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The Skepticrat

155: Skepticrat155 - Good Wall Hunting Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Government, News, Politics

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: Not enough people get Eli's Michigan J Frog joke ... We record early in case Noah's state drowns in its own stupidity before our normal day ... And we learn about the dumbest part of the dumbest wall in American history.

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Headline Sources:

Jan. 6 commission to hold first hearing on Capitol attack: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/07/27/january-6-commission-hearing/

We gotta wear masks again: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/health/cdc-masks-indoors-delta-variant.html

The guy who spent $30 million building Trump’s wall is looking for buyers: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-07-22/trump-border-wall-builder-tommy-fisher-is-looking-for-a-buyer

Company determines worst Delta Variant Danger Zone is Noah’s front yard: https://www.news4jax.com/news/georgia/2021/07/26/southeast-georgia-county-deemed-nations-1-delta-danger-zone https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/07/27/biden-vaccine-mandate-federal-employees/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/27/health-202-vaccine-mandates-are-mounting-courts-are-upholding-them-so-far/

Simone Biles: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/sports/olympics/russia-wins-gold-medal-gymnastics.html

MAGA-branded "Freedom Phone" is a black box that should be avoided at all costs: https://gizmodo.com/new-ultra-city-smiths-trailer-has-hit-the-internet-1847312989

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:44.6

word of the day is SPANGU, which means to throw violently into the air, especially to

0:50.4

throw a frog from the end of a stick. Apparently some serial killers were

0:57.8

hanging out as kids and throwing frogs violently from the middle of sticks so

1:02.9

they decided to coin SPANGU to make the conversation easier. Just sing in front

1:07.4

of the talent agent and this would never have been an issue Michigan. Pretty sweet

1:12.6

hack a frog or a low. I'm no illusions. I'm Eli Bosnick. I'm Heathen Wright and

1:17.6

Broadcasting Delayed from America's Far Center. We are the Skeptocrats. This week's

1:22.0

episode, not enough people get my Michigan J Frog joke and that makes me sad. We'll

1:26.2

record early in case my state drowns in its own stupidity before our normal day.

1:30.4

And we learn about the dumbest part of the dumbest wall in American history. But first the

1:37.2

rest of the intro music. Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow

1:49.1

Skeptocrats, no illusions in Eli Bosnick. Gentlemen, you want to talk about any

1:52.9

arguments? Maybe you've been running in your head for a while about neighbors

1:57.1

setting off fireworks at a very reasonable hour on the 4th of July. How dare you!

2:01.5

Well, to be fair, there might have been consequences that there weren't. We live in a society.

2:09.5

Okay, so you don't want to talk about it. To be clear, I still don't set up

2:13.7

fucking fireworks in neighborhoods. That's an asshole thing to do. In our lead story tonight,

2:18.7

despite the best efforts of the GOP Congress is looking into that whole attempted

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