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209: Skepticrat209 - Comes in Handy Edition Sep 25, 2023

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On this week's episode: We'll put the "cynic" back in arsenic ... we'll share a difficult story about our X ... and we'll join Lauren Boebert for a night at the theater.
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208: Skepticrat208 - Mitch's Brew Edition Sep 11, 2023

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On this week's episode: The Republican primary choice is none of the above ... We make it through a story about the moon’s south pole with no ass jokes ... And Mitch McConnell runs out of dial-up hours again.
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GOP primary debate: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/23/first-republican-debate-highlights-00112617
Elon bought Twitter because it made his daughter hate him: https://www.express.co.uk/news/us/1810891/elon-musk-twitter-transgender-daughter-biography
Enrique Tarrio gets 22 years for seditious conspiracy: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66712589
Mitch McConnell Says He's Not Going Anywhere: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mitch-mcconnell-health-freeze_n_64f8cdf4e4b0c9c32dede1e1
English townie reports yoga class as mass killing: https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/08/europe/yoga-confused-mass-murder-gbr-scli-intl/index.html
Japan launches lunar lander: https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/japan-launches-rocket-carrying-moon-lander-slim-after-three-delays-2023-09-06/
India lands one: https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-counts-down-crucial-moon-landing-2023-08-23/
Russia fails spectacularly: https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/20/world/luna-25-spacecraft-moon-collision-intl

207: Skepticrat207 - Dunning-Prager Edition Aug 28, 2023

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On this week's episode: We’ll talk about a giant Republican pee pee ... You’ll learn that Eli isn’t talking about the debate ... And Florida supplements its school of hard knocks curriculum with material from PragerU.
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Virginia GOP Official Displays 16 Foot Penis Sign at Youth Baseball Game to Protest Woke: https://www.meidastouch.com/news/virginia-gop-official-displays-16-foot-penis-sign-at-youth-baseball-game-to-protest-woke

206: Skepticrat206 - Don't Call Me Otter Edition Aug 14, 2023

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On this week's episode: Republicans won't rest until the highest court in the land finds Hunter Biden just a guy who did meth a few times ... We take bets on whether Trump can make it to this episode airing before violating his protective order ... And a very sad white nationalist militia does some dive action roll playing.
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Headline Sources:
DOJ Assigns special counsel to Hunter Biden case: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/12/us/politics/republicans-hunter-biden-special-counsel.html
Supreme Court pauses Purdue Pharma bankruptcy settlement: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/us/supreme-court-purdue-pharma-opioid-settlement.html
Judge limits Trump's ability to share evidence: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/us/politics/trump-judge-protective-order.html
Twitch streamer causes chaos with PS5 giveaway in Union Square: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/nyregion/kai-cenat-union-square-nyc-riot.html
An otter turned outlaw continues to evade wildlife officials in Santa Cruz: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/22/1189352338/sea-otter-search-santa-cruz-surfers
He infiltrated a notorious white nationalist group and now, he’s being sued for exposing them: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/white-nationalist-patriot-front-antifa-lawsuit-1234804251/
AMAZING video of "patriot" training camp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vFAlrFZTTo&ab_channel=UnicornRiot

205: Skepticrat205 - Deus Twitter Machina Edition Jul 31, 2023

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On this week's episode: ALIENS ARE REAL ... Rishi Sunak falls narrowly short of being the biggest loser in half a century ... And after his MyPillow garage sale, Mike Lindell's net worth remains at approximately negative 1.3 billion.
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Florida Schools Will Teach How Slavery Brought ‘Personal Benefit’ to Black People: https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-schools-will-teach-how-slavery-brought-personal-benefit-to-black-people
https://time.com/6296413/florida-board-of-education-black-history/
Aliens are real: https://thehill.com/homenews/space/4116688-heres-what-scientists-say-about-whistleblower-claims-that-pentagon-has-evidence-of-alien-crashes/
Big defeats for Tories but party holds on to Uxbridge: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66264317
Mike Lindell Auction Flops As Multiple MyPillow Products Fail To Sell: https://www.newsweek.com/mike-lindell-auction-flops-multiple-mypillow-products-fail-sell-1813941
Christopher Rufo Decodes Cultural Shifts in America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wwlFEfSyeo&t=4142s
Elon Musk fails to rename his company: https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-clumsy-twitter-rebrand-to-x-draws-mockery-falls-flat-on-its-face
GB News Star Dan Wootton Unmasked in Cash-for-Sexual Images Catfishing Scandal: https://bylinetimes.com/2023/07/17/gb-news-star-dan-wootton-unmasked-in-cash-for-sexual-images-catfishing-scandal/
Dan Wootton Paid Porn Stars with Sun’s Depp Money for Covert Catfish Sex Videos: https://bylinetimes.com/2023/07/26/dan-wootton-paid-porn-stars-with-suns-depp-money-for-covert-catfish-sex-videos/
Mitch McConnell needs to hit refresh: https://apnews.com/article/mitch-mcconnell-health-republican-leader-07bdd2f78545b92bb8d2dd32395ff956

204: Skepticrat204 - Farts and Sciences Edition Jul 17, 2023

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On this week's episode: Hollywood finds a SAG it can root for ... We’ll learn that anything can be a UFO if you’re dumb enough ... And Mike Lindell is selling "bag of pretty good pillow stuff" on Facebook Marketplace.
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Headline Sources:
MyPillow is auctioning equipment after a sales slump: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-lindell-mypillow-auction-equipment-cancel-culture/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mike-lindell-floats-nutty-my-cousin-vinny-scenario-where-he-beats-dominion
SAG-AFTRA goes on strike because Bob Iger is an idiot:
https://www.nytimes.com/article/actors-strike-why.html
GOP uses defense bill to push anti-abortion, anti-diversity agenda: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/13/pentagon-abortion-policy-house-republicans/
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. press dinner explodes in war of words and farting: https://pagesix.com/2023/07/12/rfk-jr-press-dinner-explodes-in-war-of-words-and-farts/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-covid-19-ethnically-targeted-to-spare-jews-and-chinese
Raw milk is being legalized in more states: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/well/eat/raw-milk-risks.html
Defense bill contains silly UFO bullshit: https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/07-14-2023/defense-bills-meet-ufos/

203: Skepticrat203 - Dissent of a Woman Edition Jul 03, 2023

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This week, Marsh joins us for a follow up to his investigative report from the previous episode -- in which Eli gets the cops called on him by a bank. For reals.
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Headline Sources:
Supreme Court descends all the way into “tool of oppression” territory: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/07/us/major-supreme-court-cases-2023.html
South Koreans grow younger overnight as the country changes how it counts people’s ages: https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-age-counting-law-a38a4a6b47c6864bd13433fdac071cec
School at the centre of row over pupils identifying as animals is facing a government probe after teacher dismissed a girl's claim that 'she's a cat': https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12217791/School-centre-row-pupils-identifying-animals-facing-government-probe.html
Children identifying as cats are wearing 'tails and ears' in class, warns Britain's toughest headteacher as she cautions that teachers' authority over their pupils is 'long gone' amid rise of the 'furries': https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12219913/Children-identifying-cats-wearing-ears-class-warns-Britains-toughest-headteacher.html
The circus around Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg's much-vaunted fight is getting even stranger, with suggestions the bout could happen in the Colosseum: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-v-mark-zuckerberg-could-happen-in-romes-colosseum-2023-6
MTG thinks the nefarious actors are gonna kill her with her TV: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/26/greene-television-laptops/

202: Skepticrat202 - Arraign Supreme Edition Jun 19, 2023

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