651: Rowbotham Feeder Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Comedy, Religion & Spirituality, Other

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Ryan Walters shows off his Oklahomophobia, a church-restaurant has to transubstantiate its bar inventory to keep its liquor license, and Marsh will talk the guys through the how-tos of canal sects.
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Headlines:
Trump-appointed judge rebukes Oklahoma’s Ryan Walters: https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/ryan-walters-oklahoma-judge-lawsuit-religious-freedom-rcna225290
Josef Fritzl case made me reject God, reveals Badenoch: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/08/07/kemi-badenoch-josef-fritzl-reject-god/
What’s even better than ‘cultural Christianity’?: https://christianconcern.com/comment/whats-even-better-than-cultural-christianity/
Texas megachurch pastor says scammers stole $18K pretending to work for Wells Fargo: https://www.christianpost.com/news/texas-megachurch-pastor-alleges-scammers-stole-18k.html
Utah school board member defends comments amid criticism of faith, Unabomber references: https://www.utahpoliticalwatch.news/utah-board-of-education-member-praises-unabomber-claims-mccarthy-was-right-in-bizarre-speech/
Archbishop backtracks after appointing convicted rapist as chancellor: https://thecatholicherald.com/article/archbishop-backtracks-after-appointing-convicted-rapist-as-chancellor
Denham Springs revokes liquor license for restaurant hosting church services:
https://www.wafb.com/2025/08/12/denham-springs-city-council-revokes-liquor-license-restaurant-hosting-church-services/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Warning, no one's only on the diatribe for this one, but most of you were going to turn it off after that anyways.
0:06.6	This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by the new DHS website for verifying your American citizenship.
0:15.0	Clancishtree.com.
0:16.9	Just send us a little blood and soil.
0:19.6	And now, the scathing atheist.
0:22.2	Former Texas resident happily living abroad here.
0:25.0	Just popping in to ask, what's your favorite dinosaur?
0:27.8	It's a great icebreaker for first dates.
0:30.7	Personally, it could have saved me the trouble of explaining to not one,
0:33.7	but two young earth creationist exes that we did in fact evolve from filthy monkey men. It's Thursday.
1:03.3	It's August 21st, and it's Brazilian blowout day.
1:08.1	Seems like a little too many.
1:09.7	To me, how many people could possibly need that haircut?
1:12.5	I'm Michael Marshall.
1:14.1	Ah, Mila Bosnick.
1:15.2	I'm Ethan Wright.
1:16.6	And from Jeff Bezos is New Jersey, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Liverpool, England.
1:20.9	This is the skating east.
1:23.2	Oh, this week's episode, Ryan Walters shows off his Oklahoma phobia.
1:27.3	A church restaurant has to transubstantiate its bar in this week's episode. Ryan Walters shows off his Oklahoma phobia.
1:33.4	A church restaurant has to trans-substantiate its bar inventory to keep its liquor license.
1:37.9	And I'll talk the guys through the how-toes of Canal Sets.
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