Speaker 1: So the Olympics have come and gone from our various
Speaker 1: screen devices, but a strange story about a I Gotta
Speaker 1: be white winged headless statue that could be connected to
Speaker 1: say remain Phill has a story, Phil.
Speaker 2: Yes, what does the ring victory of Summer Trace represent?
Speaker 2: Internet debunks headless angel at the Olympics claim the Satanic
Speaker 2: panic is back. People are getting their knickers in a
Speaker 2: twist over the opening Last Supper of the Olympics and
Speaker 2: the closing ceremony on August eleventh, twenty twenty four, depicting
Speaker 2: the wing victory of Summer Trace, which is Nike Goddess
Speaker 2: of Victory and the Golden Voyager. What really happened and
Speaker 2: is happening? Is there truly cause for concern or is
Speaker 2: this blown out of proportion? This story is from Sports
Speaker 2: Either by Krishima Raoul on August twelve, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to come to our resident panel expert,
Speaker 1: Rob what.
Speaker 3: Were your thoughts?
Speaker 4: Gets a gold medal in this in this category? Yes,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, you've been disqualified. Sorry you able to disqualified?
Speaker 4: You you too came up against Rush, You've not been disqualified.
Speaker 5: Sorry.
Speaker 6: I want to like Wizard of OZ. You can take
Speaker 6: a peek behind the veil for the viewers and understand
Speaker 6: that before we do any of this, we have to
Speaker 6: write some show notes and just like do little blurbs
Speaker 6: that we're going to do. And my literal first note
Speaker 6: is loll like, I just really need to point out
Speaker 6: how much of a joy this article was for me
Speaker 6: to read, because it's utter nonsense. It makes no sense
Speaker 6: at any point, and it was baffling. They had the
Speaker 6: headless statue of actually, I use Wikipedia to go Nica
Speaker 6: is the goddess, right, so they had the headless statue.
Speaker 6: It's also missing an arm, a couple of arms in
Speaker 6: a wing of Nica from the second century or even earlier.
Speaker 6: And they raised it through the closing ceremony of the Olympics.
Speaker 6: That's what they did. And apparently this is satanic and
Speaker 6: I just am I mostly astounded at just the ability
Speaker 6: to be personally persecuted about literally anything that exists in
Speaker 6: the world, because it's it's it's honestly just impressive. I
Speaker 6: have nothing more.
Speaker 5: A thing occurred.
Speaker 6: They didn't like it. That's satanic. That's that's literally what
Speaker 6: the article says.
Speaker 5: It's not news news.
Speaker 4: This snowflakes, horrifically awful human being and on in London
Speaker 4: who wants came out on Twitter and the big news
Speaker 4: that they had was that they had transitioned to being
Speaker 4: quote a Korean housewife and then transition for that. So
Speaker 4: anything only London says, it's just you know, not worth
Speaker 4: a grain of salt. This is this screams a small
Speaker 4: sect of Christian wanting to be persecuted because they've got fomo.
Speaker 4: It's fomo persecution. They've got this fear of missing out
Speaker 4: of being persecuted. So their big news of the day
Speaker 4: that they're going to start screaming.
Speaker 5: About is the Olympics persecutors in the class ceremony.
Speaker 6: I try, I try, I really do try to have
Speaker 6: a charitable reading of whatever they're trying to say, because
Speaker 6: not everyone speaks honestly, uh, and that's hard for me
Speaker 6: to understand sometimes, so I try, so I try to
Speaker 6: like look at it and go, Okay, this is the
Speaker 6: only way what they're saying makes sense to me. If
Speaker 6: you believe that Christianity is rated choose your flavor, then
Speaker 6: what that means is that anything that's not Christian is
Speaker 6: by definition satanic. Therefore, they must be right, Nika was
Speaker 6: not Christian, therefore satanic. Like, that's the best I can do.
Speaker 5: As I say, we need to actually have news organizations
Speaker 5: cover the news. This is not.
Speaker 6: News that said the Vaticans said that. The Vaticans specifically
Speaker 6: said that they were offended, which is.
Speaker 5: A big win in my books.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, okay, so let's let's let bring it back.
Speaker 4: News.
Speaker 1: Let's cover the news, right, right, let's let's lose bring
Speaker 1: you back. I mean, first off, like, if you got
Speaker 1: pure joy from reading this article, you're welcome.
Speaker 3: I I just kind of looked at it and I.
Speaker 1: Was just like, well, actually we should thank Atheists Experience
Speaker 1: hosts Johnny p Angel for recommending this article. So thank you, Johnny.
Speaker 1: We really do appreciate you bringing us the news news. Right, So,
Speaker 1: I feel like you brought up the whole Satanic panic thing,
Speaker 1: and it seems like that I don't I'm not. I've
Speaker 1: been on this earth for a minute now, and I
Speaker 1: have watched the Olympics a lot of different Olympics over
Speaker 1: the years, and and I guess that this particular Olympics
Speaker 1: seems like that we've been we've been having Christian freak
Speaker 1: out issues since the opening ceremony, you know, with with
Speaker 1: the with the Christians freaking out because they thought that
Speaker 1: the Supper of the diet of the Dionysus was a
Speaker 1: he was was making fun of the last Supper, you know,
Speaker 1: Holy Jesus, he's blue. And and then this is this
Speaker 1: lets me know that no one was paying attention to
Speaker 1: Greek mythology in school. And that to me, with Phoebe
Speaker 1: was the news.
Speaker 5: This is what you should be teaching. This is part
Speaker 5: of the news, the.
Speaker 1: News exactly, and and and then and then of course
Speaker 1: we covered earlier this uh this week, you know, the
Speaker 1: Algerian boxer and and and you know of her being misgendered,
Speaker 1: and and and and and making that the news, and
Speaker 1: and Richard Dawkins line, and and then you know, and
Speaker 1: then now we have the closing ceremony, and and also
Speaker 1: you know, I personally my highlight for the Olympics was
Speaker 1: the Australian break dancer who made up her own moves.
Speaker 3: I was like, wow. And as what commedity.
Speaker 5: Pointed out PhD at Bright dawnsing.
Speaker 3: Right, well, well, we'll here's the thing.
Speaker 1: As a one comedian actually like pointed out that in
Speaker 1: the Olympics country send their best in that work. So
Speaker 1: Australia sent their best breakdancer. Guys, listen, should we critically
Speaker 1: evaluate claims of hidden or satanic meetings in public events?
Speaker 1: I know that, Rob, you said, I got nothing? Uh
Speaker 1: you know, philm Phil you said, you know right, you know,
Speaker 1: Phoebe said she's watching the Twilight Zone. You know, but
Speaker 1: but but but no, seriously, guys, but like, is there
Speaker 1: a way to actually critically evaluate claims of his hiddeness
Speaker 1: or or satanic meetings and meetings in public events? Or
Speaker 1: should that because completely dis mooved?
Speaker 5: Shouldn't be you're chasing.
Speaker 3: The I'm trying to do the news.
Speaker 2: News. I'm trying to do the news. You know.
Speaker 3: But Phoebe, go ahead, you know that be a thing or.
Speaker 2: Now it's baffling how how people and I have seen
Speaker 2: this through the years, where certain myths, because of the
Speaker 2: motif of the ancient Near East or the areas around
Speaker 2: in Palestine had all of these different types of myths
Speaker 2: and the boring or the the motifs that are used.
Speaker 2: Then in Christianity, Christians tend to want to own these
Speaker 2: things right and forgetting archaeology, the archaeology. Once this this statue,
Speaker 2: this statue was actually found by an archaeologist on the
Speaker 2: island of what was it called the island of Right
Speaker 2: and the the the statue was found in part headless.
Speaker 2: They have not found the head as yet, right, and.
Speaker 1: Be conspiracy theory about that?
Speaker 2: What happened?
Speaker 3: What happened to the whole heal winged Satanic.
Speaker 5: Missing Columbia when you need man one more thing ahead, the.
Speaker 2: Phone behind was phoned in another location. And then the fingers,
Speaker 2: some of the fingers were already in the museum and
Speaker 2: they only realized afterwards, Oh, these fingers belong to that statue.
Speaker 3: Right, So did they find the middle finger?
Speaker 2: I don't think the middle finger?
Speaker 5: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: I mean, since we're talking about in the international like
Speaker 1: you know, or did they find the fingers that you know,
Speaker 1: like the Brits the Brits would want to use.
Speaker 3: We was that was that found at all?
Speaker 2: That the fingers were already present in the in the
Speaker 2: museum in front fear. But the problem is is when
Speaker 2: we have people who do not, as you said alluded earlier,
Speaker 2: do not look at Greek mythology, I have not learned
Speaker 2: about other religions, right, and then impose what seems to
Speaker 2: be a similarity of something between their religion, between that
Speaker 2: ancient religion and there's then they demonize it and so
Speaker 2: it's from the devil. The thing is is that archaeology
Speaker 2: plays an important role, right, and in archaeology you also
Speaker 2: learn about the myths of other religions. The the thing
Speaker 2: is is that this this statue just represented it was
Speaker 2: It wasn't an angel. They thought, you know, they have
Speaker 2: this concept of angels having been so they thought this,
Speaker 2: oh wow, this angel is probably something, probably a demon.
Speaker 2: And they also claimed that the voyager, the Golden Voyager, right,
Speaker 2: was Lucifer Satan. Yeah, then it had nothing to do
Speaker 2: with satin. That was a representing a time capsule that
Speaker 2: was launched in nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 5: They got their thoughts totally wrong.
Speaker 2: This is when people do not do their research and
Speaker 2: just come up with assumptions, assumptions.
Speaker 1: They make an ass out of you and me, as
Speaker 1: as Daddy used to say. But no, they do do
Speaker 1: their research, phil they do. Unfortunately, they do their research
Speaker 1: sitting on the John reading Twitter, because we know.
Speaker 3: That's where the bastion of all.
Speaker 2: Great informations YouTube videos.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly that that's where all the greatest,
Speaker 1: you know, information comes from. But you know, but if
Speaker 1: I were to ask everybody about this particular story and
Speaker 1: how basically as as feel actually put and so eloquently
Speaker 1: by got their nickers in a bunch because they thought
Speaker 1: sam a trace, was this the satanic symbol?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: What what could be done actually to bring down these
Speaker 1: and these? And it seems like to be more prevalent
Speaker 1: now or maybe I'm just noticing it more misinformation, especially
Speaker 1: when it just comes to you know, I just take
Speaker 1: it as France just being French. I mean they do
Speaker 1: artsy fartsy things.
Speaker 3: All the time.
Speaker 1: I mean, like they got the louver they you know,
Speaker 1: like I even watched like the opening ceremony with the
Speaker 1: guy who was on the wires and was flipping all
Speaker 1: over the place. I said, oh, that's interesting, And I
Speaker 1: just took it as, Oh, that's that's just the French
Speaker 1: being French. And then everybody drinks some wine and then
Speaker 1: go home and then go to sleep. I guess I
Speaker 1: don't know any like a bag get with butter, But
Speaker 1: you know, it is there a way for us to
Speaker 1: actually say, like hey, before you get all like nicker bunchie.
Speaker 1: Maybe you just need to slow your role or is
Speaker 1: that something that we should even care about.
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: No, The problem is ultimately ceremony and education, just straight
Speaker 6: up because humans care a lot about ceremony, even mentioned
Speaker 6: the last time I was on here. Humans care a
Speaker 6: lot about ceremony and rituals, even atheists. So we're going
Speaker 6: to have our opening ceremonies, we're going to have our
Speaker 6: closing ceremonies, and we're going to do things like include
Speaker 6: symbology that people resonate with. And when you have a
Speaker 6: sincerely held religious belief and then you watch someone else's
Speaker 6: ceremony occur and it looks alien to you, I mean,
Speaker 6: and I mean it alien, then it's they're just going
Speaker 6: to go for whatever is like the most wrong thing,
Speaker 6: which this case is satanic. And I say education because
Speaker 6: like a couple of weeks ago, I was watching a
Speaker 6: video of just random video games that are coming out
Speaker 6: on Steam and one of them is from an Italian developer.
Speaker 6: I don't remember the game, I don't remember the company.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, but any single time, anytime I see any
Speaker 6: religious depiction coming from an Italian, it's a it's weird, man,
Speaker 6: Like they have some wacky iconography, and it is bizarre,
Speaker 6: and it is actually unsettling, yeahing unsettling. It's just it's
Speaker 6: really it's also fascinating. But the only way that I
Speaker 6: know that is because I have even just a little
Speaker 6: bit of education to look at and go, oh, look,
Speaker 6: this is the thing that I remember and I can
Speaker 6: associate with this other thing. So like, should should we
Speaker 6: sap the misinfairmation?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 6: How do I do that?
Speaker 5: Teach them?
Speaker 6: Will they be taught? Probably not?
Speaker 5: Ryan Waters is running around Oklahoma. You haven't got chants
Speaker 5: down there?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, shout outs to people who still live
Speaker 1: in Oklahoma.
Speaker 5: My question to you is why it'll become Woklahoma?
Speaker 3: Woklahoma?
Speaker 1: Well, you know if they get rid of Ryan. Well,
Speaker 1: according to Ryan, it is.
Speaker 5: Woklahoma and that's why he What can you do about it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What can you do about Woklahoma? But that by the bye,
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know. I guess like my issue
Speaker 1: here is specifically is that you know, the ones who
Speaker 1: are having like all these like crazy uh theories about
Speaker 1: what they're seeing is because they don't know damn shit, right,
Speaker 1: Because they don't know they don't know damn shit about
Speaker 1: damn shit right, and and I and you know, like
Speaker 1: I I would say that, yeah, I mean, like we
Speaker 1: talked about Greek mythology when I was in school, and
Speaker 1: I found it quite fascinating. And I even watched a
Speaker 1: lot of Hercules and Zena growing up, and damn, Kevin,
Speaker 1: why just why I'm coming back. But regardless of that,
Speaker 1: you know, I found it, just like you know, sincerely
Speaker 1: interesting and I wanted to know more about it, so,
Speaker 1: you know, so when I saw like some of this
Speaker 1: particular imagery come out, like, I didn't freak out. But
Speaker 1: then again, I'm not going to I'm not the I'm not.
Speaker 4: And you've decided that you're going to be sensible and
Speaker 4: accepting of other people and understanding that other things exist
Speaker 4: outside of your own little baba echo chamber.
Speaker 5: And your big gun nickers are nice and clean and
Speaker 5: they think comfortably much.
Speaker 6: Her knickers are untwistable.
Speaker 1: There you go, I have purposely purchased untwistable knickers.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's the problem.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe the ones who are having the issues with
Speaker 1: any of this stuff, the problem is that your knickers
Speaker 1: are too tight. Can we come up with a campaign
Speaker 1: to untighten people's knickers?
Speaker 5: Is this the news.
Speaker 4: For goodness sakes, just come on the news. You actually
Speaker 4: this this is not a news article. Yes we're discussing it,
Speaker 4: and yes we're being lighthearted about it.
Speaker 5: But to drill down into this sports key to have run.
Speaker 4: An article which is basically satire, Yeah, it's just satire.
Speaker 5: It's not news. All the people on social media, right
Speaker 5: wing lunatic platform run by the South African apartheid man,
Speaker 5: they're not actually represented of the news here.
Speaker 6: See, this is the problem that I actually disagree because
Speaker 6: the Vatican made a statement that's news.
Speaker 5: What is news.
Speaker 3: News is whatever we make it. News is what we.
Speaker 4: Here's the thing that if we covered everything that the
Speaker 4: Vatican said and complained about, there would there's not enough
Speaker 4: ink or paper in existence to cover it all. It's
Speaker 4: like North Korea complaining about what South Korea and America
Speaker 4: are doing.
Speaker 5: It's just it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 4: Every time a country opens its mouth does not warrant
Speaker 4: the whole world falling all over itself.
Speaker 1: Well, I will say this about the Vatican. A lot
Speaker 1: of our Western government systems exist because of the Vatican,
Speaker 1: and and even how we even do ceremony, especially when
Speaker 1: it comes to Christianity. Is because of Catholicism, so in
Speaker 1: that particular sense, because they are such an old institution
Speaker 1: and they basically shaped the Western world in some shape way,
Speaker 1: some shape way or form insert doctrine and discovery here,
Speaker 1: there is going to be people that's going to pay
Speaker 1: attention or like listen to, Oh the Vatican said something
Speaker 1: about a thing now now, now, we can't when a
Speaker 1: second fifty now, now I do agree, Like, you know,
Speaker 1: do we have to make it news?
Speaker 2: No, we don't.
Speaker 1: However, just the historical implication of the Vatican being the
Speaker 1: Vatican is going to automatically give it credits for news.
Speaker 5: So I hear what you're singing, rob.
Speaker 1: But you know, but but I guess, like my whole
Speaker 1: thought is like, what is the line where those who
Speaker 1: happen to actually have nickers that fit comfortably are going
Speaker 1: to say to all the ones who have tight twisted
Speaker 1: nickers to chill out.
Speaker 6: My question is to what degree does one's nicker must
Speaker 6: be twisted such that it is sufficiently newsworthy?
Speaker 5: The rest of the panels fit very well. Thanks, you
Speaker 5: know what you know.
Speaker 1: And for the last and for the last, the word
Speaker 1: Phil please answer the question, how are your nickers feeling
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: My knickers are feeling quite fine. You don't have them
Speaker 2: in a twist, so of course, yeah, I'm very comfortable,
Speaker 2: very comfortable, very good.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I would tell everybody who's viewing this
Speaker 1: right now, if you don't learn anything from this segment,
Speaker 1: learn to properly shop for untwistable, comfortable.
Speaker 4: Undergarments or what you should be undertaking
Speaker 1: Undertaking at every given moment, because if you get your
Speaker 1: knickers in a bunch, you're gonna start talking like this,