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The Skepticrat
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Another amazing word of the day idea from Susie Dent:
https://twitter.com/susie_dent
Headline Sources:
SHS does the Republican response to Biden's SOTU address: www.gimmebackmyfuckingcheeseplate.com
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/07/politics/republican-response-sarah-huckabee-sanders-biden-sotu/index.html
https://twitter.com/GOP/status/1623710847691366400
Supreme Court investigation into the leak of the Dobbs draft: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/21/us/supreme-court-investigation.html
Chinese spy balloon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Chinese_balloon_incident
Republicans held a hearing to prove Twitter's bias against them and it backfired HARD: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/08/media/republicans-hearing-twitter-bias-reliable-sources/index.html
Girl asks police to run DNA test on Christmas cookies for evidence of Santa Claus: https://www.npr.org/2023/01/22/1150596852/girl-asks-police-to-run-dna-test-on-christmas-cookie-for-evidence-of-santa-claus
Internal memo at Project Veritas describes James O’Keefe as ‘outright cruel’: https://www.thedailybeast.com/james-okeefe-outright-cruel-to-project-veritas-employees-internal-memo
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, it's February 13th, and the word of the day is quiddling, which means |
| 0:17.5 | the act of keeping busy with trivial stuff as a way to avoid more important things. |
| 0:22.6 | Using a sentence, quiddling is a good word for scrabble depending on your dictionary and |
| 0:27.0 | the board. But don't let it get in the way of your podcast listening. That's the important |
| 0:31.2 | thing. See, and here I was thinking you were just announcing your resignation with a |
| 0:34.0 | head cold heat. Yeah, I thought we were workshopping |
| 0:36.2 | derogatory terms for people who keep buying J.K. Rowling stuff despite knowing what a piece |
| 0:39.8 | of shit she has. I have no illusions. Oh, me, my boss Nick. Oh, me, he's |
| 0:44.0 | then right and broadcasting delay from America's far center. We are the skeptic rats. Oh, |
| 0:49.0 | this week's episode, Governor Sanders enters the State of the Union from the top row. |
| 0:55.2 | Archery Taylor Green gets jealous of people with thought balloons and goes for a D.Y.I. |
| 0:59.1 | And the House Oversight Committee holds an ACME hearing that does not end well for them. |
| 1:04.0 | But first, the rest of the intro music. Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow |
| 1:18.8 | skeptic rats, no illusions in Eli Bosnick. Gentlemen, happy almost Valentine's Day. I just |
| 1:24.8 | like to say that I love you both. And I love you, Heath. That's so nice. And I want |
| 1:30.4 | you to know now that I have the deadly COVID-19 virus. Please do not blame yourself, Heath, |
| 1:36.5 | for all the times that you were mean to me. Okay. Or the times you change the podcast |
| 1:41.0 | of us without my permission. I don't want you to beat yourself up for that. For though |
| 1:44.5 | I may die of the deadly COVID-19 virus, which I have very serious, I don't want you to |
| 1:50.9 | have any guilt, either of you. Valentine's Day is my anniversary. No, I am dying. Okay. |
| 1:58.9 | In our lead story tonight, Joe Biden does not have COVID as far as we know. And he delivered |
| 2:05.7 | the State of the Union address last week. And we learned that the state is, well, that |
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