#138 Rhett McLaughlin - How to Save Christianity From Christians
Within Reason
Alex J O'Connor
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2026
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
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Rhett McLaughlin is a comedian best known for creating the internet’s most-watched daily talk show, Good Mythical Morning, alongside Link Neal. The pair also host a weekly podcast, Ear Biscuits.
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Timestamps:
0:00 – Tour
0:32 – Did Rhett Break Christianity on Easter Sunday?
6:15 – What About Christianity Needs Rethinking?
12:16 – Christians Should Embrace Faith
23:39 – Christians Should Stop Relying on Evidence
37:01 – Christians Should Stop Relying on Philosophy
49:05 – Christians Should Embrace Truth
55:15 – Why Do Christians Resist Evolution?
1:02:55 – Are Alex and Rhett About to Convert to Christianity?
1:07:49 – Christians Should Embrace Jesus
1:34:30 – Rhett’s New Channel
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm going on a tour of the United Kingdom. If you've ever been interested in that big question of God's existence, or try to make sense of religion in the 21st century, or consciousness, or anything philosophical, then join me on stage as I try to work out some of these topics with you. I'll be in conversation with a good friend, but also bring questions because there will be |
| 0:21.1 | an extensive Q&A, and maybe even an opportunity to hear and rate some of your philosophical |
| 0:26.7 | hot takes. The tour dates are on screen. The link to buy tickets is in the description, and I hope |
| 0:31.5 | to see you there. Did I say your name wrong last time? Because I would say McLaughlin, right right and that's maybe my sort of Irish heritage is |
| 0:39.6 | Scottish or Irish well that's an interesting story I thought it was Scottish I took my entire family |
| 0:46.4 | to Scotland dressed up in the traditional garb got pictures taken by what I thought was our |
| 0:53.7 | ancestral castle, |
| 0:55.2 | the Lachlan Castle. |
| 0:57.4 | And then we learned that right after my mother broke her ankle |
| 1:02.4 | at the castle, we learned that the spelling is most likely Irish. |
| 1:07.0 | Cultural appropriation. |
| 1:08.0 | There's like a hundred different spellings of it. |
| 1:09.6 | Yeah. And so there's no doubt that Lachlan, McLaughlin is more close to the original. |
| 1:16.5 | Son of Scandinavian or something it means, right? |
| 1:19.1 | Well, you know more than I do. |
| 1:20.8 | I just looked up in the bathroom. |
| 1:22.7 | But the... |
| 1:23.8 | So you probably said it more accurately because the McLaughlin is like an Americanization of it. McLaughlin is what you would you would say, right? Well, growing up, I would say McLaughlin. McLaughlin. McLaughlin. Well, whoever you are, welcome back to the show. I was just trying to avoid the comments again because some of them were sort of like, oh, like, you know, it's funny to hear his name like that that i think that's how it's well it seems to be the the mo of any time someone makes like a |
| 1:50.4 | reaction video to anything if your name is a little bit hard to pronounce yeah the beginning of the |
| 1:57.2 | video is them trying to figure out how to say the name yes for me it me, it's people just making fun of my British accent and talking about tea. |
| 2:03.7 | They got to find something. Happens all the time. Speaking of which, our last episode. Yeah. I thought it's great. It's one of the most viewed episodes we've ever done, which, like, in a way is unsurprising because people like you so much, |
| 2:15.8 | but also like it was, |
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