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Episode 423: Adam Banks and Amber Turner discuss the following in this episode:1. Trends that everyone is glad to see die out2. Todays Trends that will one day become cringe. 3. The Best One Hit Wonders of the 2000's 4. The best wedding Reception Songs for group dancing 5. Adam puts up a privacy fence at his home 6. This Day In History (July 14 )AND MORE!!Follow OFF THE CUFF WITH ADAM BANKS:FB: @offthecuffwithadambanksIG:@offthecuffwithadambanksTwitter:@theadambanksIG:@theadambanksSubscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube!http://linktr.ee/offthecuffwithadambanks
Episode 369: Adam Banks and Amber Turner discuss the following in this episode:1. This day in History (July 15th)2. Twitter over the last 15 years 3. Bill Bryant to replace Sam Dick as lead anchor at WKYT4. Famous Breaking News Announcements throughout the years 5. The 2021 NBA Playoff Finals Games 2, 3, and 4. 6. The current state of the Housing Market 7. The Miami Building collapse. Follow OFF THE CUFF: FB: @offthecuffwithadambanksIG:@offthecuffwithadambanksTwitter:@theadambanksIG:@theadambanksSubscribe on Itunes, Spotify, YouTube
What was sure to be a fantastic and beautiful weekend for a group of affluent people on Chappaquiddick Island ended up in total tragedy on July 19th, 1969. It was the talk of the nation as it directly involved Ted Kennedy. A member of one of America's most admired families. Referring to JFK's presidency as 'Camelot' doesn't do him justice by Sarah-Jane Stratford (Nov 21,2013) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/21/jfk-jackie-kennedy-camelot-myth Exploring the Kennedy-Camelot connection by Robert Francis November 18, 2013 https://fortworthbusiness.com/opinion/exploring-the-kennedy-camelot-connection/ Camelot, King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table By Owen Jarus - Live Science Contributor (April 11, 2018) https://www.livescience.com/28992-camelot.html#:~:text=Camelot%20was%20a%20mythical%20castled,table%20that%20held%20150%20knights. Exploring the Kennedy-Camelot connection by Robert Francis (November 18, 2013) https://fortworthbusiness.com/opinion/exploring-the-kennedy-camelot-connection/ Ted Kennedy, Donald Trump, and the death of moral politics: The late Massachusetts senator, despite his personal failings, upheld standards that have since faded from American public life. By Neal Gabler (January 3, 2021) https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/30/opinion/ted-kennedy-donald-trump-death-moral-politics/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MTsVFQzNwk Ted Kennedy, United States senator https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ted-Kennedy-American-senator THIS DAY IN HISTORY JULY 18: (1969) Senator Ted Kennedy drives car off bridge at Chappaquiddick Island https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/incident-on-chappaquiddick-island Why the True Story of ‘Chappaquiddick’ Is Impossible to Tell By Lorraine Boissoneault SMITHSONIANMAG.COM (APRIL 2, 2018) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-true-story-chappaquiddick-impossible-tell-180968638/ CHAPPAQUIDDICK; The party (March 21, 1980) By Clayton Jones https://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0321/032161.html Throwback Thursday: When Ted Kennedy’s Plane Crashed: Fifty years ago, the young Senator was seriously injured returning to Massachusetts just months after President Kennedy's death. by ERIC RANDALL (6/19/2014) https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2014/06/19/throwback-thursday-ted-kennedys-plane-crashed/ Apollo 11 Mission Overview https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo11.html Edward M. Kennedy Escaped Death in 1964 By NED POTTER (August 6, 2009) https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=8271369 You weren't able to grill him': Investigator says it was 'implied' not to push Ted Kennedy 'too hard' on Chappaquiddick. By Anthony Rivas (May 7, 2019) https://abcnews.go.com/US/grill-investigator-implied-push-ted-kennedy-hard-chappaquiddick/story?id=62788818 Cadden, Vivian (August 1974). "What Happened at Chappaquiddick". McCall's. Vol. 102. p. 80. ISSN 1060-1201. "Who's Who at the Kennedy Inquest". Time. Vol. 94 no. 10. September 5, 1969. p. 28. ISSN 0040-781X. Archived from the original on October 1, 2007. The five girls who attended the cookout are uniformly bright, efficient, fascinated by politics and cultishly pro-Kennedy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiler_Room_Girls Chappaquiddick: No Profile in Kennedy Courage: Sen. Ted Kennedy's silver record tarnished by ghosts of 1969 fatal crash. By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES (August 26, 2009) https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8212665 EXCLUSIVE: The real story of how Mary Jo Kopechne was a victim of the Kennedys TWICE: Secretary killed at Chappaquiddick had been yet another target of RFK's insatiable sexual appetite before his assassination By JERRY OPPENHEIMER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM (April 6, 2018) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5582233/How-Mary-Jo-Kopechne-victim-Kennedys-TWICE.html Ted Kennedy Deliberately Killed Mary Jo Kopechne — Because She Was Pregnant! Investigator finally reveals the tragic truth about Chappaquiddick. April 12, 2018 https://radaronline.com/exclusives/2018/04/ted-kennedy-killed-pregnant-mary-jo-kopechne-car-crash/ Remembering Mary Jo Kopechne By HOWIE CARR (July 26, 2020) https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/07/26/howie-carr-happy-birthday-mary-jo-kopechne/ THE CAMELOT DYNASTY By Tom Shales (September 19, 1992) https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1992/09/19/the-camelot-dynasty/58a05143-437e-4ca7-92c4-2ab05d914136/
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Full shownotes available at http://www.atheistnomads.com/56 CALL TO ACTION! * Petition to remove Idaho's child welfare faith healing exemptions INTRO 0:09:01 THIS DAY IN HISTORY - July 24 * 1487 - City sacked due to foreign beer ban* 1959 - Nixon and Khrushchev have a "kitchen debate"* 1982 - "Eye Of The Tiger" from Rocky III tops the U.S. pop charts* 2005 - Lance Armstrong wins seventh Tour de France 0:20:32 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY * Solar sails are on their way* Voyager I hit by another solar tsunami* Yellowstone roads melting* Ohio Amish are getting vaccinated 0:33:05 POLITICS AND RELIGION * Ted Cruz thinks Democrats are at war with Catholics * Abstinence only Louisiana senate candidate will be a grandpa* Colorado's free contraceptives program results* Iraqi Christians ordered to convert, pay up, or die* Kentucky church knowingly hired a convicted sex offender for a pastor and guess what, he raped a 14 year old boy* Study shows that religious children are more credulous 0:50:15 INTERVIEW - Teresa MacBain 1:53:44 FEEDBACK * Gwen via email* Al in Canada via email Email us at contact@atheistnomads.com or call us at (541) 203-0666. SUPPORTERS New patron - Kevin! Nuclear Sponsor - US$20.00 per month or US$10.00 per episode* Renee Davis-Pelt* Russ from the Kitsap Atheists & Agnostics* Robert Ray, Humanists of the North Puget Sound Platinum Sponsor – US$10.00 per month or US$5.00 per episode* Virginia Dawn* Mark Gold Sponsor – US$5.00 per month* Vernware* Gary from Idaho Atheists Kickass Patron - US$1.00 per episode*Kevin * Archway Hosting provides full featured web hosting for a fraction of the cost of traditional shared hosting. You get all the benefits of shared hosting, without the sticker shock or extra fees. Check them out at archwayhosting.com.* This vs. That - A new six part series available for download made just for geeky skeptics like you! Use offer code "nomads" at checkout for 25% off your purchase at thisvsthatshow.com. You can find us online at www.atheistnomads.com, follow us on Twitter @AtheistNomads, like us on Facebook, email us at contact@atheistnomads.com, and leave us a voice mail message at (541) 203-0666. Theme music is provided by Sturdy Fred. Recorded for release on 2014-07-24
Full shownotes available at http://www.atheistnomads.com/56 CALL TO ACTION! * Petition to remove Idaho’s child welfare faith healing exemptions INTRO 0:09:01 THIS DAY IN HISTORY - July 24 * 1487 - City sacked due to foreign beer ban* 1959 - Nixon and Khrushchev have a "kitchen debate"* 1982 - "Eye Of The Tiger" from Rocky III tops the U.S. pop charts* 2005 - Lance Armstrong wins seventh Tour de France 0:20:32 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY * Solar sails are on their way* Voyager I hit by another solar tsunami* Yellowstone roads melting* Ohio Amish are getting vaccinated 0:33:05 POLITICS AND RELIGION * Ted Cruz thinks Democrats are at war with Catholics * Abstinence only Louisiana senate candidate will be a grandpa* Colorado’s free contraceptives program results* Iraqi Christians ordered to convert, pay up, or die* Kentucky church knowingly hired a convicted sex offender for a pastor and guess what, he raped a 14 year old boy* Study shows that religious children are more credulous 0:50:15 INTERVIEW - Teresa MacBain 1:53:44 FEEDBACK * Gwen via email* Al in Canada via email Email us at contact@atheistnomads.com or call us at (541) 203-0666. SUPPORTERS New patron - Kevin! Nuclear Sponsor - US$20.00 per month or US$10.00 per episode* Renee Davis-Pelt* Russ from the Kitsap Atheists & Agnostics* Robert Ray, Humanists of the North Puget Sound Platinum Sponsor – US$10.00 per month or US$5.00 per episode* Virginia Dawn* Mark Gold Sponsor – US$5.00 per month* Vernware* Gary from Idaho Atheists Kickass Patron - US$1.00 per episode*Kevin * Archway Hosting provides full featured web hosting for a fraction of the cost of traditional shared hosting. You get all the benefits of shared hosting, without the sticker shock or extra fees. Check them out at archwayhosting.com.* This vs. That - A new six part series available for download made just for geeky skeptics like you! Use offer code "nomads" at checkout for 25% off your purchase at thisvsthatshow.com. You can find us online at www.atheistnomads.com, follow us on Twitter @AtheistNomads, like us on Facebook, email us at contact@atheistnomads.com, and leave us a voice mail message at (541) 203-0666. Theme music is provided by Sturdy Fred. Recorded for release on 2014-07-24
For the interview we are joined by David Silverman from American Atheists CALL TO ACTION * American Humanist Association to brief congress on need for humanist chaplains* Secular Humanists of Everett homeless care kits Vote Goddamnit! INTRO *Changing the format a bit 0:03:57 THIS DAY IN HISTORY - July 10 * 1925 - Scopes Monkey Trial* 1962 - US Patent 3 point seatbelt* 1985 - French Agents Sink Greenpeace Boat 0:15:04 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY * Off switch discovered for human consciousness* Psychotropic drugs affect men and women differently* Woman has nasal growth on back from stem cell treatment* McCarthy and Shepherd fired from The View 0:24:57 POLITICS AND RELIGION * Update - Rev Schaefer reinstated by Methodist Church* Update - Meriam Ibrahim released The Good in Recent US Jurisprudence: * Anti-vaxers lose in court* 9th Circuit rules that gays and lesbians require special protections The Bad: * Florida judge faces suspension for promoting ministry from the bench* Greece comes home to roost The Ugly: * Hobby Lobby* Hobby Lobby Hypocracy* Wheaton College* Senate Dems Challenge It* Government Contractor hiring 0:49:38 INTERVIEW - David Silverman, President of American Atheists 1:50:54 FEEDBACK * John via Facebook* @puneit via Twitter* @libsyn via Twitter* Glen via email* Graham via email Email us at contact@atheistnomads.com or call us at (541) 203-0666. SUPPORTERS Nuclear Sponsor - US$20.00 per month* Renee Davis-Pelt* Russ from the Kitsap Atheists & Agnostics* Robert Ray, Humanists of the North Puget Sound Platinum Sponsor – US$10.00 per month* Virginia Dawn* Mark Gold Sponsor – US$5.00 per month* Vernware* Gary from Idaho Atheists Archway Hosting provides full featured web hosting for a fraction of the cost of traditional shared hosting. You get all the benefits of shared hosting, without the sticker shock or extra fees. Check them out at archwayhosting.com. You can find us online at www.atheistnomads.com, follow us on Twitter @AtheistNomads, like us on Facebook, email us at contact@atheistnomads.com, and leave us a voice mail message at (541) 203-0666. Theme music is provided by Sturdy Fred. Recorded for release on 2014-07-10
For the interview we are joined by David Silverman from American Atheists CALL TO ACTION * American Humanist Association to brief congress on need for humanist chaplains* Secular Humanists of Everett homeless care kits Vote Goddamnit! INTRO *Changing the format a bit 0:03:57 THIS DAY IN HISTORY - July 10 * 1925 - Scopes Monkey Trial* 1962 - US Patent 3 point seatbelt* 1985 - French Agents Sink Greenpeace Boat 0:15:04 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY * Off switch discovered for human consciousness* Psychotropic drugs affect men and women differently* Woman has nasal growth on back from stem cell treatment* McCarthy and Shepherd fired from The View 0:24:57 POLITICS AND RELIGION * Update - Rev Schaefer reinstated by Methodist Church* Update - Meriam Ibrahim released The Good in Recent US Jurisprudence: * Anti-vaxers lose in court* 9th Circuit rules that gays and lesbians require special protections The Bad: * Florida judge faces suspension for promoting ministry from the bench* Greece comes home to roost The Ugly: * Hobby Lobby* Hobby Lobby Hypocracy* Wheaton College* Senate Dems Challenge It* Government Contractor hiring 0:49:38 INTERVIEW - David Silverman, President of American Atheists 1:50:54 FEEDBACK * John via Facebook* @puneit via Twitter* @libsyn via Twitter* Glen via email* Graham via email Email us at contact@atheistnomads.com or call us at (541) 203-0666. SUPPORTERS Nuclear Sponsor - US$20.00 per month* Renee Davis-Pelt* Russ from the Kitsap Atheists & Agnostics* Robert Ray, Humanists of the North Puget Sound Platinum Sponsor – US$10.00 per month* Virginia Dawn* Mark Gold Sponsor – US$5.00 per month* Vernware* Gary from Idaho Atheists Archway Hosting provides full featured web hosting for a fraction of the cost of traditional shared hosting. You get all the benefits of shared hosting, without the sticker shock or extra fees. Check them out at archwayhosting.com. You can find us online at www.atheistnomads.com, follow us on Twitter @AtheistNomads, like us on Facebook, email us at contact@atheistnomads.com, and leave us a voice mail message at (541) 203-0666. Theme music is provided by Sturdy Fred. Recorded for release on 2014-07-10
0:00:00 INTRODUCTION Dustin got a tattoo to commemorate the five year anniversary of his apostasy and talks about that very dark weekend leading up to his freedom. You can find Dustin talking about some of the sexual issues he ran into on Living After Faith 0:10:04 THIS DAY IN HISTORY July 19 1779 – The … Continue reading »
Christian Nation or Godless Republic? 0:00 Intro 1:20 This Day in History - July 4 1976 - The Clash play their first gig 1776 - Signing of the Declaration of Independence 1826 - Jefferson and Adams die 1997 - The Pathfinder lands on Mars 7:57 News Flame can delete files Ancient Saharan dairy farmers China's first manual space docking US sues to get tyrannosaurus fossils returned to Mongolia Fundamentalists use Nessie to "disprove" evolution EU rejects ACTA SOPA backers criticize netizens A majority of Americans would now vote for an atheist Vatican hires a PR guy 36:02 Is the United States a Christian nation? 55:39 Farewell 56:59 4th of July PSA 59:56 Out takes If you'd like to contact us, you can email us at contact@atheistnomads.com or leave us a message at (541) 203-0666. "I'm as mad as hell" speech taken from a clip found on YouTube and is originally from the motion picture "The Network" (1977) and is available on Amazon.com. The music for this episode is "Stars and Stripes for Ever" by John Philip Suza and performed by the US Marine Corps Band.