217: Skepticrat217 - Court Marshall Edition
The Skepticrat
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🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Headline Sources:
Trump ordered to pay in E Jean Carroll defamation case: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-e-jean-carroll-trial-closing-arguments-courtroom/
UK conservatives plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-61782866
Trump wins Iowa and New Hampshire and GOP dropouts all of a sudden love him again:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/26/gops-awkward-2016-flip-flops-trump-make-comeback-2024/
Trump's possible picks for VP: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/25/donald-trump-vice-president-pick-candidates/
Sarah Huckabee Sanders bought a lectern for $19,000 with a government credit card: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/10/13/sarah-huckabee-sanders-lectern/
Mars helicopter is dead: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends
Japan’s upside down moon lander: https://apnews.com/article/japan-moon-lander-slim-probe-pinpoint-2908c74d9e3c4c8a5eabfb6b1625c617
UK Post Office "Horizon scandal" explained: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56718036
Lauren Boebert among field of other criminal idiots in first Republican debate for CO-4: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/25/lauren-boebert-republican-primary-debate-colorado/32f8b740-bb40-11ee-b176-fe5fd794e716_story.html
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/08/27/lauren-boebert-arrests-colorado-3rd-mitsch-bush/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:03.0 | Monday. |
| 0:05.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:08.0 | It's Monday. It's January 29th and the word of the day is finifugal which means |
| 0:18.0 | avoiding the end of something like an excellent book because you want it to go on |
| 0:22.4 | forever used in a sentence I've been like an excellent book because you want it to go on forever. |
| 0:23.5 | Used in a sentence, I've been saying literary edging |
| 0:27.1 | and I'm glad I found the classy adjective version of that, |
| 0:30.6 | Finifugal. |
| 0:31.2 | See, see Lucid, I'm not moving on to another game |
| 0:33.9 | without finishing the last one. |
| 0:34.9 | I'm finifugling that one. |
| 0:37.4 | Exactly. |
| 0:38.4 | Whereas I prolong books just so I then don't have |
| 0:40.8 | to go out and spend money on the next book because I'm finifrugal. |
| 0:44.8 | I'm no all luscious. |
| 0:48.1 | I'm Michael Marshall. |
| 0:49.3 | I'm Heathenwright and Broadcasting Delayed from America's Forest center and across the pond we are the |
| 0:54.7 | Skeptocrats. |
| 0:55.7 | On this week's episode the British Post Office will try to argue that justice just got lost |
| 1:00.9 | in the mail. |
| 1:01.9 | Donald Trump asked E. Jean Carroll how much she'll knock off if he lets her be his running mate. |
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