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The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: Fox News wades into a Twitter fight ... The party’s finally over for Boris Johnson ... And Republicans buy something even dumber than Donald Trump's innocence.

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Headline Sources:

Trump arraigned for a small number of his crimes: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/13/trump-new-jersey-speech-after-arraignment
And stiffs supporters afterwards: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/16/trump-unkept-promises-analysis/

Fox News Tells Tucker Carlson to Stop Posting Videos on Twitter: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/12/business/media/fox-news-tucker-carlson-twitter.html

Boris Johnson deliberately misled Parliament over Partygate, MPs find: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65913692

GOP pump fakes bribery allegations against Biden again: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/13/gop-biden-allegation-analysis/

Scammers are conning Trump supporters out of thousands with 'Trump Bucks' they claim can be exchanged for real cash: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-bucks-promise-wealth-maga-loyalty-lose-thousands-rcna84965

Celebrity chef Gino D’Acampo isn’t dead… but the credibility of Twitter ads might well be: https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2023/06/celebrity-chef-gino-dacampo-isnt-dead-but-the-credibility-of-twitter-ads-might-well-be/

Transcript

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0:30.7	It's Monday. It's June 19th. And the word of the day is Nurtle, which means that
0:38.8	perfect wave shape of toothpaste from the ad on TV that forever eludes me. It
0:44.6	also means obnoxious deflection-bunting in a British baseball, used in a sentence,
0:50.4	Boo Nurtle. Yeah, who'd a thought to be something nerdy about a sport that
0:56.0	genuinely uses a mathematical formula to work out who wins in the event of
1:00.6	bad weather. That is a real thing that we're doing cricket. I have no illusion.
1:06.0	Michael Marshall. He thinned right. And broadcasting delay from the states and
1:10.8	Kingdom of Unity Wii are the Skeptocrats. On this week's episode, Fox News
1:16.0	wades into a Twitter fight. The party's finally over for Boris Johnson. And
1:21.0	Republicans buy something even dumber than Donald Trump's innocence. What
1:26.9	first? The rest of the intro music.
1:36.9	Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow Skeptocrats, no illusions and
1:40.7	Michael Marshall, gentlemen. If we do like a buddy tattoo day, I was thinking
1:46.3	about this. What are you all getting? I feel like we should all get I heart
1:49.7	ziplining. Either that or I think I'm going to get a QR code that when you
1:55.2	scan it, it takes you directly to qdcon.org forward slash tickets. Sorry, Andy
2:01.7	just insisted that we got to get the plugs in early this week, just in case
2:04.8	people stop listening by the outro. So really front load them, front load the
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