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193: Skepticrat193 - Balloonatic Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Government, News, Politics

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: Sarah Huckabee Sanders enters the state of the union from the top rope ... Marjorie Taylor Greene gets jealous of people with thought balloons and goes for a DYI ... And the House Oversight Committee holds an Acme hearing that does NOT end well for them.

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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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