The Scathing Atheist - 432: Conceptual Decade Edition

Episode Date: May 27, 2021

In this week’s episode, Mother Theresa miraculously keeps sucking after death, "Triggered by LEGOS" is a thing that exists in reality now, and Don Ford will join us for the story of a septuagenarian... sex machine. --- To make a per episode donation at Patreon.com, click here: http://www.patreon.com/ScathingAtheist To buy our book, click there: https://www.amazon.com/Outbreak-Crisis-Religion-Ruined-Pandemic/dp/B08L2HSVS8/ To check out our sister show, The Skepticrat, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/the-skepticrat To check out our sister show’s hot friend, God Awful Movies, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/god-awful-movies To check out our half-sister show, Citation Needed, click here: http://citationpod.com/ To check out our sister show’s sister show, D and D minus, click here: https://danddminus.libsyn.com/ To hear more from our intrepid audio engineer Morgan Clarke, click here: https://www.morganclarkemusic.com/ --- Headlines: Mother Teresa was even more of an evil cult leader than we knew: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/opinion/mother-teresa.html Preacher Says Gay People Should Wear Labels Saying “Hazardous to Your Health”: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/05/22/preacher-gay-people-should-wear-labels-saying-hazardous-to-your-health/ Christian Student Demands Alabama College Accept Her Faith-Based Vaccine Refusal: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/05/18/christian-student-demands-alabama-college-accept-her-faith-based-vaccine-refusal/ Southern Baptist leader condemns Lego rainbow blocks: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/05/23/southern-baptist-leader-condemns-rainbow-lego-blocks-this-is-insanity/ Televangelist: “If you make fun of me, god will make you insane” https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/05/25/evangelist-robin-bullock-if-you-mock-me-god-will-lead-you-to-insanity/ and “Prophet” says god will give you leprosy if you disagree with him: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/05/23/prophet-who-promised-trump-victory-says-youll-get-leprosy-if-you-question-him/ Cara Delevingne sells personal vagina NFT to support LGBT community, women, environment: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/18/cara-delevingne-nft-vagina-chemical-x/

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This week's episode of The Scathing Atheist is brought to you by Allbirds, Stamps.com, and by Fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, if you think about it. Or rather, if you don't think about it. And now, The Scathing Atheist. Hello, my name is Joel Foreman, and I am the Bitter Atheist on YouTube. Just wanted to let you know that if intelligent design is real, that means God put the itchy spot in the middle of your back, just barely out of reach, on purpose. So either God's a dick, or we did in fact evolve from filthy monkey people. it's thursday it's may 27th and if if you're fully vaccinated, Anthony Fauci says you can fuck us.
Starting point is 00:01:07 I mean, I'd still prefer you wear a mask while you do it, but that's, you know, more of a sexual preference thing than a safety thing. Okay. I'm no illusions. I'm Eli Bosnick. I'm Heath Enright. And from Philip Roth's New Jersey, Cincinnati Red State, and Redtown Blue State, this is The Scathing Atheist. On this week's episode, Mother Teresa miraculously keeps sucking after death. Triggered by Legos is a real thing that exists now in reality.
Starting point is 00:01:33 Yep. And Don Ford will join us for the story of a septuagenarian fuck machine. But first, the diatribe. our show passed a pretty cool milestone last week on friday the day after our last episode came out this podcast turned 10 sort Sort of. Conceptually. Lately, we haven't been producing shows for 10 years, but May 21st of 2011 was the first time we tried to record an episode. Heath, myself, and a non-Eli third guy recorded a sample episode, and the result was so horrible in every possible way that we decided not to do anything with it at all.
Starting point is 00:02:23 The audio quality was shit. The content was all over the map, the humor was strained. Basically, it was a great lesson on how much more shit we needed to learn before we made a podcast. It would be almost two years before we put together our next episode, which became episode one of this show. Now, it might seem odd to some people
Starting point is 00:02:41 that I would even remember that date so precisely, unless they remembered what else was going on on precisely that day in history. Or unless they've heard me tell this story before. Apologies to long-time listeners if I'm being repetitive here. But it just so happened that our practice record lined up with Harold Camping's prediction for the end of the world. for the end of the world. He and his acolytes managed to ignore the fact that this wasn't the first time he'd set a date on the apocalypse and the fact that the radio station that he owned still had shit scheduled for the 22nd.
Starting point is 00:03:12 They embraced his latest prediction with a terrifying gusto and decided to ring in the end of the world together right in the heart of American sin, New York City. Heath and I, of course, lived in New York City at the time. Hell, the store that we worked at was on Fifth Avenue, and that's precisely the street where Camping's followers gathered for the big apocalypse. Hell, Camping was so accommodating, he even scheduled the end of the world for 6 p.m. local time on a Saturday,
Starting point is 00:03:40 and Heath and I were getting off around 5. I was right in the schedule at the time and that wasn't a coincidence. But anyway, now for those of you inclined to make me feel old by not really remembering this shit, I should remind you that Harold Camping's ministry spent hundreds of thousands of dollars leading up to this thing, buying up a bunch of billboards telling everybody this was going to be the day to the end of the world.
Starting point is 00:04:00 I mean, you know, there are failed apocalypses three times a week these days, but this was one of the few recent ones that really insinuated itself into the public consciousness. And unlike the last one that did that leading up to the year 2000, this one insinuated itself under the heading of dumb shit that stupid people believe rather than, you know, reasons I need an insane amount of bottled water in my closet before midnight tonight. And let me just say that watching the disappointment play out in person was an unforgettable moment because, you know, we're watching them, but they're watching us watch them too. And we're watching them watch us watch them. And on both sides of the line, everybody's thinking, those poor dumb bastards have no idea what's about to happen.
Starting point is 00:04:40 And then as if some atheist prankster created a weather machine for just this occasion, in the minutes leading up to 6 p.m., the skies actually did darken in Manhattan. I mean, it was nothing all that dramatic, but gray clouds filled in the sky just as they're entering into their big countdown. And at exactly 6 p.m., a stiff breeze picks up and a bit of rain starts falling. And you could see a look of condescending vindication wash over their faces. But then it just stopped. falling and you could see a look of condescending vindication wash over their faces. But then it just stopped. It's like, you know, 123 raindrops fell, the wind died, backed out, and then the sun came out.
Starting point is 00:05:14 And they all wore this weird ass expression that I've never seen before and I hope to never see again. It was an expression that just said they were profoundly disappointed that me and all the people around me weren't dead. That's the kind of shit that sticks with you. I mean, look, the fact that their end of the world coincided with our practice record, that was a coincidence. Saturday evening was the easiest one for us to all get together for a couple hours. We planned it way in advance. So I'm not saying it was the inspiration for this show,
Starting point is 00:05:46 but looking back on it now, I feel like the stark terror I felt when I watched them begrudge my survival had a lot to do with the reason we invested the next year and a half learning how to do this shit. It's exactly the kind of thing that reminds you why atheist activism matters.
Starting point is 00:06:03 They're talking about you, Jesus. Interrupt this broadcast and bring you a special news bulletin. atheist activism matters. Joining me for headlines tonight are the cuphead and mugman to my elder kettle, Heath Edright and Eli Bosnick fellas. Are you ready to make a deal with the devil? Yeah, I'll make a deal with the devil. Antonio Gutierrez seems like a good guy. Yes. Yep.
Starting point is 00:06:24 Oh, Eli, did you like that joke? You enjoyed that one? No, I loved it. I loved that reference. So guy. Yes. Yep. Oh, Eli, did you like that joke? You enjoyed that one? No, I loved that reference. So good. Right. Cool. Eli, real quick. Who is Antonio Gutierrez?
Starting point is 00:06:34 He played... Maybe start again? ...Boots and Boots. Okay. So, for what it's worth, Eli, you probably could have jujitsu'd that shit just by asking Heath who Cuphead and Mugman are. Damn it!
Starting point is 00:06:46 Yeah, see? Missed my chance. In our lead story tonight, we have yet more evidence that Mother Teresa was a terrible, demonic, pain-obsessed, sociopathic cult leader. And that's on top of all the definitive pile of evidence that we already had. And I have to constantly remind myself that there's a lot of people who don't already know that but yeah she was a fucking monster who literally tortured children as a right of sanctification she fetishized poverty to such a degree that she forced her patients to live in squalor even when she had the means to improve their conditions and thanks to a new podcast by two former nuns who
Starting point is 00:07:23 worked for her in the missionaries of charity, we also know that it was a goddamn cult that used every trick in the cult book to subjugate its members. Yeah, we get a lot of lobs in atheism,
Starting point is 00:07:35 but where is the atheist Mother Teresa? Is our T-ball, ladies and gentlemen. It is our T-ball. That's right up there with show me one violent thing in the bible now look i should spend at least a second on the distinction between cult and religion because there's a lot of people i
Starting point is 00:07:53 know a lot of atheists just heard me say that because oh of course it's a fucking cult it was catholic but but it's not just a matter of social acceptability right to say otherwise is both wrong and dangerous because sure all religions are culty and all religions are dangerous, but they're not all equally dangerous. It's like sandwichness. Yeah, sure, sure. But if we adopt the every religion is a cult mindset, then we would kind of need a new term to deal with the thing that everybody else means when they say cult, right? Like all the telltale signs of cults are just extreme versions of shit that you find in every religious groups but the degree matters you can be a member of a lot of religions
Starting point is 00:08:30 without completely cutting off ties with your family and surrendering your name for example and we do a disservice to members of both cults and non-cult religions when we act like the harm that each of them causes is the same yeah so that's right non-cult religions you are somewhat less terrible you're welcome but seriously that is an important yeah you're you're often somewhat less terrible yeah no seriously important distinction you really are somewhat less terrible yeah absolutely i mean not by tenant you just end up with enough not assholes that you lose your culty origins 100% of the time. Very often they start as cults, yeah. You're like the taco of sandwiches. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:09:11 Anyway, so the point is that the thing Mother Teresa was leading was a cult even by the most strict definition of that word. In the new podcast, The Turning, The Sisters Who Left, two former members of Missionaries of Charity talk wanting to like escape but being under constant surveillance they talk about wanting to see dying family members but not being allowed to they talk about being forced to regularly self-flagellate and they talk about all kinds of other shit that would be like immediately identified as cult behavior if it weren't so heavily associated with catholic. Yep. Okay, so I know Waco went badly. Oh, Jesus Christ.
Starting point is 00:09:48 But. Ooh, an interesting but. There's a but here. You're a big enough cult that we won't use tanks. Doesn't feel like the best policy either. Right, yeah. I think it's somewhere in between those things. Yep, yep.
Starting point is 00:10:00 Compassionate tanks. Right. Something like that. Tiananmen Square, exactly. Yeah. Janet Reno, if you're listening, hit us up. I'm thinking pillows, bright yellow paint. Oh, that could be fun.
Starting point is 00:10:09 It could be fun that way. You guys remember Janet Reno? Was it just a car? In general. Now, are you just making sure you didn't get that wrong? She was the lady from... Now, as I've already said the fact that mother teresa is a
Starting point is 00:10:27 terrible person is nothing new christopher hitchens wrote a whole fucking book about it called the missionary position because you know he's clever like that and a physician from calcutta named arut chatterji became a nationally recognized figure for drawing attention to her charity's standard of care or lack thereof right it can only be aptly described as torture yep like she fetishized pain to such a degree that she denied pain relieving medicines to dying patients so as not to rob them of their divine suffering she ordered that children be tied to their bed she insisted that her hospitals reuse hypodermic needles because of frugality you know again they could afford new ones they just didn't and for all the assholes who want to deploy the well you know she couldn't
Starting point is 00:11:09 have controlled every aspect of that giant mission defense like i want to point out that all this shit started getting significantly better immediately upon her death so yeah she was the problem yeah yeah hot tip anyone who thinks god is guiding their medical care always doing a worse job than someone who doesn't think that pretty much pretty much yeah and by the way in case these revelations are new to any of our listeners i want to point out that all of this shit except the latest revelation of the mission's cult-like behavior was a matter of public record before the Vatican made a saint out of her. And in warning gable news, right-wing pastor and man who dresses like a character from the video game Fast Draw Showdown Geriatric Edition, Andrew Womack, had opinions about gay people this week, namely that we should put warning labels on their foreheads because they are hazardous to your health.
Starting point is 00:12:04 We should put warning labels on their foreheads because they are hazardous to your health. Okay. I guess I want one of those labels, too. I am definitely hazardous to Andrew Womack's health. Very potentially. Look, I feel like the guy whose group just spent a pandemic refusing to wear masks and Christ's persecution went to go cups are insufficiently humbled before their Lord needs to shut the fuck up about warning labels on people right are we playing with warning labels now was that yours yeah i'm gonna sew mine on you
Starting point is 00:12:32 so on last week's episode of the truth and liberty live cast womax guest was bemoaning the fact that gays are taking over and nobody watched her shitty documentary because it got kicked off vimeo and that is when the discussion of health hazards of homosexuality came up with womack saying quote homosexuals have like three times as much suicide as heterosexuals and then you go into transgenders sick and it just continues to go up end quote okay maybe we're not hate cramming hard enough to help them out let's uh let's make up some new slurs yeah yes right right you can bully somebody into suicide sure says something negative about them yeah yeah that what you're saying he concludes quote it's a very
Starting point is 00:13:19 destructive lifestyle they have 20 years less that the homosexual lives than a heterosexual and you know cigarettes take an average of seven years off a person's life so homosexuality is three times worse than smoking we ought to put a label across their forehead this can be hazardous to your health end quote and if a gay trans person lights a cigarette they they explode. It's 20 times 7. It's 140%. They die four years earlier than when they did that. It's really weird. It's time traveling. Now, that said, I think Womack might be on to something.
Starting point is 00:13:55 Obviously, not in labeling gay people out of bigotry, but everyone by their sexual preference. I just think it would make everything a lot simpler. Imagine what that would be like. What that would be like. Hey, Bill, thanks for coming. Oh, no problem, no problem. So, how about these new sexual label name tags they make us wear, huh? Tell me about it.
Starting point is 00:14:21 It makes you miss Trump, doesn't it? Well, no. No. No, yeah, I guess. I guess guess that so uh foot stuff yep yep yeah me and me and the missus both i gotta tell you it was adorable when we got our labels and then we turned and then they matched it was it was really nice and that's it's really sweet that did not happen with Stacey and I. Yep. Yep. Nope.
Starting point is 00:14:46 Cheryl told me. Any luck on getting her to peg you so far? Nope. Nope. But we're still working on it. Good for you. Good for you. That's hard.
Starting point is 00:15:00 You know, I think it's going to be for the best in the long run. It is. Hey, are you guys having a barbecue? Get out of here, you pervert. Frank, get the fuck off my property. You guys suck. I hate you guys. Fucking zip liners, man. You tell me about it.
Starting point is 00:15:11 You think you know a guy, right? Played with my kids. And in UAB hole news. That's such good wordplay. It's coming because University of Alabama Birmingham student, Jackie Gale, has decided that her entire school is in a suicide pact with her. And she's the very first we've heard of, of what I'm sure will be many Christians demanding exemptions to their school's vaccination policy.
Starting point is 00:15:44 Great. Yeah, I mean, they're already exempt from a bunch of hate speech policies at universities. Why stop there? Go ahead. Get more exemptions. To be fair to Jackie, being dead and attending University of Alabama Birmingham
Starting point is 00:15:55 are so close to the same thing that it's weird for them to draw a distinction. I feel like that's weird. So, yeah. According to the letter sent from her attorneys, Ms. Gale has several stupid and factually incorrect objections to vaccination. So let's go over them. First, quote,
Starting point is 00:16:14 Ms. Gale's Christian faith prohibits her from receiving vaccines because of her understanding of the biblical commands that Christians must honor God in how they take care of their bodies and that Christians should not participate in medical treatments that rely upon abortion. Due to these religious convictions, Miss Gayle has never had a vaccine injected into her body. Oh, she's had none. So she's already not supposed to be on campus even before COVID. Right. So, okay, just banner based on all the baby free vaccines. Great. Next. Yeah. So for those, just banner based on all the baby-free vaccines. Great. Next. Yeah, so for those of you who aren't familiar
Starting point is 00:16:47 with this bullshit, this is a reference to the fact that all three of the major vaccine makers do confirmation tests using fetal cell lines. And those fetal cell lines were originally harvested 40 fucking years ago from elective abortions,
Starting point is 00:17:03 but have since gone through hundreds of generations. And it's like saying I refuse to be treated by any doctor if anyone in their family has ever had an abortion. Yeah. Okay. Well, I mean, if anything, she's killing that fetus by not getting the shot. She's a baby killer. Right. Yeah, there you go.
Starting point is 00:17:21 I just want to point out that these motherfuckers believe the 900th generation of that fetal cell line carries some vestige of the original abortion but they freak the fuck out when you start talking about reparations yeah weird whole fucking thing is based on us still carrying sins from a goddamn apple people yep and that brings us to her second objection quote this gail believes the bible commands christians to honor god and how they take care of their bodies which leads her to maintain an active lifestyle, eat a healthy diet and to refrain from injecting extra chemicals into her body. Oh, my God, that's so stupid. Miss Gail believes that she would be profaning her body and therefore dishonoring God by receiving any vaccines. End quote.
Starting point is 00:18:02 Sorry, which elements from the periodic table are the extra ones? Is it the alkaline metals are extra and then the other ones are like real, regular ones? Very clearly the noble gases, dude. But so the key here, the distinction here is that the things that keep her from dying are imperatives. The things that keep her from killing other people are extra, right?
Starting point is 00:18:21 That's how you know which chemicals are which. Superfluous. Yeah, so a couple other things as the letter says miss gail believes the bible commands her not to have any interaction with any things but it doesn't the bible doesn't say that i mean look i could be correct about this our lawyer andrew torres of the opening arguments podcast is constantly surprising me with how much sincerely held lava you're allowed to pour on your genitals in this country even when the supreme court isn't
Starting point is 00:18:50 packed with extras from god's not dead for but i mean i really don't know i don't think you're allowed to just be like my client believes that the bible says he could shit in the salad bar at TGI Friday. And even if you are, we ignore that shit all the time. I can't walk into HSBC, take out a loan, and then send them a letter from my lawyer saying that the Bible is against charging interest even though the Bible is against
Starting point is 00:19:18 charging interest. You can do that. You could send a letter. And HSBC can own your house. There's consequences. Yeah, and look, if legally those things are allowed, even though they shouldn't be,
Starting point is 00:19:34 if you're a student of University of Alabama Birmingham, please consider joining my new church, whose central tenant is neck-darting religious assholes with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Yep. Very sincere. We mean it a lot. There you go. Fuck, I hate religion. I hate it so much.
Starting point is 00:19:51 Alright, well with the essence of our show thus distilled, I think it's a great time to pause for a word from this week's first sponsor, Allbirds. So many adults playing pretend in so many ways. Hey Heath, hey Noah, what's with the banner? Come on In so many ways. Hey, Heath. Hey, Noah.
Starting point is 00:20:05 What's with the banner? Come on in, buddy. We need to talk to you. Yeah. So, Eli, this is an intervention. What? An intervention for what? For your sneakers, dude.
Starting point is 00:20:19 They need to change. What? My Velcros? Yeah. No, I get these at mall store. I get them at the... No, you get them at the mall store. And you need some real shoes.
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Starting point is 00:20:47 and made with responsibly sourced eucalyptus tree fiber. But more importantly, they don't look like they were put on you at the same time as a straight jacket. Yes, that's very important. And Allbirds actually sent us a pair to try, and they instantly became my new walking around shoe. They feel amazing, and they look sharp and stylish. You're saying my Velcros don't look sharp and stylish?
Starting point is 00:21:07 That is exactly what I'm saying. They look like you lost your shoes and these were the ones the bowling lane sent you home with. So this spring, keep things light and breezy with the Allbirds Tree Runner. Discover your perfect pair at allbirds.com today. That's A-L-L-B-I-R-D-S dot com. Okay, I guess I'll try some some but i can still always wear these
Starting point is 00:21:28 athletic shorts right these are still just give us a second to change the banner we're gonna change it up yeah oh beans next up in headlines the visible light spectrum is sometimes referred to as a rainbow anna talking about It's the newest, the greatest Christian Freakout. That's right. Christians are freaking out after the Lego company released a new rainbow-colored set called Everyone is Awesome
Starting point is 00:21:55 in honor of Pride Month. Okay, well, that freakout I can get behind. Everyone is not awesome. Everyone includes Ben Shapiro Lego. Think. Think. Good story. You you guys you remember the good old days when they had to like dance around the fact that they were against equality remember that so the big lego freak out came from alfred moeller president of the southern baptist theological seminary he wrote a 2500 word freak out treatise about the sexuality of plastic blocks.
Starting point is 00:22:30 And it's not clear, but I think he's also very protective of the Christian only word awesome. Here's a little snippet. Quote, what exactly does awesome mean? Is everyone awesome all the time? Are you going to speak of everyone as equally awesome? Does it have anything to do with sexuality? Say what now? Okay, he's about to ask us for a cock rating. I know this message. I'm kidding. It's about to happen, yes.
Starting point is 00:22:57 Okay, look, Al, speaking as a man who once swore generational vengeance on an interstate exit sign, I'm going to go ahead and tell you that's a weird way to be pissed off, right? Because you're dancing around what you really want to say, but what you're actually saying is your poster says you only have to believe in yourself, but you also have to digest food and unconsciously regulate your body temperature,
Starting point is 00:23:17 you son of a bitch. Come on, dude. What about the autonomic nervous system? You're such an asshole. You didn't even mention that. So, I guess he's going for the Harrison Bergeron argument. Vonnegut was warning about the danger of gay Legos. Yeah, he always said that.
Starting point is 00:23:35 That's very important. Yeah, so it's actually a misreading of a misreading of the Harrison Bergeron argument. Mueller also added, quote, here's whereians need to lean in oh i agree christians need to lean into legos there's a brokenness here there's a hurt here that cries out for christian attention you shouldn't lean in all them legos there's a fear that's represented even in the voice of a child here for which the answer is supposedly the everyone is awesome lego set end quote so what the fuck is he right it's a great i honestly don't know okay to be fair if you're selling the cure you're not sick is an awfully troubling philosophy so we've seen some stupid freakouts
Starting point is 00:24:29 yes we have here at the scathing atheist i don't remember all the details of all them because they're stupid really but i'm pretty sure that includes very recently in fact match.com collaborating with satan the prince of darkness yep that was one. Burger King saying the D word. That's damn, by the way. A hot sauce not saying the S word. Very pissed off. Hamilton being miscegenated. And Kit Kat doing something with a penis that wasn't an explicitly hetero penis, I guess. But this Lego thing is a special kind of freak out.
Starting point is 00:25:04 It's about photons. Photons are persecution now. Yep. I guess. But this Lego thing is a special kind of freak out. It's about photons. Photons are persecution now. Yep. According to Christianity. Chef's kiss. Yeah. And in Puzzle in a Thunderdome news tonight. Fantastic. Thank you. It really doesn't fit with the story. I just really wanted to say
Starting point is 00:25:20 that God seems to be in an especially vengeful mood this week. And that's for a guy who gives cancer to 7 000 children a week but apparently that plus the existence of death disease and zack snyder movies wasn't enough for him and we know this because we have stories of not one but two prominent christian voices threatening their critics with divine retribution and they're both weirdly specific omg did i get get a mention? I Googled myself this morning. How did I miss it?
Starting point is 00:25:47 Okay. If Eli's trending for this, that's a win for us. It could have been so much goddamn. We have a lot of backup plans and none of them are for this. Right. All right, so we're going to start off
Starting point is 00:25:58 with televangelist Robin Bullock. I killed a man. Now, if you've never seen Bullock, I'm going to need you to imagine that Heath and I joined forces with Mike Lindell's crack addiction, fused into a single entity, and made an embarrassing run at a career in country music. He's so rough. He looks like Ned Stark having a midlife crisis based on Jackie. Yes!
Starting point is 00:26:25 anyway so so robin who totally isn't wearing a wig and has successfully convinced me that that's his real hair told his audience that if anybody made fun of him god would unleash the scarecrow toxin from batman begins on their ass quote yes he did however you treat the mouth of god it determines your future it's a dangerous thing to tear the garments of a prophet that's a dangerous thing to mock the mouthpiece of god. It's very dangerous to do such things as that. Very dangerous. Once that happens, it leads to one thing. It leads to insanity. End quote.
Starting point is 00:26:55 Oh my God, his thread is literally, I'm not crazy, you're crazy. Also, free drugs from God. Scarecrow thing could be fun. i think i would get into that drug yeah so okay but not to be what's the opposite of outdone not to be in done self-proclaimed prophet hank kuniman of one voice ministry also issued a threat on behalf of his god this week kuniman is among the bevy of christian zealots who keep hitting the prophetic snooze button on their promises that Trump will slash did win the election and will slash did assume the presidency at some point. Anyway, he's sick of people pointing out how demonstrably wrong
Starting point is 00:27:34 he is. But what's worse, God is sick of it, too. And that's why God informed us via Hank Kuhneman, of course, that he intended to inflict people who criticize him with leprosy. Okay. Interesting. Did you guys put him up to this as a ruse to get me to bathe? You have to tell me. It's like being a cop.
Starting point is 00:27:54 Yeah, yeah. When your dick falls off, I really want it to be clean. That's my big focus. All right, so here's the quote. Quote, there's a lot of people touching many of God's true
Starting point is 00:28:04 and choice servants right now. Holy shit. I could spend the rest of the episode on that phrasing you lonely, lonely man. Anyway, he goes on to say they better be careful because God will not acknowledge certain things that he's called them to or put within their offices. It's a dangerous place. And some of you might get leprosy. End quote. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:35 My big brother who's ignored me for the last year and a half. Okay. Well, technically forever. But anyways, he might kick your ass. All right. Well, time to grind up some fetus arms and make a vaccine for leprosy yeah right that's the only option or or you could just use the antibiotics that easily treat leprosy in the modern day so yeah two possibilities of course one is that by this time next week i'll be an insane person with leprosy another is that hank kuniman and robin
Starting point is 00:29:03 bullock are full of shit and there is no God. And I should note that these possibilities are not mutually exclusive. Yep, that's fair. And finally tonight, in non-clungible token news. Oh, well done. We have a story about NFT artwork and vaginas. NFT stands for non-fungible token, and it's a general term for anything with ownership verified by the blockchain, like a Bitcoin.
Starting point is 00:29:27 But cryptocurrency isn't the only use of the blockchain. Sometimes people use the blockchain to verify their unique ownership of artwork as a certificate of authenticity. We actually talked about this on another show recently. Yeah, it's called The Skeptocrat. Maybe you've heard of it. It's in the Newocrat maybe you've heard of it it's in the new york times it was yeah it's in new york and the story was about an artist named people who set a new record by selling a jpeg for 69 million dollars at christy's auction house and that's fucking stupid i'm furious furious about NFT artwork about once an hour since I discovered that this exists. But we might have finally found
Starting point is 00:30:10 a good use for this stuff. Model, actor, and singer Cara Delevingne is raising money for women's rights, the LGBT community, and the environment by auctioning off their vagina as an NFT. Okay. Well, now I feel better about not getting what NFT stands for. So, Delevingne is gender fluid and came out publicly as pansexual last year.
Starting point is 00:30:34 Of course, that went along with a jingle from Anna and a giant freakout by the Christian right. Just like when Elliot Page did anything recently. Yep, anything at all. Like when he stood near a pool. That was the freak out last week about Elliot Page. Freak out in my pants, maybe. Elliot Page was looking good next to that pool. Right?
Starting point is 00:30:54 Yeah. Well, it looks like Delevingne found a great way to channel the panicky rage of the Christian right into a fundraiser for everything they hate. And despite my panicky rage about nft artwork this is a great cause delavine teamed up with artist chemical x i'm letting it go i'm letting it go it's a good cause yeah because your name is heath ed right my name is no illusions that's probably part of it yeah uh it's we're not people it's different but it's the same you're right oh my new name is people i'm people no absolutely
Starting point is 00:31:25 no people absolutely none of this this is morgan people is taking you could be you could be beeply bosnick though people beep morgan people that so chemical x and delavine created the vagina based nft art piece this includes a video of Delevingne explaining, quote, my first word was mine. To me, that means something that is most mine. My vagina. I own it. It's mine and no one else's. End quote. And that's now
Starting point is 00:31:55 for sale in whatever sense. Okay, I want to be cool because this is a good cause, but do you guys feel like your junk is the thing that's most yours? Nope. Because that motherfucker was and still is very much not under my control. Yeah, it might be different with different junk.
Starting point is 00:32:12 I don't know. I also want to go on record, and I think Heath would agree with me, saying that you could support this while still thinking that the whole NFT art thing is fucking dumb. Yeah, that's the whole point of the story. art thing is fucking dumb. That's the whole point of this story. If people are buying leprechaun farts, you might as well sell some leprechaun farts for women's rights or whatever. That doesn't make it
Starting point is 00:32:32 any less dumb. I want to be super clear where we stand on that. Great, great cause. Great work, Cara Delevingne. I want to sell the picture of me licking Recomfort. By the way, speaking of Christian freakouts, Delevingne is also working on a new line of sex toys for all genders and sexualities.
Starting point is 00:32:48 In response to the trend in the sex toy industry of everything pretty much being a dick, the new brand is going to focus on anything but that, which is, again, great work. Just so many other body parts to smoosh into and around your stuff. I like that. I think it's a good idea.
Starting point is 00:33:04 The elbow dildo we've all been waiting for. Not specifically what Eli said, but general concept, yes. That's what Heath means. I'm not an elbow guy. So the auction for the NFT is happening right now. It's happening this week. And pretty
Starting point is 00:33:20 soon, the artistic digital concept of Delevingne's vagina, which is theirs and no one else's is going to be a non-fungible token in the blockchain that's going to be owned by someone else which is confusing to me or maybe the video is the art yeah i'm not clear on it but i just watched that video for free so this is why i hate nft art it's stupid. It's fucking stupid. Either way, the money goes to spite bigotry. So I'm happy. It's good stuff.
Starting point is 00:33:48 Also, I have a big announcement. I am auctioning off the theoretical idea of my left love handle as an NFT. Oh. Yeah. And it's a sex toy, actually, because everything is a sex toy. They have to let you fuck it if you want. That's true. All proceeds will benefit the Cara Delevingne Foundation or the charity of your choice.
Starting point is 00:34:08 Andrew has made it clear that I have to add here that they do not have to let you fuck it if you want. That is not a thing. Okay, sorry. Heath, can I just tell you I want to buy that on the podcast? Because I'm pretty sure you knowing that I'm going to fuck your love handle is a great prank. And I just can't get that out of the way right now. Everyone except Eli can send me a tweet about this stuff. This is my Vantablack. gonna fuck your love handle is a great prank and I can get that out of the way right now everyone except Eli can send me a tweet about this
Starting point is 00:34:28 stuff this is my Vantablack welcome to the show new listener and click while I burn out the part of my brain that has that image in it we're gonna close the headlines for the night Heath Eli thanks as always elbows and when we come back Don Ford will be here to blast
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Starting point is 00:36:53 Stamps.com. Never go to the post office again. I like it when we do the shenanigans for the end. We'll do shenanigans for the next one. the next one but if we buy dogecoin low when it goes high that's when we say yeah no i'm i'm familiar with the terms low and high that's not the problem because that's when we buy it when it's low hey guys are you ready for a bible piece theater yes god anything this. So where do we leave off? Okay, so Saul is dead. Samuel is way dead. And David is finally king.
Starting point is 00:37:30 Right, yes. So he started ruling when he was 30, and he ruled for 40 years before his story really picks up. Damn. It's like the Nevers up in this here. Dude, spoilers, please. I didn't spoil anything. I just said it is like the Nevers. Yeah, it's going to get canceled anyway anyway because everyone hates Joss Whedon.
Starting point is 00:37:47 Everyone hates your mom. Everyone hates your mom. She's not involved with it anymore. It better not be canceled. Anyway, after 40 years of rule, he goes to Jerusalem to declare it his city. Hear me, city of Jerusalem. I am David, your king, and I am here to rule you. Not so fast.
Starting point is 00:38:07 What's that? It is us, the Jebusites, and you will not rule this city until you take away our blind and our lame. Whatever. I hate blind people, so that's perfect. In fact, men, whoever kills the most blind people gets to be the captain of my army. Sorry, he hates blind and lame people? Yeah, so the modern apologetic
Starting point is 00:38:34 is that it's like ancient smack talk. Right, yeah, the Jebusites are basically saying you couldn't even kill our blind and lame people as like smack talk. Yeah, okay. this is a weird insult well yeah and it's it's worth noting that that's a pretty modern interpretation like this passage was actually used as a way to blame disabled people for their disabilities for a really long
Starting point is 00:38:55 time got it so at best it's smack talk using disabled people as the butt of the joke but more likely it's just biblical genocide again more more exactly yeah yeah so david kills a bunch of blind and lame people i guess and he takes over the city which he names the city of david he takes some more wives and concubines he has 11 more sons oh it's 70 good for him right but eventually the philistines find out that he's ruling the city, and they come to Rumble. Um, God? David, baby, how you doing, boo? Yikes.
Starting point is 00:39:35 What? What's yikes? No, it's just, this bit feels a little stale. What? Already? It's May. How could this be? Yeah, I know, it's just, it's kind of like Are we still going to be doing this in a few years? It feels a little bit like a Monica Lewinsky joke circa 2006, you know what I mean? Okay, first of all, she's on Twitter now, and she's hilarious Second of all, we have been doing this bit for two years now We're just going to switch me over to Noah doing a boomy voice now?
Starting point is 00:40:10 I mean, I just feel like if the goal is to make fun of the Bible, Noah doing boomy voices, God is going to serve us better now that Trump isn't president anymore. Hey, Eli, really need you to stop working this out in character during the show. I needed to say goodbye. On our comedy podcast, a lot of people are going to miss Donald Trump as God bit. They need this. Trust me.
Starting point is 00:40:31 I mean, I feel like you need this. Don, you don't even go here. Don't you speak to Don like that. Can't even tell you're Donald Trump from your Joe Biden most of the time. So, what did you need? Right. Well, we've got a fight coming up with the Philistines, and I was wondering if we should attack them from the front.
Starting point is 00:40:50 Hmm, no. I'm thinking you wait up in the trees, and then, when you hear them coming, you drop down and attack them. Oh, like ninjas? Like ninjas, exactly. Yes. Sweet, sweet.
Starting point is 00:41:05 Got it. Jews, we are victorious. Hooray! Voice fans better. We must celebrate. Bring the Ark, and we will play and dance before it. We play? What do we play?
Starting point is 00:41:19 Every kind of instrument. Every kind? Yes, literally every kind of instrument. Even the cymbal? Yes, that's going to be named in the book, so play the cymbal. That's it. I'm done. You know what? Kind of a limited instrument in retrospect. Anyways, everyone, thong dance for God!
Starting point is 00:41:45 Thong dance! Yeah! Oh, whoops. I fell and touched the ark. How dare you? Dude, God killed him! Oh, yikes. Yes, yes he did.
Starting point is 00:42:02 Back to the thong dance? Kind of feels like the moment's dead now, right? Yeah. Okay, fine. I'll do a thong dance myself. Except for a 70-year-old guy, he's really going for it there, right? Yeah, he's going for it. It looks like someone put a box of raisins in a paint mixer.
Starting point is 00:42:25 He's like a strip club stayed in the bath way too long. Right, like if an old age home put on a production of the movie Cats. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay, everyone. Now that I've done my thong dance, we're going to bring the Ark home. But just so we don't make God mad, we're going to sacrifice an ox and a fat calf every six steps. Every six steps? Yep. Yep.
Starting point is 00:42:55 Every six steps. Okay. It just feels like that's going to take a while. I mean, that's really going to slow us down. I am aware of that, but can I remind you that yesterday, God killed a guy for falling down and touching the ark. So, you know, maybe better safe than sorry. Yeah, I get it. Alright, so let's
Starting point is 00:43:12 get started. One, two, three, four, five, six. Okay, everyone stop. Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Set up the sacrifice stuff. You guys want to get killed by God because we could go for seven steps. No, no, don't want to be killed by God.
Starting point is 00:43:28 Whatever. Honey, I'm home. I brought all the Jews with me. Oh, hello. Oh, my husband didn't tell me you were all coming over. How thoughtful of him. Yeah, well, they're here now, so... I mean, we could go.
Starting point is 00:43:45 No, no, you stay. This is my house. I'm allowed to have guests. Oh, oh, yeah, yeah. The big husband who shook us, took us in front of every slave girl in the city yesterday. Oh, yes, how very royal of him. He's allowed to have guests. Seems like you guys might want to talk this out privately.
Starting point is 00:44:01 No, you all stand there and watch this. Well, maybe I'll go and honor those slave girls in a way I can't bring myself to honor you anymore, if you know what I mean. Oh, honor me. Honor me. Sure, Mr. I had a heavy dinner. Yeah, you go show those slave girls what you're made of. I will. I'm gonna.
Starting point is 00:44:18 Please let us leave. Sit down. We're all eating a nine-course meal, and this conversation is going to take place in front of you the entire time. And so it was that old Jews would have big, loud, messy fights in front of people at dinner for the rest of history. Eli, Eli, get out of the voiceover booth. People need to know. So David rules for a little while longer until one day he's approached by the prophet Nathan.
Starting point is 00:44:45 Hail, King David. I bring a message from God. David rules for a little while longer until one day he's approached by the prophet Nathan. Hail, King David. I bring a message from God. Nice, nice. I haven't heard from that dude in a while. What does he want? Yeah, he wants you to build him a house. God would like me to build him a house?
Starting point is 00:45:00 A house, yep. Doesn't he live, like, up in heaven? Yes, yep. He does live up in heaven, but he would like a house for his tabernacle please the the ark thing he wants a house for that yep up until now that ark it's mostly been in like tents and wagons and stuff and he was just thinking a house would be nice um and and as a reward you and your family will be royalty forever. I'm not going to lie. I feel like he's promised that to other people. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:45:32 Six in the book so far. Okay. Yeah. Am I related to any of those guys? You are not. Got it. So when he says that, it's a very, very liberal use of the words, you know, you and your family forever. That's just sort of like a liberal use. Also, he would like a kitchen island. Oh, come on.
Starting point is 00:45:50 Who wants a kitchen island? God does. He's going to use it when he entertains. He wants that. How is he going to use it? You can put cheese boards in there and stuff. When people come over, it's classy. You have cheese boards. He's not going to use it. It's just going to close off the space. I'll tell you that right now. He still has a kitchen island and he puts cheese boards on it all the time. God wants an island for cheese boards. He's not going to use it. It's just going to close off the space. I'll tell you that right now. He still has a kitchen island and he puts cheese boards on it all the time.
Starting point is 00:46:06 God wants an island for cheese boards. Okay, okay. Get a kitchen island. Thank you. And so it was that God killed more people and never really used the kitchen island after all. But that's a story for another day on another edition of
Starting point is 00:46:21 Bible Peace Deal. He actually uses them in the Apocrypha. Hey, podcast listener, I'm no illusions. I'm Heath Enright. And I'm Eli Bosnick reminding you it's the final week of Matreon, that time of year when we ask you for money extra hard so that we can pretty much leave you alone the rest of the year. Our new and upgrading patrons have helped make some amazing stuff happen over the years. Yeah, for instance, last year, you guys helped me quit smoking.
Starting point is 00:46:56 Yes, you did. But you also fund our live shows, convention appearances, and new projects like D&D Minus. And as of this recording, more than 300 of you have already upped your pledge by as little as a dollar, but there's still time to give. So head over to matreon.com,
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Starting point is 00:47:26 Lucinda, Heath, and Andrew is actually going to be meeting my baby for the first time. We're going to be playing games. I'm going to do magic. I'm going to juggle and just so much more. So one more time, huge thanks to all of you who have already donated.
Starting point is 00:47:38 And if you're able to toss us a couple of bucks and you haven't yet, now is the time to do it. Please. Matreon may we please have some money? You ruined it. I didn't ruin it. You love puns. That's not a pun.
Starting point is 00:47:52 Wordplay. It's time for the part of the show that comes next, the listener feedback. This is the part of the show that shows up when you least expect it, even though it's always in the same place. And our first message comes from yoel who says minor correction for noah you were talking about the popularity of the nintendo entertainment system in one of your rants recently and you said they could sell thousands of copies of a seven up ad if they called it a video game hate to call you out on this but the game you're thinking of was on the super nintendo and just so happens to be one of the greatest platformers of the 16-bit era.
Starting point is 00:48:28 Talking about actually a game I had. I love that game. Anyway, continuing. Keep up the good work. End of message. All right. So, you know, well, I'm going to open up by saying I forgive you. Heath and Eli know what a mistake you made trying to come at me with video game trivia but
Starting point is 00:48:48 you didn't know and yes the 1993 platformer cool spot was a 16-bit game as was its follow-up spot goes to hollywood i think it's a little much to call one of the best platformers of their generation it was good fucking game though but i was referencing the 1990 game Spot the Video Game, which was a far less popular NES release loosely based on Go. Hate to call you out on this, but if you Google 7-Up Game for NES, it does show up. And that has fewer words than your email did. But thank you, Yoel, for reaching out. Anyway. You come for the king?
Starting point is 00:49:22 You come for the king? out anyway you come for the king and finally we got a few messages about the comments that i made last week about being culturally jewish and the skit that we did afterwards like i said several people wrote in but i thought our friend iran from australia summed up the objections pretty well quote and he said a lot of other complimentary stuff at the beginning at the end uh but i'm just i'm just giving you the meat here quote being jewish is not just a religion and presenting it that way is unnecessary and problematic i've never been religious my grandparents all four of them left religion in the 1920s and we haven't had religion in our family since we have been atheists for literally a century and now five generations yet we are are all Jewish because being Jewish, while fundamentally
Starting point is 00:50:05 arising out of religion, I'm not denying that, is also a culture, an ethnicity, a tradition, a group belonging, a shared history, an identity, and in many cases, also biologically important. Millennia of inbreeding to thank for that. So I'm not an ex-Jew who's now an atheist. I'm an atheist who is also Jewish. And judging by my research, I'm not alone. I'm part of a major chunk of those identifying as Jewish. Others may choose not to identify as Jewish if they are not religious. And I have exactly zero problems with that. But the message that unless you do Jewy things, you're not Jewish is unwarranted, end quote. So I guess the clear implication of Iran's message is that I don't get a say in how people identify themselves, and that's fair.
Starting point is 00:50:47 So in my own defense, I actually had it drilled into my head pretty hard that talking about Jewishness as an ethnicity was anti-Semitic since there are Jews from all different ethnicities. Ultimately, that being said, it turns out there's a huge century-long discussion between people who identify as ex-Jews and people who identify as atheist Jews on this subject. between people who identify as ex-Jews and people who identify as atheist Jews on this subject. And one thing that discussion definitely does not need is me goisplaining how weird it all seems to me. Okay, that is a lovely and thoughtful way to put, I know you're wrong, but I'm not Jewish, so I'm going to let Eli do it.
Starting point is 00:51:17 That's not what I was saying. Say whatever you'd like to say, Eli. All right, well, I think it's important that that is how we should approach these subjects right if a black listener said hey this is how i self-identify and i think it's harmful when you say otherwise it's a good thing that we shut up and listen but as an ex-jewish person or a person who's born jewish or a secular jew whatever you want to use i get to be a prick which is great because i almost never get to do that. Almost never? Would we say almost never? I feel like you're
Starting point is 00:51:46 obligated to at least add to people other than Heath. Thank you. Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. Qualifier. So, first off, and I want to clarify this again, goes without saying, we love Iran, love the work he does with Skepticon, and it's because we love him and respect him as much as we do
Starting point is 00:52:01 that I'm going to be a total asshole right now. See, see he it's because he loves and respects you yes yeah no i wasn't getting that it's a duper so we chose his message and not a different one because iran's a big boy and he's a respected skeptic who we can disagree with without worrying about like insulting him or making him feel bullied right i mean andrew thinks little old ladies should be able to pour lava on their vajuchas and iran is wrong about being jewish we can asshole because we love i mean i was perfectly nice about it we had a lovely exchange on messenger but i i'm not gonna go explain this to you either so go right ahead so let's break down iran's claims here so the first is as he
Starting point is 00:52:41 mentioned that jewishness is a culture or a tradition. Jewishness isn't what you believe. It's what you do. But that's true of all religions, right? Evangelicals have a penchant for mayo-based salads, but nobody calls that a culture because if they did, it would render the difference between a culture and a religion meaningless. meaningless well so to be fair to eron and i might be wrong on this but i think he's talking about two different things right like jewishness the religion as a circle within jewishness the culture yeah right right but most jews don't have that stuff in common right there's sephardic jews there's eastern european jews there are chinese converts to judaism they all have vastly different
Starting point is 00:53:22 cultural histories traditions practices and practices, and languages. And it's super duper dismissive to the other cultures other than your own to act like there's just the one. Right? Like, as Iran said in his message, like, oh, we haven't done anything religious for years. And I'm like, okay, what do you do that's Jewish then? Right? The only traditions and cultures that all Jews have in common are religious practices. Yamakas, genital mutilation, jean skirts, wigs, those are religious practices. And you know that they're religious practices because exactly zero Jews do those after they stop believing if they are safe to do so.
Starting point is 00:53:59 And the second argument is that Judaism is an ethnicity or a race. And I want to say credit to Iran here. He did not say race. He knows better. But we can't really name another ethnicity that you can convert to or from. You can't declare yourself Italian or black. Any cultural histories you know of where you can marry into them. You ever hear someone say, yeah, you know, my wife's really Hispanic.
Starting point is 00:54:24 So I took a month's worth of classes and now I'm Hispanic. No, which means there are only two possibilities here. Either Judaism is the only ethnicity that you can convert into, and I have yet to hear a good explanation for why that is, and I have a lot of follow-up questions if it is true, or converts aren't Jewish. And I think we can all agree that that second thing's not true. And look, I want to acknowledge something that I breezed over in the story because I've talked about it seriously in other places, and it would have been weird to do it in the middle of our comedy show while we were making jokes, which is that deconverting from Judaism is a very different experience than deconverting from Christianity. Now, don't get me
Starting point is 00:55:04 wrong. Ex-Christians go through some horrendous shit, our listeners are among them, but historically speaking, it's different. And not just because of the look your mother gives you, although in my case, it's mostly that. The main reason Jews have deconverted throughout history was under threat. From the
Starting point is 00:55:20 Spanish Inquisition to the Holocaust, whether or not to be Jewish often meant the choice between life and death. And a lot of people chose death. And giving up that identity can feel like betraying those people. So when I get on the air and very flippantly just say like, hey, you're not a fucking Jew anymore, I completely understand why that would raise hackles. And honestly, until a few years ago, it did the same thing for me. Now, that doesn't make me wrong about whether Jewishness is an ethnicity. I'm right because
Starting point is 00:55:50 otherwise Baptists would be an ethnicity. But I do want to acknowledge that I get where that pain is coming from. I understand where that sensitivity comes from. And I completely get why people had very strong reactions. And look, to everyone who reached out, and I want to say pretty much everyone who reached out was civil and genuine like Iran was. The parts of you that you think are Jewish, I can't tell you how to identify. No one's telling you how to identify. But the parts of you that you think are Jewish, even if I'm right, they're not going anywhere because those are your family traditions. They're your family history. And in many cases, they are your ethnic history. And nothing you believe is going to change that like matzo balls and latkes and making falafel wrong, even though you know it's way better without pickles, are all parts of who you are. And you can celebrate those things and embrace them.
Starting point is 00:56:41 But you can do it without lending credence to extremists who are going to take cover behind you. Okay. And I actually agree with Iran, but we're going to get into the weeds even more if we go into that. Iran was right. Let's move on. How dare you? I feel like we should add one piece of feedback where we don't
Starting point is 00:57:00 dunk on anybody so people will still tell us stuff. I mean, love you. Iran, thanks for the feedback. Heath, you got something? Timmy is a real listener who reached out. Timmy, the real listener, reached out to let us know that blueberries
Starting point is 00:57:15 are delicious. Well said, Timmy. I don't care. I mean, I can't argue with that. Damn it, Noah. And that's all the feedback you get. If you want more, keep sending us those emails, tweets, and Facebook messages. You'll find all the contact info on the contact page at scathingatheist.com. Before we raise the drawbridge tonight, I want to let everybody know that we reached the Matreon goal where I now have to juggle during the live stream.
Starting point is 00:57:44 So if you're a patron, you get to watch me do something I was good at eight years ago and haven't really done since. There are other embarrassments in the sites, though. Find out more at Matreon.com. Anyway, that's all the blasphemy we've got for you tonight. We'll be back in 10,022 minutes with more. If you can't wait that long, be on the lookout for a brand new episode of our sister show's hot friend, God of Movies, debuting at 7 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday, and an even newer episode of our half-sister today being at noon eastern on wednesday obviously the show
Starting point is 00:58:06 wouldn't even show up if i neglected to thank heath henry for all the extra work he does while i'm getting my face fixed i want to thank eli bosning for all the extra work he's making heath do while i get my face fixed and i want to thank the lovely and talented lucinda illusions for all the extra work she's doing while i'm a whiny motherfucker who can't eat anything i also want to thank don ford for reasons that have nothing to do with my face and reasons that do you don't know everything about me and don and you don't need to know. Also, need to thank the bitter atheist for writing this week's Farnsworth quote. Of all the taste type based atheists, he's my favorite.
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