Sinopsis
The Legion of Reason Podcast brings into sharp focus the intersection of society and skepticism. Topics range from religions attempting to impose dogma, to the threat modern social justice can pose to individual rights and freedoms, to the measurable harm pseudoscience can cause.We broadcast LIVE every second Sunday evening at 8:30 pm MT on [Facebook Live](https://www.facebook.com/LegionOfReason/) and [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/c/TheLegionofReason/live), and audio episodes appear on podcatchers such as iTunes, Google Play, Spotify and Stitcher shortly thereafter.Check our schedule for upcoming live sessions and their topics du jour. We even have a toll-free number for you to phone in!
Episodios
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Episode 163 – Potpourri Episode
14/04/2016 Duración: 01h13minIn this chapter the Supreme Irreverend Randy Tyson, Christine and feisty Twyla find that Andrew Wakefield’s venture into film making has bombed; BC Humanists fight the distribution of religious materials in Abbottsford public schools; yet another Bangledshi blogger is murdered on the streets of Dhaka; Pope Frank issues the Amortis Laetitia, but don’t expect to see […]
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Episode 162 – Potpourri
02/04/2016 Duración: 01h02minIn this 162nd chapter of the podcast we learn that Canada’s Office of Religious Freedom is dead; Andrew Wakefield’s blockbuster expose was pulled from Robert DeNiro’s Tribeca Film Festival; Parents of 19-month old Ezekiel Stephan tried to treat his lung infection and meningitis with such powerful medicines as maple syrup and horseradish root with unfortunately […]
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Episode 161 – The Atheist Muslim, Ali A. Rizvi
25/03/2016 Duración: 56minIn this, the 161st episode join Christine and me, the Supreme Irreverend Doctor Randy Tyson, in welcoming Dr. Ali Rizvi to our humble periodical. Ali is Pakistan-born Canadian physician/writer residing in Toronto who grew up in a number of locales, including Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan, as part of a progressive Muslim family. Ali’s writings […]
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Episode 158, Pt 3 – The Regressive Left, With Guests Melissa Chen and Alishba Zarmeen
13/03/2016 Duración: 01h10minWelcome once again to the Legion of Reason, podcasting a critical eye on a sometimes less-than-critical world! In this, the 158th edition, Da Prez Kris, Feisty Twyla, the incomparable Nate Phelps and yours truly, the Supreme Irreverend Doctor Randy Tyson are joined by Melissa Chen and Alishba Zarmeen as we play “complete the following” to […]
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Episode 160 – Religion DOES poison everything (audio version)
11/03/2016 Duración: 01h10minWe are now doing videocasts, which allows us to include awesome production values. We will keep doing the audio versions, but know that there is another option available for you to be entertained and informed by us. Subscribe to our YouTube channel today! The video version of this podcast episode can be viewed here. What […]
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Episode 158, Pt 2 – The Regressive Left, With Guests Melissa Chen and Alishba Zarmeen
11/03/2016 Duración: 42minIn this, the 158th edition, Melissa Chen and Alishba Zarmeen join us as we play “complete the following” to the statement “You might be a regressive leftist when….” The term ‘regressive left’ was popularized by Maajid Nawaz to describe “well-meaning liberals and ideologically driven leftists” in Great Britain who naively and “ignorantly pandered to” Islamists […]
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Episode 158, Pt 1 – The Regressive Left, With Guests Melissa Chen and Alishba Zarmeen
02/03/2016 Duración: 01h02minIn this, the 158th edition, Melissa Chen and Alishba Zarmeen join us as we play “complete the following” to the statement “You might be a regressive leftist when….” The term ‘regressive left’ was popularized by Maajid Nawaz to describe “well-meaning liberals and ideologically driven leftists” in Great Britain who naively and “ignorantly pandered to” Islamists […]
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Episode 157 – A Few Reasons for NOT Catholicism
16/02/2016 Duración: 01h19minJoin Da Prez Kris and yours truly, the Supreme Irreverend Doctor Randy Tyson, as we have another potpourri episode. We discuss the recent tiff between the NECSS and Richard Dawkins, his unfortunate stroke and the subsequent kiss-and-make-up; Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill meet in Cuba to disrespect quite a few groups with their concord (why […]
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Episode 156 – Bangladeshi Blogger Raihan Abir
09/02/2016 Duración: 59minRaihan Abir is a Bangaldeshi academic and biomedical engineer and for the last five years Abir has been working in the Department of Biomedical Physics and Technology at Dhaka University. He is a recipient of a International Science Program Fellowship from Uppsala University Sweden and is a science writer, human rights activist, freelance journalist and […]
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Episode 155 – American Atheist’s David Silverman and Imagine No Religion’s Bill Ligertwood
07/02/2016 Duración: 01h06minWe have two interviews for you this episode, the first with American Atheist‘s David Silverman (who joins us to talk about his new book Fighting God) and Bill Ligertwood joins us again to talk about this year’s Imagine No Religion conference this May 20-22 in Vancouver, BC.
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Episode 154 – Livin’ On A Prayer – Dusti Hennenfent and Luke Fevin
28/01/2016 Duración: 01h20minJoin us as Da Prez Kris, Feisty Twyla, Nate Phelps (who doesn’t yet have a moniker) and yours truly, the Supreme Irreverend Doctor Randy Tyson as we delve into a subject which surprises many to learn is unfortunately much too common in Alberta and Saskatchewan: prayer in public schools. We have two guests with us […]
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Episode 153, Part 2 – Kudatah!
25/01/2016 Duración: 01h09minIn this, the second part of the 153rd installment of this humble periodical Feisty Twyla, Da Prez Kris and yours truly, the Supreme Irreverend Doctor Randy Tyson take you on a sonic voyage. Our first stop is the land of assisted dying, where the Supreme Court of Canada has shown its diminishing patience over the […]
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Episode 153, Part 1 – He’s BAAAAAAAaaaaaaaack!
20/01/2016 Duración: 58minIn this, the 153rd instalment of this humble periodical Feisty Twyla, Da Prez Kris and yours truly, the Supreme Irreverend Doctor Randy Tyson take you on a sonic voyage. Our first stop is the land of assisted dying, where the Supreme Court of Canada has shown its diminishing patience over the Government of Canada’s lack […]
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Episode 152 – Cristin Padgett, A Non-believer Dares to Run for Public Office
04/01/2016 Duración: 01h33minWe have a special guest with us today who is doing something that I want to see more of in the future south of the 49th parallel, and that is running for office without hiding her nonbelief. Cristin Padgett is running in District 33 for a seat in the Texas House of Representatives.
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Episode 151 – Tell the Priest I Ordered “Well-done”, Not “Rare”
07/12/2015 Duración: 01h09minIn this installment, Da Prez Kris, Feisty Twyla and yours truly, the Supreme Irreverend Doctor Randy, explore the most recent gun violence on Colorado and California; a recent study suggesting there is little to choose between Deepak Chopra tweets and random word generators (which we put to the test); Christmas gift ideas for that atheist/secularist/skeptic […]
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Episode 150 – Nous sommes Paris
01/12/2015 Duración: 01h15minIn this installment, Da Prez Kris, Feisty Twyla and yours truly the Supreme Irreverend Doctor Randy Tyson discuss the tragedy in Paris, the objections to taking in Syrian refugees fleeing Daesh, Saudi Arabia going number one with a bullet (or, rather, the sword) as they try to set a record for number of public executions, […]
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Episode 149 – The Naturopathic Diaries, with Britt Marie Hermes
22/11/2015 Duración: 01h04minDa Prez Kris, Feisty Twyla and yours truly the Supreme Irreverend Doctor Randy Tyson welcome special guest Britt Marie Hermes to our humble podcast. Britt received a degree in naturopathic medicine at Bastyr University and practiced as a licensed naturopath for three years in the US until a number of realizations caused her to leave the […]
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Episode 148 – The Reason Behind Randy’s Happy Dance
20/11/2015 Duración: 01h26minIn this installment, Da Prez Kris, Feisty Twylla and yours truly, the Supreme Irreverend Doctor Randy Tyson discuss the hope brought about by the recent federal election here in the Great White North; our kudos go out to an Edmonton atheist group for trying to get attendees of a psychic performance to see the light; […]
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Episode 147 – Just Imagine If He WAS Ready…
04/11/2015 Duración: 01h18minIn this instalment, Da Prez Kris, Feisty Twyla and yours truly, the Supreme Irreverend Doctor Randy Tyson talk about our collective relief at the removal of Stephen Harper and what the incoming Liberal government might mean for science in Canada. We attended Alberta’s first secular meeting, the None of the Above conference in Red Deer, […]
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Episode 146 – Buh-bye, King Harper!
14/10/2015 Duración: 01h17minTonight, Da Prez Kris, The Ever-Feisty Twyla and yours truly, the Supreme Irreverend Doctor Randy Tyson talk about a Calgary preacher trying to cash in on the recent success of the Toronto Blue Jays by comparing life to baseball in his sermons; parents in Busby Alberta vote overwhelmingly to keep saying the Lord’s Prayer in […]