139: Skepticrat139 - Lame Duck a l'Orange Edition
The Skepticrat
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
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🗓️ 21 December 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Inside the scramble for Trump pardons: https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/16/politics/donald-trump-pardons-lame-duck/index.html
Still no fucking stimulus deal: https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/19/politics/congress-covid-stimulus-deal/index.html
America gets hacked by Russia:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55358332 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/russia-is-behind-the-broad-ongoing-cyber-spy-campaign-against-the-us-government-and-private-sector-pompeo-says/2020/12/19/8c850cf0-41b3-11eb-8bc0-ae155bee4aff_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/russia-is-behind-the-broad-ongoing-cyber-spy-campaign-against-the-us-government-and-private-sector-pompeo-says/2020/12/19/8c850cf0-41b3-11eb-8bc0-ae155bee4aff_story.html
Trump's Twitter got hacked by Dutch guy who guessed the password: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/12/17/dutch-trump-twitter-password-hack/
US approves second vaccine:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/19/health/us-coronavirus-saturday/index.html
CD Project Red stock tumbles amid Cyberpunk debacle: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/cyberpunk-2077-cd-projekt-stock-price-sony-pulls-game-refunds-2020-12-1029905614
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, it's Monday. It's December 21st, damn it. And the word of the day is crystalism, which means the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm. |
| 0:24.0 | Used in a sentence, a great way to disrupt your state of crystallism is a puzzle in a thunderstorm. |
| 0:32.0 | Pro tip, if you pronate your knuckle you can really get |
| 0:35.8 | and in international waters all of that is legal. |
| 0:42.1 | Ah international waters the girl with a nose ring of law. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm no illusions. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm Eli Bosnick. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm Arts Bachelor Heath and Wright, |
| 0:51.0 | and Broadcasting Delayed, from America's far center. We are the |
| 0:54.9 | Skeetocrats. On this week's episode, Trump gives a whole new meaning to pardon me. |
| 0:59.6 | The Netherlands urged him to at least turn on one factor authentication. |
| 1:04.0 | And oatmeal raisin is the Fredo Corleone of cookies. |
| 1:08.7 | How dare you? |
| 1:10.6 | But first, the rest of the intro music. |
| 1:17.0 | Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow skeptic rats, no illusions in Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:22.0 | Gentlemen, it's the most wonderful time of the year, |
| 1:25.8 | the end of 2020. |
| 1:27.5 | So any words of wisdom for holiday time? |
| 1:30.9 | Yes, actually. They're going to pretend to like it no matter what and you're going to think they secretly hate it no matter what. |
| 1:37.0 | So stop stressing about what it is that they secretly hate. |
| 1:41.2 | Just give him money. Spoken like a man who I got a way better gift than he got me. That's all I'm saying. |
| 1:47.3 | No fucking way this year man. All right. All right. |
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