald Trump.
John Poveromo on social media:
Website: https://johnpoveromo.net/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=502792868
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/JohnPoveromo/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/dystopiatonightwithjohnpoveromo
Press on Richie Byrne and Mark Riccadonna and their podcast "Drinks, Jokes, and Storytelling" streaming on Twitch to break the world record for a standup comedy show (and raise money for two charities): https://nj1015.com/jersey-comedians-shoot-for-comedy-record/
"Alex Jones must pay damages to Sandy Hook families in another defamation case, judge rules". https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/15/alex-jones-sandy-hook-defamation-lawsuit/
"By the numbers: President Donald Trump's failed efforts to overturn the election."
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/politics/elections/2021/01/06/trumps-failed-efforts-overturn-election-numbers/4130307001/
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Saturday Dec 25, 2021
Saturday Dec 25, 2021
Show Notes
Welcome back to the comical heathen podcast! We had a bit of a hiatus and there's a reason why: your host Dr. Jerry Jaffe just spent the past Fall 2021 running for City Council in Painesville, OH! In this special behind the scenes episode, Jerry sits down with two of closest comedy friends and talks about the experience. Joining him are Jeremy Sheer and Dan Brown. Completely unscripted, they ask Jerry questions (both serious and silly) as they riff about the whole thing. A few of the topics that come include critical race theory, campaign funding, Alex Jones, QAnon, and Donald Trump, among other things.
This episode
Jeremy Sheer on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dirtysheer
Dan Brown's website: https://danbrowncomedy.com/?fbclid=IwAR3t-WcFntg4NIY20fqN-TnuJe_HwdRC8ksWCPTlslR3tfPgoHtslpQnvcs
Sad Boy's Social Club on YouTUbe: https://www.youtube.com/c/SadBoysSocialClub
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Saturday Jul 10, 2021
Saturday Jul 10, 2021
Show Notes
On June 25 2021 the Office of the Director of National intelligence issued a report called "Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena." This generated some media interest and some buzz around the topic of UFO's. So we here at The Comical Heathen thought this would be a good time to bring in an actual expert, so today we present my conversation with author Ben Radford. Ben is a Research Fellow at the Center for Inquiry, having covered many topics in addition to UFOs, such as ghosts, chupacabra, and Killer Clowns. This episode includes guest co-host Jesse Pimpinella, a phone call from Ian Harris, and my rant about why I think UFO's should be called U-WTF-O's.
*Ben's website: http://benjaminradford.com/
*Ben's podcast, Squaring the Strange: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/squaring-the-strange/id1226273233
*Jesse's website: https://www.jessepimpinella.com/
*Jesse's podcast, At the Grown-up's Table: https://www.jessepimpinella.com/podcast
Show notes:
*The actual UAP report: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20973253-uap-20210625
*Press release from CFI, "Keep UFO Reporting Grounded in Reality, Advise Skeptics": https://centerforinquiry.org/press_releases/keep-ufo-reporting-grounded-in-reality-advise-skeptics/?fbclid=IwAR2dX8OV9JkMkKGs_Cm4bU3jV8F6Wh_sKmhHbk62aXKaO4b_Y8rvnLeLwLY
*Mick West's page mentioned by Ben: https://www.metabunk.org/home/
*Ben's book about Killer Clowns: Bad Clowns (https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0826356664/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)
*Article about man who thought moon was UFO, "Police say UFO was just the Moon": http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7489457.stm?fbclid=IwAR3fReWiuE4JwQX0V3sHnWzJSJ5SGHz6qWee2S1KXV5y7v9QkRFpqVFXB5s
*Pareidolia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
*Occam's razor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
*The Comical Heathen Live Show at the Kansas City Fringe: https://kcfringe.org/2021-shows/the-comical-heathen/
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Sunday Jun 06, 2021
Sunday Jun 06, 2021
Show Notes
This episode features my recent conversation with Lewis Black. From his many comedy specials and TV appearances, including The Daily Show, and his work as an actor as seen on The Big Bang Theory (2009), Inside Out (2015), The Last Laugh (2019) and many more, Lewis is known as one of this generation's leading satirists. We discuss his 2002 Comedy Central Presents episode in which he discuses the then-recent events of September 11. He also talks about his influences, his ideas about satire, and his upcoming tour. Also on this episode is guest co-host, calling in from Japan, Jeff Gedert. Jeff is most famous for producing the original theme music for the podcasts Gold Star Classroom, The Action Comedy Nerd Show, and us, The Comical Heathen. (Thank you Jeff!). We debrief the interview, give our reactions, and discuss this so-called book I claim to be so-called writing! Enjoy!
Lewis Black's website: https://www.lewisblack.com/
The 2002 Comedy Central Presents episode we discuss: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318371/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_122
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Sunday May 09, 2021
Sunday May 09, 2021
Season 2 Episode 7 (Bonus material)
Show Notes
This episode is a supplement to my S2 E7 interview with Leighann Lord. Since her website bio describes her as a nerd AND she sites her favorite science fiction film as Terminator 2, I had to ask her about these things. And sure enough, a 20+ minute digression broke out on some of our favorite nerdy fandoms. Turns out she's a huge Star Trek fan (she was wearing Star Trek Jewelry and had a Star Trek background up during our interview!). Other topics we discuss include Star Wars, Game of Thrones, Watchmen, as well as talking about doing comedy at anime and comic book conventions.
Leighann's website: http://www.veryfunnylady.com/
Leighann on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LeighannLord
Leighann's Dry Bar Special: https://store.drybarcomedy.com/pages/leighannl
A link to my Action Comedy Nerd Show podcast where we discuss Star Trek: https://actioncomedynerdshow.podbean.com/e/action-comedy-nerd-show-18-talking-star-trek-discovery-the-orville-wmark-clark/
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