222: Skepticrat222 - Apoceclipse Now Edition
The Skepticrat
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🗓️ 8 April 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Headline Sources:
Eclipse conspiracy theories:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/conspiracy-theory-eclipse-illinois
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/conspiracies-orbit-the-upcoming-april-8-2024-solar-eclipse
Biggest Tory donor said looking at Diane Abbott makes you ‘want to hate all black women’: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/11/biggest-tory-donor-looking-diane-abbott-hate-all-black-women
Rishi Sunak says he won't return money from donor Frank Hester who is accused of racism: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-68554476
Invaders from underground are coming in cicada-geddon: https://apnews.com/article/periodical-cicada-invasion-bugs-everywhere-locusts-evolution-e57f708cdcf144a20fe8f694e95b5d44
SCOTUS to weigh in on interpreting a very clear law that was broken on January 6th: https://www.vox.com/scotus/2024/3/25/24108640/supreme-court-january-6-insurrection-fischer-united-states-obstruct
Boat Race rowers told not to enter Thames due to high levels of E. coli: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68674088
Raw sewage spills into England rivers and seas doubles in 2023: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68665335
Children race to collect marshmallows dropped from a helicopter at a Detroit-area park: https://apnews.com/article/marshmallow-helicopter-children-park-spring-ebc354cd8c8203ad835e4908158df63a
MP William Wragg tells paper he is sorry for sharing private phone numbers: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68731683
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:03.0 | April 8th. It's Monday. |
| 0:14.0 | April 8th. |
| 0:15.0 | And the word of the day is pandiculation, which means the act of yawning and stretching at the |
| 0:20.8 | same time. |
| 0:21.8 | Used in the sentence, when I take part in |
| 0:24.0 | pandiculation, I usually end up making a noise that I describe as |
| 0:27.8 | curious pterodactyl? |
| 0:31.0 | Pandeculation. Do you know that's actually British for you are my guest and you have now overstayed your welcome? |
| 0:37.4 | See I thought you were just really tired during QED. |
| 0:41.4 | It can be both. It can be both. It can be both. I'm Eli Bosnick. I'm Michael Marshall. |
| 0:46.4 | I'm Heath Enright and Broadcasting Delayed from America's Far Center and across the pond. We are the Skepocrats on this week's episode the world finds a new way to bug no illusions |
| 0:57.2 | we reveal Rishi Sunak's cunning plan to bankrupt every wealthy Tory racist. |
| 1:03.0 | And it might be the end times because of a shadow. |
| 1:07.0 | But first, the rest of the intro music. joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow skeptic rats Michael Marshall and |
| 1:21.0 | Eli Bosnick gentlemen it's Solar Eclipse Day |
| 1:24.8 | as this is releasing, so happy, uh, coincidence |
| 1:29.8 | of geometry in space. |
| 1:32.1 | Right, it is just geometry. I totally agree. I'll co-sign that. |
| 1:37.0 | You know, happy, happy we're all in a cold. |
| 1:40.0 | Okay, that last one is a music pun marsh. That doesn't make any sense. |
| 1:44.0 | That's stupid. |
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