637: Saul Good Edition
The Scathing Atheist
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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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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