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The Family Skeptical

It's lucky Episode 13, and honestly, getting this one finished before our Spring Break trip turned into a bit of a fever dream. In our first segment we discuss the comic book trope of refusing to sacrifice your child to save the universe. And then we discuss a Tik Tok about blasphemy. And our final segment will remain a mystery for the ages.

As promised, if you want to skip the first segment, you can go right to 24:30.

And now for all the links:

• Once again, here is What A Day’s great discussion of trans kids coming out at school but not at home.

• Since we’re now apparently contractually obligated to mention one great graphic novel per episode, you can find Alan Moore’s Watchmen here.

• The book that Moms tried and failed to accurately mention is Parenting Beyond Belief by Dale McGowan who we’ve mentioned before on the podcast.

• This is the Tik Tok we discuss.

• And finally, here’s a nice and bloody clip of Patrick Bateman - I had forgotten how wonderfully deranged Christian Bale is in American Psycho.

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