621: Outrage Fatigue Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Religion & Spirituality, Comedy, Other

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Donald trump ORDERS trans people to stop existing, a Tennessee local ordinance demands the CORRECT version of dumb plastic crap on your lawn, and American Atheists’ legal director Geoffrey Blackwell will be here to tell us exactly how fucked we are.
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Headlines:
Trump declares trans people nonexistent: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/a-line-by-line-analysis-of-trumps
Proposed North Dakota law would force students to say the Pledge of Allegiance: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/proposed-north-dakota-law-would-force
TN woman taken to court for Christmas decorations being too Halloweeny: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/style/halloween-decorations-tennessee.html

Transcript

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0:00.0	Warning, the following podcast contains offensiveness distilled down to its purest form. Also, naughty words.
0:07.4	This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by Hello Fresh and by a whole lot of people not taking God did it for an answer. And now, the Skating Atheist.
0:19.2	This is Matthew. I work as a senior software engineer for NASA.
0:22.3	2024 was a big year.
0:23.8	First, the agency adopted scaled agile framework, which accomplishes exactly the opposite of all
0:28.2	of its stated goals.
0:29.4	Second, we had a $1 billion IT contract restructuring to reduce the number of contracts,
0:34.0	only to have the new company subcontract with dozens of others, effectively
0:37.5	recreating the initial problem.
0:39.5	Then, an unprecedented round of cost-saving layoffs where contractors working more than
0:43.3	eight hours per day were laid off instead of many civil servants who work only two.
0:47.6	I can confidently say that we did, in fact, evolve from filthy, incompetent monkey people.
1:10.7	Music evolved from filthy, incompetent monkey people. At...
1:11.6	It's Thursday.
1:15.4	It's January 23rd.
1:17.3	And it's clashing clothesday.
1:19.2	Okay. So, question, what clashes with a pug shirt?
1:23.0	Uh, baby funeral. I'm no illusions.
1:25.7	That's true.
1:26.3	I'm Mila Bostic.
1:27.4	I'm Ethan Wright. And from
1:28.9	Steven Spielberg's New Jersey, Ann Arbor, Michigan and Waycross, Georgia. This is the skating
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