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The Skepticrat

176: Skepticrat176 - Doge-Eat-Doge Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

News, Government, Politics

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: The sane wing of Congress rejects the idea that insurrections become legal if they’re stupid enough ... Committed Dogecoin investors get trapped like the passenger of a flaming Tesla that locks itself from the inside ... And a Google AI does a better job mimicking human interaction than the guy who claims it’s sentient ever managed.

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Headline Sources:

Jan 6 Hearings recap: https://www.npr.org/2022/06/10/1104103404/new-revelations-and-other-takeaways-from-first-jan-6-committee-hearing https://www.npr.org/2022/06/13/1104657476/recap-jan-6-committee-hearing https://www.npr.org/2022/06/16/1105513685/recap-jan-6-committee-hearing

Elon Musk getting sued for running Dogecoin "pyramid scheme": https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-sued-lawsuit-dogecoin-b2102939.html

Lunatic claims Google AI is sentient, gets put on leave: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/12/technology/google-chatbot-ai-blake-lemoine.html

"How to Murder Your Husband" writer sentenced to life for killing husband: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/14/how-to-murder-your-husband-life-sentence/

Chinese telescope signal turns out not to be extraterrestrial: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/18/science/china-alien-signal.html

Mike Lindell has a meltdown after Walmart pulls MyPillow off their shelves: https://www.newsweek.com/mike-lindell-rages-walmart-over-mypillow-pull-youre-canceling-us-1716705

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Monday, it's June 20th and the word of the day is Struthonian and I learned from

0:18.1

professional word expert Susie Dent on Twitter that it means a person like an ostrich

0:24.2

who buries their head in the sand and ignores facts and reality.

0:28.2

Just in a sentence, the definition of Struthonian is pretty Struthonian for ignoring the fact

0:34.4

that the ostrich doesn't actually do that.

0:36.8

No, sure it doesn't, and also minor Republicans have been begging to take over that analogy

0:41.2

for years anyway.

0:42.2

We have a volunteer.

0:43.2

I'm Noah Luzon's.

0:45.2

Um, Heathen Wright and Broadcasting Delay from America's Far Center.

0:49.0

We are the Skeptocrats.

0:50.7

On this week's episode, the sane wing of Congress rejects the idea that insurrections

0:54.6

become legal if they're stupid enough.

0:56.6

Committed Dogecoin investors get trapped like the passenger of a flaming Tesla that

1:00.7

locks itself from the inside, and a Google AI does a better job mimicking human interaction

1:06.0

than the guy who claims it's sentient ever managed to waste.

1:08.8

He put first the rest of the intro music.

1:14.4

Joining me for headlines tonight is my fellow Skeptocrat No Luzons.

1:21.1

Noah?

1:22.1

I hear it's like 120 degrees in South Georgia right now, yeah.

1:25.5

We've been throwing fireballs at plasma.

1:27.3

James Inhoff again.

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