216: Skepticrat216 - Heads Iowan Tails You Lose Edition
The Skepticrat
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🗓️ 15 January 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Another amazing word of the day from Susie Dent:
https://twitter.com/susie_dent
Headline Sources:
Trump's Iowa town hall recap: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/us/politics/trump-town-hall-fox.html
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2024/01/10/trump-fox-news-town-hall-iowa-caucuses-highlights-christie/72163126007/
FAA Investigating Whether Boeing 737 Max 9 Conformed to Approved Design: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/business/faa-boeing-737-boeing-max-investigation.html
DefSec doesn’t bother to tell anyone he’ll be out of commission: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/08/congress-austin-pentagon-hospital-defense-00134286
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/us/politics/lloyd-austin-private-public.html
Lauren Boebert did not punch her ex-husband in the face or he's letting it go: https://apnews.com/article/lauren-boebert-exhusband-altercation-arrest-ed3ba1a94e6dba08bf67f1d5d54ad9b3
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67911826
AP PHOTOS: Raucous British fans put on a show at the world darts championship:
https://apnews.com/article/world-darts-championship-photos-e0aa730a30d305310b386cd101dc3e07
Florida schools remove dictionaries for being too woke: https://popular.info/p/florida-school-district-removes-dictionaries
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:03.0 | January. |
| 0:05.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:08.0 | It's Monday. It's Monday. |
| 0:11.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:13.7 | January 15th. |
| 0:15.6 | And the word of the day is Respaire. |
| 0:18.1 | Straight from my favorite lexicographer Susie Dent, quote, it's from the 16th century, and it means fresh hope and a recovery from despair. |
| 0:25.9 | One of too many lost positives we could do with bringing back, wishing everyone a grunted, |
| 0:30.4 | gormful, rutful, rutful, and feckful new year full of despair. |
| 0:33.8 | See, I was sure you wouldn't go with that one, but I guess wasn't as |
| 0:36.7 | inevitable as I thought. |
| 0:37.9 | Nice. |
| 0:38.9 | And I wish I knew so little about lexicography |
| 0:41.2 | that I could choose just one favorite. |
| 0:43.0 | Heath, your simplicity is adorable to me. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm no illusions. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm Eli Bosnick. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm Heath and Wright and Broadcasting Delayed from America's Far Center. |
| 0:52.0 | We are the Skeptocrats. |
| 0:53.3 | On this week's episode, Alaska Airlines catches a little too much air. |
| 0:58.3 | We'll explain to Ron Desantis that thought police aren't supposed to go after all thought. |
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