48: Skepticrat048 Friendly Skies Edition
The Skepticrat
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2017
⏱️ 34 minutes
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On this week's episode: Eli isn't here because United Airlines needed the seat and they don't fuck around ... The dictionary people consider Post-Minitrue as the new word for White House ... And we get a new teaser trailer from the upcoming conclusion of the "World Wars" trilogy.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:03.0 | April 17th. And the word of the day is post truth, which means relating to circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public |
| 0:25.8 | opinion that appeals to emotion and personal belief. |
| 0:29.8 | Used in the sentence, post-truth was the Oxford English dictionary word of the year for |
| 0:35.6 | 2016 can't imagine why you know I know you're the sole arbiter on this but |
| 0:40.4 | squeegee is more fun to say so I kind of feel like that's the word of the day and I feel like the founding fathers would have agreed so they were going with that anyway I'm no illusions I'm he Thun Wright and broadcasting delayed from America's far center. We are |
| 0:56.7 | the Skeptocrats. On this week's episode Eli won't be here because United Airlines |
| 1:00.8 | needed the seat and they don't fuck around. |
| 1:03.3 | The dictionary people consider post-minitru as the new word for White House. |
| 1:08.5 | And we get a new teaser trailer from the upcoming conclusion of the World Wars trilogy. But first the roundup. |
| 1:17.5 | On the news wire tonight. In response to a lawsuit filed by Twitter last week, the Department of Homeland Security withdrew its order that the social media company revealed the identity of somebody who is being mean to Donald Trump. |
| 1:32.0 | In related news, thanks to an injunction, 2 plus 2 will |
| 1:36.4 | continue equaling 4, at least for the moment. Fingers crossed. In response to |
| 1:41.4 | recent US naval deployments deployments North Korea announced its |
| 1:43.9 | readiness to declare war on the United States. For comparison this is only |
| 1:48.3 | about two orders of magnitude less silly than puzzle in a thunderstorm |
| 1:51.6 | entertainment declaring its readiness to declare war on North Korea. |
| 1:55.0 | I bet Andrews a scrapper. |
| 1:58.0 | Stand up his wheelhouse North Korea. |
| 2:01.0 | In string theory, one computer science guy is going to In String Theory |
| 2:03.4 | one computer science guy is going to be psyched about this one |
| 2:06.1 | According to me doing a control F on a news aggregator page this week if a headline contains the characters a l hyphen it involves people dying |
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