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🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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'Tips for Jesus' gone wrong, Israel's chief rabbinate left 'unmanned' (there might be a pun in there), government minister suspended for 'black magic,' excommunicated Jesuit artist's to be removed, megachurch closes due to ineligibility for abuse insurance, British Columbia secularists win, and the Fourth of July just didn't feel all that great this year.
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0:00.0 | The Hey everybody. Hi friends, I'm from Salt Lake City Utah. It's thank God I'm atheist. |
0:25.8 | Where we explore religion, politics, and current events just a couple atheists trying to |
0:30.9 | survive life in these United States. |
0:33.8 | I'm Frank Feldman and I'm Dan Beecher. |
0:37.0 | And coming up on the show today, it was just the U.S. Independence Day, the 4th of July, and it felt a little different this year. |
0:48.0 | And we're going to talk about that because that's interesting. |
0:53.0 | Even the fireworks were shooting a little low this year. |
0:57.0 | So yeah, we'll be talking about all that. |
1:02.0 | First though, we got some news we got some some things that happened this week |
1:06.6 | That we want to make sure you guys know about yes, I have Dan |
1:17.0 | This has to do with tips for Jesus, which... Oh, for those of you who maybe aren't familiar with the phenomenon, This was really big a couple years ago |
1:24.8 | where people were going into restaurants and leaving outlandish |
1:29.9 | tips for the server and then sort of posting it on social media and it would get a little bit of coverage in the local media and the local news stations which would send cameras out and talk to the server who was so excited to get a |
1:44.0 | thousand dollar tip or a two thousand dollar tip or whatever it was and it was just |
1:50.0 | so inspirational the Christians were just feeling so good because clearly |
1:54.8 | they're they're super generous. Yeah that's that's what I always think of |
2:01.1 | because I remember being a server that brief period where I was one, and everybody |
2:06.2 | being so excited about like how the religious people tipped. |
2:11.0 | In our place it was Mormons and yeah boy they were not generous. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's if you yeah, if you've ever waited tables and you had to work Sunday brunch you knew the group that was |
2:25.8 | gonna that was gonna screw you yeah I give the large 10% why would I give you |
2:31.5 | more than that? |
2:32.5 | Well this was I think some people trying to overcompensate for that |
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