81: Skepticrat081 - Kavanausea Edition
The Skepticrat
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
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🗓️ 1 October 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode: White House staff put Rod Rosenstein in a box with a geiger counter, a radioactive substance, and a flask of hydrocyanic acid … The US Senate is all about the advice, but not so much the consent … And Trump will kill it at the surprise self-roast he totally meant to do.
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Headline Sources:
Kavanaugh hearing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/09/27/kavanaugh-hearing-transcript/?utm_term=.293ea9c78fa6 https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/28/politics/jeff-flake-moment-trump-kavanaugh/index.html
Trump accuses China of interfering in our elections: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/world/asia/trump-china-election.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fworld&action=click&contentCollection=world®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront
Schrodinger's AG: https://www.vox.com/2018/9/24/17896140/rod-rosenstein-resigns-fired-mueller-trump-russia
Elon Musk being investigated by the SEC for fraud: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/business/elon-musk-sec-lawsuit-tesla.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Trump reluctantly signs spending bill: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/28/trump-signs-spending-bill-to-avert-shutdown-despite-border-wall-frustration.html
Trump is literal laughing stock of the UN General Assembly: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/people-actually-laughed-at-a-president-at-un-speech-trump-suffers-the-fate-he-always-feared/2018/09/25/990b1d52-c0eb-11e8-90c9-23f963eea204story.html?utmterm=.026e47744247 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/25/world-leaders-stumble-upon-potent-response-trumps-claims-laughter/?utm_term=.d9ef07dca28f
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:05.0 | Monday. |
| 0:06.7 | It's October 1st. |
| 0:08.1 | And the word of the day is philosophunctilist, which means one who pretends to know more than they actually do to impress others. |
| 0:17.0 | Used in a sentence, unlike ultra-Crepidarian sesquipidallians who do words of the day on podcasts and act like that's their |
| 0:25.5 | normal vocabulary to look smart, I did not have to look up floss funkunculus. I already knew it. And I realized that it was spelled without an |
| 0:37.6 | f-un-k way before I looked at the notes. Hey, hey, you, you know a synonym for philosophunculus? |
| 0:44.4 | Grandiloqu-cly. I'm no illusions! |
| 0:46.4 | I'm Heath Enright. And broadcasting delayed, from America's Far Center, we are the Skeptocrats. |
| 0:55.0 | On this week's episode, White House staff put Rod |
| 0:57.6 | Rosenstein in a box with a Geiger counter, a radioactive substance, |
| 1:00.4 | and a flask of hydrocyanic acid. The US Senate is all about the |
| 1:04.4 | advice but not so much the consent. Right, and Trump will kill it at the |
| 1:10.0 | surprise self-rose he totally meant to do. But first, the rest of the intro music. |
| 1:17.4 | Joining me for headlines tonight, is fellow skeptic rat no illusions. Sadly, we don't have Eli today because he's at Disney |
| 1:25.6 | World having a romantic trip with his wife is not appropriate for Heath to be |
| 1:29.5 | part of blah blah blah anyway so what'd you do with your time instead of translating Eli's |
| 1:37.1 | papyrus scroll of continuous letters into readable notes? |
| 1:40.3 | Well, so my wife's sister took her on a Caribbean cruise for her birthday this weekend, so I had the whole house to myself this weekend and I told my cats what a fuck tard Lindsay Graham was. was it was a rough weekend man it was rough |
| 1:55.9 | Yeah, okay. Just one other thing before we start I'd like to announce something very important the other day a 12 year old wrote a tweet that made fun |
| 2:05.1 | of Eli therefore that child is a Nazi also we need to shut down the internet and |
| 2:10.1 | cancel the First Amendment. Okay there you go Well, he wasn't here to say it. |
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