69: Skeptricrat069 - Nice and New and Smart Edition
The Skepticrat
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
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🗓️ 16 April 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode: WAR! Are we sure it's good for anything? Because it feels like we're gonna have a lot ... John Bolton and a carpenter trick a bunch of clams ... And Mark Zuckerberg explains to the US Senate how to redeem their 50 free hours on AOL.
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Headline Sources:
FBI raids Michael Cohen's office: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/us/politics/fbi-raids-office-of-trumps-longtime-lawyer-michael-cohen.html
US Coalition attacks syria over chemical weapons attack: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/world/middleeast/trump-strikes-syria-attack.html
Zuckerberg questioned by Senate regarding Cambridge Analytica and data usage: http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-zuckerberg-testimony-20180410-story.html
Paul Ryan sees writing on the wall: https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/house-speaker-paul-ryan-will-not-seek-reelection-he-tells-friends-and-colleagues/2018/04/11/0d2719e4-3d83-11e8-8d53-eba0ed2371ccstory.html?utmterm=.9ca28451dc3d
Comey book to be released this week: https://www.npr.org/2018/04/13/602106492/in-a-higher-loyalty-james-comey-describes-an-unethical-untethered-president
Somebody finally explains the TPP to Trump and he wants back in: http://time.com/5238220/donald-trump-rejoin-trans-pacific-partnership/
Roundup Sources:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-43762251
https://news.sky.com/story/worlds-oldest-man-revealed-as-112-year-old-masazo-nonaka-11324957
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/apr/05/conor-mcgregor-ufc-media-day-ruckus
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liberman-says-idf-will-not-change-open-fire-policy-on-gaza-border
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/03/us/indiana-firefighters-plane-collision/index.html
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Trafford Center Elves have built a massive choice of festive events. |
| 0:04.0 | Your mission is to try them all. |
| 0:07.0 | We don't do just normal Christmas fun at Trafford Center. |
| 0:11.0 | We do Christmas fun! Make memories with Santa and the Elves in the grotto. |
| 0:16.0 | Glide with friends around our covered ice rink. Ride. |
| 0:20.0 | Enjoy all the thrills of Tinsultown with the whole family. |
| 0:24.0 | The chrismassive events and now on. |
| 0:26.0 | Book your experience at TraffordCenter.co. UK. It's Monday. |
| 0:33.0 | April 16th. Monday. |
| 0:43.0 | It's April 16th. |
| 0:44.0 | And the word of the day is Palimpsest, which means a manuscript on which the original |
| 0:50.1 | writing has been effaced to make room for later writing, but of which traces remain. |
| 0:55.0 | Used in a sentence, a palim-sessed copy of Hamlet |
| 0:59.0 | has the word bacon partially erased |
| 1:01.0 | at the bottom of every page. It's really weird. |
| 1:03.6 | And my word of the day is poison your food, which means poison your food. |
| 1:08.9 | To be very, like Heath attributes all things that are good and right in the world to bacon. |
| 1:14.0 | Rightly so. |
| 1:16.0 | I'm no illusions. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:19.0 | I'm Heath and Wright and Broadcasting Delayed from America's Far Center, we are the Skeptocrats. |
| 1:25.2 | On this week's episode, War. |
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