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The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

News, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: We’ll keep up with the Kardashians ... We find out that apparently being old is suddenly cool if you’re a Turkish sword ... And we learn about Sarah Huckabee Sanders using the family cob instead of the family cloth.

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Headline Sources:

Two trillion dollar stimulus bill should level things off for a good six minutes: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/25/whats-in-stimulus-package-coronavirus-149282

5000-year-old sword is discovered by an archaeology student at a Venetian monastery: https://www.cnn.com/style/article/5000-year-old-sword-discovered-in-italy-trnd/index.html

Economics and ethics of recession death vs virus death: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/business/economy/coronavirus-economy.html

https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/2020/3/27/21193879/coronavirus-covid-19-social-distancing-economy-recession-depression

Walmart sees rise in sales of tops, but not bottoms: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/27/business/walmart-tops-bottoms-sales-trnd/

Kim and Kourtney Kardashian get into physical altercation on season 18 of KUWTK: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/27/entertainment/kim-kardashain-kourtney-kardashian-fight-season-18-kuwtk-trnd/index.html

Mike Huckabee ass-corn and other bad information about coronavirus: https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-huckabee-suggests-replacing-toilet-paper-with-corn-cobs-2020-3 https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/coronavirus-china-bat-patent-conspiracy-theory-942416/

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's Monday.
0:01.0	It's March 30th.
0:02.0	And the word of the day.
0:04.0	It's Monday.
0:10.0	It's March 30th.
0:12.0	And the word of the day is gouging, which means to overcharge or to swindle.
0:17.0	Used in a sentence, in response to everyone becoming an idiot prepper a few weeks ago, retailers started price gouging like
0:24.3	fucking farm a bro with AIDS medication on all the items that were being
0:28.0	hoarded. Used it another sentence. This is really easy to check on and for every dollar of price gouging we need two dollars of tax gouging to punish these assholes
0:37.7	Yeah, at least go and remember what you learned from Skyrim everybody if a shopkeeper's being a jerk about pricing sometimes you just gotta kill him
0:46.8	Karen's done talking motherfuckers I have no illusions
0:50.9	I'm Eli Bosnick I'm'm Heath and Right and Broadcasting Delayed from America's far center.
0:56.0	We are the Skeptocrats.
0:58.0	This week's episode we'll keep up with the Kardashians.
1:01.0	We'll find out that apparently being old is suddenly cool if you're a Turkish sword. the Oh, I got done without that. But first, the rest of the intro music.
1:15.0	Joining me for headlines tonight,
1:19.0	our fellow sceptic rats, no illusions, and Eli Bosnick.
1:22.0	Gentlemen, you ready to be... Congrats, no illusions, and Eli Bosnick.
1:22.8	Gentlemen, you ready to be non-essential?
1:27.0	Are you kidding me?
1:27.7	Turns out we were the only ones who knew how to do our
1:29.7	fucking jobs this whole time.
	...

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