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The Skepticrat

13: Skepticrat 013 - SuperPac vs BatPAC Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

News, Government, Politics

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

A Tennessee swinger's club will find out how many times you have to scream "oh god!" before you're a church, everyone who feels their estate was unfairly taxed raises their hand, we'll examine the rich tapestry of Muslim culture one terrorist group at a time, and Gwyneth Paltrow survives for a week on nothing but a twenty-nine dollar martini and five-thousand free olives.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It is Monday.

0:03.0

April 20th and the word of the day is

0:16.2

tetrohydro-canabinal which I'm told is the psychotropic substance in something called marijuana.

0:23.0

Huh.

0:24.0

Used in a sentence, tetrahydro-canabanol will not kill you, but today a bunch of idiots are going to try.

0:30.9

And also some moderately intelligent people. I'm no illusions.

0:34.6

I'm me then right. And broadcasting delayed from America's far center, we are the

0:41.1

Skeptocrats. On episode 13, the Tennessee Swinger Club will find out just how many times you have to scream,

0:46.5

oh God, before you're a church.

0:48.0

Everyone who feels their estate was unfairly taxed raises their hand.

0:52.8

We'll examine the rich tapestry of Muslim culture one terrorist group at a time.

0:56.8

And Gwyneth Paltrow survives for a week on nothing but a $29 martini and 5,000 free olives.

1:03.4

But first, the Duo Tribe. Last Wednesday afternoon people all over the country

1:19.5

simultaneously wondered why the hell they didn't own a gyrocopter when Doug Hughes, a 61-year-old

1:24.9

Floridian mailman, landed a bicycle with a rotor on the west lawn of the U.S.

1:29.6

Capitol building.

1:30.6

Right.

1:31.6

Now, the stunt was intended to raise the issue of campaign finance reform.

1:35.6

Hughes was carrying letters on that very subject addressed to every single individual

1:40.0

in Congress. But not surprisingly, it's led to a much more vociferous

1:44.4

conversation on how the fuck a 60 year old dude can right he T himself into

1:49.7

some of America's most secure airspace without an F-18 escort?

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