251: Skepticrat251 - Peace Prize Fighter Edition
The Skepticrat
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Headline Sources:
Big Beautiful Bill’s passage in serious question: http://npr.org/2025/06/25/nx-s1-5445185/trump-gop-megabill-senate
Can Mamdani’s Energetic Campaign Be a Blueprint for Democrats?: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/us/politics/mamdani-campaign-democrats.html
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/maga-bigots-are-losing-their-minds-over-a-muslim-socialist-possibly-becoming-nycs-mayor/
Bombing Iran but isolationist style: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/us/politics/trump-iran-decision-strikes.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-program-israeli-us-attacks.html#link-58d1cda
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9x809vgrro
Noah's idiot congressman nominates Trump for peace prize: https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-sycophant-buddy-carter-leads-charge-to-get-trump-a-nobel-peace-prize/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/25/pakistan-trump-nobel-peace-prize-nomination-iran-strikes https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-nobel-peace-prize-nomination-withdrawn-ukraine-russia-2089818
A Boise Bar’s “Hetero Awesome Fest” Was a Straight-Up Flop: https://www.them.us/story/boise-bar-hetero-awesome-fest-daniel-hamrick-protest-song
https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/dozens-attend-hetero-festival-in-idaho-boise/277-64864d25-d10a-49d8-bb05-57b943c08ab8
Matt Gaetz's embarrassing text conversation with his mom is revealed by person sitting behind him on a plane: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14842867/matt-gaetz-messages-mother-advice-trump.html
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Did you know that if you are 20 years old now, there's a chance your great grandparents might have met thanks to computer dating? |
| 0:08.8 | Did you know that under their main tongue, lemurs have another tongue? |
| 0:13.2 | I did know that because you and I, Andy, and I'm James, are host of the podcast No Such Thing as a Fish a British podcast |
| 0:21.0 | all about facts |
| 0:22.1 | That's right |
| 0:22.9 | We have two other co-hosts |
| 0:24.3 | Dan and Anna |
| 0:25.1 | Every week we tell you a selection |
| 0:26.9 | of the most amazing, hilarious |
| 0:28.2 | bizarre, wonderful information |
| 0:29.7 | that you've never heard before |
| 0:31.0 | It happens every week |
| 0:32.2 | and it's called |
| 0:32.8 | No Such Thing as a Fish |
| 0:34.7 | Find it wherever you get your podcasts |
| 0:36.4 | Now what's all this about computer dating? |
| 0:52.4 | It's Monday. |
| 0:53.7 | It's Monday. |
| 0:55.6 | It's June 30th. |
| 1:00.6 | And the word of the day is magniloquent, which means using high-flown language. |
| 1:05.8 | Using a sentence, if you write a book about your humble roots called hillbilly elegy, and then get a job translating Donald Trump into magniloquent nonsense. |
| 1:14.1 | You're maginiloquent and you killed the Pope. |
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