639: Duck Off Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Religion & Spirituality, Comedy, Other

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, the SCOTUS huffily leaves a clause established, RFK Jr's top medical scientists are gonna see if Trump Derangement Syndrome can be cured with ivermectin, and we consider the complicated questions of duck-dynastic succession.
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Headlines:
SCOTUS passively barely maintains establishment clause for now with Barrett recused: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/split-us-supreme-court-blocks-religious-charter-school-2025-05-22/
Big beautiful bill gives more than $5 billion a year to private (mostly religious) schools: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/religious-charter-school-movement.html
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/nx-s1-5397175/trump-federal-voucher-private-school
Hegseth hosts meeting of what he says will be a monthly Christian prayer service at Pentagon: https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/politics/hegseth-pentagon-christian-prayer-service
MTG argues with Grok about whether or not she’s Christian: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/marjorie-taylor-greene-fights-grok-elon-musk-ai-1235347313/
GOP congressmen propose bill to have the NIH study the disease called "Trump Derangement Syndrome:
https://www.wonkette.com/p/house-republicans-seek-scientific

Transcript

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0:00.0	Warning, the following podcast contains adult language in its most juvenile form.
0:04.6	This week's episode of The Skathing Atheist is brought to you by Stamps.com, BetterHelp,
0:10.2	and by the new Wishing Well crowdsourcing app, Plenty of Wish.
0:14.3	Our new service finds somebody close to a Wishing Well who will throw money into a wishing well on your behalf
0:18.8	while wishing for your shit for only 10% of the
0:21.2	donation. Plenty of wish, because that's literally what churches do, and it seems like somebody
0:25.9	else should get in on that shit. And now, the scathing atheist. Hi, I'm Ian. No, not that one. And as
0:33.8	an American living in Europe, I can assure you that we did in fact evolve from filthy monkey men and women.
0:39.5	And then I looked back at home and realized not all of us made it very far.
1:05.3	I'm going to know. It's Thursday.
1:07.2	It's May 29th.
1:10.2	And it's put a pillow on your fridge day. Yeah, because nobody knows when a nap's going to stray.
1:13.6	Oh, there you go. I'm no illusions. I'm Eli Bosnick.
1:17.3	I'm Heathenwright. And from Alfred Kinsey's, New Jersey, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and way
1:21.8	across Georgia. This is the scathing east.
1:25.0	On this week's episode, the ScotUS Huffily leaves a clause established.
1:29.7	RFK Jr.'s top medical scientists
1:32.1	are going to see if Trump derangement syndrome
1:34.7	can be cured with ivermectin.
1:37.1	And we consider the complicated question
1:39.5	of duck dynastic succession.
1:41.8	But first, the diatri.
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