622 - "He Gets Us" Still Doesn't Get It
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ποΈ 12 February 2026
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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.
β The "He Gets Us" campaign has a PR problem no Super Bowl ad can solve. (1:23)
β Oklahoma finally scraps Bible-heavy, conspiracy-laced Social Studies standards. (22:24)
β Trump's "Religious Liberty Commission" just got sued for its pro-Christian bias. (36:49)
β Court rules against anti-trans Christian teacher who demanded right to misgender students. (47:23)
β Judge refuses to toss The Satanic Temple's lawsuit, putting Boston's flag policy on trial. (57:29)
β South Carolina's bill to force the Ten Commandments in school is doomed to fail. (1:07:31)
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hemet and Jessica. |
| 0:02.3 | And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast. |
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| 0:12.8 | You're watching this on video, maybe. |
| 0:14.6 | Let me give a shout out to some of our more recent supporters. |
| 0:17.4 | They include Justin W. Stephanie H. |
| 0:25.2 | Harrowing Hieronymus. Reverend Molius. Graby boy. |
| 0:32.5 | Gloomy chicken 206. I have questions about the number. Matt S. Larry, Christopher A. and Lisa. |
| 0:37.3 | Thank you so much. We appreciate it. Hello. Hi, friend. How are you doing? I'm excellent. We have many, |
| 0:38.8 | many things to discuss. You're going to Seattle, though, first or you're going to Washington. |
| 0:44.8 | Where are you going to be? Yeah, a week from tomorrow, I leave on the 21st, whatever that |
| 0:51.4 | Saturday is. We're going to be at the Snoqualmie Falls |
| 0:54.5 | Brewing Company, I believe it's called, the only brewer in Snoqualmie. We will be there at 7 p.m. |
| 1:00.0 | My husband and his cohorts will be doing a Twin Peaks trivia thing upstairs, and I shall be |
| 1:05.6 | drinking with my people downstairs. Excellent. Very excited. Some people from my past are going |
| 1:10.5 | to be there, who I haven't seen since 2009. All exciting stuff. Cannot wait to see you guys. Sounds like a couple people are planning on making little drives. And I'm very flattered and excited. Details on the Facebook page for the podcast. If you are so interested. Yep. And with that, did you watch the Super Bowl? No, God, no. I watched the entire new season of Bridgeton, which I also did not enjoy it. Probably a better option. Wasn't that great of a game. But the commercials. Oh, the commercials. So in, I believe, the fourth quarter of the game, they aired the latest 60-second. He Gets Us Ad. Do you remember those ads? Oh yeah, I forgot about those guys. |
| 1:47.7 | If you do a minute commercial during the Super Bowl, that ran at an estimated cost of $16 million. |
| 1:56.2 | Ooh, boy. That's the cost for one minute of air time. I remember when that price crossed over to a |
| 2:00.6 | million dollars per minute in like 2011 and everyone was like, wow, money is. boy. That's the cost for one minute of air time. I remember when that price crossed over to a million |
| 2:00.8 | dollars per minute in like 2011 and everyone's like, wow, money's gotten out of control. |
| 2:06.3 | Glad we fixed that one. Anyway, this ad in particular, the whole he gets us campaign, the premise of |
| 2:13.7 | it is let's just do an advertisement for Jesus instead of for a particular church or |
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