680: Downchuck Edition
The Scathing Atheist
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Pete Hegseth puts the A hole in “a holy war,” a top-level FEMA official makes up a lie about being the worst X-Man ever, and we’ll make sure our obituary skills are warmed up for when the big one happens.
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Headlines:
Mikey Weinstein’s full of shit, but Hegseth is still being WAY too Christian about killing Muslims: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/politics/hegseth-christianity-military.html
Christian Right congresswoman wants you to put your abortion in a potty colander: https://www.wonkette.com/p/very-sane-congresswoman-wants-you
Russel Brand baptized a guy in the penguin pool at a Christian zoo: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/article/russell-brand-baptism-penguin-enclosure-zoo-kvnd9pmb5
Top FEMA official says he once teleported to a Waffle House: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/fema-gregg-phillips-waffle-house
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | warning before the sentence is even over all have said fuck this week's episode of the scathing atheist |
| 0:05.7 | is brought to you by the new gasoline alternative for creationists that don't believe in fossils |
| 0:10.0 | fassal fuels facile fuels because acknowledging any real thing fucks up your world view so you might as well |
| 0:16.3 | stay put and now the scathing atheist hi i Will, and as an aerospace engineer who tests some of the most advanced jet engines |
| 0:26.6 | with people who believe the world is 5,000 years old, and the dinosaurs are actually the dragons from the Bible. |
| 0:33.6 | I can confirm we did indeed evolve from filthy monkey men. |
| 1:01.2 | Ah! Yeah. It's Thursday. |
| 1:03.2 | It's March 26th. |
| 1:06.3 | And it's national, make-up your own holiday day. |
| 1:09.6 | Okay, day of the land. |
| 1:10.4 | Damn it. |
| 1:11.7 | Maybe next year. I'm no illusions. Stupid. I'm Eli Damn it. Maybe next year. |
| 1:12.8 | I'm no illusions. |
| 1:14.3 | I'm Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:15.3 | I'm Ethan Wright. |
| 1:17.9 | And from Kellyanne Conway's, New Jersey. |
| 1:19.9 | Ooh, Ann over Michigan and Wake Cross, Georgia. |
| 1:21.8 | This is the scathing atheist. |
| 1:26.3 | On this week's episode, Pete Hagezeth puts the A-hole in a holy war. |
| 1:31.8 | A top-level FEMA official makes up a lie about being the worst X-Man ever. |
| 1:33.6 | Waffle House, man. |
| 1:38.0 | And we'll make sure our obituary skills are warmed up for when the big one happens. |
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