The Scathing Atheist - 546: Morning Show Edition
Episode Date: August 3, 2023On this week’s episode: *sad trombone sound* ... We learn how to hunt Irish witches, for charity ... And we have the release of a brand new single from Anna Bosnick. --- To make a per episode donati...on at Patreon.com, click here: http://www.patreon.com/ScathingAtheist To buy our book, click here: https://www.amazon.com/Outbreak-Crisis-Religion-Ruined-Pandemic/dp/B08L2HSVS8/ If you see a news story you think we might be interested in, you can send it here: scathingnews@gmail.com 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: "Judeo-Christian" roots will ensure US military AI is used ethically, general says: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/22/air-force-general-ai-judeochristian/ New religious charity promotes ‘witch hunting’ sermon: https://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2023/07/new-religious-charity-promotes-witch-hunting-sermon Barclays Bank pays £21,500 settlement to charity that ‘helps people leave LGBT lives’: https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/barclays-bank-pays-21500-settlement-charity-helps-people-leave-lgbt-lives/finance/article/1828268 --- GAMusic: “Eye of the Tiger” — by 2 for Christ: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT88GMgPv/
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We learn how to hunt Irish witches for charity.
And we have the release of a brand new single from the Anabasnik.
But first, the Alaya Tribe. tribe. So as Noah mentioned a few weeks ago, I used to be a 9-11 truther. Now, to be fair,
I don't think I was particularly hardcore about my beliefs, right? I posted a few deeply cringey
hardcore about my beliefs, right? I posted a few deeply cringy statuses, probably left a few comments on Facebook posts I would love to see deleted. But for the most part, I managed to be
set straight by that conversation with Noah without outing myself to too many folks as the jackass I
was. But it was how I got there that I think is worth discussing. See, about a year before I had that conversation with Noah at the toy store,
I'd gotten the brilliant idea to smoke a joint in Washington Square Park.
Now, hippie mecca though it was, and while you had a pretty strict no drugs policy,
and if you got caught smoking weed in your room, you could be expelled.
But you see, my roommate had informed me about one simple trick.
You see, the park, which was right next door to my dorm, wasn't school property. The cops were there,
but they didn't care if you smoked a little weed. And even if they did, it was like a $36 ticket, so
no big deal. So there I am, smoking my joint in Washington Square Park, feeling very bohemian when a cop
walks up to me and tells me, hey, put that out. And I'm a 19-year-old idiot, so I say,
oh man, I just started this one, and I flick the joint into the bushes.
And that's when he grabbed me. See, my roommate was actually kind of right New York City had very nearly reached its current state of decriminalization by then
And if I had, in fact, put out the joint
That officer could have written me a ticket
And I'd have been on my way
But because I flicked my joint into the bushes
The cop decided that I was obstructing justice
As the TV shows call it
Which is a class
A misdemeanor, carrying a possible prison sentence of up to a year in jail, which is
exactly what he informed me as he threw me against his car so hard he broke my nose and
then drove me downtown in handcuffs.
Now, I want to pause for a second and acknowledge how lucky I am about how the rest
of the story went. I know that for way too many people in exactly that situation, they just went
to jail and had their job opportunities, their financial situations, sometimes even their lives
destroyed. But my family knew a lawyer in New York City who took one look at my broken nose,
had a conversation with the
cops in the other room, and got me released the same night. I know how lucky I was now,
but at the time, I was furious. I was certain that I was going to have this dude's badge.
They hadn't even given me my possession ticket, and I was going to make sure that this dude paid.
He did not. I filed a complaint. I testified in front of a city ethics board, and pretty much
wherever I turned, including the multiple attorneys I independently contacted, I was
informed that they were sorry that it happened to me, but them's the brakes. I was furious.
How could the system have failed me like this?
How could this possibly be the way things worked?
I was a child of the 80s.
Police officers were people you went to when you needed help.
And now, every time I saw one, I got a knot in my stomach.
And the people around me were not helping.
My liberal friends and my teachers just kept telling me how lucky I was.
And didn't I know how much harder it was for so many people around me?
And my conservative friends could barely conceal the fact that they thought I got what I deserve
for being such a loudmouth asshole.
But you know who was sympathetic?
You know who did know that the system was broken and what's more wanted to do
something about it? Anti-government loons. That's who. They said and did everything I wanted them
to say and do. And in return, I believe the lies they fed me without question because they were
the ones who got it. See, all too often we forget that the road to unreason
is lined with very real pain.
And once you go down that path,
all too often the only place
to go for comfort is deeper.
Look, I get it.
I too find myself wondering
how I can find myself
in a country where 40%
thinks Donald Trump
should be the president,
how a frighteningly large percentage of this country
believes that Hillary Clinton has participated in some child trafficking,
but sometimes the road back from those positions
is just as painful to take.
And again, I was lucky.
This super smart dude at work debunked zeitgeist
without even remembering
the conversation, apparently. And the article he referred me to was one of the hosts of the
Skeptic's Guide to the Universe, which I then became a rabid fan of. And I escaped my bad
ideas without anyone ever knowing I'd had them. I got to laugh along with the jokes that were about me until they weren't anymore.
And to be honest, I think maybe our movement could use a bit more to that welcoming spirit.
I think there's a bit too much attendance taking at the door these days. I think it's well
intentioned. I think we want our spaces to be safe and our at-risk communities to feel protected.
But I think in doing so, far too often we slam doors
in the faces of folks who might belong here. By my math, there's about 43 new people listening
to the show this week. 43 people who have never tuned into our show before. And if you're one of
them, some of the jokes you hear this week might be about you or about who you were until very
recently. And I want you to know that you're welcome, that nothing you've said or done up
until this point prevents you from having a seat in the room and hearing what we've got to say.
Whatever you've done, it's your little secret. And for the record Whatever brought you here
I'm sorry it happened
And we're going to treat you better
They're talking about you, Jesus
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A weird party with those
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So like the only label you'll gladly accept
is a toe tag, I guess. Okay.
I didn't think it through. I think he was
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Okay, yeah. Maybe I was.
I did think it through. Alright, we're going to need a quick
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Yeah.
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and we're back in our lead story tonight we can all stop worrying about artificial intelligence taking over the world
because Ultron is Judeo-Christian. It's fine. It's going to be fine. At least the American
Ultron is Judeo-Christian, and that's what matters. According to Air Force General Richard
G. Moore Jr., that's the big picture answer about the ethics of AI and the future of autonomous
warfare. America has biblical values,
so it's all going to work out fine with the AI.
Yeah, I mean, given OpenAI's token pricing,
I think they owe all of us 40 shekels,
if you know what I mean, but I get what you're saying.
All right, and a big thanks to H for the link,
scathingnews at gmail.com, if you want to help out.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Heath, you're telling me that our listeners can not only send us atheist news to scathingnews at gmail.com if you want to help out. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Heath, you're telling me that our listeners
can not only send us
atheist news
to scathingnews
at gmail.com
and hear it on the show,
but one lucky winner
will get to kill
one Manchester civilian
with us at QED?
Huh.
Okay.
Marsh?
Now, I know you think
that's meant to bother me,
but what you're forgetting is
I live in Liverpool.
You can take out
as many fucking manks
as you like. Go nuts. I'll even hold your umbrella for you're forgetting is I live in Liverpool. You can take out as many fucking Mancs as you like.
Go nuts.
I'll even hold your umbrella for you
while you do it.
All right.
It sounds like a slur word
when you say Mancs.
I don't know.
That's the great thing about the British
is they got slurs
for a lot deeper cuts than we do.
It feels like it,
but I feel like I've heard people just say that.
That's just like New Yorker, right?
Yeah, it is.
Yeah, it's just someone from Manchester.
Yeah.
It's not like Yanks, I think, than New Yorker. Oh, it's much more like Yanks.
Nicely done. Nicely done. Okay. But Yanks, it's fine. So we learned about this very important
facet of cutting edge morality during an event at the Hudson Institute last week. That's a
conservative think tank in Washington, D.C., and they're exactly as intelligent and useful as that sounds.
Yeah, just like all conservatives then. Yeah.
Yeah. During the event, General Moore got a question about the use of AI in the military.
And as you can safely assume about almost every single general in the Air Force,
Moore is a Christian lunatic. So he responded by saying, quote,
regardless of what your beliefs are, our society is a Judeo-Christian society and we have a moral compass.
Not everybody does, end quote.
Yeah, because there's no better way to let me know you're going to behave responsibly with advanced weaponry than by assuring me that none of it matters.
Because we're all going to fight besides sword mouth Jesus when he descends from heaven for his final battle with his dad's ex-boyfriend. Yep. The thing is, America might have a moral compass, but then you
bring a Bible too close to it and it messes with the whole thing like a super strong magnet. Like
hold a Bible close enough and you can make that moral compass point at any direction you like.
Yeah, exactly. Describing the American Supreme Court right there. So in response to that
answer from General Moore, everyone at the event was like, yeah, right. Of course, America, Bible,
the guy in charge of our drones is very ethical and that all makes sense. Perfect. And then Moore
kept talking and made it even worse, but also unbeknownst to everybody listening at the Hudson
Institute. When he was done with the absurd lie about Judeo-Christian ethical supremacy,
he accidentally explained why that would backfire,
but he did that proudly because he's a dumb person
who knows about nothing he's saying.
He said, quote,
there are those that are willing to go for the ends,
regardless of what means have to be employed.
It depends on who plays by the rules of warfare
and who doesn't.
There are societies that have a very different foundation than ours.
Sorry, is he proudly claiming and justify the means?
No, not even.
Bragging about the brand new eye-based vengeance system you're working on.
Yeah, he said there are societies that have a very different foundation than ours.
And with the help of these new Christo drones,
we're going to reduce those societies back down to those foundations.
Yeah.
Right.
So it's really not clear what he's saying about the ends and the means.
Hopefully that Machiavelli part was like a lie instead of a bad strategy that he doesn't understand.
Like we'll be evil, but not stupid
evil in a Christian way. Like rooting for stuff is weird right now. I don't know what he meant.
So I don't know what I'm rooting for, for us strategically. Well, the Washington Post had
similar questions as we did. And they reached out to General Moore asking approximately,
what the fuck are you talking about? And he responded with an email that said, quote,
the Air Force is not going to allow AI to take actions,
nor are we going to take actions on information provided by AI
unless we can ensure that the information is in accordance with our values.
While this may not be unique to our society,
it is not anticipated to be the position of any potential adversary, end quote.
So did that help answer any of your questions?
If anything, that's worse because, you know,
AI knows that you should give trans people health care.
Like, I don't know.
Yeah, it does.
So obviously, the people writing the code for military computers
are not all Judeo-Christian.
That's absurd.
And that is a very good thing that they're not.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, statistically, those coders are either American atheists
or, way more likely, outsourced to India on Fiverr.
So those drones are going to mostly have Hindu values, if anything,
which is fine unless you intend to declare war on some cows, I guess.
A-I-M become death. Fantastic.
Okay, so two big takeaways here. First of all, Richard G. Moore Jr. needs to be in charge of
absolutely nothing ever. But as of now, he is a three-star general and the deputy chief of staff
for plans and programs for the entire Air Force. That needs to stop being true.
But more importantly, one of the big questions in AI
is how to program good morality for difficult choices.
And it's so fucking important that we don't use the Bible for any of that.
Using the Bible to figure out like trolley dilemma problems
is a terrifying bloodbath. Absolutely a horrible idea.
Just cheaty, getting showered in blood every time. Lots of people dying that don't deserve it. But
when it comes to military AI, it's also terrifying for anybody who lives near a metaphorical train
or trolley that represents the entire world in this metaphor. So everybody.
And in arms and dangerous news,
works better written down, but trust me, it's good.
There are a lot of great charities here in the UK.
Some feed the hungry, some clothe the needy,
and some send charming British skeptical activists
undercover to monitor people who lie about vaccines
being a globalistic population plot.
So it's all worthy stuff here. Oh boy boy. He's been a full time skeptical advocate for
two weeks and he's already whoring himself out at every opportunity. Have some decency,
Marge. Save it for May. OK, save it for May. I've been full time since 2014. I just
did other jobs as well. OK, I don't understand how the conspiracy got both of those things the virus and the vaccine
my idea was just to keep rolling with the virus and kill the people i feel like the deadly vaccine
was redundant and now we're making it harder yeah than it has to be to depopulate right exactly i'm
totally on board but the thing is not all charities have such laudable goals as all those and that was
a point that was made clear this week when it emerged that the charity regulator
for Northern Ireland gave the charitable green light
to a religious organization
that teaches people how to hunt witches.
I just signed us up right now.
I signed us up to be witch hunters.
We are learning to be witch hunters now.
Look, here's the thing.
If it doesn't work,
we have funny material for the show.
But if it does work,
we find hot girls with undercuts.
It's a win, win, win, win, win.
In Ireland with that accent?
Come on.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
So the organization is the Belfast branch of the Nigerian evangelical cult,
the Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries,
who are now an official registered charity,
even though their social media is just filled with posts from their founder,
Daniel Kalawale Olukoya, about how to spot a witch.
Okay, now I'm picturing those cheesy meet and greet pictures that charities are always putting
out, but he's like holding a torch to a pyre instead of cutting a ribbon.
And look, just as a side note here, the Facebook page for this charity is called
MFM Belfast, which is an initialism that probably gets them a lot more traffic than they expect.
I bet their meetups tend to involve a lot of confused,
horny Northern Irish guys wondering where all the women are here.
Guys, they're not there for the devil, but for the devil's three way.
Yeah.
Still signing us up anyway.
Except with the accents, for sure.
Yeah, absolutely.
Hanging out with your bro.
So back in April,
the group posted an image to their Facebook
promoting Olukaya's sermon about witchcraft,
listing the five kinds of witches or familiar spirits,
which apparently are, number one,
witches by decision,
which makes sense, you one, which is by decision, which
makes sense, you know, valid career choice.
I think they prefer the term hex worker, Mark.
Brilliant.
Eli, hex worker.
Thank you.
Do the rimshot one.
No, fuck off.
I don't want sad trombone for that.
No, sad trombone.
That's a good idea.
There we go.
So, yeah, which is by decision, number trombone. That's a good idea. Plack-a-da-da-goom. There we go. So, yeah, Witches by Decision, number one.
Witches by Inheritance is number two.
So I guess Nepo-witches, essentially.
Yeah, not Nuvo-witch, but Old Witch.
Plack-a-da-da-goom.
Splash.
Piano stand.
Then third, you've got Witches by Covenant,
which it feels a lot like the first one,
unless they were entering into that covenant
against their will,
except no, because the fourth is witches by force.
So witches against their will.
So the previous one definitely doesn't make any sense.
And then finally, unconscious or blind witches.
So I guess people who witch
without realizing that they're doing it.
Yeah.
Hi, Tim. Love you, buddy.
I like
that there's a witch by, like an angry
witch who's just not happy about being
a witch, doing it like aloof,
like, oh, fuck. Young lady,
you stop that math homework right now, and
you get up to your room, and you sacrifice a goat.
You're not my real mom.
But that Facebook post with all the witches, that
wasn't even a one-off, because they also posted a summary of Oluokoya's
11 reasons the enemy gets angry against a person.
Okay.
Not sure why it's 11.
You know, dualistical is better.
Pick a round number.
But of the 11, my favorites were
when there is an evil promissory note on you
from your parents,
like, I guess, an IOU1 child.
Do they take credit? Do they do that? Okay, if any witches are listening,
I'd like to sell you some futures contracts if you're in that market.
Ooh, yeah. Can I short heat having children?
My other favorite was when apparently the enemy gets angry when a strongman has been assigned to your life. So just be really careful
if you're ever befriended by a guy
in a striped unitard carrying one of
those Victorian dumbbells with the big
round balls on the end.
I don't know. Now I'm picturing Tom
from Cogdiss. Tom from Cogdiss, yes.
On a penny farthing,
for sure. Right? Yep. And then
my other favorite was apparently
when marine powers supervise the problems you are facing.
So if you see like Namor the Submariner snooping around you,
or if you're being actively surveilled by a Russian nuclear submarine,
apparently you're fucked.
So it's all really good practical life advice from the church here.
Okay.
Can't Poseidon sit back and chill out with some ASMR slime TikTok
without it being
a witch thing, Marsh? He's got to
rule the whole sea. He needs to relax,
Marsh.
That's a tough job. He only gets those delightful
submersible things once in a while.
He's just doing annoying
stuff, paperwork.
The thing is, all of this should have been
pretty clear signs to the charity
commission, the regulator of charities, that MFM aren't really acting for the public benefit as they should be doing. As should
the fact that the group's London branch, which had accumulated £3 million in donations, is currently
the subject of a four-year investigation by the mainland UK branch of the Charity Commission for
serious financial mismanagement and fraud. And then the Liverpool branch was shut down after it was caught offering conversion therapy
sessions to cure homosexuality through prayer and starvation.
God, it's so foreign to me as an American that it would be a legal requirement for a
charity to do good things that I had no idea where you were going with that sentence until
the very end of it.
I was like, oh, right.
They're supposed to do stuff.
They have to do a thing.
That's such a good idea
for a country to have as a rule.
So they have to do good things.
And as of a legal case from 2018,
they have to check each charity,
make sure it's acting in the public benefit.
And that legal case was brought by me.
So have that, charity sector.
But anyway, I'm sure
the Northern Ireland Charity Commission
knows exactly what they're doing.
And they've just got a very good reason for rubber stamping this organization.
Other than, well, they said Jesus a bunch of times, so we will reckon they were fine fellas, you know.
And finally this week in trust defunded news, I bring not just one Irish homophobic Christian bigot charity story for you this week, but two.
I bring not just one Irish homophobic Christian bigot charity story for you this week, but two.
And no, it's not just because we talked about Ireland in the first of my stories,
which means that Eli desperately wanted to do an accent,
but then all the people I talked about were Nigerian,
and Eli knows better than to do that accent.
And so I just had to kind of throw him this bone to stop him exploding in a horrifying mass of bejesus and begoros.
He's shaking right now.
Thank you, Marsh.
It's a workplace safety issue, don't you know?
No, but this week I learned that Barclays Bank has paid a £21,500 settlement to Core Issues Trust,
a Christian charity registered in Ireland who claimed to, quote, help people leave LGBT lives, aka conversion therapy.
Okay, well, that sounds a lot like murder, but don't worry, it's only fraud and bigotry.
Don't worry.
Only fraud and bigotry.
Only fraud and bigotry.
It's the upside.
You see, in July 2020, Barclays decided that they didn't want to be the bank of choice for
bigots who think you can pray out the gay.
And so they informed the charity that they'd be closing their bank account, which they were entirely allowed to do because despite
what Nigel Farage and the majority of the British culture warrior right have spent the last few
weeks claiming here, banks have a right to close your account for any reason as long as they give
you notice. Oh, I love when this shit flips around, like when libertarians are like, hey, your choice hurt me.
It's, oh, God, I love it.
So good.
Just as an aside, in the case of Nigel Farage, he's been a cause celebre for the last month at least since he announced that the extra exclusive ultra rich bank Coots had closed his account with them.
And the reason that they closed it was actually because they only allow accounts
with more than three million pounds in them.
And Nigel Farage's account
didn't have that.
But apparently,
that's an injustice so large
that it's become a priority
for Rishi Sunak to act on
because my country is
fucking obscene right now.
Okay, Nigel Farage was like
Mr. Brexit, right?
Yeah.
He should be banned
from the pound forever.
Any association with that money. He should be banned from the pound forever. Any association with that money.
He should be trading cowrie shells and, you know, loose leather and a body joke to pay for stuff
for the rest of his life in the UK. OK, now, to be fair, it's the government's fault that I'm not
rich enough is a fantastic slogan for Brexit. He really missed his shot using it back then.
But anyway, in the case of Coleridge's trust, Barclays didn't have to give them a reason.
They could just close the account of the bigger charity.
And by law, that's fine.
Except the bigger charity is a Christian bigger charity.
And they got to claim persecution, which is their favorite thing to claim.
There it is.
And so the Christian Legal Center took up the case and they threatened to bring a claim
of religious discrimination
by Barclays personally
against the charity's chief executive
and founder, Michael Davidson.
Mike Davidson, unsurprisingly,
describes himself as ex-gay.
Whereas I, slightly more surprisingly,
describe Mike Davidson as
be reasonable episode 54
because I interviewed
this bigot Belland back in 2018. Yeah, that's the guy who's super duper clever. We just believe
sexuality is a spectrum argument was disarmed by Marsh's clever riposte of, but do you owe?
Yeah. So in a statement about the case, Barclays explained that they looked at the cost of
defending themselves against this legal case and, you know, probably factored in how much time
they'd have to spend in a room with Mike Davidson and decided to just give him 21 grand to make him
go away, which was probably something of a bargain, to be honest.
Yeah, totally worth it. Okay. How much to make Nigel Farage go away? Like,
maybe we just start buying people out of the economy. That'd be great.
Yeah, I was going to say
the Capital One that Marsh sent me to
just called the cops on me.
How do I get that deal?
I mean, we can't pay Nigel Farage to go away.
We could pay someone else.
But someone say something.
No, I love what we've turned you into
in these last weeks,
free of a day job, Mark.
It's a new world.
Just joking, just joking, obviously.
And of course, Barclays here admitted no fault
because they've done nothing wrong.
And they are definitely not going to give
Mike Davidson his bank account back.
They're just going to put this guy
in their permanent out tray.
Though Mike would, of course,
just insist that he's still in the in tray
and just expect us all to pretend
that we believe him in that. Mike, are you dry heaving the that he's still in the in-tray and just expect us all to pretend that we believe him in that.
Mike, are you dry heaving the entire time you're in the in-tray?
It doesn't matter.
I'm still in here.
Loving it.
Still, Mike Davidson and the Christian Legal Center
are now claiming this settlement as a victory for Christianity
and as a warning to the government
that they've just got to scrap this proposed ban on conversion therapy.
And the thing is,
this is a government
whose only electoral strategy
is to play the populist culture war card
at every turn,
regardless of whose rights and lives
get thrown under the bus.
So it wouldn't surprise me
if Mike Davidson gets exactly what he desires.
Wait, wait, not that thing he desires.
I mean, his other desire,
the one he's actually willing to admit about himself. But he's not lying about it. All right, that's going to do it for the
headlines. Marsh, Eli, thanks as always. Jumanji. And when we come back, Anna is going to be better
at music than the god of the universe. The god awful brand can be summed up in two words,
The Godawful brand can be summed up in two words, confidence and atrocity. That also works for religion as a whole, but especially for modern Christian music.
Godawful music.
It's a big fucking swing and a big fucking miss almost every single time with tragically delightful consequences for us to enjoy.
delightful consequences for us to enjoy. And even better, we get to hear from the Anna Bosnick in both roast form and musical form sometimes. Anna, welcome back. We got a god awful music.
Oh my God, Heath. I am so happy to be here. I have been wanting to be here in this spot doing
just this, nothing but this for so long. Fantastic. This choice is so, so good. I can't
wait. But first, let's point out that Eli is still here. Eli, hello. Okay. We're just going
to move right past it and I'm bleeping all of it It's all getting bleeped Eli made a noise with a board thingy again
So Anna
What musical hate crime
Against Rocky 3 and my entire youth
Are we going to be breaking down today
The Eye of the Tiger
The Christian version
As performed by Hayley and Nick Gaglione
In that order Of the band Two for Christ.
This woman might as well be my nemesis. Really? I'm not going to lie. She's an incredible singer.
And she wrote the Christian lyrics to this Eye of the Tiger so well that for a while,
I thought I'd missed that Eye of the Tiger was a Christian song this whole time. And I just
hadn't noticed.
But man, if she didn't let her husband come up on that stage too with her, wow.
Yeah.
Wowie. He's also there.
It doesn't go well.
Ooh.
And this one came with a music video and some Chinese government spyware.
So that was nice, right?
Yes, that's right.
This one's from TikTok.
I have been actually wanting to do this one since january thank you everybody by the way who sent this to
me on tiktok and tagged me in it and was like oh my god you should do this oh my god you should do
this earlier this year in january this went viral and i hopped on it like a ravenous honey badger, but no sooner had I come up
with the most brilliant parody I'd
ever done, it disappeared
into the YouTube copyright sensor
abyss, and I was heartbroken.
Boo. But
I'm very happy to say that it
is back, and it is just as incredible as
I remember. Unboo. And thank you
again to everybody who sent this to me on TikTok.
Believe me, I knew and I was gonna Unboo. And thank you again to everybody who sent this to me on TikTok. Believe me,
I knew
and I was going to do it.
Great.
Great work sending this one over.
It made me so happy
to watch this.
The video's the best.
So,
if you want to check out
that video,
we'll have a link
in the show notes.
Just get yourself
a brand new computer
or phone,
air-gapped,
watch the video
and then throw that device
in the garbage
made of a magnetic compressor, super bleach,
whatever you got to do.
Just cover it in tinfoil,
pop it in the microwave for like 30 seconds.
There you go.
Like 30.
On high?
On high.
Yeah.
It's going to be a whole thing,
but it's going to be worth it.
It's an amazing video.
Oh my God.
So the video starts with a little preamble
about how the song that they're stealing
is stolen for Jesus. And then the lead singer Hailey says, So the video starts with a little preamble about how the song that they're stealing is
stolen for Jesus.
And then the lead singer, Hailey, says, when you guys hear it, you'll know it.
And then they start dancing.
This segment might as well be called God Awful Moving.
It's rough.
Dance moves brought to you by your local middle school homecoming dance.
I will just say that.
Yes.
Absolutely.
I, Heathelton Bethesda Enright, am judging the dance moves.
Yep.
That's how bad they are.
Yeah, for sure.
This gentleman cannot get his feet to move in sync with the music.
And he's trying.
He's trying.
He's trying so hard.
He couldn't even get the fist pump.
It was so sad.
He tries to do a fist pump right at the beginning.
He starts way too early.
Then the music comes in and he somehow got more off time once there was music.
It was so bad.
They had to do an edit in the video four seconds in to like figure out what was happening with that.
It was incredible.
If someone says we can fix it in post about your fist pump, you know you've chosen the wrong medium to convey salvation in.
There was like a wipe with like a filter of a different color
and they changed the sink up a little bit.
And then the fist pump is working for a second,
but then it's immediately not.
So this is when we get the amazing lyrics coming in.
Mostly from Survivor.
It's just a lot of the original by Survivor. But with
the occasional Christian twist
on it. Oh, yeah. Eli, would you like to
be our designated sing talker?
Yes, please. Thank you so much. Great.
Rising up, back on my feet,
got knocked down,
rose above it. Okay, right away, switching
it off. Yeah, yeah, lyrics. But this man,
this man is clapping like a
wind-up cymbal monkey.
He's miming out the lyrics.
It's phenomenal.
He really is, yeah.
I like that he's emotionally recovered from being knocked down.
I was hoping he would, you know.
He rose above it.
And he got even further off time with the clapping.
It was like Will Ferrell on Cowbell Sketch.
Worse and worse.
I couldn't deal with it. It continues,
went the distance. I won't
take no defeat. I will thrive.
I will not just
survive. Okay, and this
is where he's been clapping
this whole time. He started with the fist pump.
Now he's clapping, but now
he gives up on the clapping.
He thinks about doing the cabbage patch for half a second.
You can see him start it.
And then he's like, nope, that'll go badly.
Gives up right after the cabbage patch.
And then he just runs in place for a second.
But oh my God, it's my favorite part coming up.
It's my favorite part.
Oh my God.
This is his rap break.
Yeah, Eli, this is very important that you do an accurate impression of the rapping. Yeah, of course. I've been training for years. Yeah, exactly. This is very important that you do an accurate impression of the
rapping. Yeah, of course. I've been I've been training for me. Oh, yes. Listen,
always a great way to start a rap. Before I was Christian, something was missing, felt a little
distant, dark, resistant. And I wrote in my notes at this point is dark, resistant code for racist
because I feel like you're still that if it is
it's not a great code
all brain power was gone
into memorizing this rap
and remembering the lyrics from it
no left for body
points seem cool we'll point
yep yeah definitely
he's trying so hard to say like
rappity rap rap pokey pokey
left foot in
and stay in rhythm
or hurt myself
and point
and point.
He just lands on point eventually
because that's all he's got.
Exactly.
He's doing a lot of pointing
to the audience.
He points up.
He points down.
He points to his head.
Oh, yeah.
Thinking.
Thinking points to your head.
You watch him run out of places
to point and repeat himself.
It's pretty magical.
Absolutely.
He continues,
got a new vision,
made a decision, wrote my goals. Yeah, I wrote my
mission.
BC, I was
aimlessly walking. Fun fact,
because also has
two syllables. So he could have just
said because. Okay, maybe
though, maybe he means
before Christ. Is there any chance that he just conversationally says just said because they're okay maybe though maybe he means before christ is there anything
like bc you know before i got saved i did things like this no question this guy has used the term
bc as slang to a youth group before and then i assume gotten hit with a bunch of people and i
hope so so wait let me take it back so we don't miss it. BC, I was aimlessly
walking. Then one day I heard the voice of God talking, rise up child to the enemy mocking.
I just like that God opened up with people are going to laugh at you for this, but
God is not wrong in this context. No, good point. And I enjoyed that the dance move for enemy mocking was him miming a sock puppet.
Was miming a sock puppet, yes.
So good.
Which means that that's either the enemy mocking him or God speaking to him.
We may never know.
Same.
Anyways, he continues, prayer is your weapon.
Pray without stopping.
He's Prayer Hulk.
His secret is he's always praying.
You wouldn't like me if I prayed.
And he's right, to be fair.
Yeah.
And that's the end of his little rap segment.
He's going to have one little burst coming up later, but he's so fucking happy he made
it through the big rapping part.
Yeah.
I'm so sorry to say this, Keith, but big golden retriever energy.
Oh, sure.
How dare you?
Yeah.
Stupid, stupid golden retriever.
I love golden retrievers too much to give him full credit for that.
I was going to say, how dare you?
No, no, no.
I did.
Do you see me?
I did my part.
I did my part.
He has the energy of a stupid golden retriever who's going to cause trouble right now.
That I agree with for sure.
And so he gets through it.
He's all excited.
He does a pump fake like he's going to crowd surf for a second.
Like he actually goes out there and his shoulder goes forward.
He's like, ah, nope, that would be dumb.
There's definitely not a full audience.
Everyone will drop me again.
Yeah.
Let's be clear.
There are about three geriatric people in this audience.
Yeah.
They're just going to wait for you to hit the ground and then sprinkle some gold dust on your dick, man.
We know how that 100% that would happen.
That all goes through his head.
He stops just in time.
And then he turns around and he does a little like victory lap about his rap segment running in place.
He's just like bouncing, bouncing, bouncing.
He does.
And he smiles really big at his wife.
Acting out Rocky. Like a fight from Rocky.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
He was doing Rocky three.
It's true.
Okay.
Well, now we get the chorus, mostly from Survivor.
So this goes, it's the eye of the tiger.
It's the thrill of the fight.
Familiar with that one.
Rising up to the challenge of our rival.
Okay. fight familiar with that one rising up to the challenge of our rival okay so exact same lyrics as the original so far except here it comes with the heart of a lion switching it up um hey katie
perry this song is about tigers get your fucking lion propaganda out of here and the armor of god
you will conquer it all with the eye of the tiger meanwhile dude is like yeah i did my part
did you see me look at that shirt look at my shirt look what i can do parkour kung fu parkour i was
really hoping he was going to go on to explain all the rest of the parts of the armor of god
fucking powers okay well i'm still picturing the plot of rocky three as i'm listening to all this
oh absolutely so our guy just walked into the ring,
now, Eli, that you said that,
with the breastplate of righteousness
and the, like, wrist guards of homophobia
or whatever the fuck it is.
And then Mr. T just punched him in the face right away.
Right away.
Straight away.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
All right, back to these verses.
Face to face with Satan himself.
They have choreography.
This is... They do. They have choreography. This is...
They do.
They have choreography.
They worked on this.
They worked very hard on it.
They worked on this together.
They did run throughs.
This is what they do instead of having sex.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No question.
Well, actually, Nick, right?
Nick is the husband.
He got way too excited here
and he showed up way too early
for the face to face moment of the choreography
where they like stand face-to-face.
Yeah, and so she turns and he almost headbutts her by accident.
So he's already like right next to her and he's just like marching in place
and she's like not looking at him at first.
She's like, it's not there yet.
Do more.
And then finally they do it.
So yeah, face-to-face with Satan himself.
Don't budge an inch.
He'll take miles.
He'll find your weakness.
He will hit where it
hurts. She ball taps him. She
100% ball taps him during this
time. I like
A, that that's how Satan
does it in their canon
here. Satan ball taps you. He just like does
little slap fight. Yeah. No, the ultimate
adversary is doing nut checks. All below
the waist. But my favorite part is
that he actually got hit in the balls and it hurt.
Absolutely.
So he was like, stop, too hard, too hard, too hard.
And you see him like curl away.
Truly the only thing that could have made this better is if he just lied on his side for the rest of the song.
Oh.
It was close to that.
All right.
Sorry.
Don't budge an inch.
He'll take miles.
He'll find your weakness.
He will hit where it hurts.
Stand your ground.
Make him run for the...
Hills?
Hiles?
Hills.
Yikes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The guy looks again for a second
like he's going to try to crowd surf
on those three geriatric people in the front row.
But then he's like,
ah, nah, I don't give a fuck.
Let's take the stairs.
He does it again. Because he's like, ah, nah. He goes and takes the stairs.
Because he's going into the audience for some fucking rile-em-up
time. God, they should not
show the wide shot with the audience.
It's too real. It's so sad.
It's a poor choice.
It's like how it started, how it's going for
Christianity between the crowd and the stage.
It's so bad. It's like when they do an
accidental pullback shot of a Trump rally
and you realize it's just like a square of people behind him in an empty stadium.
Right.
Yeah.
Anyways, it's the eye of the tiger.
It's the thrill of the fight rising up to the challenge of our rival.
If you cast all your cares on him,
she wrote my notes,
cast what thesaurus page did this dude find in a dumpster
while writing this song? Well, I mean,
the Bible in a dumpster, I guess.
You're supposed to cast all
your cares on the Lord, I think,
in Peter or whatever, but they forgot
they're still talking about Satan.
Oh, God. Just now, the challenge
of our rival. So
it's flipped. They're stupid.
I think that was supposed to be a capital h oh on him you can't
tell on him you gotta say it with a capital h then maybe they should have wrapped this part
if you cast all your cares on him and pray through the night you will conquer it all with the eye
of the tiger of the tiger yeah okay so you know when you go to the dog park and there's that one
big dog that has like has that i've been trapped in the house all week kind of energy and they're
like not being scary aggressive but it's definitely intense enough for you to like worry about whether
this is the before time and they're like shaking with it and they just can't hold it in well this
woman married that pitbull sure did yeah exactly and then they choreograph with it and they just can't hold it in. Well, this woman married that pitbull.
Sure did.
Yeah, exactly.
And then they choreographed a dance together.
And then let it loose in a church song.
Yeah, and then she let him loose into the audience, we find out here.
I thought she had kicked him off stage right before this because he just leaves.
And it looks like she like says something in his ear.
And she's like, okay, time for your crate, buddy.
It's crate time.
You're a little too jumpy, right?
What do we say?
You go in the crate.
I was surprised he hadn't torn off his shirt
at this point. And I was worried
because there was like, there were at least two
oxygen tanks in that audience.
There absolutely were. Yeah. But now
we see him again. He's out in the audience. I guess it was
on purpose. He's in the crowd
giving high fives to
old people way too fucking
aggressively. Scaring the shit out
of these old people. Running up and down the aisles.
And he ends with one. Jumping over
pews. One big slap where he like looks
away and starts running back to the stage as he
does a slap and I think he just hits somebody in the face
because they weren't ready. Here in
Tend and Snap. Rising
up straight to the top
fight for Christ give him glory
go the distance don't
retreat never stop for the Lord always wins Fight for Christ. Give him glory. Go the distance. Don't retreat. Never stop.
For the Lord always wins in the end.
If the all powerful being needs you to fight for him, he's either lazy or not at all powerful.
Yes.
Very good point.
Yeah.
And oh, this is one of my favorite parts physically in the video.
This is where Nick tries to throw a t-shirt into the crowd
dramatically.
But he didn't like
ball it up
or like put rubber bands
around it
after being rolled
or anything.
So the big throw
goes so very badly
because you can't throw
a t-shirt hard like that.
You're going to hurt.
You're going to throw out your arm
and he throws out his arm.
Yeah, it just like
cartwheels in the thing and then falls straight.
So bad.
I just want to add one positive thing, too.
I feel like we're being super mean.
Compliment sandwich, obviously.
I like that Hailey's shirt is also a cape.
I like her shirt.
Oh, yeah.
We don't see enough of those.
I actually, fun fact, because I'm so obsessed with this this performance i watched
the whole thing there's like a there's a youtube video of the entire concert this is part of a
concert yes it is a full-length concert it's at least an hour all right well god awful concerts
is a thing now there's a reading in it that she does like a thing where she brings someone for
the audience and they read parts of the bible and like a whole thing like an imaginary don't kill
your babies thing.
Anyway.
I will rent a limo
and we will show up
to these things live.
I want to do that movie
as a full length
God awful movies.
But.
Absolutely not.
She's wearing.
It's true.
I get too excited.
I get too much
golden retriever energy
and you wouldn't know what to do.
I would like a smack match
out of the house or something.
Time for crate?
Oh, exactly.
Go out?
No, she's wearing it from the
dream coat. What's the one that wore the big
gave coat? Liberace. No,
the Bible guy. Elton John.
Joseph. Joseph and the Technicolor
dream coat. Yeah, she was doing something
from that and so she wore a Technicolor dream coat.
I still think it's Liberace. Anyways, moving on.
Anyway, sorry. The eye of the tiger is
the thrill of the fight, rising up to the
challenge of our rival with the heart of a lion.
Okay, so wait, wait, wait.
I figured this one out.
The dude has a YouTube channel called Lift with Christ.
And he made shirts that say heart of a lion, eye of the tiger.
Yeah, he does.
On them.
Because I guess he's a cat boy.
I don't know.
Oh my God, this channel is so amazing.
Come on.
Anna, did you look through this channel at all?
Yes, I did.
Of course I did.
Are you kidding?
Because this fucking disappeared.
What else was I going to do?
Just hunt for two for Christ to see what everything that they did.
To see if there was another one that was like it.
I have been obsessing over this for months. Okay. Half a year. This is
Lift With Christ. Lift With Christ. It is indeed like I was hoping when I saw this in Anna's notes
that it was a Christian themed weightlifting channel. Yes, it is. And then I was hoping
after I saw some of this song that he would be rapping during the lifting and she would be singing.
And yes, all that has happened.
It's amazing.
I just wrote down one.
I think this is my favorite rhyme that he wrote.
He's got really good bars.
Jesus is my broccoli, chicken, and rice.
Ladies and gentlemen, lift with Christ.
He raps that. Okay, hey, if I can part the curtain slightly, ladies and gentlemen lift with Christ he wraps that
okay hey
if I can part the curtain slightly
we've been trying to think of a new t-shirt
because you guys have bought all the ones that we made
like however many years ago
and if that new t-shirt isn't Jesus
is my broccoli chicken and rice ladies and
gentlemen lift with Christ
we're sitting on a fucking gold mine here
like we just found it
actually they are because they would sue us immediately are you talking gentlemen, lift with Christ. I don't know. We're sitting on a fucking goldmine here. Like, we just found it.
We found it.
Actually, they are because they would sue us immediately.
Are you talking about the greatest thing
that would ever happen to our podcast?
Ever?
Getting sued by these people?
I would challenge them to a rap battle slash trial.
Don't make her real universe my nemesis.
I think we need to dojo storm them
and do that, Eli. Yes. I'm scared that she actually universe my nemesis. I think we need to dojo storm them and do that, Eli.
Yes.
I'm scared that she actually is my nemesis.
She's got an amazing voice.
I would have to like rap battle her or something or sing off.
Don't worry.
We will make you do a sing off with the cape lady.
And then we fight them.
Exactly.
And the armor of God, you will conquer it all with the eye of the tiger.
We've heard that them. Exactly. And the armor of God, you will conquer it all with the eye of the tiger. We've heard that one.
Yeah.
And now, oh, this is time for another rap verse.
Oh, yeah.
Here we go.
Best.
Worst.
Keep your eyes on God and your heart in the word.
Be a leader in Christ or follow with the herd.
Okay.
Can we stop and talk about the timing of this?
Because we've mentioned before he is not great with tempo.
She counts him off.
She knows that he's going to come in late because he always comes in late.
Let's be honest.
Because he's an idiot.
He waits a solid beat after she's like, go.
And then he starts the pickup half a beat after the downbeat.
So my face melted off.
Sometimes Anna will come home
from one of her weird folk music things
and she'll be like,
oh, I learned a slip jig
from the Smunden Finden people.
That's what he was performing.
Like a shakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabakadabak It's 4-4! Kicking a fucking clock board or whatever while you're doing it. It's 4-4. He's off by a lot, but he's proud of himself because in his head, he was within the margin
of error of one entire beat, I guess, in his head.
In his head, he's like, I didn't sing over her.
Yeah, go me.
I did it.
High five.
Self five.
And again, giant smile at Hailey.
Oh my God.
And she fucking hates him.
She does.
Right next to her doing a giant smile.
They rehearsed
for so long and he blew it. But then he
does like a forward thing. So I'm going to do it in context
so everyone can really get the meaning here. So it's
keep your eyes on God and your heart on
the word. Be a leader in Christ
or follow the herd. The eye
of the tiger. The eye of the tiger.
Right. Exactly.
Always walk by faith. Never walk by sight with the armor of God. You'll never lose the fight. The eye of the tiger. Right, exactly. Always walk by faith, never walk
by sight with the armor of God. You'll
never lose the fight. He
fucking does it again. He does it twice.
He does it twice. Just like he
did. You know how he's like, eye
of the never ducked down.
He's supposed to go over tiger. Nick, get
the fuck off the stage. Go back in the crate.
This video will be featured
two places,
our podcast and their divorce trial,
where she will win no contest
based on his rhythm.
And then we get one last
The Eye of the Tiger.
Oh, yeah.
And they go back to back
freeze frames.
Yep.
Yep, yep, yep.
Yep, yep, yep.
Like the end of a sitcom
or something.
It's the best.
And one other thing,
this is very important,
just in case anybody's looking
for some sweet merch from them. Oh, this is very important, just in case anybody's looking for some sweet
merch from them. Oh, I am.
Yeah, you can use the code 24Christ
to get 24%
off at twoforchrist.org
spelled out
two for Christ. Wait, no you can't.
Their site is down. Their site is down.
What went through my head at the end of this, I was like, oh,
I'm going to check out this merch. Nope. Nope.
They don't have their own site. Wait for us
to rip it off. We're going to rip it off, everybody. It's going
to be great. Eli, go buy it right now.
Two for Christ. Oh, can I buy it?
I will buy it right fucking now. They don't have com.
They have.org. See if twoforchrist.org
or.com is available. You guys do
the podcast. Okay, we'll do the podcast.
Get Lift for Christ and
the other one. Yes. Oh, yeah. Lift with Christ,
not for. I'm on it. Don't worry. Okay. All right. right well it's time for the best part we're gonna hear how anna fixed this
horrible fucking cover song so aw shucks what's the name of your new version okay this is called
the eye of revival excellent and because i haven't done this in the past, shout out to the amazing musicians
who helped me with this one. Okay.
Colin Forhan, who has
played guitar on this and
the last few that I've done this
year. Colin? Ooh! Yeah.
Colin Forhan. Thank you.
He made like the Isaiah song
just brilliant. It made it pop. Anyway.
And I also used, for the first time,
I used Brandon Vanpool and Drake Metcalf of Canada who did the drums and bass for this.
For Canada. Yeah. Sorry about it. Sorry, not sorry.
You want to like give us a cue into yourself? Oh, yeah. Hit it. Me. rising up they're back on the streets They got their cansets and their Bibles
These modern pop songs are just filled with deceit
And sexual content, it swears
Yeah, leave it to a Christian to be more of a bitch
Than the fucking Federal Communications Commission
Tryna spread the gospel, thinking that it's possible
By changing all the lyrics into something
Pentecostal. It's a big ick.
Kinda makes me sick, turning every song into a
Sky Daddy fanfic. Marketing it cleverly
but good it'll never be. Save us cause I'm drowning
in your small dick energy. If the eye
of the public likes a secular
song, Christian parents
will see that as a
rival. And to
make sure they're happy when their kids sing along.
Nothing's sacred or safe or secure from revival.
Try to protect your favorite boy band.
Cause nothing is safe from conversion.
boy band, cause nothing is safe from
conversion.
Yeah, every singer, rapper,
diva, or star
gets a made-for-Christian version
in the end.
In the eye of the public,
if a new song hits the
jock store, an up-and-coming
artist goes viral.
You can bet your
local pastor will flip right in his
shorts until Cardi
Beyonce even
share. Get a revival
Make them all sound the same, make them boring as fuck
Take out everything original and make them all suck
Take any good song, pull most of it out
Then fill it with cliches until I wanna blow my
brains out. Get a revival
Three, four, or make it so they
aren't even rapping on the downbeat.
Maybe hire a musician instead
of an athlete?
I'm starting to spiral.
Fuck.
So good.
Love that song. And that's all the
blasphemy we've got for you tonight.
We'll be back in 10,022 minutes with more.
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you'll find all the contact info on the contact page at skatingatheist.com. Hey Morgan
Sorry there's
Technical difficulties
Within our control
All you have to do is
You know delete
The files off the card
Or use a new one
You do it
I do want to get A USD card Because the card or use a new one. You do it.
I do want to get a USD card because this one holds like a 256 megabyte card.
Oh, but it didn't come with the card?
No, it didn't come with a fucking plug.
It didn't come with a plug?
Yeah, you had to order the plug separately.
Okay.
This is totally worth it, though, for that trombone earlier.
That's awesome. Thank you.
This is not a giant pain in the ass for that. Okay. You're a giant pain in the ass. For that. That's pretty good. Your mom's a giant pain in the ass for that trombone earlier. That's awesome. Thank you. This is not a giant pain in the ass for that. Okay. You're a giant
pain in the ass. For that. That's pretty
good. Your mom's a giant pain in the ass for that.
Solid. Solid. Thank you.
Okay.
Love it. Love it.
That was good. It's so good. Anna, this is
fucking awesome. Oh my God. Oh my God. And
I have to tell you this.
The TikTok that they
have, you should start TikTok
by the way,
just as follow two for Christ
because they now have a TikTok
and it shows his brand new
rap videos that he now does.
Fucking amazing.
He has a rap career now.
Anyway.
Oh my God.
This is everything.
This is like the show now.
Fucking friendly atheist
interviewed them
and was super nice to them
and they were super nice to him and it made me feel really bad about doing this.
But then they were like, it was like, oh yeah, you're joking about the Trump thing, right?
And they were like, no, we love what Trump is doing.
And I felt better about it again.
Okay.
Yeah.
No, I have no more sympathy ever for you ever.
Yeah, exactly.
Iown2forgrace.com.
Yay!
Fantastic.
This is so good.
They just bought the.org
because they're idiots.
And I've just filed a complaint
with GoDaddy
that they're not a registered charity,
which they are.
They just probably bought it
on their own,
so I'm going to take it from them.
Oh, my God.
And I guarantee you
they didn't register as a charity.
No, no.
I don't know how much money
we have to waste.
I don't care.
Yes, thank you. You're right there with me. I'll pour, I don't know how much money we have to waste. We'll make a fucking charity. I don't care. Yes, I was.
Thank you.
You're right there with me.
I'll pour,
I'll ladle soup
just to do this prank.
It doesn't, yeah,
we'll do,
we'll literally change
Vulgarity for Charity
to Two for Christ.
Three.
If that's what it takes.
I mean,
that sounds great, Keith.
Because of what I just said.
Sorry.
I didn't answer
your question at all.
I'm going to, I'm going to do it again. Morgan just said. Sorry. I didn't answer your question at all.
I'm going to do it again.
Morgan, sorry.
Sorry.
I'm going to say something as if Marsh talked
to acknowledge that he talked
interrogatively at me.
I'm very particular about my kitchen,
apparently, in this universe.
And your pensioning forks.
Sorry I yelled at you.
Sorry I laughed out
and called you an idiot.
In front of factory heat.
No, you stupid fuck.
Of course they have
your vegetarian stuff.
I don't know why
I got all mad.
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