Okay, welcome to Ask Science Mike, on a Thursday? A little bit different.

I'm doing another conversation show kind of like we did with Pete Inz, only this one is going to be completely unedited, no announcements, no intro

music, no outro music.

Because, you know, I'm on tour and so many people have come up to me during the meet and great

portion following an event and said how much they like listening to Ask Science Mike and Littlerges Podcast, but also many of you listen

to the Bad Christian Podcast or some of that network of programs like pastor with no answers and have asked that we do more stuff that kind of

crosses the boundary between those two shows and oddly Joey's working on or just finished a book,

which talk about his struggles with mental illness,

and which is also something that I get asked about all the time on the show and we'll probably

do a deeper episode on the liturgis podcast.

So I asked Joey to come talk about the book and also to talk about

his experiences firsthand with being a person of faith, dealing with mental illness, and how the church relates to that.

So please enjoy this conversation between me and Joey from the Bad Christian Podcast.

His book is called Fundamentalist.

Okay, so everybody, this is a weird show. This is not a normal episode of Ask Science Mike.

This is kind of a bonus episode, I guess. I haven't really done one of these before, but I'm here with my friend

Joey from The Bad Christian Podcast and Pastor with no answers and a lot of you have sent me questions

about mental illness and faith and our response to that, what's wrong with it, what could we do better.

And Joey has a book out now called Fundamentalist that explores that issue.

So I thought I'd just have him on today

for a very informal conversation about that book

and what he's trying to accomplish

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