138: Skepticrat138 - Fart of the Deal Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

News, Government, Politics

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: If only two people are alive they technically have herd immunity ... The CDC will finally get around to this pandemic thing ... And Rudy Giuliani farts like Heath in middle school making a fake fart noise.

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Headline Sources:

CDC urges mask during sex, showers, etc. as US approaches a 9/11 a day in COVID deaths: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/12/04/cdc-mask-guidance-indoors/

Micronesia asked us not to send them food because it would be infected with America germs: https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/432131/federated-states-of-micronesia-opts-out-of-annual-us-military-humanitarian-mission-due-to-covid-19-concerns

Former presidents will get the vaccine: https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/02/politics/obama-vaccine/index.html

Trump spends $3 million to lose by more in Wisconsin: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-falls-short-wisconsin-recount-he-paid-3-million-n1249289

Nikki Haley gets pwned by AOC: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/aoc-and-nikki-haley-clash-on-twitter-over-covid-relief-funding-b1756616.html

Founder of Hungarian anti-LGBTQ party arrested for drug possession at gay orgy: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55145989

Melissa Carone is impossibly perfect comedy: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/03/trump-teams-discredited-witness-compared-to-snl-character

GOOP's 2020 holiday gift guide is nonsense: https://goop.com/style/gift-guides/ridiculous-holiday-gifts/

Transcript

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0:00.0	What does Home mean to you? I'm Jimmy Famire, writer, broadcaster and restaurant critic,
0:06.4	and I've been speaking to well-known names about what Home means to them.
0:10.6	And it was in the East End of Burmesemese, when Burmese it was rough.
0:13.7	I remember thinking, none of the boys are going to fancy me.
0:16.5	Gourd-Dum Barotti and a chicken curry.
0:19.0	You are full, you are connected to your culture, and you may get a heart attack.
0:23.9	That's Where's Home Really, with me Jimmy Famera.
0:27.4	Find it wherever you're listening to this. It's Monday.
0:33.0	December 7th. It's Monday.
0:43.4	December 7th.
0:44.9	And the word the day is Apophania, which means the tendency to perceive meaningful connections
0:50.8	between unrelated things.
0:52.8	Used in a sentence,
0:54.4	Anthropogenic climate change
0:55.8	is actually just a form of apophania
0:58.2	called Data Paradolia.
1:00.4	I bet I could pay the redneck into arguing against that if I left out the actual.
1:05.6	Yeah, apophania, or as TV and movies know it, do enough tranks and you'll have chess magic.
1:11.2	Yeah, no, that's true. I'm no illusions. I'm
1:14.7	I'm Heather. Queen's Gambit nice. I'm Heath and Wright and
1:17.7	broadcasting Deli from America's far center we are the Skepocrats.
1:21.7	On this week's episode, if only two people are alive, they technically have hurt immunity.
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