Epstein Files & the Season of Bad Defenses

Thank God I'm Atheist

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🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

The Epstein files have finally started to drip out, and the early reactions are already something to behold. This week, Frank and Dan wade into the bizarre rhetorical contortions spilling out of the right-wing media sphere—from Megyn Kelly's head-scratching attempt to "reframe" things to the Catholic League charging in with one of the most offensive defenses imaginable.

We also look at Catholic clergy in Chicago suing ICE for blocking access to detained migrants, and the Vatican's "generous" decision to return 62 Indigenous artifacts to First Nations communities in Canada. Meanwhile, Ken Paxton is threatening schools that won't put the Ten Commandments in every classroom, and the UK Supreme Court finally calls out mandatory religious education in Northern Ireland schools for what it is: Christian indoctrination.

To close things out, we talk about gratitude and how atheists can navigate Thanksgiving without a divine recipient of their thankfulness.

And if you want to support the work we do, visit: thankgodimatheist.com/donate

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0:00.0	Hey everybody.
0:03.0	Hi, friends. Well, from beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah.
0:23.3	It's thank God I'm atheist.
0:25.2	Where we, a couple of atheists, try to make sense of religion, politics, spirituality, thankfulness, whatever you want in these United States.
0:35.1	I'm Frank Feldman.
0:36.6	And I'm Dan Beecher.
0:37.7	And coming up on the show today,
0:39.2	we're going to be talking about thankfulness
0:41.8	because it is Thanksgiving.
0:45.8	Yeah, Frank's coming out on Thanksgiving.
0:47.4	Frank's trying to show off his wine sweater,
0:50.1	his wine themed.
0:51.5	Well, it's not just wine.
0:52.8	I'm going to stand up.
0:54.2	Oh, okay. Oh, it's got a whole, it's not just wine. I'm going to stand up. Oh, okay.
0:55.1	Oh, it's got a whole... It's got a charcuttery thing going on. It's got a charcutory board with the bottle of wine. Wine and sharks. So for the Thanksgiving. And check it out, guys. It's great. You know you want to see it. Yeah, go to YouTube. check out Frank's sweater so that you can see it.
1:12.1	Hit like, maybe hit subscribe.
1:14.2	It wouldn't kill you. great you know you want to see it yeah go to youtube check out frank's sweater so that you can see it
1:11.7	hit like maybe hit subscribe it wouldn't kill you that would be good stuff uh and then and you get to
1:19.0	see the sweater you get to see our ugly mugs and oh no don't do that yeah we're going to be
1:24.7	talking about sort of who do you direct this thankfulness to yeah so
1:30.2	that's the second half of the show first there are things that happened this week in the world
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