671: Lasso of Truthiness Edition
The Scathing Atheist
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Christians demand NO shoving in line to the ovens, a Republican theocrat tries to confuse the globalists by starting a public JEWISH school, and “How Bullshit Is It?” will get meta.
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Headlines:
Christians pissed about protest outside ICE-pastor’s church: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/the-anti-ice-protest-at-a-minnesota
Greg Locke used a real shooting to sell a fake Christian persecution story about himself: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/greg-locke-used-a-real-shooting-to
Scott Adams’ deathbed conversion to Christianity shouldn’t be taken seriously: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/scott-adams-deathbed-conversion-to
Candace Owens pushes theory Charlie Kirk was 'time traveller' who went to 'X-Men school': https://www.wonkette.com/p/candace-owens-charlie-kirk-was-a
Tulsa’s Jewish community pushes back on Oklahoma Jewish charter school proposal: https://forward.com/fast-forward/797823/tulsas-jewish-community-pushes-back-on-oklahoma-jewish-charter-school-proposal/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, the following podcast may be unsuitable for prudish motherfuckers. |
| 0:04.5 | This week's episode of The Skathing Atheist is brought to you by the fact that the nukes haven't started falling yet. |
| 0:11.0 | At the time of this recording anyway. |
| 0:13.0 | And now, the Scathing Atheist. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi, this is Glyn from Johannesburg in South Africa, and I have two things I'd like to say. |
| 0:20.0 | Firstly, the majority of us do believe that Elon Musk is a giant wanker or what we would call a puss. |
| 0:26.2 | Secondly, and I can confirm that I have not been paid by Russia to say this, we did indeed evolve for filthy monkey men and women. It's Thursday. It's Thursday. |
| 0:56.8 | It's January 22nd. |
| 0:58.5 | And it's Answer Your Cats Questions Day. |
| 1:01.0 | Huh. |
| 1:01.3 | That is a nice but whole, correct. |
| 1:03.4 | No illusions. |
| 1:05.1 | I'm Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:06.2 | I'm Heathenright. |
| 1:07.2 | I'm from Cornelius Vanderbiltz, New Jersey. |
| 1:09.8 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Waycross, Georgia. |
| 1:11.3 | This is the scathing atheist. Of this week's episode, Christians demand no shoving in the line to the ovens. |
| 1:18.6 | Oh, Jesus. A Republican theocrat tries to confuse the globalists by starting a public Jewish school in Oklahoma. |
| 1:25.9 | And how bullshit is it will get meta. |
| 1:28.8 | But first, the diatriad. |
| 1:30.5 | So our esteemed president, leader of our country, controller of our nukes, did a press conference |
| 1:47.6 | on the one-year anniversary of our second descent into national madness, and it was insane even by |
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