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The Scathing Atheist

518: Surgeon Popularity Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Comedy, Religion & Spirituality, Other

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, we’ll give George Pell the musical send off he deserves, a 6-foot tall spray painted dick in Fort Lauderdale gives Mar-a-Lago some competition, and Tom and Cecil will be here because they initially thought ‘vitriol’ was a kind of lube.
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Headlines:
Cardinal Pell dies: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/world/australia/cardinal-george-pell-dead.html
Lil Nas X posed with The Wiggles & conservative parents cannot handle it: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/01/lil-nas-x-posed-wiggles-conservative-parents-cannot-handle/
One Million Moms protesting Disney for same-sex couple existence in Firebuds cartoon: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/01/christians-protesting-disney-time-dont-like-cartoon/
The pandemic hurt church attendance, especially among younger Americans: https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/the-pandemic-hurt-church-attendance-especially-among-younger-americans/
UK censors Demi Lovato posters for causing "serious offense to Christians": https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/01/uk-censors-demi-lovato-posters-causing-serious-offense-christians/
Shady NZ church stiffs investigator they hired to investigate them: https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/new-zealand-arise-church-charlotte-cummings-punish-investigator/
A giant pink phallus may come to Florida, thanks to Jesus and an atheist: https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/a-giant-pink-phallus-may-come-to-florida-thanks-to-jesus-and-an-atheist/


Transcript

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0:00.0

Warning, if the profanity is the part of the show that offend you, that's pretty fucked up.

0:05.0

This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by the new airline for flat-eratheres

0:09.3

planes on planes, where we fly you anywhere you want to go for free, but we base the

0:13.8

route on your map of the world and then we make you parachute out.

0:17.8

Plains on planes, because I'll put your money where your mouth is.

0:22.1

And now, The Skating Atheist.

0:24.1

Hi, I'm David.

0:25.1

I'm Igor.

0:26.1

And I'm Brian.

0:27.1

And there's nothing we hate more than the cynical use of this feature for shameless

0:30.4

self-promotion.

0:31.4

That's why we're not going to tell you about skeptics in the pub online.

0:35.2

We're certainly not going to mention that we were in fantastic live talks on the second

0:39.7

and fourth Thursday of each month.

0:41.6

Or that you can check out our huge back catalog on either YouTube or our podcast.

0:46.1

There is one thing we'd like to mention though.

0:48.0

Since we have enjoyed the company of Drunk Marsh first hand, we can assure you that we

0:52.6

did in fact all from Phil Simmonkey humans.

0:59.6

10-year anniversary Thursday.

1:19.0

It's January 19th and it's gun appreciation day.

1:24.7

Yes, big thanks to guns for keeping Disney world less crowded.

1:31.9

I have had illusions.

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