Circumcise Matters Edition
Added 2025-07-24 02:57:01 +0000 UTCIn this week’s episode, Ryan Walters finds the Lemon test a bit too sweet, a priest teaches the story of Abraham and Isaac from the perspective of Bigfoot, and Don Ford will get tricked by a box with “Don Ford Feed” written on it again.
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Headlines:
Ryan Walters enlists Prager U to help weed out “woke” teachers: https://www.fox23.com/news/osde-partners-with-prageru-for-teacher-assessment-from-woke-states/article_ed59089d-8e06-4dcf-b863-46693f1db1c4.html
Pope certifies his first miracle, calls Buzz Aldrin, accepts "DA POPE" t-shirt: https://apnews.com/article/vatican-pope-leo-moonwalk-space-observatory-astronaut-be7e93221a0f524782d137ccd291bd0a
Hundreds of NASA employees sign letter of formal dissent against anti-science Trump policies:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/science/nasa-formal-dissent-letter-trump.html
Judge blocks WA requirement for priests to report child abuse disclosed in confession: https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/07/18/judge-blocks-wa-requirement-for-priests-to-report-child-abuse-disclosed-in-confession/
Anti-woke Texan who fled LGBTQ 'indoctrination' sent to Russia's front line: https://www.rawstory.com/lgbtq-2673371339/#
Baylor rejects $650,000 LGBTQ+ research grant because bigotry: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/baylor-university-rejects-643401
‘Yeti blood oath’ divides Denver seminary: https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/yeti-blood-oath-divides-denver-seminary
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This Week in Misogyny:
Pregnant TN woman denied care for being unmarried: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2025/07/23/tennessee-medical-ethics-defense-act-denied-prenatal-care-unmarried-woman/85308870007/
IN Lt. Gov supports rape exceptions to abortion laws, but has conditions: https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/micah-beckwith-supports-rape-exceptions-anti-choice-laws-one-condition
Chinese officials warn female comedians not to joke about men: (Thanks Nick) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/chinese-officials-warn-comedians-that-mocking-the-other-sex-is-no-laughing-matter
Comments
So someone brought a toothpaste kit from a throwaway line. You should be glad he didn’t bring a 30 second timer and some puppies (from like 10 years ago).
Host - History of Money, Banking, and Trade
2025-07-27 14:57:34 +0000 UTC1. George Shishim was born in Lebanon but immigrated to the United States in 1894. He argued in court (1910) that he should be considered white—and thus eligible for citizenship—because he was from the same region (the Levant) as Jesus Christ. His lawyer emphasized that Middle Easterners (then often called "Syrians") were descendants of ancient Phoenicians and thus part of the "Caucasian race." Also, according to the U.S. government, it has classified people from the Near East and North Africa (including Egyptians) as White. I suspect that they (U.S. Government) had made this distinction because Moses (probably not a real person) was supposedly born in Egypt. You can’t make one of your leading religious figures as non-white. I did a few episodes about the Phoenicians and Carthage but I didn’t bring up this case, but in hindsight, I should have found a way to include it. 2. White Americans (myself included) love to worship this country. In fact, I was on a boat in Key West last weekend and a guy was proudly recording the US flag waiving in the wind. He was so proud that he literally made sure to film it in two different angles to get the best video possible. He was so proud of the videos because presumably, he considers himself a patriot. I wanted to ask this guy if he would be so patriotic if we (white people) were treated like black people, since 1619, and it was black people that were the slavers, then implemented Jim Crowe, and redlined and underfunded neighborhoods, or were not allowed to receive the GI Bill after serving in wars, or overpoliced (war on drugs, for example) and given disproportionally harsh criminal sentences and could kill us on camera and get away with it. Would white people love this country so much that we would sing songs about our patriotism or take pictures of the flag like they’ve never seen it before? In reality, white people are celebrating their white supremacy because they wouldn’t feel the same way about this country if roles were reversed, and we were treated exactly like Black People since 1619.
Host - History of Money, Banking, and Trade
2025-07-24 23:01:26 +0000 UTC
