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The Skepticrat

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🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, Marsh keeps us up to date on the death of the empire, we’ll check in on a Manchin more haunted than Luigi’s, and Eli won’t let Marsh leave America until he fully understands how Prime Ministers are chosen … so he’s pretty much a resident now.

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Headline Resources:

Boris Johnson to resign: https://apnews.com/article/boris-johnson-resignation-60da3c4b29a4e9c93c7db9f53034ad0e

Joe Manchin wants everyone to know he sucks even harder: https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/07/16/white-house-manchin-biden/

988 Mental crisis line opens: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/988-suicide-prevention-hotline-launch-nationwide-rcna38297

US/Russia hammer out space carpool rules amid ongoing Russian war crimes: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/nasa-russian-space-agency-sign-deal-share-space-station-flights-roscosmos-2022-07-15/ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/15/putin-orders-shake-up-at-russias-space-agency https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/07/14/putin-signs-expanded-foreign-agents-law-a78298 https://www.thejournal.ie/russia-shelling-from-ukraine-nuclear-plant-5818580-Jul2022/

Fetterman trolls Dr. Oz: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/14/us/politics/snooki-fetterman-new-jersey.html

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's Monday, it's July 18.
0:16.5	And the word of the day is, Emplomania, meaning the manic desire to hold public office no
0:21.5	matter what, useless sentence.
0:24.4	Looking at the contenders for the next Prime Minister of the UK, Emplomania seems more
0:28.2	contagious than COVID, or chickenpox.
0:32.1	I mean, at this point, who catches COVID and who's Prime Minister of the UK seem equally
0:36.0	preventable?
0:37.0	Yeah, true, true.
0:38.0	Oh, and you can offset the negative effects with a jab at both instances, too.
0:42.0	I'm no illusions.
0:44.0	I'm Michael Marshall and broadcasting medically delayed from America's far center.
0:50.4	We are the skepticrats.
0:52.0	Oh, this week's episode, Marsh keeps us up to date on the death of the Empire.
0:56.7	We'll check in on a mansion more haunted than Luigi's, and Eli won't let me leave
1:01.4	America until he fully understands how Prime Minister's a chosen.
1:04.9	You're never going home.
1:07.0	But first, the rest of the intro music.
1:18.4	And joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow skepticrats, Michael Marshall and
1:21.8	Eli Bosnick gentlemen, of all the embarrassing facts that you know about Heath, which
1:26.3	one would he least like you to share with the listeners?
1:29.3	Ooh, okay.
1:30.6	How about all of his puns in his wordplay?
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