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Join Thomas for some critical thinking on questions of science, philosophy, skepticism and politics. These serious topics are discussed with some serious guests, but in an entertaining and engaging way! This is not your typical interview podcast; it’s a friendly dialogue, conducted thoughtfully and with plenty of humor. It's Serious Inquiries Only; but like, not boring or anything.

SIO119: Getting Satanic with Jex Blackmore

46 mins; February 11, 2018

SIO118: Intercontinental Culture Wars, with Michael Marshall

64 hours 8 mins; February 07, 2018

SIO117: Jaclyn Friedman on Yes Means Yes, Feminism, and Sexual Liberation

54 mins; February 04, 2018

SIO116: What Is Jordan Peterson Saying? with Aaron Rabi

65 hours 17 mins; January 31, 2018

SIO115: What Happens When We Accidentally Decriminalize Prostitution?

46 mins; January 28, 2018

SIO114: Getting on the Same Page #metoo

47 mins; January 25, 2018

SIO113: Panel Discussion on Aziz Ansari

73 hours 51 mins; January 21, 2018

SIO112: Fat-Shaming Trump or Hypocrisy-Shaming? plus Listener Voicemails!

62 hours 25 mins; January 17, 2018

SIO111: Andrew Breaks Down the James Damore Google Lawsuit!

72 hours 27 mins; January 14, 2018

SIO110: No, Steven Pinker Isn't Alt-Right (but he's still wrong...)

56 mins; January 11, 2018

SIO109: A Carefully Curated Tom Curry

57 mins; January 07, 2018

SIO108: Sam Harris Sides with Ben Shapiro Over the FFRF

45 mins; January 03, 2018

SIO107: Alix Jules on the Coates-West Controversy

63 hours 42 mins; December 31, 2017

SIO106: Thinking Rationally on Cenk Uygur's Past Sexism

56 mins; December 27, 2017

SIO105: Traumatic Brain Injuries, with Dr. Topher Stephenson

58 mins; December 24, 2017

SIO104: Cornel West Owes Ta-Nehisi Coates an Apology

49 mins; December 21, 2017

SIO103: Samantha Corbin of #WeSaidEnough

43 mins; December 17, 2017

SIO102: Moral Philosophy with Aaron Rabi

65 hours 37 mins; December 14, 2017

SIO101: Science Mom Natalie Newell

56 mins; December 10, 2017

SIO100: The Red Pill, Part 2: MRAs Should Be Democrats

53 mins; December 07, 2017

SIO99: Crystal Lee, 2014 Miss America Runner-Up and Entrepreneur

54 mins; December 03, 2017

SIO98: Republicans Don't Care About You

68 hours 53 mins; November 29, 2017

SIO97: Lonnie Miller, Republican Candidate for TN Governor

69 hours 31 mins; November 26, 2017

SIO96: Franken Must Go; What Happened At Laurier University?

57 mins; November 22, 2017

SIO95: The Franken Fallout, with Dr. Kristi Winters and Charone Frankel

64 hours 1 min; November 20, 2017

SIO94: Do We Really Need A Tax Cut?

64 hours 1 min; November 16, 2017

SIO93: Listener Voicemail!

55 mins; November 13, 2017

SIO92: Was the DNC Rigged?

72 hours 56 mins; November 09, 2017

SIO91: Dr. Kate Biberdorf on Science Outreach

42 mins; November 05, 2017

SIO90: Uranium and #DARVO: An Epistemological Crisis

61 hours 4 mins; November 03, 2017

SIO89: Three Stories of #metoo

54 mins; October 29, 2017

SIO88: Trump's Participation Trophies, Part 3

53 mins; October 26, 2017

SIO87: Eli Bosnick with Brian, Dmitry and not Sean from Mythicist Milwaukee

148 hours 52 mins; October 23, 2017

SIO86: Emotion is Critical to Reasoning

68 hours 26 mins; October 19, 2017

SIO85: PZ Myers

75 hours 22 mins; October 15, 2017

SIO84: Interview with Jessica Xiao; Sargon's Persecution Complex

59 mins; October 11, 2017

SIO83: Dr. Kristi Winters

64 hours 25 mins; October 08, 2017

SIO82: The Mythinformation Shitshow

100 hours 23 mins; October 05, 2017

SIO81: David Tamayo of Hispanic American Freethinkers

54 mins; October 01, 2017

SIO80: The Red Pill: Debunking the MRAs, Part 1

55 mins; September 27, 2017

SIO79: James Damore, Author of the Google Memo

105 hours 42 mins; September 24, 2017

SIO78: More of Trump's Participation Trophies!

61 hours 29 mins; September 20, 2017

SIO77: Stephanie Zvan on Anti-Harassment Policies and More

46 mins; September 17, 2017

SIO76: Debunking Scott Adams on Trump

64 hours 49 mins; September 13, 2017

SIO75: Dr. Roberta Chevrette on Feminism and Gender Studies

58 mins; September 10, 2017

SIO74: Interview with a Dreamer on #DACA

59 mins; September 06, 2017

SIO73: FGM in the UK, with Chantelle

57 mins; September 03, 2017

SIO72: But Didn’t Obama Pardon Terrorists?

66 hours 50 mins; August 31, 2017

SIO71: That Whole Google Memo Thing with Felicia Entwistle

45 mins; August 27, 2017

SIO70: WTF Sam Harris

54 mins; August 23, 2017

SIO69: Malaysian Officials Want To Hunt Down Atheists

55 mins; August 20, 2017

SIO68: On Many Sides in Charlottesville and the ACLU with Charone Frankel

57 mins; August 17, 2017

SIO67: Andrew Torrez on The Crime Bill and Broken Window Theory

73 hours 43 mins; August 13, 2017

SIO66: North Korea and the REAL Trump

62 hours 56 mins; August 10, 2017

SIO65: Alix Jules Part Deaux

78 hours 19 mins; August 06, 2017

SIO64: No, Progressives Aren't Embracing Hate

62 hours 23 mins; August 02, 2017

SIO63: Dangers of Neoliberalism with Michael A. Wood Jr.

67 hours 32 mins; July 30, 2017

SIO62: Trans and in the Military with Sarah

52 mins; July 26, 2017

SIO61: What Is True Islam? with Qasim Rashid

74 hours 59 mins; July 23, 2017

SIO60: An Objective Look at Linda Sarsour

55 mins; July 20, 2017

SIO59: Alix Jules

62 hours 5 mins; July 16, 2017

SIO58: Yes, Call Out Assholes (Including me, if you see it that way)

69 hours 58 mins; July 12, 2017

SIO57: Problems in Academia

51 mins; July 09, 2017

SIO56: Who Speaks for the Atheist Movement?

47 mins; July 06, 2017

SIO55: Debating Evergreen and the Merits of Whitesplaining

65 hours 44 mins; July 02, 2017

SIO54: Ishmael of Angry Black Rant on Appropriation, Bill Maher and More

58 mins; June 28, 2017

SIO53: What Is Postmodernism? With Aaron Rabi

44 mins; June 25, 2017

SIO52: Democrats Should Be Happy About the Special Elections

69 hours 9 mins; June 21, 2017

SIO51: Andrew Torrez on Manslaughter: Philando Castile and Michelle Carter

55 mins; June 18, 2017

SIO50: Michael Shermer on Evergreen and Gender Studies

76 hours 37 mins; June 14, 2017

SIO49: The Pro-Truth Pledge, with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky

67 hours 14 mins; June 11, 2017

SIO48: What's Really Going On at Evergreen College?

53 mins; June 07, 2017

SIO47: Conversation with a Critic on Bill C-16

54 mins; June 04, 2017

SIO46: AHCA - The Scandal Hiding in Plain Sight

55 mins; May 31, 2017

SIO45: James Lindsay, Co-Author of the 'Conceptual Penis' Hoax Paper

80 hours 28 mins; May 28, 2017

SIO44: Debunking the 'Conceptual Penis' Stunt with Eli Bosnick

46 mins; May 24, 2017

SIO43: Debate and Discussion with Dan Arel

87 hours 7 mins; May 21, 2017

SIO42: Trump Impeachment Talk; Fox News Is A Fairytale Land Right Now

62 hours 40 mins; May 17, 2017

SIO41: Talking Free Speech, with Michael Shermer

73 hours 23 mins; May 14, 2017

SIO40: Actually, Berkeley Is A Fierce Defender of Free Speech

48 mins; May 10, 2017

SIO39: Seth Andrews of The Thinking Atheist

48 mins; May 07, 2017

SIO38: Obama's Unfortunate Payday

57 mins; May 03, 2017

SIO37: Josh Zepps of #WeThePeople LIVE

63 hours 52 mins; May 01, 2017

SIO36: The New Version of Trumpcare Should Scare You

64 hours 18 mins; April 27, 2017

SIO35: The Perils of Being Ex-Muslim, with Eiynah

58 mins; April 24, 2017

SIO34: Episode no longer available

19 secs; April 19, 2017

SIO33: Thinking Clearly on Syria

61 hours 38 mins; April 16, 2017

SIO32: What Happened In Syria?

60 hours 46 mins; April 12, 2017

SIO31: Why We Ignore Facts, with Sara Gorman

53 mins; April 10, 2017

SIO30: America Last, with Zachary Kiser

46 mins; April 05, 2017

SIO29: No Longer Available

19 secs; April 02, 2017

SIO28: The Discussion With Dave Rubin That Never Was (and more bad news....)

66 hours 30 mins; March 29, 2017

SIO27: What Grounds Our Morals? With Aaron Rabi

61 hours 45 mins; March 26, 2017

SIO26: The Trump Administration and Russia - An Incredible Amount of Smoke

63 hours 7 mins; March 22, 2017

SIO25: Lawrence Krauss - The Greatest Story Ever Told

46 mins; March 19, 2017

SIO24: Can We Rely on the CBO's Projections?

63 hours 47 mins; March 16, 2017

SIO23: Is It Morally Acceptable to Have Children? with Travis Rieder

56 mins; March 12, 2017

SIO22: From Obamacare to Trumpcare

60 hours 42 mins; March 09, 2017

SIO21: Be Reasonable, with Michael Marshall

72 hours 19 mins; March 05, 2017

SIO20: Can We Change Minds?

68 hours 47 mins; March 01, 2017

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