258: Skepticrat258 - Young Republicans Chat the Bed Edition
The Skepticrat
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🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Headline Sources:
Young Republicans' group chat: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146
NYC mayoral race debate featuring Mamdani, Cuomo, and Sliwa: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/16/nyregion/nyc-mayor-debate-mamdani-cuomo-sliwa
RFK Jr. v Tylenol continues: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/reupping-unproven-claims-about-tylenol-kennedy-claims-a-link-between-circumcision-and-autism
DHS claims that Mexican cartels are offering bounties on ICE officers up to $50,000: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/16/mexico-sheinbaum-cartel-bounties-immigration-officials
Bari Weiss is now editor-in-chief of CBS News:
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/queer-anti-woke-journalist-bari-weiss-is-now-cbs-news-editor-in-chief-thats-troubling/
Everything going very badly for Dr. Phil: https://slate.com/business/2025/10/dr-phil-mcgraw-donald-trump-merit-media-maga.html
https://www.nationalmemo.com/dr-phil-bankrupt
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:13.0 | It's October 20th. |
| 0:15.0 | And the word of the day is Tansmore. |
| 0:18.0 | It's a Danish word that describes bread that's buttered so thickly. |
| 0:22.8 | You could see tooth marks in the butter after every bite. |
| 0:25.4 | Oh, fucking gross. |
| 0:26.2 | Used in a sentence, lexicographer Susie Dent has amazing words of the day like Tansmore. |
| 0:31.2 | Literal translation, tooth butter. |
| 0:33.1 | What the fuck is going on in Denmark where somebody was like, there really needs to be a word for this. |
| 0:38.7 | Deliciousness is what was going on. I'll tell you what. Deliciousness. |
| 0:42.6 | Yeah. I'm no illusions. I'm Eli Bosnick. |
| 0:45.5 | I'm Heathenright. And broadcasting delayed from America's Far Center. We are the skeptic. |
| 0:50.1 | This week's episode, RFK Jr. tries to give Tylenol credit for my son's sweet puzzle skills. |
| 0:56.1 | J.D. Vance explains that Hitler was just a young guy making offensive jokes. |
| 1:00.4 | And Dr. Phil is a very sad failure. |
| 1:03.4 | But first, the rest of the intro music. |
| 1:05.8 | Music. Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow skeptic rats, no illusions in Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:21.0 | Gentlemen, QED coming right up. Any bold predictions for the weekend? |
| 1:27.3 | Eli Bosnick becomes the first person to win both skeptic of the year and the Rusty Razor |
| 1:31.9 | award in the same year. |
| 1:33.3 | Ooh. |
| 1:34.0 | Exciting. |
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