66: Skepticrat066 - After Nunes Delight Edition
The Skepticrat
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🗓️ 19 February 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode: Carl the Pugapegacorn starts shilling for the US government ... Fox News pines for the good old Olympic days of 1936 ... And Donald Trump calls "Memo tag, no backsies, no double stamps, timeout I twisted my ankle."
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Headline Sources:
Nunes memo gets released; rebuttal memo gets blocked: https://www.npr.org/2018/02/02/582666768/trump-leans-into-attack-on-fbi-as-clock-ticks-toward-release-of-nunes-memo https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/09/donald-trump-blocks-democrat-nunes-memo-russia
That's 4 school shootings in the US in 2018 alone: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/01/us/school-shootings-in-2018/index.html
Fox News column about too many negroes and gays in the Olympics: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/international/ct-spt-fox-news-olympics-diversity-column-pulled-20180210-story.html
Michael Cohen's new story about the Stormy Daniels payment: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-time-to-clear-the-air-about-stormy-daniels/2018/02/14/15803f4e-11be-11e8-9065-e55346f6de81story.html?utmterm=.cf91fae3bbee
Trump’s infrastructure plan is stupid: https://slate.com/business/2018/02/trump-infrastructure-plan-you-pay-for-it.html
Trump wants to replace SNAP with Blue Apron for poor people: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/13/opinions/trumps-blue-apron-type-plan-is-crumbs-to-the-poor-filipovic/index.html
Roundup Sources:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43092085
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/08/bermuda-repeal-same-sex-marriage
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43091248
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spacex-falcon-heavy-launch-20180206-story.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43039928
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-42976858
http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/29/news/companies/chief-wahoo-cleveland-indians/index.html
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/17/americas/mexico-helicopter-crash/index.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/think-commas-don-t-matter-omitting-one-cost-maine-dairy-n847151
http://metro.co.uk/2018/02/13/son-concorde-plane-fly-london-new-york-three-hours-7309260/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:03.0 | February 19th and the word of the day is Eesopian which means conveying meaning by hint |
| 0:20.1 | innuendo or euphemism. Using the sentence the phrase Americans are dreamers too |
| 0:26.3 | was actually a sappian language for I have a dream and it's the opposite of |
| 0:31.6 | Martin Luther King. |
| 0:33.0 | Trump's helicopter lands on the mountaintop. |
| 0:35.0 | Did you fucking walk? |
| 0:37.0 | What? |
| 0:38.0 | Stop screaming. |
| 0:39.0 | I landed on who? |
| 0:40.0 | I don't care. |
| 0:41.0 | I don't care. |
| 0:42.0 | I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I'm no illusions. I'm Eli Bosnick. |
| 0:45.6 | I'm Heath Enright and broadcasting delayed from America's far center. We are the Skeptocrats. |
| 0:52.4 | On this week's episode, |
| 0:54.0 | Carl the Pug of Pegricorn starts shilling for the U.S. government. |
| 0:57.0 | Fox Newsle pine for the good old Olympic days of 1936, |
| 1:01.0 | and Donald Trump calls memo tag no backsies no double stamps time out I |
| 1:06.0 | twisted my ankle and there's bone spurs in there. But first the rest of the |
| 1:11.7 | intro music. |
| 1:12.8 | Joining me for headlines tonight, |
| 1:19.4 | our fellow Skeptocrats, No illusions, and Eli Bosnick, Noah, Eli, everybody wants to know how much would |
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