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Skeptics with a K

Episode #069

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Science

4.8924 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2012

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Oversized wolves, persecuted Christians, cheating artists and damned dirty scientists. Plus charismatic televangelists, cancer, TED and France. With surprisingly few oral sex jokes, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Transcript

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It is Thursday the 5th of April 2012 and you're listening to Skeptics with the K, the podcast for science, reason and critical thinking. Skeptics with the K is a production of the

0:20.6

Merseys Skeptics Society, a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific

0:24.5

skepticism on Mercy Side, around the UK and internationally.

0:28.0

I am your host, Mike Hall, with me today is Marsh.

0:31.6

Hello and Colin. Hello. So, what are you guys been up to what I'm actually I went

0:36.1

to to that London all right you went down to their London yeah it was all right

0:40.4

it was all right went to see uh... exhibition of David

0:42.8

Hockney paintings and David Shrigley paintings i don't know who either of those people

0:46.3

they went and haven't happened

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David hockney really famous i've heard but i went because i'd

0:52.0

big fan my girlfriend's a big fan of him I'd never heard but no he was it was weird it was interesting it was weird though because like he paints like woods and stuff not like Tiger woods, actually woods.

1:03.0

Trees and grassland and stuff.

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But he'll paint like the same scene for like 30 weeks,

1:09.0

like around every fortnight for a year or something like that.

1:12.0

So you go in and they're just like around the walls of like the room are like 50 paintings.

1:16.3

Her room. Very, very, very subtly different. Very semi. Very, very same.

1:20.9

It's like, oh, that looks like that one I saw there actually there right right

1:24.3

and right next to that one as well which I thought was some of them are really nice

1:27.9

and if you if you run past them really quickly you get a nice movie of what

1:32.2

they say this time lapse movie.

1:33.2

If you run past backwards, it feels like you're going back in time?

1:36.7

Yeah.

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