216: Skepticrat216 - Heads Iowan Tails You Lose Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: Alaska Airlines catches a little TOO much air ... We’ll explain to Ron DeSantis that thought police aren’t supposed to go after all thought ... And we learn about darts from our intrepid sports reporter Eli Bosnick.

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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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