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The Skepticrat

266: Skepticrat266 - Poly Noemial Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

News, Government, Politics

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: The news plays our least favorite repeats of the 90s ... Reform UK will tell us that voting for any party other than them is cheating ... And Kristi Noem gets old yellered but she might need to get shot by a puppy if she wanders back.

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Headline Sources:

War with Iran:

https://www.theinternet.boingsploosh.net
Polymarket bans "nuclear detonation" bets:
https://ground.news/article/2a768216-a0a1-44c0-8b14-e57702bfe1fb

Lord Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office - BBC News: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cew8jde9pxqt
Andrew released under investigation after arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office - BBC News: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx28yel4811o

Callers to Washington State hotline press 2 for Spanish and get accented AI English instead:
https://apnews.com/article/washington-dol-spanish-accent-ai-3a1b8438a5674c07242a8d48c057d5a3

Kristi Noem fired and replaced with a guy named Markwayne:
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/politics/kristi-noem-lost-trump-markwayne-mullin

Green party wins Gorton and Denton byelection, pushing Labour to third place: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/27/green-party-wins-gorton-and-denton-byelection-in-blow-to-keir-starmer
Reform and Tories report ‘family voting’ allegations to watchdog | Byelections | The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/27/family-voting-allegations-gorton-and-denton-byelection-tories-reform-watchdog

Osaka stunned by anonymous gold bar gift worth $3.6M to fix aging water pipes:
https://apnews.com/article/japan-osaka-gold-donation-water-pipes-2f2e68017b7b041858c2de46a67be7ab

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Monday.

0:14.0

It's March 9th.

0:16.0

And the word of the day is Kittle-pitchering, which means preventing someone from telling a long and boring story by

0:22.1

interrupting them. Used in a sentence, the etymology of Kittlepitchering. I'm Mike's alive.

0:27.7

Eli-Bosnik, I'm Eli-Boss. I'm Heathenright. And broadcasting delayed from America's

0:33.3

Far Center and across the pond. We are the skeptocrats. Oh, this week's episode.

0:38.0

The news plays our least favorite repeats of the 90s.

0:41.3

Reform UK will tell us that voting for any party other than them is cheating.

0:46.1

And Christy Noem gets old Yellard, but she might need to get shot by a puppy if she wanders back.

0:52.1

But first, the rest of the intro music. Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow skeptic rats, Michael Marshall and Eli Bosnick, gentlemen.

1:22.2

Winter's almost over. So you looking forward to the spring of our discontent?

1:27.1

Yeah. Hey, good job locking the guy who's

1:29.2

interested in young princes in the tower this time as opposed to the other way right. He nailed it.

1:34.3

I'm confused though. I thought Vulgarity for charity was your discontent. Okay, that's excellent.

1:41.7

Yeah, we've got discontent and discontent all seasons.

1:44.9

It's just, it's a big cycle.

1:46.2

It stays.

1:47.0

We stay discontent and discontent.

1:49.5

In our lead story tonight, we've always been at war with Iran and Venezuela and East Asia.

1:56.9

And I don't know, maybe some people in Ecuador now, too, something with that.

2:01.4

Lots of fly around the world and blowing stuff up.

2:04.6

Despite Donald Trump running on the platform of not doing well exactly this, there's, of course, the Epstein files.

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