{"id":2729,"date":"2014-07-31T22:22:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T03:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2014-08-01T16:00:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T21:00:06","slug":"blueball-skeptics-eps-3-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2014\/07\/31\/blueball-skeptics-eps-3-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Blueball Skeptics &#8211; Eps 3 &amp; 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2731\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/07\/blue-ball.png\" alt=\"blue-ball\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/07\/blue-ball.png 250w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/07\/blue-ball-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/> At some point this evening the next episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/blueballskeptics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blueball Skeptics<\/a> should drop on the <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/blueball-skeptics\/id899319232?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>. Sometime tomorrow afternoon,\u00a0episode 4 \u00a0should appear. <span style=\"color: #ffffff\">I would be more precise, but the producer is busy flaming people on Facebook and\u00a0lazily scratching himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The interviewees this time were not Big Name Skeptics who you&#8217;d recognize from YouTube but rather Old School Skeptics who have been around the movement since before my co-host was born. One of the frustrating shortcomings of most of the activist groups I&#8217;ve ever supported is a fairly large blind-spot when it comes to history, even the history of the movement itself. This goes for skeptics a fair bit less than it goes for atheists, in my experience, but the point remains that\u00a0without consulting our history we are doomed to repeat it.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Episode 3:<\/strong><br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2729-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/BlueballSkeptics\/BBS_003.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/BlueballSkeptics\/BBS_003.mp3\">https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/BlueballSkeptics\/BBS_003.mp3<\/a><\/audio><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Episode 4:<\/strong><br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2729-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/BlueballSkeptics\/BBS_004.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/BlueballSkeptics\/BBS_004.mp3\">https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/BlueballSkeptics\/BBS_004.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point this evening the next episode of Blueball Skeptics should drop on the iTunes. Sometime tomorrow afternoon,\u00a0episode 4&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","category-skepticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729","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=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}