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#21 Sorry, I'm on a Safari Right Now with Faith Litchfield 2026-07-06
Someone reached out to our team not long ago and asked a question that a lot of people are probably carrying around: when you stop believing, where…
#20 Get Them a Goddamn Folding Chair with Rev. Dr. Jé Exodus Hooper 2026-06-29
Reverend Dr. Je' Exodus Hooper is an arts and cultural community curator, clergy leader, and scholar, but none of those words will prepare you for…
#19 Fanta-sizing About a Big Gay World with Jack Harrison-Quintana 2026-06-22
Jack Harrison-Quintana has spent his career doing work that has shaped LGBTQ lives in corners of the world most advocates never get to reach. He has…
#18 The Process of Remembering with Amanda W. Timpson of Yesterqueers 2026-06-15
As the founder of Yesterqueers, Amanda W. Timpson is doing the work of restoring what got left out of queer history, correcting narratives that were…
#17 How to Retraumatize Your Foster Kid with Shane Lukas 2026-06-08
Shane Lukas runs an award-winning design agency, has a TEDx Talk dropping, and owns a record collection that is genuinely not fair. He also does…
#16 Kentucky Fried Pride with Cain Culto 2026-06-01
Shay has been known to keep her cool in interviews... until now. But it's Cain Culto, so... fair. Cain's music and striking visual artistry has been…
#15 God Bless This Humanist Friendship with Cheryl Anscombe 2026-05-25
Shay has a bestie. Her bestie is a Christian named Cheryl. They have been besties since May 19th, 2009, and neither of them has tried to convert the…
#14 Norway, She's So Humanist with Christian Lomsdalen 2026-05-18
On our first international episide, we visit Bergen to talk to Christian Lomsdalen -- the president of the Norwegian Humanist Association, a high…
#13 How Ruff Ryders Roll Even if it's Not to the Cookout with Dr. Monica Johnson 2026-05-11
Dr. Monica Johnson is a licensed clinical psychologist, a self-proclaimed Swiss Army knife of a human being, and someone who will absolutely bring…
#12 Something Old, Something New, One God Shout-Out with Bethel Nathan 2026-05-04
Turns out you can have the chuppah, break the glass, do the hora, and still not have to mention God once. Or you can mention God exactly once,…
#11 Prime Real Estate For Satanists with Taylor Leigh 2026-04-27
Salem, Massachusetts. Austin, Texas. Kingston, Pennsylvania. Turns out if you know where to look, Satanists have been quietly securing the best real…
#10 Liberty and Trauma For All with Dr. Lucas Wilson 2026-04-20
A man chose Liberty University over the University of Toronto because it had a conversion therapy program. That man is now a postdoctoral fellow…
#9 What More is There Than Death & Ice Cream? with D.S. Moss 2026-04-13
Shay & Devin decide to talk about the big D... Death. Together they cover grief that doesn't end, rituals humanists have yet to invent, what it…
#8 Kinky Coffee on a Denver Gondola with Alyssa Grenfell 2026-04-06
Alyssa Grenfell grew up knowing three things: coffee was basically heroin, God had a very specific plan for her life, and that plan included Italy.…
#7 Mustard and the Condiments of Righteousness with Shawn Towers 2026-03-30
For years, Shawn Towers ate the mustard. Didn't ask them to take it back, didn't make a fuss, just swallowed it because that's what a good Christian…
#6 Saint Australia and the Sober Toe with Dr. Joe Gerstein 2026-03-23
A Jesuit priest called Joe Gerstein lazy in 1989 and accidentally launched a global sobriety movement in 38 countries and 16 languages. Joe is a…
#5 Humanism Rained on My "Kirk is Gone" Parade with Elisa Rosoff 2026-03-16
When Charlie Kirk died, Shay had feelings about her feelings. Specifically, the feeling that humanism was standing in the driveway blocking the…
#4 Allah Flunked Out of Beauty School with Sammy of Haram Doodles 2026-03-09
Hear us out... what if Allah was an aspiring hairdresser who flunked out of beauty school, and rather than dealing with that loss in therapy like a…
#3 God Can't Do Math in the Cereal Aisle with Robert Affinis 2026-03-02
After a stranger suggests that maybe two plus two equals five in another universe, Robert Affinis decides he is officially done debating God’s…
#2 Batman’s Not Real and Other Brutal Truths with Greg Epstein 2026-02-23
What if the secret origin story of humanism is just... ancient people getting tired of handing over their goats? In this episode, Greg Epstein —…
#1 My Mom's Radical Act of Cake 2026-02-23
In this debut episode of How to Humanist , Shay Leonia introduces herself as the mildly terrified new podcast host representing a nearly century-old…