633 - Indiana's Lt. Gov. picks fight with "demonic" band kids
Friendly Atheist Podcast
Friendly Atheist Podcast
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🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.
— Indiana Lt. Gov. faces backlash after calling high school band kids “demonic.” (0:39)
— Megachurch pastor’s Senate tease sparks ethics complaint from Kansas Republicans. (16:08)
— A Satanist just won a religious exemption for bathroom access in school. (45:39)
— Trump replaces Navy Secretary with man who claimed witches took over a California city. (55:43)
— After baseless attacks on the SPLC, Pastor Joel Webbon says America needs “more racism.” (1:07:52)
— Religious "switching" is an existential crisis for the Catholic Church. (1:22:17)
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hemet and Jessica. |
| 0:01.9 | And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast to support this show and get your ad-free and bonus episodes and video podcasts. |
| 0:13.0 | Thank you so much to the people at the Secular Hub in Denver for having me this weekend. |
| 0:18.2 | Fun to meet awesome people. |
| 0:20.4 | And we have so many things to discuss. |
| 0:23.4 | I want to wish my dog a happy gotcha day. She's been in our lives for nine years and is still |
| 0:31.1 | obsessed with Hemet, and Hemet doesn't care for her. She's big and stupid. |
| 0:35.4 | Yes, very. |
| 0:45.3 | Let's start this week with a story about Indiana's Christian nationalist lieutenant governor, Micah Beckwith. |
| 0:48.4 | My loathe for the state of Indiana. Oh, just you wait. |
| 0:49.6 | Just you wait. |
| 0:50.5 | He's picking a fight. |
| 0:51.7 | Bottomless. |
| 0:52.4 | Oh, with whom? |
| 0:53.0 | He has nothing else going on in his life in Indiana. |
| 0:55.1 | So he's picking a fight with a high school band. |
| 0:58.6 | Oh. |
| 0:59.2 | Which, if you know nothing else about high school bands, one thing you should know is that |
| 1:04.0 | Indiana is kind of home for all things competitive marching band related. |
| 1:10.0 | If you don't think going to see marching bands perform |
| 1:13.2 | was part of my duties when I would go home and visit my friends |
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