It's Monday.

It's December 15th.

And the word of the day is persiflage, which means light and slightly contemptuous mockery or banter.

Used in the sentence, Anne and I like to do a little persiflage sometimes.

But then we both usually take the bit way too far, and the only people who understand us are

Marsh and Nicol, which is nice.

Oh, yeah, me and Nicola go all the way to persifagulation sometimes.

It gets rough. For the record, Marsha and Nicola are very mild for your average British couple. She almost never closes her fist, you know? I'm Michael Marshall. I'm Eli Bosnick. I'm Heath Henwright. And broadcasting delayed from America's Far Center and across the pond. We are the skeptocrats. On this week's episode, Cash Patel called Shotgun.

We will be shocked to find out what a young Nigel Farage thought about the Jews and brown people.

And Eli's a gnarc about medical marijuana.

But first, the rest of the intro music.

Music. But first, the rest of the intro music. In our lead story tonight, lots of bad stuff going on.

We've got a fascist lunatic running our country doing bigot crusades.

We're inventing wars to justify war crimes, I think, to justify.

It's a confusing one.

But also, I'm eating some delightful corn beef from the awesome deli

down the street and I'm not wearing pants right now.

It's crazy.

I feel like the dog inside the house that's on fire from that meme, but I'm lucky

enough to be in the part of the house that's not burning yet. And that's kind of how sanity works

right now. We compartmentalize. We can't avoid terrible news entirely, but we get to choose which

terrible stuff, at least for the show. And that's why we're going to be talking

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