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262: Skepticrat262 - Klanifest Destiny Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

News, Government, Politics

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: We’ll talk about the most dangerous ICE on the roads ... Elon Musk will show us what he really meant about making Twitter the everything app ... And the original 6-7 is a sex thing that came from Monica Geller on Friends.

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Headline Sources:

ICE agent Jonathan Ross executes Renee Good: https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/09/us/ice-shooting-minneapolis-renee-good-cell-phone-invs
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/politics/trump-minnesota-ice-shooting-video.html
We took Venezuela:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/us/politics/trump-capture-maduro-venezuela.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/09/trump-machado-meet-peace-prize/

Elon Musk’s Grok Apologizes After Generating Sexual Image of Young Girls: https://www.newsweek.com/grok-apology-deepfake-images-sexualized-young-women-pornography-11297025 
Elon Musk's Grok AI image editing limited to paid X users after deepfakes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c99kn52nx9do 

Betty Boop and Blondie enter the public domain: 
https://apnews.com/article/public-domain-2026-betty-boop-40cb2f7a30ba9d7aec0bfc9191ab02c1

Trump says he's taking Greenland too: https://ground.news/article/us-weighs-paying-greenlanders-up-to-100-000-to-leave-denmark-reuters_076ad6
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/world/americas/trump-greenland-annex.html

Ten found guilty of cyber-bullying Brigitte Macron: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78v6z7597yo

Viral ‘6-7' tops 2025 list of overused words and phrases: https://apnews.com/article/2025-words-slang-phrases-list-university-67-59f896e28b7b16edfdfcc453a8af388a

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Monday.

0:13.5

It's January 12th.

0:15.5

And the word of the day is emordnilap, which means a word that produces another word when spelled backwards. Used in

0:23.2

the sentence, the phrase, emordinalap palindrome is an emordinalap palindrome. Okay, you can't

0:30.3

just make up a word that's another word backwards and then define it as a new word. It's like me putting

0:36.0

two letters in a crossword box, okay?

0:39.0

Whereas, ironically, given the new Pope,

0:41.1

Bob is now both a palindrome and a pal in Rome.

0:44.6

So that's fun.

0:47.2

I'm Michael Marshall.

0:48.8

I'm Eli Bosnick.

0:49.9

I'm Heath Enright.

0:50.9

Broadcasting Delayed from America's Far Center and across the pond.

0:54.0

We are the skepticrets.

0:55.6

On this week's episode, we'll talk about the most dangerous ice on the roads.

0:59.7

Elon Musk takes another step towards making Twitter truly the everything app.

1:04.3

And the original 6-7 is a sex thing that came from Monica Geller on Friends.

1:09.9

That's important.

1:10.9

But first, the rest of the intro music.

1:17.0

Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow skepticrats, Michael Marshall and Eli Bosnick.

1:21.6

Gentlemen, happy New Year.

1:24.3

Any resolutions for a super chill, chill, chill, chill, 26? I want to enable

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