In this episode, Phil and Susie catch up and discuss the US election results and what went wrong for Democrats, how religious beliefs are correlated with being susceptible to disinformation, Project 2025, how we both felt upon learning the results, and how we move forward over the next 4 years.

The main part of the episode is Susie's conversation with our favorite expert on everything, Lars and his family. She got the chance to sit down with them at her home over the summer on their way back from picking up their kids from camp, and they have a very interesting conversation, with a special focus on how their family is adjusting to the recent revelation that their son, Alex was trans. They talk a bit about how their still Xtian parents have responded to that revelation and how they responded to Lars and Christie's deconversion, along with some other family member's responses. It's a fascinating and engaging conversation with Lars, Christie, and Alex along with special appearance from Susie's daughter, Audrey, who talks about her perceptions about what she thinks about trans questions and her views on therapy. The conversation concludes with a conversation with a few of the kids about their lives in a non-religious family, and it's truly refreshing! It's a wide ranging conversation that covers a wide variety of subjects. We hope you enjoy. Thanks to Lars and Christie for sharing with us and to Alex and Audrey for contributing and a big shout out to Susie for her solo hosting debut! She is fantastic!!

Notes and Resources

Graphic Referenced in the intro about disinformation: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/2024-election-surveys-show-trump-voters-misinformed-on-major-issues-by-j-bradford-delong-2024-11?

Project 2025: The official site https://www.project2025.org/

An Analytical Overview from Fact Check: https://www.factcheck.org/2024/09/a-guide-to-project-2025/

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After an excessively long break, Phil and Suzie return for a little catch up chat. We talk about our summer breaks, where we both are now in our journeys away from faith and what the future might look like as we continue to move forward and what it means for the podcast and our lives in general. The episode concludes with some random podcast recommendation and a little discussion about religious trauma.

We are looking forward to getting back into the groove as we wrap up the year and Season 3 over the next few months.

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In this episode, Phil and Susie talk with Laura, a nurse, originally from WV who now lives in CA with her husband, 3 cats and a special needs stepson. She has taken a circuitous journey from Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist, and Southern Baptist to eventual agnostic, humanistic atheism.

She has a Bachelor’s in Marketing from Johnson & Wales University in Providence and did advertising stuff for a few years. She switched gears after her mom’s death and went to nursing school. She has Associates and Master's Degrees in Nursing. She current works in an ICU step down unit in Pasadena. She enjoys reading, hiking, triathaloning (poorly and slowly), traveling, Braves baseball, Steelers and WVU Mountaineer football, cats, and craft beer. She is a published author and is adopted. According to Ancestry.com, Davy Crockett is her great x4 uncle.

Laura's Recommended Resources:

• Podcasts
  • You can’t get to heaven in miniskirt: https://www.heaveninaminiskirt.com/
  • Graceful Atheist podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/graceful-atheist-podcast/id1456800368
  • Divorcing religion podcast: https://www.divorcing-religion.com/religious-trauma-podcast
  • Deconversion podcast: https://thedeconversionpodcast.com/
  • Thinking atheist podcast : https://www.thethinkingatheist.com/
• Books
  • Good without God
  • God Delusion
  • Skeptics Annotated Bible

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