269: Skepticrat269 - Kash Heap of History Edition
The Skepticrat
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode: Claude takes a proactive approach to the tech sector ... Another would-be Trump assassin turns out to be as inept as his intended victim ... And Trump realizes that if you fire all of science, the lying thing works itself out in payroll.
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Headline Sources:
White House Correspondents' Dinner attack: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/27/politics/conspiracy-theories-whcd-attack
Claude-powered AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/claude-ai-deletes-firm-database
King Prince Charles lectures America on the dangers of monarchy: https://apnews.com/article/king-charles-us-state-visit-trump-congress-4cd294e6333b4a9ba7ada2af4dd71aa9
Kash Patel sues The Atlantic for pointing out he's drunk all the time: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/kash-patel-fbi-director-drinking-absences/686839/
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/kash-patels-implausible-lawsuit-against-the-atlantic
Trump fires entire advisory board of National Science Foundation: https://apnews.com/article/national-science-board-nsf-trump-6a23f3ab1b4c6eb131b4e79d95b3536f
Everest guides accused of poisoning foreign climbers to force fake rescues in $20m scam: https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/mount-everest-climb-nepal-insurance-scam-sherpa-poisoning-b2952027.html#
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:14.0 | It's May the 4th. |
| 0:16.0 | And the word of the day is Gungusler, which means a person who finds great joy in idle staring, specifically |
| 0:22.9 | at boats on a canal. |
| 0:24.7 | Huh. Using the sentence, we didn't need a dedicated word for that, but I enjoy saying |
| 0:29.7 | Gondgoosler. |
| 0:30.5 | A hundred percent. |
| 0:31.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:32.5 | It really makes you wonder what was going on in the person's life that they felt the need |
| 0:35.0 | to label that specifically though, right? |
| 0:37.2 | Something crazy. Well, stepfather, since you insist on knowing what I do all day. in the person's life that they felt the need to label that specifically, though, right? |
| 0:41.5 | Well, stepfather, since you insist on knowing what I do all day. |
| 0:43.9 | I'm no illusions. |
| 0:45.3 | I'm Eli Bosnick. |
| 0:46.1 | I'm Heathenright. |
| 0:48.5 | And broadcasting delayed from America's Far Center. |
| 0:50.2 | We are the skeptocrats. |
| 0:55.0 | Oh, this week's episode, Claude takes a proactive approach to the tech sector. |
| 0:59.0 | Another would-be Trump assassin turns out to be as inept as his intended victim. |
| 1:04.9 | And Trump realizes that if you fire all of science, the lying thing kind of works itself out in peril. |
| 1:07.6 | But first, the rest of the intro music. |
| 1:20.4 | Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow skepticrats, no illusions, |
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