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194: Skepticrat194 - Traincheck Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Government, News, Politics

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: We’ll lend a whole new meaning to smeared in the press ... We’ll talk about Navy SEAL cum astronaut George Santos ... And Donald Trump orders food at McDonald's SUPER DUPER BIGMACLY WELL.

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Headline Sources:

Train derailment spills toxic chemicals all the hell over the place in Ohio: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/24/us/ohio-train-derailment-east-palestine-friday/index.html

George Santos can’t stop lying about his lies: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/21/politics/fact-check-george-santos-piers-morgan-lies

McCarthy gives Capitol surveillance footage from J6 to Tucker Carlson:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/us/politics/tucker-carlson-jan-6-mccarthy.html
Mike Lindell is gonna sue McCarthy for not giving it to Lindell-TV: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3872605-mike-lindell-says-he-will-sue-mccarthy-for-sharing-jan-6-footage-only-with-tucker-carlson/
Tucker Carlson text messages released during Dominion lawsuit against Fox News: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/tucker-carlson-text-messages-dominion-lawsuit-fox-news.html

Bing AI loses its mind: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/microsofts-controversial-bing-ai-chatbot/story?id=97353148 https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/15/23599072/microsoft-ai-bing-personality-conversations-spy-employees-webcams

German Ballet Director Formally Apologizes For Smearing Feces In Critic’s Face: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/martin-goecke-smeared-feces_n_63ec06ebe4b0063ccb291466

Tucker Carlson fawns over Donald Trump ordering McDonald's: https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-fawns-over-trump-ordering-mcdonalds-treat-yourself

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Monday, it's February 24th, and the word of the day is nomophobia, which means

0:17.5

the anxiety of being without a cell phone, using a sentence, get over the nomophobia and

0:23.1

find some dopamine by interacting with a physical human in the meat world.

0:26.8

Nobody cares what you said on Facebook, it was not Clevd, the fact that they were one

0:35.6

letter away from nomophonia and didn't use that proves we put the wrong people in charge

0:39.6

in neology.

0:40.6

I'm no illusions, I'm Eli Bosnick, he thinned right and broadcasting delay, from America's

0:46.2

far center we are the Skeptocrats, on this week's episode we'll lend a whole new meaning

0:51.8

to smeared in the press.

0:53.8

We'll talk about Navy SEAL come astronaut George Santos, and Donald Trump orders food

0:59.0

at McDonald's, super, duper, big, macly, well.

1:02.9

But first, the rest of the intro music.

1:11.1

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

1:21.3

Gentlemen, let's start with a positive note on the show.

1:25.2

What's the best piece of art that you consumed in the last year?

1:30.7

Kids versus wizards.

1:32.0

Get excited about tomorrow's scam people, get excited.

1:35.2

It's the best movie.

1:36.2

I was going to say D&D minus available on all podcasts, but I changed mind to kids versus

1:41.6

wizards.

1:42.6

I didn't realize.

1:43.6

You recognize our limitations, that's a little bit obvious.

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