637: Saul Good Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Religion & Spirituality, Comedy, Other

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, our surgeon gets a lot more general, Celine Dion's heart will go QAnon, and we’ll get started with all new papal nicknames.
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Headlines:
Vatican goes with a white guy again: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/world/europe/who-is-robert-francis-prevost-pope-leo-xiv.html and https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/world/sexual-abuse-mishandling-allegations-pope-leo-xiv
Catholic Bishops Defy New US State Law To Report Child Abuse: https://www.newsweek.com/catholic-bishops-defy-new-us-state-law-report-child-abuse-2070038
Trump nominates pseudoscience NOT A DOCTOR to be surgeon general:
https://ground.news/article/everything-trumps-surgeon-general-nominee-casey-means-said-about-vaccines
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/science/casey-means-trump-surgeon-general.html
https://www.wonkette.com/p/what-nonsense-does-trumps-wellness
Jim Bakker claims he needs a million bucks to stave off homelessness: https://www.yahoo.com/news/televangelist-jim-bakker-says-needs-044513388.html
Kentucky police agencies paid for proselytizing canine training at Ark Encounter: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/investigations/2025/05/12/ark-encounter-kentucky-holds-canine-training-for-police-with-sermons/83331517007/
Celine Dion might be a baby-eating illuminati demon queen: https://www.wonkette.com/p/is-celine-dion-a-baby-eating-illuminati

Transcript

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0:00.0	warning the following podcast contains profanity like we were getting paid by the expletive this
0:05.4	week's episode of the scathing atheist is brought to you by mint mobile and by the new temporal
0:11.5	scrubbing wires for cleaning up past online comments pope cleaners pope cleaners because the internet
0:18.3	being forever complicates the shit out of the infallibility thing.
0:22.6	And now, the scathing atheist. I'm Dr. Andrew Shale. I co-organized Newcastle skeptics in the pub,
0:28.4	and I write academic film history from the 1890s to back to the future. And having heard Noah,
0:33.2	Heath, and Eli call the American graffiti clothes, either the breakfast club clothes or the animal house
0:38.4	clothes on gam over 400 times now, I'm beginning to suspect that we might have evolved from
0:43.7	filthy monkey men. And it's Thursday.
1:07.0	It's May 15th.
1:08.5	And it's National Stationary Week.
1:10.7	Trapper Keeper Activator.
1:12.9	Fuck yeah. I'm no illusions.
1:15.6	I'm Eli Bosnick.
1:16.6	I'm Heathenwright. And from George Clinton's, New Jersey, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Waycross, Georgia.
1:21.4	This is the scathing atheist.
1:23.5	Oh, this week's episode, our surgeon gets a lot more general.
1:27.8	Celine Dion's heart will go QAnon.
1:30.7	And we'll get started with all new papal nicknames.
1:34.2	But first, the diatribe. Guys, I really feel like we need to see what Lex Luther is going to do as the new head of the Legion of Doom before we denounce him.
1:58.0	Sure, Gorilla Grod was bad, right?
2:02.4	But we don't need to condemn the new guy just because the last guy tried to forcibly transmogrify the human race into a less
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