118: Skepticrat118 - BRWHHHH@#$%!!! Edition

The Skepticrat

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🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: Coronavirus donates 50 thousand dollars to the Trump campaign ... Betsy Devos reminds us that she was a plague before it was cool ... And we learn that the relevant data is strongly suggesting BRWHHHH@#$%!!!

And yes, I Heath am aware that I mixed up Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich. I'm fine with it. Retroactive spite.

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Headline Sources:

Trump wanted coronavirus numbers to stay low to help re-election:

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/12/814881355/white-house-knew-coronavirus-would-be-a-major-threat-but-response-fell-short

Katie Porter brutalizes Dr. Redfield of CDC until he agrees to pay for testing: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/12/politics/katie-porter-cdc-coronavirus-testing-white-board/index.html

Eli chooses an important story in our politics show about The Bachelor: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/13/entertainment/peter-weber-madison-prewett-bachelor-breakup/index.html

Betsy Devos draws bipartisan rebuke for wanton evil: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/11/betsy-devos-senate-vote-student-debt-relief-125826

The world is on fire and I think we could all use a quick puppy break: https://www.bwrhhhhh@#$%!!!.com

Harvey Weinstein is going to die in jail: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/11/us/harvey-weinstein-sentence/index.html

Jared Kushner crowdsources Corona policy on Facebook: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/13/jared-kushner-combat-coronavirus-facebook-127941

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's a very calm Monday.
0:07.8	It's a very calm Monday.
0:09.4	It's March 16th.
0:11.4	And the word of the day is
0:14.0	brrhrh!
0:16.0	Which is from the Latin.
0:18.0	Yes, and it means the combinations of emotions that go along with making that noise
0:25.2	used in a sentence I googled coronavirus response USA and Google responded
0:31.1	did you mean?
0:32.6	Yeah, no, as I understand it, they're building the site that will match you with the best
0:38.6	string of random consonants in your area.
0:41.5	That should be, should be ready by yesterday I have an assurance.
0:44.0	Yeah, mine were X, X again.
0:46.1	It's weird.
0:47.1	It's weird.
0:48.1	I'm no allusions.
0:50.1	I'm Eli Bosnick.
0:51.1	I'm Heath and Right.
0:52.3	And Broadcasting Delayed from America's far center we are the
0:55.6	Skeptocrats on this week's episode coronavirus donates 50,000 dollars to the
1:00.9	Trump campaign. Betsy Devoss reminds us that she was a plague before it was cool and we learn that the relevant data is strongly suggesting
1:17.0	But first the rest of the intro music. Joining me for headlines tonight, our fellow sceptic rats, no illusions and Eli Bosnick.
	...

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