132: Skepticrat132 - Belichicks and Balances Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

News, Government, Politics

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: Eli does an impression of someone not understanding science and Noah explains why that person is incredibly wrong ... We usher in the death of democracy with a chorus of fart noises ... And everyone should check out The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, where 'sonder' was neologized, just in case your collection of regular ubiquitous sorrows isn't cutting it.

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Headline Sources:

Amy Coney Barrett is pretty much locked in, so what's next?: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/09/19/mcconnell-biden-pack-court/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/us/politics/amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court.html

Debate on Tuesday could be fun?...Fun isn’t the right word: https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/08/14/presidential-debates/?itid=hp-top-table-main

Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transition of power: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/us/politics/trump-power-transfer-2020-election.html

Senate passes resolution that says elections still count: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-republicans-constitution/2020/09/24/b09e2036-fe79-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html

GOP-sponsored bill would make it impossible to count mail-in ballots: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/republican-senator-bill-illegal-mail-vote-count-deadline.html

CDC recommendations for celebrating fall holidays during the pandemic: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/holidays.html

Lindsey Graham needs your money sadly: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/lindsey-graham-help-me-money-contributions-fox/2020/09/25/ea2d6d14-ff57-11ea-8d05-9beaaa91c71f_story.html

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's Monday.
0:03.0	Monday.
0:04.0	It's Monday.
0:05.0	It's
0:07.0	It's Monday.
0:08.0	It's Monday.
0:14.2	September 28th.
0:15.9	And the word of the day is Sonder, which means the realization that each random passer-by is
0:22.0	living a life as vivid and complex as your own,
0:25.0	populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries, and inherited craziness,
0:29.9	an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an ant hill sprawling deep underground
0:36.6	with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you'll never know existed in which
0:42.0	you might appear only once as an extra
0:43.8	sipping coffee in the background as a blur of traffic passing on the highway as a
0:48.6	lighted window at dusk. Using a sentence, Sonder is stupid, most people are boring, that's dumb.
0:55.0	The rest of society, always trying to make it about them and not me,
0:58.0	it's not about you.
0:59.0	Yeah, definitely a word invented by someone who's never had to make small talk in an elevator.
1:04.0	I'm sorry what were you guys talking about I was worried about my own shit over here.
1:08.0	I'm no illusions.
1:10.0	I'm Eli Bosnick.
1:12.0	I'm heathunwright and Broadcasting Delayed from America's far center, we are the Skeptocrats.
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