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The Skepticrat
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
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🗓️ 11 October 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Headline Sources:
Ninja with sword assailed a US Army special ops unit and other random stories from Sep21: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/01/1042487729/a-ninja-with-a-sword-assailed-a-u-s-army-special-operations-unit-in-california
Facebook won't let you sell Amazon land on their website any more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/08/tech/facebook-marketplace-amazon-land/index.html
Even with all the grift, Trump’s DC hotel lost a fuckton of money while he was president: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-organization-hid-payments-foreign-governments-us-house-panel-alleges-2021-10-08/
2021 Ig Nobel Prizes: https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/2021-ig-nobel-prizes-honor-decongestant-orgasms-rhino-transport-69183
Drunk man reported missing joins search party for himself: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beyhan-mutlu-missing-joins-search-party_n_6157255be4b008640eb3e819
WHO endorses world’s first malaria vaccine: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/oct/06/who-endorses-use-of-worlds-first-malaria-vaccine-in-africa
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, and it's October 11th, and the word of the day is Ostis, which means |
| 0:18.0 | a wistful omen of the first sign of autumn, a subtle coolness in the shadows, a rustling |
| 0:22.6 | of dead leaves abandoned on the sidewalk, are a long skein of geese sweeping over your |
| 0:27.8 | head like the second hand of a clock, used in a sentence, Ostis is delightful, and it's |
| 0:33.8 | gone. |
| 0:34.8 | Ostis, northern thing? |
| 0:36.8 | Yeah, and the south, it's pronounced, aw, shit, it's hot. |
| 0:40.2 | Yep, there you go. |
| 0:41.2 | I'm no illusions. |
| 0:42.2 | I'm Eli Bosnick. |
| 0:43.2 | I'm Heathen Wright and Broadcasting Delayed from America's Far Center. |
| 0:47.2 | We are The Skeptocrats. |
| 0:48.6 | Oh, this week's episode, a very different Amazon stop selling through Facebook. |
| 0:53.8 | Triple work really hard not to use I did to get illegal omoluments in his defense. |
| 0:59.0 | You will fail at that, and the U.S. Army gets attacked by a literal ninja. |
| 1:04.8 | But first, the rest of the intro music. |
| 1:17.3 | Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow Skeptocrats, no illusions in Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:21.8 | Gentlemen? |
| 1:22.8 | I missed you. |
| 1:23.8 | I really, really missed you. |
| 1:27.2 | Now, now you go. |
| 1:28.8 | You guys talk, you say something. |
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