97: Skepticrat097 - Oreo Speedwagon Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

News, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 27 May 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: The Supreme Court rules that declaring yourself king is PERFECTLY constitutional ... Fox News viewers everywhere wonder if agreeing with Mayor Pete made them gay ... And Ben Carson hears about REO Speedwagon right before his face explodes.

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Headline Sources:

Trump tells Barr to declassify whatever makes him look not-guilty: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/barr-could-expose-secrets-politicize-intelligence-with-review-of-russia-probe-current-and-former-officials-fear/2019/05/24/58f822f8-7e2f-11e9-8bb7-0fc796cf2ec0_story.html?utm_term=.0fa8a48a4c61

Supreme Court blocks redrawing of Ohio, Michigan electoral maps: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-gerrymandering/us-supreme-court-blocks-redrawing-of-ohio-michigan-electoral-maps-idUSKCN1SU292

Liz Warren rejects Fox interview; Pete Buttigieg does the opposite: https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/14/politics/elizabeth-warren-fox-news-town-hall/index.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/business/media/fox-news-pete-buttigieg-chris-wallace.html

Steve Mnuchin announces that Harriet Tubman twenty not coming any time soon: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/us/harriet-tubman-bill.html

Theresa May announces she will resign on 7 June

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/24/theresa-may-steps-down-resigns-tory-leader-conservative-brexit

Ben Carson gets led through an easy answer like a slow-witted first grader: https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/21/politics/ben-carson-katie-porter-oreo/index.html

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's Monday.
0:03.0	May 27.
0:05.0	It's Monday.
0:08.0	It's Monday. It's Monday.
0:11.0	It's May 27th. And the word of the day is Petricor, which means the delightful
0:20.3	aroma that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm dry weather.
0:25.0	Used in a sentence, Petricore is an amazing word.
0:30.0	Sometimes it's not a joke, sometimes this part is just good information for you. There you go.
0:34.1	I see. I see. My sentence was, and all the dinosaurs wept when they learned that somebody
0:39.2	wasted the cool ass word petricore on rain odor. Yeah, and I thought it was the name of a Shakespeare character and one of the ones I hadn't read, so, yeah.
0:48.0	We all learned to.
0:48.5	Anyway, I'm no illusions.
0:50.3	I'm Eli Bosnick.
0:51.3	I'm Heath and Broadcasting Delayed from America's far center, we are the Skeptocrats.
0:57.0	On this week's episode, the Supreme Court rules that declaring yourself King is perfectly constitutional.
1:03.7	Fox News, viewers everywhere wonder if agreeing with Mayor Pete made him gay.
1:07.1	And Ben Carson hears about Ario's speed wagon right before his face explodes.
1:13.2	Oh no, but first, the rest of the intro music.
1:17.8	Joining me for headlines tonight,
1:19.6	our fellow skeptic rats, no illusions illusions and Eli Bosnick.
1:23.2	Gentlemen, before we get started,
1:25.7	how calm and stable would you say you are right now,
	...

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