99: Skepticrat099 - Reparations Edition
The Skepticrat
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Headline Sources:
House of Representatives debates a bill to explore reparations: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/politics/slavery-reparations-hearing.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage https://www.theroot.com/ta-nehisi-coates-clapped-back-at-mitch-mcconnell-for-sa-1835674314
Extinction Rebellion protests NYT climate change desk: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/22/us/extinction-rebellion-new-york-times-arrests/index.html
We’re not at war with Iran yet: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/20/middleeast/iran-drone-claim-hnk-intl/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/iran-us-tensions-latest-intl/index.html
SCOTUS tells Virginia that they can't re-gerrymander their voting districts: https://ballotpedia.org/Redistricting_in_Virginia https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/us/politics/virginia-racial-gerrymandering-supreme-court.html https://www.npr.org/2019/06/17/733389132/supreme-court-hands-democrats-a-win-on-racial-gerrymandering-in-virginia
People are fighting over whether concentration camps are concentration camps: https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/editorial/2019/06/22/tribune-editorial-yes-we/
Petition asks Netflix not to make Amazon show anymore: https://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-good-omens-protest-cancel-neil-gaiman-20190621-story.html
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| 0:47.8 | or cleaning bodily passages. |
| 0:50.4 | Used in a sentence, |
| 0:51.6 | I'm tired of everyone on this porn set calling me the cum-rangler, my business card clearly says |
| 0:57.0 | Emunction specialist. Thank you. I feel like the lesson of this word is that the Romans needed a category that combined blowing their noses wiping their asses and unexpected piss forks altogether. |
| 1:09.0 | Also, we kept that just in case. |
| 1:12.0 | Yeah, right, in case we needed it too. |
| 1:14.1 | And we did. |
| 1:15.1 | I'm no illusions. |
| 1:16.5 | I'm Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:17.7 | Um, Heath Henwright, and Broadcasting Delayed from America's far center, |
| 1:22.0 | we are the Skeptocrats. |
| 1:24.1 | On this week's episode, I am a hero. |
| 1:28.2 | Okay. |
| 1:29.2 | Another Christian album burning is thwarted by Spotify not being flammable. |
| 1:34.0 | And Donald Trump celebrates Juneteenth by announcing his re-election campaign on one of the |
| 1:41.2 | Juneteenths. But first, the rest of the intro music. |
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