This week on LoRD, the Legion of Reason diversion, Christine and your Supreme Irreverend Doctor Randy are joined by Atheism TV’s Nicol Simard to discuss the topics du jour, which include assisted dying parties in California, the current court case in BC Supreme Court challenging the new assisted dying law and the foiled terror attack […]
Part 1 of our look at Ray Comfort’s new video titled The Atheist Delusion. This video was released at the end of July and we purposely avoided any discussion of it on social media to ensure that our reactions were fresh and genuine. Has Ray finally found that golden nugget have us abandoning , or […]
Kevin Francis from Left At The Valley joins us in discussing issues du jour: More religious interference in assisted dying; a human rights complaint over court-mandated attendance in Alcoholics Anonymous; Islam: The Tour; and From the Regressive Left Files: Black Lives Matter demands Vancouver Pride ban police from participation.
In this, the 171st edition of the Legion of Reason Diversion, yours truly, the Supreme Irreverend Doctor Randy Tyson makes his case against Black Lives Matter (the organization, NOT the idea of black lives mattering – do not conflate those two!), censorship on Facebook, genetically-modified versus mutagenically-modified organisms, the Anglican church allowing same-sex marriage ceremonies, […]
In the 169th episode we have as our special guests from the Hope After Faith and No Religion Required podcasts, Jerry DeWitt and Bobby Cary.
In this 168th edition (June 20, 2016) Kris, Feisty Twyla and yours truly, the Supreme Irreverend Doctor Randy, welcome our special guests, YouTube sensations Logicked and Isetheoriginal!
In this, the 167th episode we introduce a new segment covering Arts and Entertainment, wherein we learn that Mel Gibson has a sequel to his last snuff film “The Passion of the Christ” is in the works, and the probable plot of God’s Not Dead 3 is unfolding as its producers are being sued for […]
Welcome to the Legion of Reason Diversion, podcasting a critical eye on a sometimes less than critical world! In this, the 166th edition we see the greatest scientific minds in Canada tasked with answering one of the great questions of our time: Is broom technology destroying the game of curling? Who says blue-sky research isn’t […]
This past Victoria Day weekend was Imagine No Religion 6, and we have two interviews for you this week: Dr. Michael Shermer and The Amazing Randi graciously agreed to being interviewed, brokered by Left At The Valley’s Kevin Francis. (Thanks, Kevin!)
It’s naturopathy awareness week, and we wanted to make sure everyone is aware that there is no such thing as alternative medicine. Rather, it’s alternative TO medicine. In this, the 164th installment, we look at the tragedy that unfolded in northern Alberta while I was away; legislation covering physician assisted dying was introduced by the […]
In 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 […]
In 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 […]
In 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 […]
Welcome 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 […]
We 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 […]
In 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 […]
In 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 […]
Join 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 […]
Raihan 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 […]
We 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.
Join 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 […]
In 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 […]
In 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 […]
We 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.
In 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 […]
In 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, […]
Da 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 […]
In 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; […]
In 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, […]
Tonight, 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 […]
