198: Skepticrat198 - Defoxify Edition
The Skepticrat
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🗓️ 24 April 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Headline Sources:
Fox pays Dominion $787 million settlement: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/foxs-primetime-hosts-dominion-settlement-1234717513/
Supreme Court temporarily protects access to abortion pill: https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/21/politics/supreme-court-abortion-pill-mifepristone/index.html
Elon Musk’s no good, very bad week: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/21/elon-musk-had-a-rough-week-across-tesla-twitter-and-spacex.html https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/4/21/twitter-drops-state-affiliated-government-funded-labels
Belgium destroys beer for labeling itself as champagne: https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/22/europe/belgium-destroys-beer-champagne-intl-hnk/index.html
Arbitrator says Mike Lindell has to pay $5 million to guy who proved him wrong: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/04/20/mike-lindell-prove-wrong-contest/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, it's April 24th, and the word of the day is Calsarconi, another great |
| 0:17.7 | one from my favorite Lexicologist, Susie Dent, it's a Finnish word that means drinking |
| 0:22.3 | at home alone in your underwear. |
| 0:25.2 | In a sentence, I got a disturbing number of messages about Calsarconi that all basically |
| 0:30.8 | said, wow, personal attack from Susie against you, he's saving on laundry by not spilling |
| 0:37.8 | baleys on his shirts anymore, you should be thanking him, Susie, good point. |
| 0:42.0 | And to be fair, of all the places he drinks alone in his underwear, this is the one that |
| 0:45.5 | gets us the fewest complaints. |
| 0:46.9 | Anyway. |
| 0:47.9 | Also a good point. |
| 0:48.9 | I'm Noah Luzonz. |
| 0:49.9 | I'm Eli Bosnick. |
| 0:50.9 | I'm Heath Henry. |
| 0:51.9 | And broadcasting delayed from America's far center, we are the Skeptocrats. |
| 0:56.2 | Oh, this week's episode, the Supreme Court puts evil on pause. |
| 1:00.2 | Belgium proves you don't have to be a bigot to destroy beer for stupid reasons, and bad |
| 1:04.9 | people lose so much goddamn money left. |
| 1:08.6 | That's more than half the show, that's more than half the show this week. |
| 1:12.2 | But first, the rest of the intro music. |
| 1:17.5 | Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow Skeptocrats, no illusions in Eli Bosnick, |
| 1:21.3 | gentlemen, before we get started, happy new kids on the block day. |
| 1:25.4 | That's right. |
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