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270: Skepticrat270 - Taipei Personality Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

News, Government, Politics

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: Marsh will explain British elections just in time for the empire to fall ... Donald Trump gets through his China visit without jumping out of the car at a red light and running around it ... and Trump supporters still won't have their gold phones.

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Headlines sources:

Trump’s China summit: https://www.opb.org/article/2026/05/15/key-takeaways-from-trumps-china-trip/

England Local election results 2026:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2026/england/results#council-scoreboard 

The More Than 30 Scandal-Hit Reform Candidates Elected Last Week:
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/05/12/the-more-than-30-scandal-hit-reform-candidates-elected-last-week/

How Mamdani and Hochul Are Solving New York City’s Budget Crisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/nyregion/mamdani-budget-nyc.html

Trump phone shenanigans: https://www.pcmag.com/news/after-delays-scam-accusations-trump-mobile-says-t1-phone-ships-this-week
https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/nation-world/trump-mobile-shipping-gold-t1-phones-after-nearly-a-year-of-delays/507-28f15b24-fc2a-45b0-bea1-23effcad36b5

Favorites to Win Eurovision:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/arts/music/eurovision-song-contest-favorites.html

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:01.9

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0:21.5

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0:23.8

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0:26.8

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0:41.1

It's Monday.

0:42.9

It's May 18th.

0:47.5

And the word of the day is conctation, which means the act of deliberately putting something off.

0:51.0

Used in a sentence, if you don't have a word of the day on account of your conctation,

0:54.1

it turns out you can just Google obscure synonym for procrastination.

0:57.1

Yeah, I mean, I was going to write something here, but I was going to leave it till Heath's back.

1:00.6

It's not that I immediately think of Heath when I hear cunk.

1:05.8

Oh, see, now my job there is just a yes-and-Marsh's joke.

1:08.0

So if he's waiting for Heath, I have to wait for March to wait for Heath.

1:09.9

We've fallen apart early.

1:12.1

Damn it, I'm no illusions.

1:13.8

I'm Michael Marshall.

1:20.0

I'm Eli Bosnick in broadcasting delay from America's far center. We are the skeptocrats.

1:25.2

On this week's episode, Marshall will explain British elections just in time for the empire to fall.

1:29.5

Donald Trump gets through his whole China visit without jumping out of a car at a red light and running around it.

1:32.4

And my country will burn through leaders so quickly,

1:35.4

I might be Prime Minister by the time you hear this.

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