The And soo, It's Thursday the 8th of October 2009 and you're listening to Skeptics with a K the podcast for science reason and critical thinking

Skeptics with a case produced by the Merseys Skeptic Society a nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys

around the UK and internationally. I'm your host Michael with me today is Marsh

holah and Colin hello. Okay so the big thing that's happened Hello. Which was quite fantastic? Well you were there as were you. That's also correct.

Those two five. Colin who wasn't there? No. Sadly you went to time and you didn't tell me

I'm disgusting.

To go listen, we don't really let Colin out.

We keep him in a little box that we unleash him

upon the podcasting world and then sort of lock him back away.

But he's got everything he needs in there.

There's a little wheel, there's a bottle with the water. Yeah, one of those little bottles with a little metal sort of thing that he has to sort of liquor ball bearing. So he dispenses water. I keep asking for vodka, but you won't. Yeah, we're not going to do that we give a little

toilet roll tube but he just ends up eating it rather climbing through it's a

straw a bit of cotton wool yeah you like the bed down for the winter yeah

to use a hibernate very soon. But, town was fantastic. I really enjoyed

myself. I don't know what you thought. Yeah, I had a whale of a time. It was amazing to be in a place

with, you know, everyone there who think the same way or

who have very similar sort of thought patterns it shows the real popularity of the

Skeptics movement at the moment that you can gather six of the people you know basically the drop of the hat in terms of in terms of the time it took for people to sell out.

Yeah barely had time to drop your hat and pick it back up before it was sold out and yeah we met some really cool people.

I met some listeners which was great.

We met some listeners which if you are the listeners we met hello listeners.

Yes. Because it was odd because like I remember we were having it was on the morning of the second day and you and I were just having a chat and someone like was standing there observing this so what what and he said oh yeah it's just it's just like the podcast. Yeah that was that was massively surreal that was massively

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