211: Skepticrat211 - Later Chesebro Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: A lying poker player gets called on his bluff ... a lying Congressman does too ... and Jim Jordan angrily looks for the receipt for his custom solid gold gavel.

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Headline Sources:

Still no House speaker: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/20/house-speaker-race-candidates-jim-jordan/

Poker player who drew donations for Las Vegas event lied about dying from cancer: https://apnews.com/article/world-series-of-poker-cancer-lie-37c639515dabcfac20597489620cdac4

SCOTUS lifts restriction on Biden admins communications with social media companies: https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/20/politics/supreme-court-social-media/

GA election case judge skeptical of asking potential jurors about "MAGA Republicans": https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/16/politics/georgia-election-subversion-case-jury/index.html
And Sidney Powell just flipped on Trump: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/sidney-powell-plea-deal-donald-trump-ouch.html

Football coach whose team called ‘Nazi’ during game says he was forced to resign, no ill intent: https://apnews.com/article/ohio-football-nazi-play-resign-brooklyn-beachwood-426a125a44790906c52601a654ad7998

George Santos somehow even worse: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/santos-charged-identity-theft-rcna119819
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/11/george-santos-republican-resolution-expel-house

Transcript

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0:00.0	What does Home mean to you? I'm Jimmy Famire, writer, broadcaster and restaurant critic,
0:06.4	and I've been speaking to well-known names about what Home means to them.
0:10.6	And it was in the East End of Burmesemese, when Burmese it was rough.
0:13.7	I remember thinking, none of the boys are going to fancy me.
0:16.5	Gourd-Dum Barotti and a chicken curry.
0:19.0	You are full, you are connected to your culture, and you may get a heart attack.
0:23.9	That's Where's Home Really, with me Jimmy Famera.
0:27.4	Find it wherever you're listening to this. It's Monday.
0:33.0	Monday.
0:35.0	The The The and
0:36.0	It's
0:40.0	It's It's
0:41.0	It's October 23rd. And the word of the day is throttle bottom, which means an extremely
0:49.7	inept person in public office. Used in a sentence, House Republicans are currently losing a
0:55.9	race to the throttle bottom to themselves. Yep, yeah. Uh-oh, I gotta go change my
1:01.0	tinder profile. That is not what I was looking for, everybody.
1:04.6	Marjorie Taylor Green is gonna be heartbroken.
1:06.7	I'm no illusions.
1:08.3	Uh, Mela Bosnick.
1:09.4	I'm Heath Henwright and Broadcasting Delayed
1:11.6	from America's far center, we are the Skeptocrats.
1:14.8	On this week's episode, a lying poker player gets called on his bluff.
	...

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