518: Surgeon Popularity Edition
The Scathing Atheist
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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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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