223: Skepticrat223 - Lie Social Edition
The Skepticrat
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🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Headline Sources:
Bipartisan coalition in the House pass aid for Ukraine and Israel: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/20/house-vote-ukraine-israel-aid-johnson/
AMC Exec: "We wouldn't have made the Dune popcorn if we knew you'd be sickos about it": https://gizmodo.com/dune-2-popcorn-bucket-amc-regrets-wormussy-1851397128
Truth Social is a giant failure: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/truth-social-drama-donald-trump-lawsuits-ipo-1234999198/
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-social-media-stock-2667811934/
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/03/trump-media-is-the-most-expensive-us-stock-to-short-by-far.html
High speed rail line between LA and Vegas breaks ground this week: https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/04/20/high-speed-rail-construction-california-las-vegas/
Lady takes her dead uncle to the bank for a loan: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/17/brazil-woman-corpse-bank-fraud
Judge reads roasty memes from prospective jurors and Trump has to sit there quietly: https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-jury-selection-hush-money-case-social-media-rcna148168
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:03.0 | April. |
| 0:05.0 | It's Monday. It's Monday. |
| 0:07.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:11.0 | It's April 22nd. |
| 0:15.0 | And the term of the day is kangaroo word, which means a word that contains the letters of a synonym inside of it. |
| 0:22.0 | Hat-tip to Don A for the idea. |
| 0:24.5 | Used in a sentence, two examples of a kangaroo word |
| 0:27.4 | are honorable, which contains noble, and also |
| 0:31.0 | libertarian, which contains liar. |
| 0:33.6 | Okay, I'm just glad to hear that kangaroo word wasn't your substitute for a |
| 0:38.2 | slur about Australians, so you're a weird way to start the show. |
| 0:41.6 | The fact that Australian contains stain can't be just a coincidence at this point can't it though |
| 0:45.9 | I'm no illusions I'm Eli Bosnick I'm Heath Henwright and Broadcasting Delayed from America's far center, we are the Skeptocrats. |
| 0:54.4 | On this week's episode, people are dying for loans in Brazil. |
| 0:58.9 | We'll finally break our silence on history's most fuckable popcorn bucket. |
| 1:02.4 | And Donald Trump is losing big... on history's most fuckable popcorn bucket. |
| 1:02.6 | And Donald Trump is losing bigly at everything, |
| 1:07.2 | except for national polling something. |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.0 | But first, the rest of the intro music. |
| 1:13.4 | Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow skeptic rats, no illusions, |
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