670: De-Icing Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Comedy, Religion & Spirituality, Other

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Tucker Carlson is worried the horny woman in the area is his wife so he wants to ban porn, and Ross Douthat totally would’ve won that argument against Christopher Hitchens if he hadn’t been tired.
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Headlines:
Court upholds $400,000 fine against lawyer who warned Catholic school about predator on staff: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/court-upholds-400000-fine-against
Paxton sues his own transportation department for not putting religious ads in official docs: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/texas-attorney-general-sues-state
Colorado’s ‘first public Christian school’ ordered to close building over safety concerns: https://www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/2026/01/10/riverstone-academy-public-christian-school-ordered-to-close-building/
Tucker Carlson warns that porn addiction is greater threat than Islam, exposes US to conquest:
https://www.christianpost.com/news/tucker-carlson-warns-porn-addiction-exposes-us-to-conquest.html

Transcript

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0:00.0	Warning, this episode contains the F work, by which I mean fuck.
0:04.2	This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by the new high-powered de-icing spray for people with a serious ice problem, flame throwers.
0:13.3	Those were great against ice.
0:17.3	And now the Skating Atheist.
0:19.8	Hi, this is James, and there's a gay FLDS survivor who created over 1,000 FLDS-specific memes as a form of deconstruction, knowing Warren Jeff's print on a personal level, and having 49 siblings, I can tell you that we did, fact evolve from filthy monkey men. It's Thursday.
1:00.8	It's January 15th.
1:02.7	And it's Wikipedia Day.
1:05.0	Citations needed and provided.
1:08.1	I'm no illusions.
1:09.6	I'm Eli Bosnick.
1:10.5	I'm Heathenright. And from Patty Smith's, New Jersey, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Waycross, Georgia. This is the skating atheist. On this week's episode, the Catholic Church gets tree-handed. Tucker Carlson is worried the horny woman in the area is his wife, so he wants to ban the horn.
1:31.4	And Ross Delfth totally would have won that argument against Christopher Hitchens if he hadn't been so tired.
1:32.6	But first, the diatribe.
1:55.5	At first, I didn't understand why they released the video, his video, the video that he took with his phone right before he murdered that lady.
2:00.9	Because if anything, it made him look more guilty, right? I mean, keep in mind that the official story at the time was that, you know, she was trying to ram him with her car and he shot her in
2:06.5	self-defense. Because, you know, how you can defend yourself from getting run over by shooting the
2:11.4	driver that's running you over. Yeah, it's like that. But despite the inherent implausibility
2:15.5	of that excuse and the pretty clear video evidence
2:18.5	to the contrary, that was the official story.
2:21.3	Still is, right?
2:22.6	We were informed of it when Trump rushed to his Kmart Twitter to shout it out like he
2:26.5	was telling people what color the emperor's suit was, just in case anybody asked.
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