218: Skepticrat218 - Putin on the Fritz Edition
The Skepticrat
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🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Headline Sources:
Tucker Carlson interviews Vladimir Putin: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/tucker-carlson-putin-interview-fact-check-history.html
King diagnosed with cancer, Buckingham Palace says: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68208157
King Charles criticised for appointing pro-homeopathy doctor: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/10/king-charles-criticised-appointing-homeopath-michael-dixon-head-royal-medical-household
Punxsutawney Phil predicts an early spring: https://apnews.com/article/groundhog-day-punxsutawney-phil-d73f9f79e4b5232bf573100136a6b86f
Republicans don't know how to count: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/congress-republicans-alejandro-mayorkas-impeachment-border-deal-failures_n_65c2d67ae4b093b2e7816d96
Truss’s PopCon group splinters on launch but attacks Sunak’s policies: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/06/popular-conservatism-has-splintered-but-is-united-in-criticism-of-sunaks-policies
Taylor Drift and Clark W. Blizzwald take top honors in Minnesota snowplow-naming contest: https://apnews.com/article/snowplow-contest-taylor-drift-blizzwald-beyonsleigh-0525c86addd6f8f4e579ccc3fd340238
Laurence Fox loses libel battle: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/jan/29/laurence-fox-loses-libel-battle-with-twitter-x-users-he-called-paedophiles
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:03.0 | Monday. |
| 0:05.0 | The The The |
| 0:08.0 | It's It's Monday. |
| 0:13.7 | February 12th. |
| 0:15.3 | And the word of the day is apostasize, which means to abandon firmly held principles |
| 0:20.9 | upon realizing their wrong. Used in a sentence, the |
| 0:24.0 | antonym of apostasize is to internet, the verb. You know I was absolutely |
| 0:30.1 | 100% certain that word meant something else but I stand corrected. I'm Michael |
| 0:35.8 | Marshall. I'm Eli Bosnick. I'm Heath Enright and broadcasting Delayed from |
| 0:39.6 | America and across the pond. We are the Skeptocrats. |
| 0:43.2 | On this week's episode, we unveil some horrifying Groundhog Day lore. |
| 0:47.8 | We find out just how popular the popular Conservatives are. |
| 0:51.5 | And Twitter deals with Russian misinformation for the very first time. |
| 0:58.0 | But first, the rest of the intro music. Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow sceptic |
| 1:20.0 | Michael Marshall and Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:21.8 | Gentlemen, happy, almost, Valentine's Day. |
| 1:24.8 | You have any romantic advice for a newly engaged person? |
| 1:28.4 | I mean, she agreed to marry you, so the playbook's kind of out the window, |
| 1:31.9 | you know, I don't really... sure. Yeah, but I'd say be more British |
| 1:36.1 | Suppress your feelings maintain a stoic exterior and just hope she picks things up from subtle context clues |
| 1:41.8 | So business as usual, heath, essentially. |
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