659: Burning Question Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Comedy, Religion & Spirituality, Other

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, we’ll hate on the wrong way to hate wrongness, One Million Moms tells NASCAR their language is a bit too racy, and Don Ford will be here to help take the pi$$ out of an epistle.
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Headlines:
In victory for free speech, UK court overturns Qur'an-burning conviction
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/in-victory-for-free-speech-uk-court
Our favorite christofascist white rapper Michigan rep was allegedly looking for an orgy: https://www.wonkette.com/p/our-favorite-christofascist-white
https://twitter.com/repjoshschriver/status/1742959025434525703
The pope condemns clickbait: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/10/you-wont-believe-what-degrading-practice-the-pope-just-condemned
Pastor aims assault rifle at parishioners to make violent point about Christianity: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-christian-pastor-aimed-an-ar-15
One Million Moms is mad at NASCAR: https://onemillionmoms.com/current-campaigns/urge-nascar-to-cancel-its-offensive-new-brand-spot/
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This Week in Misogyny:
South Carolina law would criminalize all abortion and some contraception: https://www.thestate.com/opinion/article312481224.html
UN tries to do something for women in Afghanistan: https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/10/06/un-rights-council-creates-afghanistan-accountability-body
America is helping erode women’s rights worldwide: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/world/europe/athens-democracy-forum-womens-rights.html

Transcript

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0:00.0	warning this podcast isn't fucking around when it comes to profanity this week's episode of the
0:05.5	skating atheist is brought to you by mint mobile and by all the other flavors of mobile
0:11.0	that so frequently get overlooked and now the skating atheist abracadabra hocus pocus
0:17.4	hey what are you doing oh i'm just trying to turn these dirty apes into humans by using my magic spells. Oh, how's it going? Not great, not great. Hey, um, were you guys able to hide those Epstein files with your magic spells? We did, in fact. Evolve from Filthy Monkey Men. Oh, but you look at that. I'm no longer a monkey. Oh, hey, hey, that one worked.
0:38.3	Check it out.
0:38.8	Nice.
1:02.2	And... It's Thursday.
1:04.0	It's October 16th.
1:06.1	And it's Steve Jobs Day.
1:09.3	And no, you still can't wash your feet in the toilets.
1:27.9	At least you should in time, no illusions. I'm Eli Bosnick. I'm Heathenright. And from Peter Dinklage's, New Jersey, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Waycross, Georgia. This is the Scathing East. On this week's episode, we'll hate on the wrong way to hate on wrongness. One million moms tells NASCAR their language is a bit too. Racy.
1:29.5	Don Ford will be here to help us take the piss out of an epistle.
1:33.9	But first, the diatriat.
1:51.7	Imagine you show up to a funeral and there's a big brought to you by Mint Mobile sign across the back of the casket.
1:54.8	As everybody files in, you're handed a program.
1:59.2	You've got to flip past the Mint Mobile coupons to get to the stuff about the deceased.
2:00.9	Everybody finds their seat. And then a Mitt Mobile rep comes out. It says the stuff about the deceased and everybody finds their seat.
2:02.9	And then a mobile rep comes out.
2:07.7	Says three sentences about the guy in the casket and then launches into a 15-minute sales pitch for their wireless service.
2:10.1	And of course, you're sitting there thinking, you know, how the fuck is this funeral
2:12.8	an extended ad for a fucking phone company?
2:15.0	But everybody else in there is acting like it's normal.
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