{"id":2696,"date":"2014-07-19T21:11:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T02:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2014-07-19T21:11:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T02:11:24","slug":"complimentary-earplugs-19100-blue-ball-skeptics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2014\/07\/19\/complimentary-earplugs-19100-blue-ball-skeptics\/","title":{"rendered":"Complimentary Earplugs (19\/100) \u2013 Blue Ball Skeptics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably already heard about this if you follow me on any social media, but my bro\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BirdTerrifier\" target=\"_blank\">Chas<\/a> and I have launched a new podcast at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BlueBallSkeptics.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.BlueBallSkeptics.com<\/a>, where we will be pursuing various skeptical topics. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OklahomaAtheistsGodcast\" target=\"_blank\">other podcast<\/a> is not going away any time soon, but as we explained in the <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/oklahoma-atheists-godcast\/id359065339?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\">latest supplemental episode<\/a> of that show, we are looking for more freedom to pursue science and skepticism even when we cannot manage to somehow link the topic back to questions about theism\/atheism.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2697\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2697\" style=\"width: 639px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/07\/user3733_pic1723_1374120275.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2697\" alt=\"The full cast of the first episode (photo credit: Ardent Skeptic)\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/07\/user3733_pic1723_1374120275.jpeg\" width=\"639\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/07\/user3733_pic1723_1374120275.jpeg 639w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/07\/user3733_pic1723_1374120275-300x214.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Full cast of the first Blue Ball Skeptics episode at TAM2013 (Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\/anardentskeptic\/\" target=\"_blank\">An Ardent Skeptic<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We will be trying to focus on topics that do not traditionally receive loads of coverage under the rubric of Big Tent Skepticism, for example, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blueballskeptics.com\/2014\/07\/12\/blueball-skeptics-premier-podcast-posted\/\" target=\"_blank\">first two shows<\/a>\u00a0we covered the unfortunate history of racism in the fields of statistics (my field), physical anthropology (Chas&#8217; field), and psychology (Caleb&#8217;s field). In the next supplemental episode, Caleb will be discussing the results of his as-yet-unpublished scientific survey of TAM attendees and UCO students.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any suggestions for interesting topics or \u00a0interviewees, do leave a comment about it below.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/blueball-skeptics\/id899319232\" target=\"_blank\">share and enjoy<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably already heard about this if you follow me on any social media, but my bro\u00a0Chas and I have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complimentary-earplugs","category-skepticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2698,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}