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165: Skepticrat165 - Urea 51 Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

News, Government, Politics

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: The Supreme Court doesn’t understand what a plague has to do with health or safety ... If you're an anti-vaxer, urine for a treat ... And Tom and Cecil will be here to make the improvising around the news stuff look easy.
 
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Headline Sources:

SCOTUS blocks vaccination-or-testing requirement for large companies: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-biden-vaccine-rules/2022/01/13/2e6e4b9e-749e-11ec-bc13-18891499c514_story.html

Russia clearly about to invade Ukraine:

Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes charged with seditious conspiracy: https://www.rawstory.com/oath-keepers-leader-charged-with-seditious-conspiracy-for-jan-6-insurrection-report/

GOP Senator Roger Marshall got called a moron by Fauci so he's introducing the "FAUCI Act" to make the doctor's already public financial records even more public:

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Monday, it's January 17th, and the word of the day is Velkor, which means the

0:17.5

strange whistfulness of a used bookstore filled with thousands of old books you'll never

0:22.2

have time to read.

0:23.4

Each locked in its own era, bound and dated and papered over like an old room, the author

0:28.6

abandoned years ago.

0:31.1

Using sentence, that whistful feeling of Velkor is actually your bowels moving, according

0:36.1

to Eli.

0:37.1

And your darn right it is, I'm Eli Bosnick, he's then right, and broadcasting Delay,

0:42.0

from America's Far Center, we are The Skeptocrats.

0:44.8

On this week's episode, the Supreme Court doesn't understand what a plague has to do with

0:48.7

health or safety.

0:50.3

Ah, if you're an anti-vaxxer, you're in for a treat.

0:54.5

Yeah, I should've stuck with just one urine.

0:57.5

And Tom and Zizl will be here to make the improving around the news stuff look easy.

1:02.8

But first, a quick word from our sponsor.

1:07.8

Hi, I'm Eli Bosnick.

1:19.2

You know, with our friend, co-host and meal ticket, no illusions, terribly sick with

1:24.0

COVID-19 this week, I got thinking, I thought he was feeling much better.

1:28.5

Cecil, you're killing the moment.

1:30.3

In these difficult times when my business partner hangs on to life just by a tiny little

1:34.8

thread, he's literally on VR right now.

1:37.4

He just texted me to see if I want to play swarm with him.

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