195: Skepticrat195 - Meek Drop Edition
The Skepticrat
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🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Another amazing word of the day idea from Susie Dent:
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Headline Sources:
Fox News' Tucker Carlson is not credible, White House says after Jan. 6 coverage: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fox-news-tucker-carlson-is-not-credible-white-house-says-after-jan-6-coverage-2023-03-08/
Mitch McConnell fell and hurt himself: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/09/politics/mitch-mcconnell-hospitalized/index.html
Matt Hancock: More leaked texts mock people in hotel quarantine: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-64831240
Boris Johnson’s massive maths mistake over Covid deaths is an embarrassment: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/boris-johnson-covid-coronavirus-whatsapp-math-b2292682.html
Scott Adams says Black people are a hate group:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2023/03/06/scott-adams-dilbert-cartoon-controversy/
Elon Musk publicly mocks laid-off Twitter employee with a disability then apologizes: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/elon-musk-publicly-mocks-laid-off-twitter-employee/story?id=97708515
IMF downgrades UK growth forecast, predicting only economic decline among G-7 countries: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/31/imf-downgrades-uk-growth-forecast-predicting-only-decline-in-g7-.html
Sunak hails ‘new chapter’ in UK-EU relations as Northern Ireland deal is agreed
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/27/rishi-sunak-deal-eu-brexit-northern-ireland-protocol
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, it's March 13th and the word of the day is Ipsidixitism, which means |
| 0:18.4 | the assertion that something is fact because someone else said so. |
| 0:22.6 | Using a sentence, I'm going to start calling the Republican Party the Ipsidixocrats. |
| 0:29.5 | So the source for all guests on be reasonable, how apropos. |
| 0:32.8 | Hey, hey, that's not fair, sometimes they're people that I found in a God awful movies |
| 0:36.8 | about root canal. |
| 0:37.8 | So there's different sources. |
| 0:40.1 | I'm Michael Marshall. |
| 0:41.1 | I'm Eli Bosnick. |
| 0:42.1 | I'm Ethan Wright and Broadcasting Delay from America's Far Center and the UK. |
| 0:46.4 | We are the skeptocrats on this week's episode, watching the January 6th tapes backwards |
| 0:52.1 | shows they were actually cleaning. |
| 0:54.3 | We get an inside look into just how incompetently the Tories handled COVID. |
| 0:59.3 | And Dilbert gets called in for a really tough meeting with HR. |
| 1:03.0 | But first, the rest of the intro music. |
| 1:17.4 | Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow skeptocrats, Michael Marshall and Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:21.8 | Simon, you got any Ipsidixitisms that you want to mention before we get started since |
| 1:26.1 | that's the new game. |
| 1:27.1 | At this point, I have seen literally dozens of tweets that marsh did COVID and there's |
| 1:31.5 | like three websites. |
| 1:33.1 | So yeah, now I've seen those two Eli, I have seen those two. |
| 1:38.9 | Oh, how about QD 2023 will be September 23rd and 24th? |
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