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🗓️ 12 August 2025
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0:00.0 | Okay, here we got. Stand by. Three, two, one. |
0:04.6 | The thinking atheist, it's not a person. It's a symbol. An idea. |
0:10.6 | The population of atheists in this country is going through the room. |
0:14.0 | Rejecting faith. Pursuing knowledge. Challenging the sacred. |
0:18.6 | If I tell the truth, it's because I tell the truth. |
0:22.4 | Not because I put my hand on a book and made a wish. |
0:25.7 | And working together for a more rational world. |
0:29.0 | Take the risk of thinking for yourself. |
0:31.0 | Much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way. |
0:35.6 | Assume nothing. |
0:37.3 | Question everything. And start nothing. Question everything. |
0:39.4 | And start thinking. |
0:42.2 | This is the Thinking Atheist podcast, hosted by Seth Andrews. |
1:01.8 | So I saw something that was posted on the cracked.com Facebook page. |
1:06.3 | Now, Cracked is an American Humor magazine that was founded back in 1958. |
1:13.8 | I don't know if the magazine itself is still around, but the online page, the Facebook page certainly is. |
1:18.3 | And cracked posts a bunch of lists and, you know, funny stuff. |
1:21.6 | And it's usually pretty lightweight, a little bit mad magazine. |
1:23.7 | All right, that's what cracked is. But I saw more and more serious stuff posted on the cracked page. And on the second of August, |
1:32.3 | there was a reposting of a David Wong piece from 2016. The Donald Trump phenomenon |
1:38.6 | explained in three movies. Well, this intrigued me and it was a pretty long piece and I was so interested that I figured I'd just read it for you here. |
1:49.5 | So this is from nine years ago. It says, I'm going to explain the Donald Trump phenomenon in three movies and then some text. |
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