Episode #116
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2014
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Married exorcists, lying calendars, overstimulated babies and dodgy hips. Plus snakes, swaddling, submarines and spaceport. From the year AD 1717, it’s Skeptics with a K.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 27th of February 2014 and you're listening to Skeptics with the |
| 0:16.6 | Kay the podcast for science reason and critical thinking. Skeptics with the Kay is a production |
| 0:21.1 | of the Merseys Skeptptic Society, a non-profit |
| 0:23.5 | organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys |
| 0:26.6 | around the UK and internationally. I am your host Mike Hall with me today is Marsh |
| 0:31.6 | Hello and it's Cullen hello so last week I went out for |
| 0:37.0 | lunch okay so the vegetarian food or it wasn't so we have a lot of feedback |
| 0:42.1 | you rustled up a hornet. We have a lot of feedback. You bristled up a hornets nest there. |
| 0:44.7 | A lot of feedback. Just don't eat those hornets. I'm quite pleased as well that all the feedback we've had is positive. |
| 0:50.3 | Nobody has come back and said, you fucking assholes've you've been a dick about it you know even |
| 0:56.1 | like really staunch vegans have written in and said look really appreciate that you've had the conversation |
| 1:00.4 | and you're thinking about it in an open-minded way and that you know |
| 1:03.2 | know mentioning things like speciesism and even kingdomism yeah like you know we don't |
| 1:08.7 | eat animals because that's the kingdom I'm in so that like it gives animals |
| 1:12.4 | this sort of special status on the basis of |
| 1:14.5 | and mentioning those kind of issues were you know was appreciated by the listeners |
| 1:19.7 | which is good hasn't helped me in the fucking slightest no no having no. Having a clue. I think you just need to |
| 1:23.8 | regress to a position where you only eat animals that you find dead in the road. |
| 1:27.2 | Well that's, I, yeah, that is morally, morally perfect. I know vegans who do that. Yeah, really? |
| 1:33.4 | Yeah, you know all you don't. I do genuinely no vegans who will eat road kill. |
| 1:36.3 | The roadkill in Britain tends to be like what, Sparrow? |
| 1:40.3 | It was, I think he's had, I mean he's only one guy I know who's done it but I think it was a deer that he's had |
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