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Category: Godlessness
Posted on: April 12, 2008 9:15 PM, by PZ Myers
It's another day for Atheists Talk radio, Sunday at 9am, with yours truly in the first half hour, being interviewed by Kristine Harley about that horrible little movie that I'm getting tired of hearing about. But all right, we'll take another shot at it. Maybe you can liven it up by calling in to 952-946-6205 with something new and interesting to say or ask … that is, no Chris Farleys.
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Unfortunately, ads for The Movie That Shall Not Be Named are showing up on the teevee here in Chicago, featuring a very stereotypical-looking biology professor and the usual smarmy B.S.
Can't tell you what they say because I dive for the remote to hit mute.
Posted by: cory | April 12, 2008 10:08 PM
Hope you were properly invited. No instances of fooling the system. No disguising yourself as Paul Z Myers by using your name.
Posted by: g2 | April 12, 2008 10:46 PM
Cory: you don't mean you're... censoring the Intelligent Design proponents
Naughty!
Posted by: wazza | April 12, 2008 11:07 PM
PZ, you remember the Beatles, and you played rhythm and Richard Dawkins was on drums? And that one album where if you played it backwards it said "God is a fairy tale?" That was a hoax, right? That's awesome!
Posted by: UprightAlice | April 12, 2008 11:45 PM
I think you need to get to work on your filmography PZ. At least Dawkins has The Enemies of Reason and tv appearances.
Posted by: Geoff | April 13, 2008 1:20 AM
Hey PZ,
My wife is in constant contact with the Daily Show Big Wigs(I can't say why publicly at this point in time). I'll ask her if she can put a bug in John's ear about having you on the show. I'd love to see you there, as apposed to just hearing you on the radio.
Best to ya.
Posted by: Dahan | April 13, 2008 1:21 AM
Umm, hey, remember when you were, um, talking...and, um, you said that we should beat up the ID people with, like, brass knuckles and, um, steel toed boots, and stuff?
That was SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: chunkdz | April 13, 2008 2:44 AM
I have a dump button ready for Chris Farley calls. Also, don't wait until close to the end of the second segment. I may not be able to get callers on the air if Kristine and PZ are wrapping up the show. You can e-mail me during the show, too, at radio@minnesotaatheists.org, but again do so early in the program so I can read your e-mail on the air while PZ is still on the air.
Be sure to listen to the second segment, too!
Your host.
Posted by: Mike Haubrich, FCD | April 13, 2008 6:30 AM
Speaking of radio... if hearing constant ads for "Expelled" turns your stomach, you'll want to avoid the NPR streaming content today. At least when trying to listen to "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" I was sorry to see web ads and hear audio ads all over the place. I think it's a rather odd audience for them to attempt to attract.
Posted by: Raven | April 13, 2008 9:04 AM
#9
From what I understand, NPR accepted thirty pieces of silver as payment for the ads.
Posted by: J | April 13, 2008 9:46 AM
I have no idea how I could survive without these reminders.
Posted by: Steve Ulven | April 13, 2008 10:04 AM
I was just thinking about this, I saw August Berkshire at the MN Zoo to see Frans deWaal. It was pretty cool. You should have promoted that event, at the least. Although he may not be into tentacles, he does tell us that we ARE apes.
Posted by: Steve Ulven | April 13, 2008 10:08 AM
That was pretty cool, minus the 5 or so seconds of dead-air (bad bad bad). It's probably due to that my attention wandered so I missed the question about sponges. Can anyone with a better attention span tell me what the question was? And even better, direct me to the study (I did hear the response).
Posted by: Steve Ulven | April 13, 2008 10:34 AM
Ha, my Star Wars nerdishness made it on the radio.
Posted by: Steve Ulven | April 13, 2008 10:48 AM
That was the first time that I've managed to catch the show. It was enjoyable.
I wish I had turned off the player as soon as it was over though. Now the airwaves are occupied by a paid advertisement from a "Dr." of chiropractic selling fish oil and pomegranate extract.
The contrast is making my brain hurt.
Posted by: sdej | April 13, 2008 11:12 AM
Does anyone know of any organized protest of the unamed propoganda piece that is coming to theaters soon? I wonder what theaters will carry it. If I see it, I'll pay for another movie at a multiplex so they don't get my money. However, I don't know how I can keep myself from shouting at the screen. Any ideas?
Posted by: Carol | April 13, 2008 11:19 AM
Hi Carol, I have no idea of organized protests, and am way too lazy to start one myself, but I have e-mailed Regal Cinema to hopefully stop them from showing it. Try doing that for your local theaters.
I doubt that Regal will show it anyway in my area, we couldn't even get "Diary of the Dead," bastards! I'm sure George Romero is more highly regarded than this group of twits. If I'm wrong, then we'll see.
Posted by: Steve Ulven | April 13, 2008 12:05 PM
FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT!!!
Posted by: Mike | April 13, 2008 12:56 PM
Podcast is up at mnatheists.org.
Posted by: Bjorn Watland | April 13, 2008 5:12 PM
Don't protest. Do what the Richard III Society does when Shakespeare's hatchet job is shown -- politely hand out leaflets explaining the facts.
And don't let it get you down that the encyclopedias mostly state flat out that Richard murdered his nephews.
Posted by: Monado, FCD | April 13, 2008 9:54 PM
I say that when the movie actually comes out, don't protest it. Ignore it. Then swarm the comments of your local newspapers' review site with facts on the vacuity of the movie.
Showing up to protest at the theater will invite people to buy tickets, just to see what the controversy is about. You wouldn't want to be responsible for innocent people losing three IQ points by seeing this dreck, would you?
Posted by: Mike Haubrich, FCD | April 14, 2008 7:53 AM
So was the point that eugenics cannot be used to breed selected qualities into humans or that it's not "Darwinist" to do so?
Posted by: Mark | April 15, 2008 8:33 PM