189: Skepticrat189 - Schadenfreudian Slip Edition
The Skepticrat
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🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Headline Sources:
Ted Cruz is an embarrassing failure: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/us/politics/cruz-jackson-antiracist-baby.html
Chat GPT freaks a bunch of people out, is cool: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/05/what-is-ai-chatbot-phenomenon-chatgpt-and-could-it-replace-humans
Trump’s legal woes plague him all year: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/politics/donald-trump-investigations-lawsuits/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/06/politics/trump-organization-fraud-trial-verdict/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/09/politics/judge-throws-out-trumps-rico-lawsuit-against-hillary-clinton-and-democrats/index.html
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/18/garland-to-appoint-special-counsel-for-trump-criminal-probes-00069451
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trumps-tax-returns-now-hands-house-democrats-lengthy-court-battle-rcna59488
Stewart Rhodes convicted for seditious conspiracy: https://www.npr.org/2022/11/29/1139454126/oath-keepers-stewart-rhodes-seditious-conspiracy-verdict-trial
Alex Jones sentenced to pay $1 billion to Sandy Hook families: https://apnews.com/article/shootings-school-connecticut-conspiracy-alex-jones-3f579380515fdd6eb59f5bf0e3e1c08f
And another $0.4 billion: https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-shootings-business-connecticut-alex-jones-c6d0563dc17e7bfa83a881b44e7b9eec
Mahsa Amini protests lead to possible abolition of Iran’s morality police: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/04/world/middleeast/iran-morality-police.html
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, and the Oxford Languages Word of the Year for 2022 is Goblin Mode, which |
| 0:21.0 | means a type of behavior which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically |
| 0:28.8 | in a way that rejects societal expectations. |
| 0:32.1 | Using a sentence, America is Europe on Goblin Mode. |
| 0:37.5 | I originally suggested naming me in the definition, but they didn't want to offend Goblins |
| 0:42.0 | by association, so I got caught. |
| 0:45.2 | Inflation got so bad this year, the word of the year is two words long. |
| 0:48.4 | I'm Noah Luzonz, I'm Eli Bosnik, I'm Ethan Wright, and Broadcasting Delayed from America's |
| 0:54.6 | Far-Center, we are the Skeptocrats. |
| 0:57.5 | On this week's episode, we'll wrap up the year because we forgot to get you a Christmas |
| 1:02.5 | present. |
| 1:03.5 | We'll miss obvious topical references because we recorded this a week early. |
| 1:07.0 | And we'll be doing all tea, all shade in Freuda. |
| 1:12.4 | But first, the rest of the intro music. |
| 1:17.5 | Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow Skeptocrats, Noah Luzonz, and Eli Bosnik. |
| 1:21.6 | Come in, it's our final episode of 2022. |
| 1:25.5 | So let's get a little summary. |
| 1:27.2 | How would you describe the year of 2022 in three words? |
| 1:32.9 | Oh, Trump loses loserity. |
| 1:35.9 | Oh, I was going to go with weird, not bad. |
| 1:41.0 | Interesting. |
| 1:43.0 | Not bad is what you're going to say. |
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