56: Skepticrat056 - Charlottesvillain Edition
The Skepticrat
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2017
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Trump and Tall Tyler get this whole North Korea thing settled ... "Impending nuclear war" will manage to basically fall out of the news cycle ... And we break down how accurate the President was with his "ranking of the races" that he did completely unironically this week.
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Headline Links:
Trump's response to Charlottesville: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-defends-all-sides-comment-n793001 http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/19/politics/trump-remarks-alt-right/index.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-charlottesville-comments-were-just-another-distraction/2017/08/18/97e6d106-8365-11e7-902a-2a9f2d808496story.html?utmterm=.205b0cc1516c
Nazis starting to get kicked off the internet: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/14/daily-stormer-alt-right-google-go-daddy-charlottesville
Boston free speech rally fizzles out: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/boston-free-speech-rally-ends-early/
The White House quits the show: http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/18/news/donald-trump-carl-icahn/index.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/celebrities/article167952232.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/14/intel-ceo-quit-trumps-manufacturing-council.html
Steve Bannon forced to resign: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/steve-bannon-white-house-chief-strategist/story?id=49295772
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Preparations everything in this game. Some things can catch you like a heavy challenge on a cold Tuesday night in stoke. |
| 0:06.4 | Or not having your full pension when you're ready for it. |
| 0:08.7 | Happened to me, providers gone bust. But mine was FSCS protected, the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. |
| 0:16.0 | Every year thousands of people lose money in their pension. |
| 0:19.0 | FSCS can protect your money when authorized financial providers and advisors go bust. |
| 0:24.7 | It's down to you to check your pensions protected. |
| 0:28.3 | Search FSCS online. |
| 0:29.8 | Hey folks, Eli here with a quick public service announcement put down your phone |
| 0:39.0 | We know the world is fucked right now, but you've been listening to CNN for three hours. |
| 0:44.4 | Put it down. |
| 0:45.4 | Yes, you should absolutely care what's going on right now. |
| 0:48.8 | You should absolutely be horrified by everything going on, |
| 0:52.4 | but you also need to change your shirt. |
| 0:54.6 | Seriously, look at your shirt. |
| 0:56.0 | Because you can't help other people if you're not okay. |
| 0:59.4 | You okay? |
| 1:01.4 | You don't look okay. |
| 1:02.4 | You look like you spent the last 84 hours yelling at your uncle on Facebook. |
| 1:05.8 | Don't, don't do that. Take it from me. Put it down. |
| 1:09.6 | There are a lot of things you can do right now. You can volunteer, you can donate to a |
| 1:14.2 | charity or a school, you can be kind to the people you love. But you can't do any of |
| 1:19.7 | those things if you've reduced yourself to a shambling, screaming, overworked, |
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