192: Skepticrat192 - M&Mpire Strikes Back Edition
The Skepticrat
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🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Headline Sources:
Ron DeSantis removes black history AP courses from Florida high schools: https://apnews.com/article/ron-desantis-florida-education-6603c0aa4de0098423eb7b6c04846d0c
Biden Says U.S. And Allies Are Sending Tanks To Ukraine: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tanks-ukraine-biden_n_63d13bd8e4b01a43638ae4be
Ukraine Ministry of Defense tweeted the BEST idea for how the US can spin it: https://twitter.com/defenceu/status/1613599573955444751
Earth’s core hasn’t stopped spinning: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/25/world/earth-core-turning-scli-scn-intl/index.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00167-1
Brazil Congress: Lula vows to punish supporters of Bolsonaro after riot: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-64204860
Tucker Carlson's war on M&M's: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/business/m-m-candy-controversy-tucker-carlson.html
Tucker Carlson rips menthol cigarette bans, saying nicotine "frees your mind": https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-rips-menthol-cigarette-bans-says-nicotine-frees-your-mind-1775482
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| 0:00.0 | it's Monday it's January 30th and the word of the day is pantophobia it's a term |
| 0:18.1 | from the 19th century which means a fear of absolutely everything using a sentence the |
| 0:24.4 | only thing we have to fear is pantophobia itself okay say that's very different from |
| 0:29.2 | pantophobia which is the fear of a 1980s high school bully exposing your underwear |
| 0:34.0 | sure although obviously that's that's encompassed within pantophobia right yeah |
| 0:38.0 | yeah the set of sets it's nice to know though that I can sum up Fox News's |
| 0:42.3 | business model and eleven letters now that's fun I'm no illusions I'm Michael |
| 0:47.8 | Marshall I'm Ethan right and broadcasting delay from America's far center we are |
| 0:52.4 | the skeptic rats on this week's episode the United States addresses the |
| 0:57.2 | balance of trade with Brazil by exporting insane insurrections Ron |
| 1:01.5 | DeSantis continues trying to make it illegal to learn how racist he is and Tucker |
| 1:06.0 | Carlson tells us about the dangers of M&Ms and the power of cigarettes |
| 1:11.0 | that fucking guy but first the rest of the intro music |
| 1:16.8 | joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow skeptic rats no illusions and |
| 1:20.7 | Michael Marshall gentlemen before we get started with the news you guys want to |
| 1:24.6 | say something nice about Eli Bosnick while he's gone um he was polite enough to |
| 1:29.2 | wait until I got out of the car before he reversed into a baby it's |
| 1:35.4 | polite yeah yeah no that's a good one Marshall in our lead story tonight no |
| 1:43.2 | I know Eli you're a great father and your son is lucky to have you there you |
| 1:46.0 | he's not gonna listen to this shit anyway in our lead story tonight in a |
| 1:50.2 | browned about way my younger sister is a history professor and is |
| 1:54.7 | occasionally called upon to teach a freshman world history 101 class and when |
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