678: Epheasy Does It Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Comedy, Religion & Spirituality, Other

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Greg Locke’s dark web of satanist enemies forget to pay his parking tickets, Pope Bobby goes full jestermaxx and clowns hard on the looksmaxxing community, and Don will be here to put the “easy” in “Ephesian.”
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Headlines:
Greg Locke claims mug shot and police report about his arrest are fake: https://julieroys.com/despite-police-record-and-mug-shot-greg-locke-denies-march-3-arrest/
Indiana Abortion Law Halted for Violating Non-Christians’ Rights: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/indiana-abortion-law-halted-for-violating-non-christians-rights
The myth of evangelical persecution gets a new platform in the Washington Post: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/the-myth-of-evangelical-persecution
Georgia looks to close clergy sex abuse loophole: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/georgia-is-finally-on-the-verge-of
Tokyo High Court orders Unification Church to dissolve: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/04/japan/crime-legal/unification-church-ruling/
Pope Bobby has thoughts about cosmetic surgery, looksmaxxing, AI, and cyber magic: https://www.allure.com/story/catholic-church-cosmetic-surgery
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This Week in Misogyny:
Share of female world leaders decreases 4%: https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/press-release/2026/03/only-1-in-7-countries-is-led-by-a-woman-as-global-political-power-remains-dominated-by-men
Right wing pastor urges women to model “joyful submission”: https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/right-wing-pastor-dale-partridge-instructs-women-his-congregation-model-joyful
Right wing pastor claims abortion keeps aborting all the disease cures: https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/right-wing-pastor-randy-caldwell-claims-abortion-aborted-cure-every-disease

Transcript

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0:00.0	warning the following podcast contains offensive language and profanity this week's episode of the
0:06.2	scathing atheist is brought to you by that brief glimmer of hope you get when the plurality of
0:10.3	voters in marjorie taylor green's district to vote for a democrat and now the scathing atheist
0:16.5	hi i'm kyle i'm a service member currently deployed to an undisclosed location.
0:22.5	I can confirm that we did, in fact, evolve from filthy, monkey people.
0:49.2	Music It's Thursday.
0:50.9	It's March 12th.
0:53.9	And it's World Day Against Cyber Censorship.
1:16.9	Damn it. No, no, that one was me. I don't know where our audience would even get a walrus. I'm no illusions. Amila Bosnick. Am he, and right. And from Martha Stewart's, New Jersey. Damn right. And I'm from Michigan and Waycross, Georgia. This is the skating atheist. On this week's episode, Greg Locke's dark web of Satanist enemies for get to pay his parking tickets for him.
1:22.6	Pope Bobby goes full jestermax and clowns hard on the looks maxing community.
1:26.5	And Don will be here to put the easy and Ephesians.
1:27.6	That doesn't work.
1:29.7	But first, the diatribe.
1:40.3	So this will mark the first diatribe of my 50s.
1:45.6	And I know that turning 50 is supposed to be terrifying and all, but I kind of dig it so far.
1:49.4	The 50s is the first decade with any real exclusivity.
1:54.1	Plus, given the proclivities of my youth, I feel like by making it to 50, I probably cost a couple of people a few bucks in some pool somewhere.
1:56.2	But here I am 50 years old, able to survey a full half century of experience, minus the first
2:03.5	couple of years where I wasn't really forming memories.
2:05.6	But from what I'm told, I was mostly just shitting myself and screaming hysterically for that
2:08.9	part.
2:09.1	So I'm not missing much in those memories.
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