The Pastor Who Stole the Prize #713

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🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Oklahoma’s Ryan Walters loses in court while doubling down on Christian victimhood, Pastor Doug Wilson’s growing extremist empire in Idaho gets national attention, and Lindsey Graham warns that “God will pull the plug on America” if we stop funding Israel.

Also in the mix:

Marjorie Taylor Greene picks a fight with Lindsey Graham
A Christian charity fires a pregnant gay woman and wins in court
New York pushes back against political churches with a bold new bill
A Pennsylvania priest rigs a Corvette raffle
And in Arizona, a young candidate who says women shouldn’t hold office is… running for office

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0:00.0	Hey everybody.
0:03.0	Hi, friends, well, from beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah. It's thank God I'm atheist.
0:24.4	Where we a couple of goofball atheists try to make sense of life here in these United States of America.
0:31.2	I'm Frank Feldman. And I'm Dan Beecher. And coming up on the show today, Dan, we're going to be talking about what happens when women who, or at least one woman in particular.
0:42.8	One woman.
0:43.8	Who believes that women should not hold public office and refuses to vote for women decides to run for office herself.
1:12.5	Oh, you're just going to spoil the whole thing. Right up front, you're going to like, you're not, you're saving nothing. We're going to get, no, that's how you do it. You got to tell people how it good. And then you fill in the details. I had all of these ideas for how we were going to build the story. You can still build it. No, no, We can have doesn't ruin it's amazing you pop the balloon frank you burst the balloon well anyway we're beginning to that
1:19.1	on the second half of the show but first we have some stories about some things that happened this week
1:24.5	yeah yeah um including um i'm just going to start with the update about Ryan Walters.
1:32.1	Our friend, our Oklahoma friend.
1:34.8	Oklahoma State Superintendent of Schools.
1:37.7	Yes.
1:38.3	Ryan Walters.
1:39.7	What a peach.
1:40.8	What a peach of a man.
1:42.0	Christian nationalist piece of shit.
1:45.8	Who he looks like the nephew at the party that everybody's like, like they tell their kids,
1:54.1	hey, don't, don't hang out alone with Uncle Ryan.
2:01.5	That's, that's, he just has that vibe about it.
2:06.3	Like nobody knows anything bad that he's ever done, but it's just like we do know he watches retro porn in his office, Dan.
2:14.3	He he saw a whole thing about that.
2:16.4	There's an update about that too.
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