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The Skepticrat

201: Skepticrat201 - Blow Launch Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Government, News, Politics

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: India embraces ignorance as their national anthem ... Trump will make “at least Jack Teixeira got Minecraft discord server cred” a genuine consideration ... And Ron DeSantis almost kills Big Bird with his disaster of a campaign launch.

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Another amazing word of the day idea from Susie Dent:
https://twitter.com/susie_dent

Headline Sources:

Prosecutors have recording of Trump discussing sensitive Iran document: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/31/trump-recording-classified-iran/
And they have video of staff moving boxes at Mar-a-Lago right before DOJ and FBI showed up: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/30/trump-mar-a-lago-surveillance-camera/

Uganda enacts even more draconian anti-gay laws: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ugandas-museveni-approves-anti-gay-law-parliament-speaker-says-2023-05-29/

Taco Bell challenges “Taco Tuesday” trademark: https://apnews.com/article/taco-tuesday-trademark-taco-bell-911e62f2dc664c2a428c6741a94955e5

Ron DeSantis campaign launch and everything else he does going very badly:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/25/what-happened-ron-desantis-us-presidential-campaign-launch-twitter-elon-musk

India removes evolution and the periodic table from public education: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/india-cuts-periodic-table-and-evolution-from-school-textbooks/

Meteorite crashes into New Jersey home: https://apnews.com/article/meteorite-hits-home-hopewell-new-jersey-91fecf2eb7e5ffb938bfb68920dc6011

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Monday, it's June 5th, and the word of the day is matutinal, which means cheery,

0:19.3

active, and alert in the morning, used in a sentence, fuck to you if you're matutinal,

0:26.1

fuck you, everyone hates you.

0:27.9

You know what, I just, just, just the fact that you're cheery regardless of the time

0:30.9

of the day.

0:31.9

Have you seen now?

0:32.9

Have you been here?

0:33.9

It's true.

0:34.9

The morning only has one proper mood, and it is bitter, silent, coffee-gathering.

0:39.7

That's it.

0:40.7

Thank you.

0:41.7

I'm Noah Luzziens.

0:42.7

I'm Eli Bosnick.

0:43.7

I'm Heathen Wright and Broadcasting Delay from America's Far Center.

0:46.8

We are the Skeptcrets.

0:48.8

On this week's episode, India embraces ignorance as their national anthem.

0:53.0

Trump will make at least Jack Tashira got Minecraft Discord server credit genuine

0:57.5

consideration, and Ron DeSantis almost kills Big Bird with his disaster of a campaign

1:05.0

line.

1:06.0

You was begging to be on this show.

1:08.0

But first, the rest of the intro music.

1:17.3

Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow Skeptic rats, snow illusions, and Eli

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