Hey, everybody! Hi, friends! Well, from beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah, it's Thank God I'm Atheist, the podcast. I'm Frank Feldman, and I'm Dan Beecher.

And coming up on the show, Druselum is a mess right now.

Oh, my God. So the Holy Land is the holiest of my problems.

It's a problem, you guys, and we're going to talk about a lot of the stuff.

A lot of the stuff. So we'll get to that in a second half of the show.

First, we have the first half of the show, Dan.

Did you know that? Yeah. The first half of the show is the best place to put that first half, I think.

Yeah, it's everything in its place, Dan.

But first up, I've got a story, Dan, about the return of a beautiful tradition.

Just a wonderful annual event over there in the Philippines.

Oh, God. This is their annual crucifixion fest that takes place on Good Friday, where they actually literally nail people to crosses and let them hang in the sun for like 10 minutes.

And then there's a crowd, crowd of apparently thousands of people, like go into this part of the Philippines.

There's three villages that do this. And it's a wild, beautiful, truly beautiful recreation of Christ's suffering on the cross.

How do you imagine anything more beautiful than that?

Yeah. It's so beautiful that one of the participants this year, it was actually his 34th time, Dan.

Jesus Christ. On a cross. On a cross.

They use, let's see, I think it's four inch stainless steel nails. That's 10 centimeters for the rest of you.

With apologies to Trin Brezner, who maintains that the length of the nail should be nine, but that's all right.

Fair. Whatever. Yeah.

And it's strangely attended by a number of foreign tourists, which I thought it was a really disgusting part of this.

The article, the article says that it is has sort of a festival vibe going on.

There's people, you know, like street vendors out selling collectibles and water and food and whatnot.

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