256: Skepticrat256 - NSFK Edition
The Skepticrat
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
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🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Headline Sources:
Kimmel got pulled because of government coercion:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/us/politics/supreme-court-jimmy-kimmel-free-speech.html
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/business/timeline-jimmy-kimmel-suspension-vis
Thousands of St George's flags have gone up in UK cities and towns: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c626vxyxgj6o
‘Operation Raise the Colours’ Organised by Well-Known Far-Right Extremists: https://hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/22/operation-raise-the-colours-organised-by-well-known-far-right-extremists/
Kennedy’s Vaccine Panel Votes to Limit Access to Covid Shots: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/health/cdc-vaccines-mmrv-hepatitis-b.html
Far-right London rally sees record crowds and violent clashes with police: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/13/unite-the-kingdom-far-right-rally-london-tommy-robinson-police-assaulted
Elon Musk calls for dissolution of parliament at far-right rally in London: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/13/elon-musk-calls-for-dissolution-of-parliament-at-far-right-rally-in-london
Police seek man who called for Keir Starmer to be ‘assassinated’ at far-right rally: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/14/police-seek-man-called-keir-starmer-assassinated-far-right-rally
Meet the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winners: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/09/meet-the-2025-ig-nobel-prize-winners/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Building a coffee business? |
| 0:01.9 | Serving the best Americano in town is up to you. |
| 0:04.1 | But winning back time and growing your business, |
| 0:06.1 | leave that to SumUp. |
| 0:07.1 | Take orders and payments anywhere with the new SumUp terminal. |
| 0:09.9 | Turn occasional customers into regulars with a free loyalty program. |
| 0:13.4 | And with the SumUp point of sale system, |
| 0:15.0 | you'll always know when you're running low on your best-selling blends. |
| 0:17.9 | Visit sumup.co.uk to learn more. |
| 0:42.2 | It's September 22nd. And the word of the day is theic, which means one given to a moderate tea drinking, a tea drunkard. |
| 0:47.1 | Used in a sentence, I'm not a drunkard, I'm a Long Island iced teac. |
| 0:53.9 | Yeah, where I come from, tea drinking is practically a religion and a way of life, so I'd consider myself a classical T-ist. |
| 0:57.5 | Yeah, and I am cutting it with milk and sugar, so there you have it. |
| 0:59.7 | I'm Michael Marshall. |
| 1:00.8 | I'm Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:04.7 | I'm Heathenwright, a broadcasting delay from America's Far Center and Across the Pond. |
| 1:06.5 | We are the skeptocrats. |
| 1:11.6 | On this week's episode, the Trump administration sentences the nation to Jimmy Fallon. |
| 1:16.1 | British racists will show off their patriotism in a roundabout way. |
| 1:18.8 | And we learn about the worst science of the year. |
| 1:22.6 | And then we talk about the Ig Nobel Prizes after RFK Jr. |
| 1:26.4 | But first, the rest of the intro music. |
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