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The Skepticrat

80: Skepticrat080 - Lodestar Wars Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

News, Government, Politics

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: President Trump fills about 3000 graves with fake dudes ... We get to make fun of people who live in Eastern North Carolina with impunity ... And the American political spectrum looks like a train car with a crazy hobo named Donald in the middle.

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Headline Sources:

Trump yelling TREASON after anonymous NYT op-ed: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html

Trump claims Puerto Ricans died just to make him look bad: https://www.npr.org/2018/09/13/647377915/trump-denies-death-toll-in-puerto-rico-falsely-claims-done-by-the-democrats

Hurricane Florence pummels the Carolinas: https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/hurricane-florence-dle/index.html

Manafort pleads guilty to all the crimes we have a name for: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/14/former-trump-campaign-chairman-paul-manafort-appears-to-reach-plea-deal-823882

Jeff Bezos is giving a bunch of money to charity: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/science/2018/09/13/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-announces-2-billion-charity-fund/1289788002/

Trump wanted to print cash to pay down the national debt: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/11/trump-once-considered-just-printing-money-to-lower-the-national-debt-woodward-reports.html

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Monday.

0:03.0

September.

0:05.0

It's Monday. It's Monday.

0:07.0

It's September 17th. And the word of the day is Qualtec, which means the first person you see after leaving your house.

0:22.0

Used in a sentence, my most frequent

0:24.2

qual tag is the old man who's always sitting on his front stoop in the next

0:27.8

building over and when I see him I yell,

0:30.4

qual tag tag and I run away. he's not very good at the game aspect and he remains it I'm

0:36.7

winning by a lot I'm winning by a bunch of points I think putting the scoreboard

0:40.1

up on your building was a little much. Can I give you that?

0:42.5

That's because you don't get sports, either.

0:45.0

No illusions.

0:47.0

I'm Eli Bosnick.

0:48.0

I'm Heath Enright.

0:49.6

And broadcasting Delayed from America's Far Center, we are the Skeptocrats.

0:55.0

On this week's episode, President Trump fills about 3,000 graves with fake dudes.

1:01.0

We get to make fun of people who live in Eastern North Carolina with impunity.

1:05.1

And the American political spectrum looks like a train car with a crazy hobo named Donald

1:09.6

in the middle.

1:10.6

But first, the rest of the intro music.

1:15.0

Joining me for headlines tonight,

1:20.0

our fellow skeptic rats, no illusions, and Eli Bosnick.

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