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the Profane Argument, atheist podcast

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We are four ordinary Americans who happen to be atheists. In this podcast we discuss topics that are relevant to non-believers.
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Ep#292: Leaking SCOTUS

Follow-up: Susan Collins weighs in @1:16 Politics: SCOTUS leak @7:18 Rape is an opportunity @25:58 Example of problems caused by patriarch rulings GOP behind coup @36:43 Don’t forget the Primaries Who is Madison Cawthorn @41:23 Meanwhile, Raskin is talking to deprogrammers @45:41 Religious Nonsense: Former Pakistani Prime Minister charged with blasphemy @46:51 Jainism - not so great @48:01 Clowns for Christ @50:19 Democrats killing babies! (No, they’re not) @52:13 Youth Pastor ‘betrothed’ to 14 ...

May 04, 20221 hr 11 min

Ep#291: US Politics and Dead Oligarchs

Follow-up: Macron wins @2:20 Margerie Taylor Greene’s testimony @3:31 And Feinstein News: Orin Hatch’s legacy @10:01 Mark Meadows hypocrisy @12:59 Trump held in contempt @24:11 Trump v Omarosa @29:38 Depp/Heard with Alpacas! @32:55 Coronavirus: Dashboard COVID numbers by county CFI: Coronavirus Resource Center Help CFI fight the War against COVID NKorea still in total lock-down @41:25 Politics: Ukraine and Russia @45:59 Strategic attacks? @47:46 Keeping Oligarchs in line @49:57 Tucker’s take @53...

Apr 27, 20221 hr 15 min

Ep#290: Bunnies, Eggs, and Testicles

Jared’s CRT interrupt! @0:35 Follow-up: Lawyer in Nigeria petitions National Assembly to scrap blasphemy laws @3:42 Humanists UK is staging a protest Another reason charter school vouchers are awful @5:22 VT holding its public funding rules to hear from SCOTUS @7:14 Republican push on prayer in school @8:44 Why Grooming is so dangerous Religious Nonsense: 3 religious holidays at once this year: Easter, Passover, Ramadan @16:32 Easter bullshit Polish law in works @24:48 Val Kilmer: Cancer and Rel...

Apr 20, 20221 hr 3 min

Ep#289: Fauci on trial and PYRAMIDS!

Follow-up: Mubarak Bala sentenced @4:59 His story Confess, another political/blasphemy story 8:05 Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmed @10:44 Voters sue to stop Marjorie Taylor Greene …and her countersuit News: David Mamet on Maher @15:54 Book banning continues @20:20 Would you like to be a juror on Fauci’s trial? @25:04 Maher masking talk @28:56 Religious Nonsense: The TN marriage bill @37:05 OH public school funding scheme @41:53 Coronavirus: Ivermectin crowd still going strong @50:38 Conspiracies:...

Apr 13, 20221 hr 13 min

Ep#288: Death, Unions, and Pants

Follow-up: Bangladeshi court rules on Ananta Bijoy Das @1:27 Idaho veto @5:02 OK straight up ban Alex Jones in contempt @11:31 His response is clearly insane Politics: Justice confirmation update @20:15 Palin’s back @24:38 Rep Young Cawthorne talk @29:52 Problems in Hungary, Serbia, and France @36:52 And Ukraine atrocities @41:40 News: Amazon union @50:36 A positive article on the Climate Crisis? @54:39 Religious Nonsense: Pakistan teachers @57:46 Secularists, be polite, short, apt, but not quie...

Apr 06, 20221 hr 23 min

Ep#287: Oscars, GOP, and Religious Nonsense

Follow-up: Lindsay’s focus on religion @1:24 And then it went stupid GOP goes QAnon More Herschel Walker and Mehmet Oz @7:30 FL “Don’t say gay” bill is law, and press sec spells it out @12:25 News: Oscars/Will Smith/Chris Rock @14:07 Chris Wallace @29:56 Idaho embraces TX-like law @33:42 Politics: Rep Jeff Fortenberry @35:38 Trump’s e-mails @37:28 Taliban will Taliban @41:46 Conspiracies: Ukraine firefighters conspiracy @45:57 The Catholic conspiracy @48:34 Religious Nonsense: Jews threaten DST ...

Mar 30, 20221 hr 10 min

Ep#286: See Sheep Surrender

Follow-up: Kim...again @1:25 Russian misinformation continues @4:19 “Good News” in Ukraine @7:47 Conspiracies: Zelensky not wearing a nazi symbol @11:32 Q’s latest Trump/Ukraine theory @13:28 See Sheep Surrender @19:51 Mask talk @23:37 News: Strange unanimous vote @25:22 Politics: Ketanji Brown Jackson in Senate @29:33 Sen. Whitehouse on Dark Money IN - State Senator hot take @34:19 Herschel Walker in GA @40:51 Jared’s amazing story @49:51 Religious Nonsense: The host of Anti-LGBTQ legistlation ...

Mar 23, 20221 hr 19 min

Ep#285: Rapture's gonna getcha

Follow-up: Raif Badawi released! @1:47 Saudi Arabia executes 81 @7:35 TX judge blocks transgender investigations @11:34 The Florida thing @13:51 News: Marriage of Russian and US right-wing conspiracies @19:08 Tucker, specifically Tucker’s misunderstanding of ‘secular’ @25:29 Politics: PA: Doug Mastriano @30:25 Announces his candidacy for Gov by blowing shofar TN one-ups FL @38:53 ID protects the poor, oppressed unvaccinated @45:26 OK protects immunization status @46:23 Coronavirus: COVID-19 make...

Mar 16, 20221 hr 19 min

Ep#284: Russian and Republican conniving

Follow-up: Simone Gold @1:53 Enrique Tarrio TX transgender youth @7:53 Yes, He would @18:00 The Russian Z @30:25 Russian Patriarch knows what’s what @33:40 Conspiracies: Ukraine conflict not a false flag to wipe out the Nazi Deep State @35:30 Ian’s haircut @40:08 Politics: KY - Jewish slurs in legislature @41:16 SD Dem drops out @47:32 Ben Carson still around @56:12 Rep. Gosar the Gozerian @58:49 Gerrymandering @1:02:04 Coronavirus: Dashboard COVID numbers by county CFI: Coronavirus Resource Cen...

Mar 09, 20221 hr 26 min

Ep#283: Ukraine, Putin, and Bush

Follow-up: Ukraine @2:17 How Putin uses disinformation @8:18 Antisemitism attack Belarus joining Russia @16:52 Kiev/Kyiv and the Ukraine @17:43 Pat Robertson @20:23 Chicken Kyiv correction @23:44 LDS condemns…something @30:34 News: Domestic Terror @40:41 President Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson @47:21 Politics: Abbott goes full Abbott in TX @51:09 New Bush @56:27 Religious Nonsense: Another WHYY article, free high school tutors! @1:02:39 CO Dems fight off “disgusting” bills @1:06:12...

Mar 02, 20221 hr 29 min

Ep#282: World-wide crazies and ManWitches

News: Ukraine @2:09 Republicans don’t know what to do, except criticize Biden Trump’s opinion Politics: Trump pick for AZ Sec of State @17:55 Religious Nonsense: Egypt to ban journalists from discussing religion to prevent “Chaos in society” @24:19 Good thing nothing like this could happen here More craziness in Pakistan @25:46 And a More local crazy dances about witches @26:54 MAN WITCHES! GOP targeting contraception @32:53 Conspiracies: Jean-Luc Brunel @36:43 AFLD and Project Veritas @40:06 Ja...

Feb 23, 20221 hr 12 min

Ep#281: Scientologists, Mormons, and Soup Nazis

Follow-up: Trucker misinformation @2:01 New Zealand has its ways Masterson update @11:20 DOJ dropping investigation of BYU @16:8 Stern on Rogan @17:51 Politics: Charlie Kirk on LVI @21:27 MTG’s Soup Nazi comment @32:03 Religious Nonsense: Nautan Lal sentenced @37:19 While we’re on Pakistan, a Peshwari woman… @39:05 WV High school has Christian revival @43:36 VT House approves ‘Reproductive Liberty Amendment’ @48:21 VA bill introduced to allow gov funding of faith based NPOs @50:28 Coronavirus: K...

Feb 16, 20221 hr 8 min

Ep#280: Dolts of the Universe

Follow-up: Texans are trying to have banned from schools @2:01 Politics: Alex Jones says he back MTG @7:33 More than two dozen misinformation spreaders @18:56 News: Ottawa declares state of emergency during ‘Freedom Convoy’ @21:27 A federal judge has blocked Ohio’s creepy Unborn Child Dignity Act @26:41 A new OK bill @28:25 Religious Nonsense: FL passed a bill banning discussions of sexuality in school classrooms. @35:12 Pope Ben asks forgiveness for things he’s not sorry for and didn’t do @41:1...

Feb 09, 20221 hr 18 min

Ep#279: Quantum entanglement in the Metaverse

Politics: Justice Stephen Breyer says he’s retiring. @1:16 Slate article about why we shouldn’t miss him @4:14 A top choice @11:55 Foster care agencies’ discrimination, Republicans lose their minds @12:53 Argument on murderer’s release @15:12 House Republicans introduce bill to stop tracking religious exemptions @19:24 News: Neal Young/Spotify @21:48 Science Vs @32:22 TN School bans Maus @33:48 Mayor in MS withholds library funding @36:56 The Christian nationalist zeal for book-banning is growin...

Feb 02, 20221 hr 12 min

Ep#278: Right Said Kennedy

Follow-up: AZ rally @1:46 MacGruber returns @5:33 Dave Bateman ‘apology’? @7:14 Novak Djokovik believes @8:16 Crenshaw says Jesus is hero archetype @11:49 Conspiracies: Right Said Fred @18:07 Eric Clapton @21:05 A Neil Young story Gavin Newsom body double @23:26 Politics: Sen Kennedy v Mr Leghorn Quiz on Nola @26:06 News: Idaho law @39:57 Next for SCOTUS @41:20 And while we’re here… @44:24 Coronavirus: Dashboard COVID numbers by county CFI: Coronavirus Resource Center Help CFI fight the War agai...

Jan 26, 20221 hr 17 min

Ep#277: Pig Hearted GOP

Follow-up: Remember Martin Skreli? @1:22 How about Sirhan Sirhan @4:07 ‘Prince’ Andrew @9:35 News: Pig heart transplant @14:41 Politics: Legislation to stop congressional insider trading @23:27 Glen Beck @30:27 Jan 6 committee @31:38 Seditious Conspiracy Trump in AZ @48:09 TX dumps half of ballot applications with new voting law, guess where? @53:16 National School Board Association collapse @55:16 Coronavirus: Dashboard COVID numbers by county CFI: Coronavirus Resource Center Help CFI fight the...

Jan 19, 20221 hr 10 min

Ep#276: Salt, P*ss, and Horsepaste

Follow-up: Aumaud Aubrey @1:09 Jan 6th was a Religious event, with white Christian Nationalism on display @3:43 Conspiracies: Betty and Barbie @12:42 Christopher Key: Drink urine @16:03 Tucker Carlson pitches new COVID treatment to viewers: Viagra @18:13 USA Today fact checks, “Pandemic is just a hoax” @20:19 5G does not make people’s heads explode but @22:49 5G Rollout Delayed to at Least Jan 19 Over Airplane Safety Concerns Dave Bateman, has gone cuckoo for Q-Q puffs. The Salt Lake Tribune rep...

Jan 12, 202258 min

Ep#275: Hashtag Cubed Earth

Follow-up: Marines discharge anti-vaxxers @1:14 Football transition @6:10 Fed Judge agrees with Sailors @7:36 Conspiracies: Betty White did not die as a result of a COVID–19 vaccine booster @10:23 Twitter has permanently banned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-QAnon) @11:55 And has been temporarily suspended from Facebook Another source of a conspiracy @13:31 Breitbart lies… I mean ‘exaggerations’. @16:57 “Misinformer of the Year”: the indescribably charismatic Steve Bannon. @18:41 SLAP test from ...

Jan 05, 20221 hr 4 min

Ep#274: MAGA, Anthrax, and UFOs on the rise!

Follow-up: *note on special show* America Frontline Doctors to open clinics @2:29 Conspiracies: Reawaken America Tour @13:33 5 new conspiracy theories @16:20 Swedish tech startup ‘Epicenter’ developed a rice sized microchip @23:45 News: First amendment confusion @26:10 New OK law on books @37:24 Politics: GOP MAGA challenges Republicans @41:33 Jan6 committee wants Gym Jordan to answer questions @47:01 Coronavirus: COVID deaths underreported @49:24 Indiana AG doesn’t believe that anyone is dying ...

Dec 29, 20211 hr 13 min

Ep#273: Whether Wheapons

Follow-up: *note on special show* @1:10 The Sarco pod has, naturally, spawned conspiracy theories @3:36 Religious Nonsense: Pew put out new survey results yesterday @5:21 U.S. District Judge ruled Christmas trees are not religious symbols, but menorahs are @7:57 Illinois State Capitol will be featuring holiday display of swaddled, newborn Baphomet @10:11 https://twitter.com/DevinTrubeyTV/status/1473139114933469185 Politics: Trump and O’Reilly admit they both got booster shots and are booed by th...

Dec 22, 20211 hr

Ep#272: Mouthwash for the Missouri Masses

Follow-up: Here’s a throwback: Josh Dugger @1:21 Jussie Smollett @5:24 Jan 6 committee still in motion @12:28 Joey Buttafuoco sidestory @13:23 - 14:58 The Fancelli connection @14:58 Mark Meadows @21:09 Politics: SCOTUS on Texas @33:07 Alabama is #4 @33:52 Newsom’s gun law @34:07 SCOTUS on Education @35:11 SCOTUS on Vaccine mandates @39:38 Conspiracies: Birds aren’t real - satire organizers @42:13 Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Crazytown) recommends we just gargle mouthwash. @44:39 Our YouTube link (Profane...

Dec 15, 20211 hr 16 min

Ep#271: That's it. It's over. Thanks Oprah.

Follow-up: Behold Fauci Claus and his Festivus Pole @3:55 Updates on Oz @5:40 Quackery Muslim heritage Conspiracies: All due to Oprah and McCarthy @10:14 “Queen of Canada” says shoot to kill @11:38 65 percent of North Macedonians believe COVID–19 was created to control humans @13:39 Self-replicating xenobots @15:29 Coronavirus: Dashboard COVID numbers by county CFI: Coronavirus Resource Center Help CFI fight the War against COVID Steven Novella says @18:23 NPR report on deaths in pro-Trump count...

Dec 08, 20211 hr 19 min

Ep#270: Welcome to Oz

Follow-up: 7 sick with COVID after Ivermectin conference @2:42 Unite the Right must pay @5:06 Rittenhouse @6:42 Hello Ninja, is a stalking horse for Idaho’s ultraconservative Christ Church @15:30 Conspiracies: Q set up base @18:52 Paxlovid is not Ivermectin @23:02 Twitter is re-coloring its misinformation warning labels @23:52 Coronavirus: AMA resolution: only licensed physicians should grant medical exemptions to vaccines @26:08 Omicron @27:27 The letters in Omicron are an anagram of…wait for i...

Dec 01, 20211 hr 5 min

Ep#269: Ivermectin and Gosar the Gozerian

Follow-up: Jenna Ryan TOTALLY not going to jail @2:04 News: Huxley getting cancelled? @3:54 “Darwin’s bulldog” Thomas Henry Huxley @ Politics: Paul Gosar’s video tweet @12:36 Alt-Science: “Rodgers received homeopathic treatment from his personal doctor.” @18:25 Turns out he got some sage medical advice from Joe Rogan @ WKOW in Wisconsin runs a deeply, deeply irresponsible piece on homeopathy WDJT in Wisconsin ALMOST does the right thing In Memoriam: Mak Parhar @25:27 Coronavirus: Dashboard COVID...

Nov 10, 20211 hr 3 min

Ep#268: Q crazies and "Let's go Brandon"

Follow-up: Centner backs down @1:10 More Rachel Hamm @2:30 News: Huma Abedin’s memoirs @5:38 OK Death Penalty @9:36 State says was ‘without complication’ Conspiracies: David Trent, Q voice, pedofile @17:44 Neil Cavuto reveals the harassment and death threats he now gets @21:27 Tucker Carlson’s documentary claims the Jan. 6 insurrection was a “false flag.” @22:55 Jim Caviezel is shilling for a QAnon “guru” who goes by the alias Juan O. Savin @24:34 Speaking of crazy, Hundreds of QAnon Going to Te...

Nov 03, 20211 hr 9 min

Ep#267: Crazies and the Pope Bungalow

News: PSU to host Milo @1:38 DeSantis to the extreme..? @6:57 Truth Social @9:48 Conspiracies: the “World Doctors Alliance” @14:45 Dr Immanuel says Satan has populated world with “clones” who want to kill people @16:43 Rick Wiles on vaccines: It’s an egg that hatches into a synthetic parasite @19:38 PolitiFact debunks a claim that Hutchins tweeted about Clinton @22:39 Politics: VP Harris video urging churchgoers to vote is probably not OK @26:24 TX voters to decide if government is ever allowed ...

Oct 27, 20211 hr 6 min

Ep#266: Prayer Warriors and Mark of the Beast

Follow-up: French priests will not be allowed to use the “seal of confession” @1:09 News: Ron watkins for AZ @3:09 Politics: North Korea looks like it might have an army of Winter Soldiers @7:31 Coronavirus: Dashboard COVID numbers by county CFI: Coronavirus Resource Center FDA is keeping a running list of phoney COVID-19 products Vaccine Guide Help CFI fight the War against COVID FL school insanity @11:5 Police unions are fighting vaccine mandates. @13:36 New York state must allow religious exe...

Oct 20, 20211 hr

Ep#265: Conspiracy or Truth

Follow-up: Milford made my news list @1:54 U.S. District Judge blocks Texas’s de facto abortion ban. @7:36 News: There’s a malaria vaccine. Called “Mosquirix,” @9:07 Politics: Russia has a new law that prohibits any reporting about the country’s space activities @11:11 Janice McGeachin, issued executive orders regarding vaccine mandates @13:39 Conspiracies: Board of Supervisors meetings so full of COVID misinformation a panel of doctors is forming for the sole purpose of debunking it. @17:43 Sen...

Oct 13, 202154 min

Ep#264: What goes on in the Freedom Tent

Follow-up: Dilawar Syed confirmed, But Republicans won’t show up @1:43 FB outage and the 10 Days of Darkness @2:31 Best medical advice @9:39 Coronavirus: Rural America @12:37 A hospital system in Louisiana just ain’t playin’ @15:00 Conspiracies: SNL tries its hand at making fun of all the crazy at school board meetings @16:42 Texas judge issues a default judgment ruling against Alex Jones @21:19 Joe Rogan says President Biden faked his booster vaccine shot. @24:17 Ivermectin promoters discussing...

Oct 06, 20211 hr 13 min

Ep#263: Mischief and Shenanigans

Follow-up: AZ audit @1:32 Owning the …Right? @3:53 Conspiracies: Gabrielle Petito never actually existed, says QAnon @9:54 Opryland hosting a conference of quacks and conspiracy theorists @10:59 Michael Flynn says there’s a conspiracy to put vaccines in salad dressing. @13:04 A simple actuarial analysis. @15:17 Infographic: Republican Majority Consider Covid-19 Death Toll Acceptable Contest: three numbers, three facts, put them in order lowest to highest 643K, 692K, 733K Deaths to Covid-19 Popul...

Sep 29, 20211 hr 6 min
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