644: Insufficiently Apologetic Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Religion & Spirituality, Comedy, Other

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, the Supreme Court establishes “la la la I can’t hear you” as a parental right, the "Tuck Your Face" segment is about Tucker Carlson but also Ted Cruz's skin mask, and Ross Douthat will ask how a universe that wasn’t divinely ordered by a brilliant deity could create Ross Douthat.
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Headlines:
SCOTUS opens door to religious veto of public school lessons, starting with LGBTQ books: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/supreme-court-opens-door-to-religious
SCOTUS ends term by ruling that Christianity: https://www.npr.org/2025/06/27/g-s1-74738/scotus-decisions-birthright-aca
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/27/supreme-court-ruling-obamacare-rfk-science
Armenia's PM offers to expose himself in escalating Church row: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gk0nw2nn0o
Tucker Carlson vs Ted Cruz on Iran, the bible, and anti-semitism: https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/18/politics/ted-cruz-tucker-carlson-exchange-analysis
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/tucker-carlson-clashes-sen-ted-cruz-dont-know-anything-iran-rcna213697
Orban tells people no gay pride parades. People have other plans:
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/200000-march-in-budapest-pride-refusing

Transcript

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0:00.0	Winning, this sentence is pretty much the longest we're going to go without profanity in this show.
0:05.7	This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by Mint Mobile
0:09.2	and by the new lunch beverage for Christian kids, Capri's Son of God.
0:14.3	Capri's Son of God.
0:15.6	It's like a regular Capri's son, but the straw never stabs in no matter how hard you try,
0:19.2	and even if it did, there'd be nothing in the pouch. And now, the scathing atheist. Hi, Gerald. Hey, hey. What are you doing in the podcast, averse? Just hanging out in the recording booth with myself. How about you? I'm going to do the Farnsworth quote. What's the Farnsworth quote? Ha-ha. Two points for Gerald on the board! Because I was in the gam audience in Toronto.
0:39.4	Okay, so then you're going to do it?
0:41.0	Oh, right, right, right.
0:41.9	We did, in fact, evolve from Filthy Monkey Men.
0:45.4	Music It's Thursday.
1:08.6	It's July 3rd.
1:10.3	And it's stay out of the Sunday.
1:12.6	All right.
1:13.2	Still a pasty podcaster, SPF roof, done.
1:17.0	I'm no illusions.
1:18.9	I'm Eli Bosnick.
1:20.0	I'm Heathenright.
1:21.1	And from Jeff Van Drews, New Jersey, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and way across Georgia.
1:25.2	This is the scathing at east.
1:27.5	Oh, this week's episode.
1:29.2	The Supreme Court establishes La La, La, I Can't Hear You as a parental, right?
1:33.6	The Tuck Your Face segment is about Tucker Carlson, but also Ted Cruz's skin mask.
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