262: Skepticrat262 - Klanifest Destiny Edition
The Skepticrat
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.8 • 2.1K 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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