Waiting 4 Wrath - Episode 186 - The One Where We Finish Up The Last One

In This Week’s Show, episode 186, we pick up where 185 left off, and help you cure your weird illnesses on our private jet.

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while Dukawaqa (The all-seeing and all-knowing shark god of Fiji.) hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying his patience!

Shea’s Life Lesson

This week I learned that if someone is talking behind your back, you should just fart.

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Did you know that humans are closer genetically to chimps and bonobos than the African elephant is to the Asian elephant? SCIENCE!

But before we get to all that, let’s have a beer!

This Week’s Beer

The Power of Zeus - High Hops Brewery, Windsor, CO

From: Eli

ABV: 3.72/5

Style: American Pale Ale (APA)

* Aaron - 7

* Jenn - 7

* Shea - 7

This Week’s Show

Round Table Discussion

New patron: The Foz (he updated his name on Patreon)

Thanks to his holiness the Napkin Pope I now know a lot more about alchemy than I did before. Apparently, I was being more clever than I thought I was last week when my Full Metal Alchemy jokes - it turns out Paracelsus was the inspiration for FMA!

If you’re one of those folks who waits with bated breath for the show to air - and who doesn’t really - you might have noticed that I fucked up.

Headlines

Priorities - He has them

Newsweek - http://bit.ly/2LPMDjc

Jesse Duplantis, 68, a Christian minister based in Destrehan, LA has a problem. I mean, a problem beyond being in Louisiana and a Christian televangelist. Happily, he has a following of credulous cuckoos waiting in the wings to help him out with his crushing personal problem.

He posted a video last week explaining what he needed and why he needed, and I desperately wanted to have a clip of him telling us himself but the links take you to another video (probably because of the backlash it’s been taken down) so I’ll just have to quote him:

“I really believe that if the Lord Jesus Christ was physically on the Earth today, he wouldn’t be riding a donkey. He’d be in an airplane flying all over the world. Let me just say this. We're believing God for a brand new Falcon 7X, so we can go anywhere in the world in one stop.” Yep, that’s right… Jesus Private Air. Duplantis would like his followers to “believe” enough that he can buy a new $54 million jet.

“You know I have owned three different jets in my life and I use them and just burning them up for the Lord, Jesus Christ. Some people believe that preachers shouldn't have jets. I really believe that preachers ought to be able to go on every available voice, every available outlet to get this gospel preached to the world.”

The reasons he needs this newest jet is...why, to save his parishioners money of course!

“If I can do it for one stop, I can fly it for a lot cheaper because I have my own fuel farm. And that's what's a blessing of the lord. This one here I have to stop and then you pay those exorbitant prices for jet fuel all over the world.” Whatta guy!

We touched on the ridiculous hypocrisy of these “prosperity gospel” bullshit con artists, so here’s a new one to add to our list. I’ve seen a few reports that he was one of the ones who claimed he can’t fly commercial because they are “infested with demons”.

Lady Astronaut Answers the REAL Questions At Patreon.com/W4W

… and probably Nasa or whatever.

ScienceAlert.com - http://bit.ly/2LL5c82

Peggy Whitson is a badass. Even though she, sadly, will no longer be heading into space she still has plenty of enthusiasm and love for the space program. She was the former head of the International Space Station and has...