Sam Mulvey is a producer and the technical brain behind Ask an Atheist. He is a collector of vinegar varieties, vintage computers, antique radios, and propaganda.
So if General Zod is like the God figure, does that make Superman the Antichrist?
Mind = blown.
Well done guys! Title says *nearly* all (calling the episode “Yahweh is badder than Dr. Doom!” just sounded so negative).
This comparison between God and comic Super bullies is very good, even excellent.
You’ve wanted donations from listeners. Put these thoughts and references in a booklet, expanded a little more, and I’ll buy it. It doesn’t even have to be a slick booklet, just a manuscript form so it doesn’t cost you much to print.
I really enjoyed this one. The Yahweh or Dr. Doom game was truly inspired.
At last! I’ve had enough of being mentioned in the same breath as inferior super-villains like Doc Ock and Sarah Palin! I am an ULTRA-VILLAIN, my brutality is in the same category as the mighty Yahweh, and it’s about time you ants understood that! Little do you know I am currently creating a plot that will make even Yahweh step back and bow to my evilness! Seriously guys, this demonstration was amongst the best arguments I’ve ever heard on this topic. Did you create it or did you “borrow” it? Sorry if you answered that question in the audio, I… Read more »
I made up the Doom bit about a week before the show, while writing the episode.
It just hit me that the two have a very similar speech pattern and it went from there.
F’ing brilliant, Mike! You may be a geek and you may be a bit funny-looking, but this was seriously good. I shall spare you and make you my right-hand man after I decimate the rest of the world!
Funny looking?
I loved the Yahweh or Doctor Doom game so much that I transcribed your version and added 15 more. See if you have any better luck with my quotes:
http://lotsoftinyrobots.blogspot.com/2012/07/yahweh-or-dr-doom.html
Here’s the “Robin and Jimmy Olsen forced to dig their own graves” cover that was mentioned in the podcast:
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee373/The_Old_Dog/worldsfinestindeed195.jpg
Nick, dunno if had time to tune in to the 24-hr streamathon in support of Ref. 74, but after every donation we treated everyone to a Doom/Yahweh quote!
so far, the best episode of ask an atheist.
brilliant comparison!
To answer the question regarding Ernest Borgnine playing a superhero…He actually did! He did the cameo voice for ‘mermaidman’ on the kids cartoon show Spongebob Squarepants.
I’ve been listening to all of your episodes for the past few months, listening to the new ones when they came out. I only just heard this one today at the job and felt like everyone thought I was a freak for laughing and grinning all the time. At some point this stops simply being radio and start to turn into pure cabaret, and I love you guys for it.
