Jerb The Humanist
12 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago -This is the audio feed for the hangout portion of Jeremiah's YouTube channel, Jerb the Humanist. In it, Jeremiah talks to activists and other folks doing important work online and in meatspace.
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Episodes
New Media Roundtable 2 - Corporate Media and Misinformation
May 08, 2020 19:26 - 1 hour - 90.2 MBDan, Toby, and Jeremiah discuss the role of corporate media and misinformation in the current political landscape. In this episode we discuss the role of how upper-class power systemically presents information to the public, and we argue over whether other factors such as psychological motivations are more predominant than class in spreading misinformation. Other related topics are discussed such as trying to disseminate with a "view from nowhere" is possible. Follow me on twitter: https://t...
New Media Roundtable - Interrogating What Free Speech Actually Means
April 24, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 87 MBToby Buckle of the Political Philosophy Podcast organized a series of online creators for the purpose of heterodox discussions about philosophy, politics, and progress. In the inaugural episode of this project, Toby, Aaron, Chrisi, Kiegan, and I unpack what we really mean by free speech when we appeal to it. Towards the end, we discuss leftist and liberal conflict and how to move forward. Reminder- most of my content is on the channel and not uploaded to the podcast feed. https://www.youtube...
Hangout 10- Christy Abbey
July 19, 2019 22:49 - 1 hour - 75.8 MBChristy and Jerb discuss trans issues and her new YouTube channel. Follow and support her at the links below! Christy's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/RectoRatio Christy's Twitter: https://twitter.com/NormalityQuake Christy's PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/Redinkling?fbclid=IwAR1wArjqljH9aH_Hl2ytNZCMDGTGqncsCMVMLYCDBL-nk-u-v5vzAiRwAmQ My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Jerb
Hangout 9 - Eli Bosnick: Meditation, The Nature of Religion
May 18, 2019 15:33 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBEli and Jeremiah have been going back and forth on this argument for a long time. Is religion the fundamental root to our societal problems? What is the nature of religion? Does Jeremiah owe Eli $100? You can find Eli on Twitter @elibosnick https://twitter.com/elibosnick Also listen to his shows: https://audioboom.com/channel/scathin... https://audioboom.com/channel/god-awf... https://audioboom.com/channel/the-ske... http://citationpod.com/ Also apparently he has a blog: https://elibosnick...
Hangout 8 - Toby Buckle: The Politics of Language, Libertarianism, and Liberal vs. Radical Progress
March 01, 2019 15:01 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBToby Buckle is the host of the appropriately named Political Philosophy Podcast, as well as someone who has had many years of experience working for social justice organizations. Jeremiah probes him on some of the content in the recent episodes dealing with the history of Libertarianism, ideology, and language in a modern political context. The two discuss how politics becomes a battle over language, and why nobody is ever going to agree on what freedom or socialism mean. Toby unpacks the vac...
7: Juhem Navarro-Rivera, Latinx Humanist Alliance, Humanist Organizing, and Religious-Based Political Science
January 08, 2019 02:47 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBJuhem Navarro-Rivera joins Jeremiah to promote the Latinx Humanists, which you can find here: https://www.latinxhumanists.org/ The two discuss the goals for the Latinx Humanist Alliance. Beyond that, Juhem drops a ton of knowledge on his area of study- political science focusing on nonreligious demographics. You can follow him on Twitter at @JuhemNR and you can find him at his website below: https://juhemnavarro.net/
6: Ryan Bell, Humanism and Organizing Humans
January 07, 2019 05:14 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBThis episode was recorded just before the 2018 American midterm elections. Listen to find out why! Jeremiah and Ryan discuss the nature and the difficulty of organizing humanists and others who lack faith. Ryan discusses his role within the Secular Student Alliance and as a Humanist Chaplain at USC, and the two compare it to his past work as a leader in a more religious faith community. Furthermore, they get into whether humanism is a worthwhile project or not. You can follow Ryan on Twitte...
5: Bethany Futrell, Context and Qanon
August 16, 2018 05:24 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBJeremiah will be talking to Bethany of Inciting Incident and She Talks Atheism about her quest to put everything into context, and the importance of that. Jeremiah will probably kvetch about STEMlords and their inability at understanding culture and history. After that, they will be discussing Qanon. /pol/ thread: https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/uid/BQ7V3bcW%20/order/asc/ Island photo: http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/12/qanon-4chan-the-storm-conspiracy-explained.html Clinton cabal ph...
4: Aaron Rabi, Pirsig's Metaphysical Quality and How to Apply It
August 10, 2018 06:18 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBAaron of the Embrace the Void Podcast, a philosophy lecturer talks about some of his insights into contemporary philosophy culture. After that, he helps Jeremiah understand concepts from "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig, and how to use those concepts in everyday life.
Jerb Hangout 3 - Kristi Winters
July 08, 2018 21:40 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBJeremiah and Kristi Winters talk about narratives in science, and the undervaluing of it in skeptic and atheist circles. They talk about storytelling, and move on to things like representation and other topics. Kristi's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/drkmwinters Kristi's Twitter: https://twitter.com/KWintie Jeremiah's Twitter: https://twitter.com/JerbTheHumanist Jeremiah's Email: [email protected]
Jerb Hangout 2 - Matthew Facciani
June 22, 2018 19:17 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBJeremiah talks to Matthew Facciani, where they discuss problems in skeptic spheres. These include problems such as denying that ingroup bias exists in skepticism, and the complaints of attempts to diversify science communities. Matthew's Blog, According to Matthew - http://www.patheos.com/blogs/accordingtomatthew/ Follow Matthew on Twitter - https://twitter.com/MatthewFacciani Nature article that stirred controversy: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05326-3 Case study on sports fo...
Jerb Hangout 1 - Callie Wright, Trav Mamone, and Ari Stillman
June 11, 2018 19:08 - 1 hour - 59.2 MBThis is the audio feed for the hangout portion of Jeremiah's YouTube channel, Jerb the Humanist. In it, Jeremiah talks to activists and other folks doing important work online and in meatspace. In this episode, I talk to Callie Wright, Trav Mamone, and Ari Stillman about where Humanism can go from here, IF they can go on from here, and why nonreligious folks can engage in just as much nonsense as religious folks. The Gaytheist Manifesto- http://www.thegaytheistmanifesto.com/ Bi Any Means- ...