The Hey everybody from Salt Lake City Utah. It's Thank God. I'm atheist a podcast about religion,

atheism, politics, life in America right now and all that crap I'm Frank Feldman and sitting in today for

Dan Beecher is my husband Dave Dave welcome thank you to the show

So nice to be here. Yeah, I'm sure it is. You've been very excited about this. So excited. I've been so excited for days thinking about this experience. When the threat first came that I couldn't find a guest host.

Yeah. My normal guest host, Rachel wasn't available.

I've always been the last resort. You have made yourself the last resort. Yeah. You've not been my last choice. You've been the last person willing to help out.

Yeah, that's true probably.

Well, um...

But this is the first time we've had to resort to the last resort.

Well, thank you for being here I appreciate it. It's lovely. So far.

Yeah coming up on the show today on the the second half of the show, we're going to be responding to something that I saw on

Reddit, a question that was posed.

I thought was kind of interesting, and so I thought we would take a stab at it,

sort of advice from older atheists

So which I guess we are and to younger atheists and I don't know that that kind of I was like you know what I have some

advice to dispense do you I have words that should be lived by it's what every

old person thinks. How dare you?

Dare you call me old?

All right, well, first though, we have some things that happen this week,

some news of the week, including a story from

Afghanistan. All good stories come from Afghanistan these days.

Thanks to the Taliban being back in charge.

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