257: Skepticrat257 - Eyes Wide Shutdown Edition
The Skepticrat
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🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Hegseth and Trump lecture generals and admirals: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/us/politics/hegseth-military-officers.html
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/30/hegseth-meeting-pushback-00588181
Government shuts down, Trump DESPERATELY blames Democrats: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crrj1znp0pyo
MAGA has racist, homophobic meltdown over Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/demonic-maga-has-homophobic-meltdown-over-bad-bunnys-super-bowl-performance/
Trump claims the UN sabotaged his escalator and teleprompter at UNGA: https://www.npr.org/2025/09/25/nx-s1-5553272/trump-escalator-united-nations-investigation
Iranian diplomats attending UNGA banned from Costco: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/world/middleeast/iran-diplomats-costco-ban-trump.html
Stuck in Traffic, French President Macron Calls Trump About His Motorcade: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/us/macron-trump-unga-motorcade.html
A zoo in Denmark asked patrons to donate their pets for food:
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/06/nx-s1-5493363/denmark-zoo-donate-pets-feeding-animals
Trump wants his face on a dollar coin: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/03/treasury-department-trump-dollar-coin-00593368
Transcript
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| 0:33.6 | It's Monday. |
| 0:35.6 | It's October 6th. And the word of the day is Tamaloo, a French name for an older person who greets |
| 0:40.3 | their friends by saying, Tamauloo, or where does it hurt? |
| 0:44.3 | Using the sentence, in the same week, I became a Tamaloo and took some Tamiflu. |
| 0:49.3 | So I don't think I'm a Tamaloo because I just, I don't care how other people feel. |
| 0:54.6 | Yeah, yeah. And I told you, the superpowers only kick in if your mom takes the Thailand on. You got to pay attention to RFK Jr. You don't. You don't have to. I am no illusions. I'm Eli Bosnick. I'm Heath Enright. And broadcasting delayed from America's Far Center. We are the Skepocrats. On this week's episode, Trump gives the troops a talking to. |
| 1:14.2 | Republicans get bored. casting delayed from America's Far Center. We are the skeptocrats. On this week's episode, Trump gives the troops a talking to. |
| 1:14.1 | Republicans get more frightened by a bunny than anyone since Arthurian, England. |
| 1:18.1 | And ICE completely missed a big opportunity at the UN General Assembly. |
| 1:23.4 | But first, the rest of the intro music. |
| 1:36.9 | Music. But first, the rest of the intro music. Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow skeptic rats, |
| 1:39.6 | No illusions in Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:41.2 | Gentlemen, Tom Al-U, where does it, where has it hurt right now? Right in the America, Heath. It's right here in my America. Yeah. Yeah, hey, man, offering that as a comedy prompt to a grieving man is like playing funny on expert mode and I appreciate your vote of confidence, Heath. Boing, body brain, America hurts. It's all fucking hurting. |
| 2:02.7 | In our lead story tonight, Fox News weekend co-hosts and head of the U.S. military, the entire thing, Pete Hagseth, made some very important announcements last week. |
| 2:14.7 | He summoned generals and admirals posted all over the world to Virginia |
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