Episode #122

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Science

4.8 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2014

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

It’s election day! With immigrants, Europe, fishermen and pensioners. Plus grumpy brown mice, Omega Energies, ticklish rats and an elderly Turkish woman. Licensed to cull, it’s a bumper episode of Skeptics with a K.

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0:00.0	It is Thursday the 22nd of May 2014 and you are listening to Skeptics with a K
0:16.8	the podcast for science reason and critical thinking Skeptics with a K is a yada yada
0:21.6	so it's it's election day. It is election day in the
0:25.8	it is election day. You're very excited about this. Well it's not proper election day.
0:29.8	It's European election day. Yeah it's good. Well we get local council elections as well that's true yeah you know
0:35.6	and I'm particularly enjoying getting canvassed by politicians at the moment I've
0:39.8	had I've had Tories at the door I've had UKIP at the door.
0:44.3	Wow.
0:45.3	I've not been in when all these things have happened.
0:47.3	They just left leaflets.
0:48.3	Oh, what happened?
0:49.3	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:50.3	But it's fun getting the canvases around, especially because I voted like a week ago.
0:54.7	I've got a postal vote.
0:56.5	So it's just you're wasting your time.
0:57.9	See I was trying to explain this to Andy Wilson.
0:59.8	Andy Wilson of Incredulous.
1:01.0	I'd explain to him over dinner the other day.
1:03.8	Because he was saying that he wasn't going to vote in this election because he
1:05.8	didn't know enough about each of the candidates and he doesn't feel that he could
1:07.8	offer a good kind of, that his vote would mean anything.
1:10.3	Let's avoid your ballot in that case or similar. So it doesn't look apathetic. anything.
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