114: Skepticrat114 - Goops I Did it Again Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: Trump will assemble evil lawyer Voltron ... MLK had a nightmare too; it was called 2016-2020 ... And the National Archive will celebrate 100 years of women’s suffrage by literally erasing their voices from the historical record.

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Headline Sources:

Trump's impeachment trial team is gross: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/us/politics/trump-impeachment-lawyers-starr-dershowitz.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

New evidence of Trump’s guilt emerging at rate of 2.6 smoking guns per hour: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-senate-must-not-ignore-the-new-evidence-on-ukraine/2020/01/17/8397b60e-394b-11ea-bf30-ad313e4ec754_story.html

Overblown feud between Bernie Sanders and Liz Warren is a bad idea:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/us/politics/warren-vs-sanders-democratic-debate.html

US drone program may shut down because it's letting China spy on us: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51100759

National Archives tweak photo to literally erase the voices of women: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-depressing-that-the-national-archives-is-altering-history/2020/01/18/b1e72374-39f9-11ea-bb7b-265f4554af6d_story.html

Gwyneth Paltrow is selling a candle that "smells like my vagina": https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/jan/13/why-is-gwyneth-paltrow-selling-a-candle-that-smells-like-her-vagina-goop

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2020/jan/16/do-not-adjust-your-set-gwyneth-paltrow-is-spreading-goop-all-over-tv

Space Force’s goddamn uniforms are camo: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/18/politics/space-force-uniforms-trnd/index.html

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's Monday.
0:03.0	Martin Luther King Day. It's Monday.
0:13.0	Martin Luther King Day.
0:15.0	And the word of the day is Rebus, which means in crossword terms, using a single
0:20.0	square and a puzzle to hold multiple letters.
0:22.4	Used in a sentence, the New York Times puzzle to hold multiple letters. Used in a sentence,
0:23.0	the New York Times puzzle from January 9th
0:25.0	had an absurd trick that required me to assume
0:28.0	the blacked-out squares would operate as the letter T.
0:31.0	But if you didn't realize that right away, you feel like a crazy person and you try using the rebus function and it doesn't work and you ruin your Thursday average by spending forever trying to figure it out. It's ridiculous. But now that it's out there, you can begin to heal.
0:43.4	Maybe.
0:44.4	I'm no illusions.
0:45.4	I'm Heath-Enright and Broadcasting Delayed from America's far center.
0:49.2	We are the Skeptocrats.
0:51.2	On this week's episode, Trump will assemble evil lawyer Voltron.
0:55.1	MLK had a nightmare too. It was called 2016 to 2020.
1:00.4	And the National Archive will celebrate 100 hundred years of women's suffrage by literally erasing their voices from the historical record.
1:09.0	But first, the rest of the intro music.
1:22.4	Joining me for headlines tonight is my fellow sceptic rat, no illusions. Noah, before we get started, who's your pick for best picture of 2019?
1:28.0	Joker?
1:29.0	They seem to be the favorite.
1:30.0	I hope you're just calling me Joker there I okay all right so here's the thing I've only seen three of the nine nominees so far
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