250: Skepticrat250 - Feud for Thought Edition
The Skepticrat
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
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🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Headline Sources:
Best worst best best messy breakup fight of all time: https://www.cnn.com/business/timeline-elon-musk-trump-x-dg
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-musk-timeline-twitter-truth-social-apology-regret-b2767891.html
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/politics/musk-vance-wiles-phone-call
Trump’s expensive stupid teeny tiny parade: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/13/us/trump-military-parade.html
And wanting to use it on protesters: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/politics/trump-military-parade-protests.html
Democratic lawmaker forcibly removed from Kristi Noem’s press conference: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ygn48djrko
NYC mayor's race in final stretch with Andrew Cuomo somehow still in front: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/nyregion/debate-takeaways-mayor-nyc.html
Mamdani and Lander cross-endorse each other to leverage ranked-choice voting: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/nyregion/mamdani-lander-endorsement-nyc-mayor.html
New China trade ‘deal’ takes US back to where it started: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/politics/us-china-trade-deal-trump.html
Anti-Trump protests are yuge: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/14/no-kings-protests-anti-trump-rallies-us/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:14.0 | And it's June 16th. |
| 0:15.7 | And the word of the day is married. |
| 0:18.8 | Used in a sentence, I'm getting married, y'all. |
| 0:20.4 | What? |
| 0:21.3 | No, Heath, you and Anne are the fucking prize. Married is getting married. Used in a sentence, I'm getting married, y'all. What? No, Heath, you and Anne are the fucking prize. |
| 0:24.2 | Married is getting y'all. |
| 0:26.1 | Yes, by me. |
| 0:27.2 | Thank you. |
| 0:28.1 | Yes. |
| 0:28.8 | I'm no illusions. |
| 0:30.5 | I'm Eli Bosnick. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Heath Henwright. |
| 0:33.1 | And broadcasting delayed from America's Far Center. |
| 0:35.4 | We are the Skempagrots. |
| 0:37.1 | Oh! This week's episode, we'll go full tea on the Musk-Trump breakup. |
| 0:41.4 | At least 1.6% of America shows up to make sure Trump has a shitty birthday. |
| 0:46.0 | And I'm getting married. |
| 0:48.1 | He is. |
| 0:48.5 | Yeah, he is. |
| 0:49.9 | But first, the rest of the intro music. |
| 1:20.9 | Music. But first, the rest of the intro music. joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow skeptic rats no illusions in eli bosnik gentlemen i'm getting married so uh any advice for the noob? Never go to bed angry. |
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