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174: Skepticrat174 - Hurricane Gun Control Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

News, Government, Politics

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: Primary season makes us miss the time of locusts ... Noah makes a strong case that we should just outsource our voting stuff to Australia ... And against all odds, we learn that Donald Trump is even dumber than we thought.

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Headline Sources:

PA Primaries:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/18/oz-mccormick-trump-pennsylvania/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/20/doug-mastriano-pennsylvania-republican-governor-trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/21/voting-is-surging-georgia-despite-controversial-new-election-law/

Madison Cawthorn is a losing loser who lost:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/madison-cawthorn-vows-dark-maga-takeover-after-losing-to-chuck-edwards-in-north-carolina-primary

Activision Blizzard heavily edits King’s Diversity Generator Blog, removes all race ranking:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2022/05/14/activision-blizzard-heavily-edits-kings-diversity-generator-blog-removes-all-ranking-images/?sh=2bf293043de0

US Congress wastes time with silly UFO shit: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/05/17/ufo-hearing-congress/

Jordan Peterson continues to be a parody I couldn’t write if I tried: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/jordan-peterson-twitter-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-yumi-nu-rcna29382

Trump kept asking if China was shooting us with a "hurricane gun": https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-hurricane-gun-china-world-war-1350638/

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Monday, and it's May 23rd, and the word of the day is Turrophile, which means

0:18.0

a lover of cheese, using a sentence as an aggressive Turrophile myself.

0:23.4

I was recently accepted into the ranks of a cheese cult, but they didn't have a name

0:28.8

for the cult yet, so I suggested Heaven's Great, and that's official name.

0:35.0

Heath, we've been over this. If your cult doesn't have fuck stuff, it's just a club

0:38.1

heath. We've been over this. Come on, man.

0:39.7

I said to no fuck stuff.

0:41.2

I'm no illusions.

0:42.6

Um, Eli Bosnick. Um, Heath and Wright, and Broadcasting Delayed, for Marikus Farcenter.

0:47.4

We are the Skeptocrats.

0:49.3

Oh, this week's episode, primary season makes us miss the time of locusts.

0:53.8

I'll make a strong case that we should just outsource all our voting stuff to Australia.

0:57.9

And against all odds, we learn that Donald Trump is even dumber than we already thought.

1:05.4

But first, the rest of the intro music.

1:17.8

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

1:22.0

Gentlemen, on a serious note, we never got the chance to scream into the distance for

1:27.7

an entire episode last time around because we recorded Wright before the leak of the draft

1:33.2

opinion that's going to reverse Roe v Wade and Supreme Court.

1:37.1

And as much as I could use another good screaming, you know, I love a good screaming.

1:42.1

I feel like that screaming that's been every podcast this whole month, um, but maybe a

1:48.2

quick little rantlet to start us off, something like that.

1:51.4

Ooh, ooh, can we pretend my voice is like this because of the screaming instead of a baby

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