594 - Ryan Walters' Naughty, Naughty Computer

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.

— Ryan Walters' TV displayed "nude women" during a meeting. Now he's blaming the media. (0:49)

— An Alabama church secretly sent kids to evangelize in a homeless encampment. (30:05)

— New memo lets government workers push Christianity on colleagues—even if they're the boss. (46:20)

— "Shiny Happy People" sequel highlights Christian boot camp that traumatized a generation. (1:04:08)

— Crypto for Christ? Colorado pastor and wife indicted in $3.4M INDXcoin scam. (1:11:45)

— Indiana Lt. Gov. proposes death penalty as condition for abortion access for assault victims. (1:23:42)

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1:08.6	Okay.
1:10.6	Almost every week, every now and then people will send random links.
1:14.8	Hey, you should talk about this, whatever.
1:17.3	I don't think we've ever gotten as many emails this week as I did for one particular
1:23.8	story and all of them said the same thing.
1:26.5	One, hope you talk about it. But two,
1:28.6	I just need to hear Jess's reaction to the entire thing. Ryan Walters porn thing. Oh, of course,
1:34.0	it's about Ryan Walters. Okay. So, so happy to talk about it. How like we are to be alive right now.
1:43.9	Like, oh, it's brought me so much joy.
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