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184: Skepticrat184 - Walker Ex-Estranger Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

News, Government, Politics

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: Far leftist and marijuana crusader Joe Biden? ... Herschel Walker will make it most of the way through this intro without a new scandal breaking ... Annnd he just said "I'm DB Cooper."

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Headline Sources:

Russo-Ukraine war inches ever closer to possible nuclear conflict: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/7/biden-says-nuclear-armageddon-risk-highest-in-60-years
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/03/russia-has-no-full-control-of-any-of-four-annexed-ukrainian-provinces https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/07/russia-military-commanders-dismissed-war/

At NYU, students were failing organic chemistry so they fired the professor:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/us/nyu-organic-chemistry-petition.html

Area man is arrested for parody and The Onion files a Supreme Court amicus brief:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/us/the-onion-supreme-court.html
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-293/242292/20221003125252896_35295545_1-22.10.03%20-%20Novak-Parma%20-%20Onion%20Amicus%20Brief.pdf

Herschel Walker took a hit out on a fetus: https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-life-herschel-walker-paid-for-girlfriends-abortion-georgia-senate
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/07/walker-abortion-georgia-senate/

Biden pardons federal simple possession charges for marijuana: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/us/politics/biden-marijuana-pardon.html

Lizzo plays a 200-year-old crystal flute, accidentally summons a swarm of trolls: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2022/10/02/lizzo-plays-a-200-year-old-crystal-flute-accidentally-summons-a-swarm-of-trolls

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Monday, it's October 10th, and the word of the day is sprays atura, which means graceful

0:19.1

performance without apparent effort, used in a sentence, as podcasters, we aim for

0:25.1

sprays atura, but then we say sprays atura, and that ruins the sprays atura, fuck.

0:29.2

Yeah, yeah. Folks, the only reason the effort isn't apparent is that we added all the effort

0:34.2

out that we can. Said like two men who check the spelling in their notes, can I just

0:38.5

spell it? Fair enough, yeah. I'm just gonna spell it. I have no illusions.

0:41.8

Ah, me, Leibhaz, Nick. Ah, me, Ethan, right. Broadcasting Delayed. From America's Far

0:46.0

Center, we are the Skeptocrats. Oh, this week's episode, far leftist and marijuana crusader,

0:52.8

Joe Biden, right? Herschel Walker will make it most of the way through this intro without a new

0:57.8

scandal breaking. And he just said, I'm DB Cooper. But first, the rest of the intro music.

1:16.9

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

1:21.5

Gentlemen, let's start by talking about election day. It's coming right up. I already voted by

1:26.6

mail. Super easy. Didn't even need a stamp. But I feel like some people aren't very excited by,

1:32.8

you know, voting against the very concept of evil because, you know, it's voting against. So,

1:37.6

any candidates, you guys are excited about voting for. But I get to vote for Stacey Abrams.

1:43.8

I feel like I'm cheating at this question. Stacey, hey, I'm sorry, I need to throw off the podcast.

1:48.5

Are you guys talking about 2024? I don't think there is an election with you.

1:52.7

Shut up with the president. Don't you get to vote for Bob Menendez's kid?

2:00.2

I do. Yeah. Cool. Fun times. Just do it anyway. Okay.

2:06.4

Quick reminder on that subject. Control of the House and Senate are both up for grabs. So,

2:11.8

if you're able to afford the money for a donation or the time for some volunteering,

2:15.9

I'm going to give you a quick handful of candidates to consider doing that for in terms of the US

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