498: Happily Esther After Edition
The Scathing Atheist
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, the following podcast doesn't just contain adult language. |
| 0:04.0 | It's brought to you by Adult Language. |
| 0:07.0 | This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by Zippercrooter, Honey, |
| 0:11.6 | and by the new Piety diffuser for Christian households, Prayer Conditioning. |
| 0:16.2 | Is your house lacking in godliness? |
| 0:18.1 | Do you need more divine favor? |
| 0:19.8 | Well pick up a Skating Atheist brand to Prayer Conditioner today and good luck proving |
| 0:24.2 | that it doesn't work. |
| 0:26.1 | And now The Skating Atheist. |
| 0:28.0 | Hi, this is Sarah, and I'm a chemist not an evolutionary biologist, so you should take |
| 0:32.8 | this with a grain of salt. |
| 0:34.3 | But as a scientist, I can assure you that we did in fact evolve from filthy monkey people. |
| 1:02.8 | And we're here to kill gods and take names. |
| 1:08.4 | And we're all out of gods. |
| 1:09.9 | I'm no illusions. |
| 1:11.7 | I'm Eli Bosnik. |
| 1:12.7 | And from Richard Iceman, Kuklinsky's New Jersey and Wakecross, Georgia, this is The Skating |
| 1:17.9 | Atheist. |
| 1:18.9 | Oh, this week's episode, Christian Charities try a surprise mass shooting, LARP. |
| 1:23.7 | The religious right gets dumber on purpose again. |
| 1:26.6 | And Don and Anna will be here to make the Bible not be boring. |
| 1:30.0 | And first, the Dietri. |
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