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The Skepticrat

167: Skepticrat167 - Vichyssoise France Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

News, Government, Politics

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: Tom and Cecil sit through most of our intro in quiet discomfort ... Marjorie Taylor Greene goes full Soup Nazi ... And we talk about a scam that Eli hasn’t fallen for yet.

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Headline Sources:

Russia planned deep fake video as pretext for Ukraine invasion:

Trump thought ripping paper made it stop existing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/05/trump-ripping-documents/
White House toilet repeatedly clogged with torn documents: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-swiped-possible-classified-material-from-white-house-report-says?ref=home

Butterfly sanctuary had to shut down because people think they're child sex traffickers: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/06/us/butterfly-center-texas.html

Marjorie Taylor Greene addresses 'gazpacho police' gaffe and makes it worse: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-taylor-greene-gazpacho-police-response_n_6207756de4b083bd1cbef09a

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Monday, it's February 14th, and it's Valentine's Day.

0:16.3

So the word of the day is love.

0:18.7

Used in a sentence, I love you, Eli Bosnick.

0:22.5

Oh, I love you too, buddy.

0:24.4

Sorry, I know I'm supposed to make a joke here, but you know, sometimes you just love your

0:28.4

pros.

0:29.4

Real talk.

0:30.4

Right here in the intro.

0:31.4

Love you.

0:32.4

I'm Eli Bosnick.

0:33.4

I'm Ethan Wright.

0:34.4

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

0:38.0

On this week's episode, Tom and Cecil sit through that intro and quiet discomfort.

0:42.3

I just wanted to see a law far you guys know, like if this was just going to like launch

0:48.0

into some like heavy, literatica kind of thing, I didn't want to bust the mood, you know.

0:53.0

There it was.

0:54.0

So Marjorie Taylor Greene goes full soup Nazi, and we'll talk about a scam I haven't fallen

0:59.8

for yet.

1:00.8

But first, the rest of the intro music.

1:17.4

Joining me for headlines tonight is my fellow Skeptic Rat Eli Bosnick.

1:20.9

Eli?

1:21.9

You're still here.

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