[irrelig]After the Hindu podcast debacle, we go back to our roots in this one. Nice, familiar, Western religion, filled with slavery, nonsensical tirades against sex and children, and old-fashioned antisemitism: the Acts of Thomas and the Epistle of Barnabas. Ahhhh, it’s good to be back.
Plus, the Mims Carter Skunk Dick of the Week and a surprise announcement for June. Catch it here.
31 Responses to “64: Selected Apocrypha — Thomas & Barnabas”
Hey guys, there seems to be some sort of problem with the RSS. iTunes tells me that it’s not a valid podcast URL, and won’t let me download the latest episode. Just a heads-up. Keep up the good work.
Is anyone else having this problem? I downloaded it twice from iTunes and once directly from the feed without any issues.
I’m getting the same message as Joshua.
Apparently the “&” symbol is NOT GOOD in an rss feed. Try it now.
Try to download it straight from the site, it always works.
This week’s podcast left me with the nagging suspicion that the Council of Nicea picked the least surreal books out of everything in circulation at the time and that in and of itself is a terrifying thought.
As for June being a guest month, I don’t care as long as the podcasts are posted on time so there!
I am a little put off in that you are looking overseas for child labor. With the Texas School Board rewriting textbooks, American children won’t have the education they will need to compete in the workplace. Won’t you please help them and use consider American child labor?
I know that this is all in jest, but what the TSB is doing is not at all humorous. Thank you for the podcasts and bring on the guests. I enjoy the the outside viewpoints.
I seem to remember that you guys had to put in a great deal of effort to find any believers willing to come on your show and essentially failed. Sean refused to discuss his beliefs, you had some half christian half atheists and an evolution evangelist who happened to be christian. I therefore predict your theist guests will sound oddly like Leighton doing a bad accent.
Re: hyena:
The females have distended a clitoris because natural selection upped the testosterone so much. That’s why they never saw “female” hyenas in ancient times…they all look like penises. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icx5TucPZpw
I’m sure you guys would enjoy that.
Irreligiosophy: The Podcast that bites back.
Bring on the guests! (and the Gnosticism, mostly because I want to here Leighton pronounce the terms and critters involved)
Keep Child Labor American!
Looking forward to hearing the weirdos you got to agree to interviews.
Loved several guest shows.. especially Bob Price… keep on truckin’ guys! Oh, and if you lived in Texas, you’d not be surprised with what you hear… you have the Mormons, we’ve got the Morons.
Oh, and I loathe Facebook… I think its a plot to gather all the idiots of the world in one place so they can be wiped out easily 😛
I seem to remember that you guys had to put in a great deal of effort to find any believers willing to come on your show and essentially failed. Sean refused to discuss his beliefs
Fortunately, we acquired a real, live, true believer LDS who was sorely disappointed in Sean’s performance. Unlike Sean, he was willing to engage us on several substantive questions concerning Mormon doctrine. That episode has been recorded and will go up sometime during the month of June.
Do you have a link for the quote from the skunk dick about the idiot women and global warming?
No, because it was sent in by email about a letter to the editor in a local paper. But if the listener who sent it in would be kind enough to take a picture and email it to us, we’d be glad to post it here on the site.
Ah! Great episode. You definitely are back on your game. And by “you” I mean Chuck. Not you Leighton. You still reek of curry from that lame-ass, pile of cow dung, episode on Hinduism.
Re: replacements for your Thai. How about some of those Nigerian witch children I saw on a recent HBO documentary? These kids appear to be well schooled in irrational religious philosophy. (Seriously, my heart goes out to these kids. It is an amazingly sad story of corruption and exploitation in the name of God.)
http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/index.html#/documentaries/saving-africas-witch-children
By the way, Herb — your wish to hear the LDS temple ceremony from a female perspective should be coming true. In fact, it may be the first episode of Guest Month.
…you guys have episodes already recorded and you STILL hold back on posting them?
You are mean deities.
Not a bad podcast gents. I give it 3 out of 5 mushroom stamps. I must say that I was hoping you would pull some more guest shows out of your asses.
Here’s a real challenge for an interview. Find a live practitioner of Zoroastrianism.
I bet you guys and Christopher Hitchins would be a blast 😛
Well I was going to explain the confusion about hyenas but Alex beat me to it. (Damn you Alex!)
So instead I will just throw my vote out there for North Korean child labor, you’ll be doing them a favor.
As a runner up I’d say American child labor, as most American kids could use an education on what labor is. Again, you’d be doing them a favor.
…you guys have episodes already recorded and you STILL hold back on posting them?
Yeah … trying to work up a buffer so “skip weeks” don’t happen so often. As a matter of fact, I think we’re recording another episode tonight.
I didn’t realise the tablets that the 10 commandments were written on were suppositories
My problem with many of the interview shows is purely the sound quality. Either the interviewee is on a bad connection and hard to understand or the volume disparity between the hosts and the interviewee makes it tough to listen to. And sometimes you get a boring guest, it happens but is not that big a deal as long as it’s not every time.
And I too have learned the hard way about complaining about content on this podcast. My ears still bleed from that low-rent Enya crap.
I knew it! They’re hoarding podcasts like Glenn Beck hoards gold!
And don’t tempt them to bring back those horrible new-age/wiccan singers.
This is such great news. More guests! Oh joy. I am so happy. I love guests, we all love guests. You have made my day and my month. Guests, guests and more guests. I’m going all warm and fuzzy. Thank you, thank you.
Hmmmm … there’s something suspicious about that last comment, but I can’t put a finger on it.
It’s dripping with something that smells suspiciously like poo.
Forget the Thais; we have an abundance of First Nations children up here in Canada who would be glad to write for you in exchange for propane to huff. Heck, Youth for Christ is getting millions in tax dollars to do the exact same thing you are proposing, so it must be a buyer’s market.
And more interviews please. And be less nice too. Also.
Guest month sounds awesome. Mostly because your more recent interviews have gone pretty well. Eva is a great guest and for one timers, Mims Carter and Tall Rabbit were excellent to listen to.
Now if you’ll excuse me I’m off to get my weasel eaten.