Hey everybody! Hi friends, well from beautiful if ever chillier Salt Lake City, Utah.

It's thank God an atheist, the podcast. I'm Frank Feldman, and I'm Dan Beacher, and coming up on the show today, Dan, the fallout around Tim Ballard, founder of Hour, that's O-U-R, or the absurdly named Operation Underground Railroad, which, oh god, damn it! Like literally,

you just don't compare yourself to another thing. Yeah, come up with your own whole thing. Yeah, the Underground Railroad was not about you. Correct. And that's only the first part of one of, that's the least of many problems that we're going to go into with this Mormon nut job. Yeah, and many had been talking about would be the presumptive nominee to take the spot.

A lot of Senator Mitt Romney when he retired. Yeah, a lot. Yeah, so I guess some good things then. Yeah, it's been fun watching. So, goodness gracious, the Shadenfreuda people. Set your Shadenfreuda meter to full, and we will dive into that at the end of the show. Indeed, but first we have some news of the week. Stuff that's happened in the world, Dan.

Oh, yeah, it's out there, including a Halloween display in New Orleans that has neighbors and people on the internet very upset. Oh, no, very, very upset. Is it because it's too early for a Halloween display?

Because I think that I would be upset. Yeah, well, that's maybe part of it. Let's see, Vic, Mioranus. I think I got that right. Display this year. He does this every year. He does, he likes to push the buttons of his neighbors.

He likes to scare people. He likes to really get elaborate Halloween decorations up in his yard. This year's big old Halloween is big old time. Yeah, and it's he just decks out his yard like mad.

This year though, people do feel like he may have crossed the line by depicting Satan holding the bloody severed head of a crucified Jesus surrounded by gory crucified figurines dressed as nuns and priests. Wow.

The the inner a neighbor took a picture and posted online and the internet went insane. You may have misread the room, buddy. I looked at pictures. Dan. It's wild. It is a wild wild display. He went all out. And it is. It's truly a little shocking. I'm going to say like decapitation.

You're you're you're really going for it. He says that he he knows that the theme might not be for everybody. He says.

But the target the targeted harassment he's received has been more than he expected. He expected people to be taking photos and sharing them.

But people have been calling his place of work and harassing. Oh shit. Yeah, him is employer. They're complaining. Obviously in the media and online.

He the threats also extended to his girlfriend. And they they targeted her as well as trying to get her fired from her job where they actually they gave her an ultimatum. His employer is just like it's your right. You do it. You go for it, which I think is awesome. Go go employer. But he and his girlfriend have chosen to separate for the time being.

Oh no, so that she can keep her job. What? The police. The police and court and city code enforcement have been called on him multiple times. The police have let him know that they have no intention of hindering his right to free speech.

As long as everything is in legal order and code enforcement has also examined his property and determined that the display is is compliant. But he did have to take down the flame throwers.

So that they did ask him to comply with the no burn order in the area.

Oh my God. People have been passing by the house and leaving rosaries. And generally are very disturbed by finally tracked down an image of this thing. And yeah, that's that's a lot. It's a lot.

I even I feel like maybe it's a little too disrespectful. Maybe you've gone just a little far. No disrespecting somebody else's religion like beloved religious stuff.

I mean, Satan's great. Do Satan just maybe leave Jesus out of it. I don't know. Like that's just that's just the icing on the cake. Right?

This thing is a masterpiece. It's it's a two story tall vignette. It is it is impressive.

Did you did you fight any pictures where the flame throwers were on that was truly special. Yeah. Wow. All right. Well, subtlety is not his strong suit.

And I love him for it. Vic, you keep doing this man. Do you know, baby? Awesome. You you will be probably destroyed. You will be lynched that will bring back lynching for you.

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