One of a group of five environmental activists known as ‘The Valve Turners’, Michael Foster served time in prison for temporarily shutting off the Keystone XL pipeline. In this episode, Michael opens up to Matt about his activism (which his critics call ‘eco-terrorism’), the pending doom of climate change, our evolutionary blindspot that prevents us from doing anything about it, and what it would take to actually make a difference.
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Michael Foster | The Antidote to Despair

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Happy Pride Month to all— even the asshead Christians who are extremely mad about the existence of Pride Month! Listen in as Pastor M. Diesel tackles homophobic pastors, breaks down the illogical anticipation Christians have for the always-coming but never-actually-arriving ‘rapture’, and illustrates the absurdity of those who claim to communicate with god.

Sunday Service™ | Pride Month In God’s Country

In today’s Sunday Service, Pastor M. Diesel examines the practice of praying— and finds that it does not require a rigorous examination to come to the conclusion that praying does not work at all ever under any circumstance! Listen now as Pastor M. breaks down all the ways in which praying is complete and utter bullshit! In the name of the father, the son, and the holy podcast— (K)A(Y)MEN!

Sunday Service™ | Prayers & Praying

In today’s episode Matt does his best to convince you that disagreeing is not only fun— but also life-affirming. Other topics include but are not limited to: the age of nonsense we are currently living through, some of the more nonsensical news stories and developments over the course of the past week (including the single most nonsensical thing that has happened in recent memory)— and the fine line between acceptable and unacceptable levels of dumbness.

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Sunday Service™ | Civil Wars & Rods of Iron

In today’s episode Matt covers a wide variety of topics, from Scott Stapp’s sex tape (and the implications thereof) to the possibility that COVID escaped from a lab (and the implications thereof). Enjoy!

Michael Foster | The Antidote to Despair

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