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170: Skepticrat170 - KBJ FTW Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

News, Government, Politics

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: Vladimir Putin fights for a different kind of TERF ... A South Carolina man proves you can save someone from drowning on a technicality ... And Ted Cruz thinks he might be turning Japanese - he really thinks so.

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Headline Sources:

KBJ confirmation hearings: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-ketanji-brown-jackson-hearings-takeaways/ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/us/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-woman-definition.html https://www.npr.org/2022/03/24/1088217548/hawleys-attacks-on-ketanji-brown-jackson-fuel-a-surge-in-online-conspiracy-chatt 

Putin Goes Into Battle on a Second Front...Culture:
GOP Senator Mike Braun says Ginni and Clarence's marriage should be illegal in some states: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/opinion/mike-braun-loving-virginia.html

Trump endorsements don’t seem to matter: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-03-23/trump-endorsed-candidates-struggle-idaho-governor-little-mcgeachin

Shitty dude gets shot by guy rescuing him: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10649259/Teen-jet-skier-shot-dead-Lake-Keowee-Good-Samaritan.html

FBI and Anonymous hacktivists fucking with Russia:
https://www.rawstory.com/r-2656999569/

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Monday, it's March 28th and the word of the day is parrow, which means the feeling

0:18.0

that everything you do is always somehow wrong, as if there's some obvious way forward

0:22.8

that everybody else can see but you, each of them leaning back in their chair and calling

0:26.9

out, helpfully, colder, colder, colder, using the sentence, my dnd character dave the

0:33.2

track and feels attacked by this relatable content about parrow.

0:37.8

The fact that your solution to colder is, I'm going to roll for jacket, that's not helping.

0:41.8

I could have got to track it.

0:43.6

Hey, any series of actions that leads to Falcon Gate is the right series of actions.

0:48.3

I'm going to be there, I think.

0:50.6

I have no illusions.

0:52.1

I'm Eli Bosnick.

0:53.1

I'm Ethan Wright and Broadcasting Delayed from America's Far Center.

0:56.7

We are The Skeptocrats.

0:58.4

Oh, this week's episode Vladimir Putin fights for a different kind of turf.

1:02.8

South Carolina, man, proves that you can save someone from drowning on a technicality.

1:07.7

Ted Cruz might be turning Japanese, he really thinks so.

1:12.8

But first, the rest of the intro music.

1:17.4

Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow Skeptocrats, no illusions in Eli Bosnick.

1:21.3

Gentlemen, we got 224 days until election day, you feeling good about the midterms?

1:27.4

No.

1:28.4

You feeling good about American politics right now?

1:29.4

You think it's going to go good?

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