It is Thursday the 5th of December 2013 and you are listening to Skeptics with

Kay, the podcast for Science, Reason and Critical Thinking. Skeptics with the K is a production

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

skepticism on Mercy Side around the UK and internationally.

I am your host, Michael, with me today is Marsh.

Hello!

And the return of Colin!

Hello! And Colin! Marsh Hello and the return of Colin. Hello.

Colin.

I still exist.

And a deeply late episode.

It is deeply late.

This is a week late after what was basically a three-way calendar pile-up

yeah that all of us just about escaped with with minor bruises

bit of cuts I think this happens pretty much every year and about this time yeah it's a

tricky time it is a tricky time well then it is actually the first time that we've had to cancel a show and not plans to cancel a show.

It's just like the show kind of just didn't happen.

Because it just didn't work out. There's other times where it's like, okay, so we won't do a show next week,

yes, that's right, yeah, that's fine, but this just kind of happened.

I think it was mainly my fault.

I think I said, oh, you know that date that we'd already agree we were doing the podcast on?

Turns out I'm going to be in a client meeting from seven in the morning until

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