129: Skepticrat129 - Oxford Kamala Edition
The Skepticrat
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🗓️ 17 August 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Headline Sources:
Kamala Harris chosen to be Biden's running mate: https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-53728050
Trump steps up attacks on the Post Office: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-democrats-post-office-campaign/2020/08/14/390f8b82-de4d-11ea-809e-b8be57ba616e_story.html
SV Date asks Trump an honest question:
Trump's interview with Jonathan Swan: https://www.vox.com/2020/8/4/21354055/trump-axios-interview-jonathan-swan
Iowa gets shit beat out of it by land hurricane: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/iowans-struggle-to-find-help-strength-after-powerful-storm-devastates-homes-farms/2020/08/14/f55d0508-de57-11ea-8051-d5f887d73381_story.html
COVID vaccine is coming:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/14/the-us-has-already-invested-billions-on-potential-coronavirus-vaccines-heres-where-the-deals-stand.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker.html
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:07.0 | Monday. It's August 17th. |
| 0:11.0 | And the word of the day is Diphthong, which means a sound formed by the combination of two |
| 0:15.4 | vowels in a single syllable in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another. |
| 0:20.4 | Used in a sentence, in the definition I saw the example of a dipthong was the word |
| 0:24.6 | side and I spent the next five minutes trying to say side really fast to make it one |
| 0:29.6 | vowel sound like side side side side I failed four or five straight minutes you're doing it at |
| 0:36.3 | home right now aren't you listener we we can hear you doing it through the |
| 0:40.0 | podcast just for unrelated but dipthong is probably the top of the list of words that should be insults and art. |
| 0:47.0 | Ooh, for sure. |
| 0:48.0 | I didn't make it happen. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm no illusions. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm Eli Bosmich, Diphthong. I'm Heath andie Bosnick Tiptung I'm Heath and right and broadcasting delay from America's far center we are the Skeptocrats on this week's episode |
| 0:59.4 | comma comma comma comma comma come a comma revealian |
| 1:05.6 | Oh, that would sound great when we layer in the theme music Kevin Kostner's 1997 shit fest the postman turns out to be shockingly prescient and |
| 1:12.0 | side fuck but first the rest of the intro music joining me for headlines tonight |
| 1:18.9 | are my fellow skepticism no illusions and Eli Gentlemen, got a big election coming up. |
| 1:25.3 | So let's make some early predictions. |
| 1:28.1 | When will the election happen? |
| 1:30.1 | I guess in particular, when will it end like when will the loser concede oh I like |
| 1:38.1 | it when you keep him easy November 3rd November 3rd and never very Very solid picks. |
| 1:43.0 | Nice try, Heath. |
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