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The Skepticrat

198: Skepticrat198 - Defoxify Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Government, News, Politics

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: The Supreme Court puts evil on pause ... Belgium proves you don’t have to be a bigot to destroy beer for stupid reasons ... And bad people lose SO MUCH MONEY.

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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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