[irrelig]For this 89th episode, we delve into the gritty folklore that is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, which apparently everyone on Earth except Leighton has seen. We discuss the rank prejudice, the strain of having to hide your gayness by telling everyone you’re different because you’re a “dentist,” what a massive dick skinny Santa is, and what possible use could be put to a poor toothless Bumble.
All this and more Skunk Dicks than you can shake a stick at.
52 Responses to “89: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
Does this episode have a title?
Why yes. Yes it does.
I LOVE you guys! Happy Holidays!
We love you too our tattooed queen. May the alcohol flow in the days to come. Happy Holidays.
You are two very sick puppies. I absolutely loved it. Don’t worry Leighton, I’ve never seen this show either. But as I “don’t really count”, I guess that’s irrelevant. I will never hear “Jingle Bells” in quite same way. Merry Chistmas.
Gay dentist rights for the holidays! Merry Saturnalia, all. Drink some wine to celebrate the birth of Dionysus.
About the E4F guys.
I understand your frustration with their games, but it would be wise for you to do the interview with them on Irreligiosophy. If you don’t, they will say that you are afraid of them or some shit like that.
Santa: My reindeer has a glowing red nose.
Frosty: How does he smell?
Santa: Awful.
Not seeing this episode on iTunes yet. Get Pakhdi on it.
I’m not sure what’s going on with iTunes. The feed validates, iTunes just doesn’t want to update it.
Hermy the Hermaphrodite! How can you guys have possibly missed it. It’s as plain as the . . . well, its plain.
Fuck those E4F pricks. I say don’t sit down with them for another discussion, since they’ve more than made clear they’re not interested in actually listening and considering your opinion/viewpoint–all they’re interested in is the self-aggrandizing no-resistance “after-analysis.”
Have a jolly fucking holidays, assholes.
Enjoy the days off guys. E4Fwas still obliterated, they are only comfortable with their own thoughts. Truly closed minded. Sadly, crap still floats, and they will carry on.
Wish you the best in 2011!
Ever thought about doing a live episode?
Take them on live. Let us hear the smack down as it happens. It’s festivus season. It’s time for the airing of grievances.
Its not showing up on itunes…wassup with that? I need my fix!
No, I’ve never seen it. You have one or two fans outside the U.S., you know. But maybe we don’t count!
*storms off in a huff*
Duffman, just download the mp3
I have not seen the movie version of “Rudolph” as well, or if I did, I don’t remember it. From the few snippets you played, this takedown was very well deserved.
Tangential to the above, I saw “WALL-E” on TV this morning and it still is one of the most beautiful and meaningful movies I have ever seen, so fire whoever is responsible for “Rudolph” and only let “Pixar” make movies.
I have actually watched that movie this morning. It is the first (and only) time I will watch it. Even if I did think it was good (which it is not), you have spoilt it for me.
I have found a link for it.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7226220443648270051#
Happy Feast of the Unconquered Sun!
This fan says: MASTER DEBATE THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS. But this time no more Mr. Nice Chuck and Lay-un!. Call those cocksuckers out when there being retarded and then then tell them why.
Mother of Christ! Is nothing sacred any more?! You two are having way too much fun with this – get a room!
Thanks for the Xmas present.
i have probably seen this rudolph movie every christmas since i was 3. For some reason, I always thought his name was “Herbie the Dentist.” Who the hell is named “Hermie” anyways? I also never realized that Santa was such an asshole even though it is painfully obvious to me now. His parting message to rudolph is just evil: “we were justified in treating you like a worthless piece of shit and relentlessly mocking you because of a minor physical deformity until it turned out that you might be useful to us. Not because we should be nice to others because it’s the right thing to do.”
I really like how amused Chuck and Leighton are by Master Debater jokes. It’s like they just discovered it. I’m gonna guess they got nice and merrily drunk for this episode. Merry Sciencemas, I mean Mithrasmas, I mean Christmas, guys!
Aside from the masturbation episode, this one is your best yet. I’m noticing a positive correlation between the quality of your podcast and how often masturbation is mentioned.
Merry Mythmas!
You know, in the new year you ought to add a segment where Leighton reads random words from the dictionary. Comedy gold. : )
Excellent!
(And look, a short encore presentation: http://www.regretsy.com/2010/12/26/the-regretsy-2010-christmas-special/ )
Oh, and BTW, I’d LOVE to play with a Charlie in The Box. All you’d have to do is wind him up, and he’d give you a passionate, educational and entertaining 10 minute monologue on the separation of church and state, logical fallacies, and theories of ethics. There would even be a surprise/random scattering of “suck it, bitches” in there, just to mix it up. I see an Irreligiosophy marketing opportunity for next Saturnalia…
Now, when it comes to a Leighton in The Box, well, let’s just not go there.
Thanks, Moggie! Those Rudolph writer-bitches who think a Charlie in the Box belongs on an “Island of Misfit Toys” can suck it.
Looks like we’re up and running on iTunes again. I wondered if the original title was rejected due to copyright reasons, so I changed it to “Rudolph the Crimson-Snouted Caribou.” That seems to have done it.
I haven’t heard the episode yet, but I have always thought that Rudolph was all a subversive attempt to get us to accept the Hollywood elite as members of our society.
Its all right there. Santa represents The Hollywood Entertainment Industry – he is completely callous, and only cares about cranking out the goods, Hermie the Gays in Hollywood (don’t need to justify that assertion, do we?), Rudolph is obviously Jewish – people tease him about his nose, he’s bad at sports, eh? EH!? Are you picking up what I am laying down here?
The island of misfit toys is obviously Broadway. Where they have to spend time establishing their careers before the casting couch (The Bumble) eats them alive. Yukon Cornelius is the financial backers who want to go back to a silver and gold standard, thats why he follows the yellow brick – shit wait where was I?
And I obviously am saying obviously all the time because obviously all this isn’t so obvious.
Also – please less dick jokes, you fuckers
Oh man, it was so funny. I was having trouble not laughing at work.
A few brief notes
1. This is the greatest podcast episode ever. You guys should get next year’s award for this episode alone. (That’s not an excuse to not do more episodes. Back to work ya lazy bastards)
2. You should invite E4F onto your show for a friendly master debate. Then, ambush them with Audio clips of their skunkdickery prior to verbally raping their virgin earholes while all 66 2/3 of your fans bear witness.
3. To rub salt on the wound, the Atheist News guy was one of the original Chariots of Iron hosts. You guys lost to 1/3 of Chariots of Iron!
4. No matter how many times you guys call me a skunk-dick, you’re still not getting my joy! Bless you!
where is my new podcast?
Editing the new podcast now. Once again, I am waiting on Leighton. He hasn’t returned my calls for a few days, and the Skunk Dick portion still needs to be recorded.
This leaves me with two options: record by myself, or release the podcast without the Skunk Dicks. Neither sounds all that good, so I think I might just wait for Leighton to get back to me. If I’m lucky, he has died in an agonizing, excruciatingly painful accident that slowly prolonged his suffering past the limits of human endurance.
If that’s the case, I’ll go ahead and record alone.
Perhaps Leighton got run over by a crimson-snouted caribou while stumbling home from a pub on Christmas Eve? You can say, “There’s no such thing as a crimson-snouted caribou,” but as for me and Leighton — well…we don’t really believe that shit either.
After listening to some more episodes of “Evidence for Faith” I’ve determined they should change the name of their show to “Strawmen for Faith.”
Leighton’s probably out “shopping” for thai children.
And by shopping I obviously mean drugging and kidnapping.
God dammit Leighton. Just for taking so long, I’m going to save all the Thai children and beat all the master-debaters…with a hammer,
I’d vote for just releasing it without the skunkdicks. I enjoy them, but it’s also nice to just jump into the topic once in a while. When they take up the first 30 minutes I get a little restless.
Regardless, its taking too long. I have a scheduled hour for this damn podcast, and when it doesn’t come out on time I end up having to fill that hour, and all subsequent hours, with some equally futile activity~ namely masturbating. Its been almost 16 hours and I’m starting to chafe, BAD!
These Atheism vs Christian debates are like watching romantic comedies. Ten minutes into it and you can pretty much tell how its gonna end. At first it’s happy days – then the break up. Then whilst Atheism is reflecting on what went wrong during a montage of walking in the park shots, Christian has friends over to talk about how right he’s been all along.
Why do we always think the next one is going to be different?
Looks like Leighton is curled up into a little ball, sick as a dog with the flu.
He’s probably playing with a Charlie in the Box.
I wish Mr Allread a swift recovery.
Get better, Leighton. Cthulhu doesn’t accept the sick or dying as sacrifices.
God & Sex (What The Bible Really Says) Michael Coogan
“Coogan lives and teaches in Massachusetts, and his tipping point came when opponents of same-sex marriage descended on the state, Bibles in hand. This sent him scurrying back to his own Bible to see what it really said, and the result is a thorough rubbishing of just about everything the religious right teaches about family, sex and marriage.
Coogan makes it very clear that he has grown weary of turning the other cheek. His message to other biblical scholars is that they should take the battle to the enemy, the enemy being the “amateurs, the hyperpious and crazies” who would impose their understanding of the Bible on the rest of us.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/god-and-sex-what-the-bible-really-says-by-michael-coogan/article1835995/
Actually I think the issue with iTunes was to do with the iTunes system, because several other podcasts, including The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe, didn’t update on iTunes for a couple days around Christmas, even though they were announced as having been released.
HAPPY NEW YEAR IRRELIGIOSOPHITES! (and get well soon Leighton).
You assholes have the best podcast series – hands down. But the Rudolf episode broke the winning streak. It sucks so bad I just bought you a beer to dull the pain. It is tedious. Go back to deconstructing current and relevant skunk dicks.
That off my chest – have a Happy New Year and keep it up!
I heard the “Debate ‘Analysis'” before this episode. I didn’t have a problem with it at all; cowardly? OF COURSE! But if you’ve slogged through these guys’ entire back catalogue (as I…ahem…have…), you’d know that there’s no way in hell that they could stand up to the arguments you provided without a post-debate “debate” (I was particularly impressed with Chuck; I hadn’t ever heard him REALLY bring out the big philosophical guns, even in our little Moral Language show — though that was probably due to my unprepared and thus largely pseudo-comedic as opposed to philosophical ‘performance’). I couldn’t have done better myself, for sure. But as for doing another debate with ’em, you can count me as saying, ‘you go, girls’. I would recommend that you have them on your show, although I’d vote that you go on theirs if they absolutely refuse, since I enjoyed the debate so much (particularly the actual debate part).
As an aside/recommendation that you try it sometime: you know what I find fun when I speak with Biblical literalists like these guys (and it actually works even better when you’re talking to a more philosophically learned “Intelligent Design” proponent)? I like to show them how POSTSTRUCTURALIST and “postmodern” they are in their thinking. I mean, think about the concepts and the vocabulary that they use: they promote the Christian “worldview” (can you say Christian “metanarrative”?); science is not progressive, but more or less arbitrarily fragmented into “paradigm shifts” (though Kuhn wouldn’t have said it was ALL arbitrary, you’ll find some weird shit indeed in “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”), and thus (say) “intelligent design” might have potential if we were to abandon the “naturalist paradigm”, etc. I haven’t the space nor time nor desire to go into a whole rant about the philosophy of science, poststructuralism, ID, Biblical Creationism and whatnot, so my recommendation might come off as unclear and random. This is just a goddamn message board, though, so deal with it.
thank thor or loki I didn’t listen to this before I watched it this year or I wouldn’t have been able to keep a straight. face with my kids. Try and explain this stuff to a 5 and 10 year old.
Tom