270: Skepticrat270 - Taipei Personality Edition
The Skepticrat
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.8 • 2.1K 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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| 0:41.1 | 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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