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The Skepticrat

99: Skepticrat099 - Reparations Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Government, News, Politics

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: Eli proclaims himself a hero ... Another Christian album burning is thwarted by Spotify not being flammable ... And Donald Trump celebrates Juneteenth by announcing his re-election campaign on one of the June teenths.

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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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Peloton knows that working out takes willpower, discipline, motivation, and a good deal doesn't hurt either to be fair.

0:08.7

Right now get up to 500 pounds of selected Peloton Bike Plus and Tread Packages to help get you up and running or cycling or

0:16.4

or yogaing or boxing or meditating or stretching is kind of a big deal

0:22.2

offerings 28th November, 2023, Internet Connection and Peloton, all access membership at 39

0:26.8

pounds per month required. Terms of placy 1 peloton. co-dot co-dot UK. It's Monday. June 24th. And the word of the day is emunction,

0:44.7

which means the act of removing an obstruction from

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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