Dec 17, 2025
We start the episode with an announcement from Go, and then we talk about 2025. How do we feel? At sea, I would say. And we finish up with some thoughts from the kids.
The Family Skeptical: We’re a married atheist couple raising two wonderful, strange children. We ask big questions, dissect weird parenting moments,...
Nov 26, 2025
It’s beginning to look a lot like Atheist Christmas. We start the episode with a story about the Tooth Fairy, and then we talk with Betsy DeVille about her book, Christmas for Atheists, and what to think about when celebrating as a secular family. Listen to the end for some amazing gingerbread house tips.
Now to...
Nov 5, 2025
We start out talking about our new Halloween tradition. Then we get into Trump’s latest anti-atheist activity and end up talking about him more generally. If you’d rather skip it and ignore his existence for a bit, honestly, I get it. That segment runs from 14:55 - 37:50. Then we talk about forgiveness. Are we...
Oct 15, 2025
We begin the episode discussing Alex Jones’s epic facial hair fail. Then we discuss Ryan Walters’s exit from Oklahoma schools. And we finish up talking about weirdos, and how to think about what to do when your kid is trending weird.
Now the links:
Our episode, Battle of the O States
Sep 24, 2025
This episode became one big family update somehow. We start out discussing our new pronoun situation. Then we get into Moms’s current mental health or lack thereof. And we finish off with a discussion about Go’s thoughts on death and how we’ve discussed death more generally. (And if you want to see the picture we...