It is Thursday the 19th of May 2016 and you're listening to Skeptics with the Kay, the podcast for science, reason and critical thinking.

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And Alice, decided to go for some non-standard breathing there.

How that work out for you. Instead of between the sentences just in the middle

in the middle of them I think the traditional way works better.

Isn't that why Christopher Hitchins was a fairly good orator?

It was a very good orator, but that's one of the techniques he employed, was to only ever leave a pause for breath after the first couple of words of the sentence.

Oh, so no one can interrupt him. Yeah, and he's like, well, and I'm just finishing off the point that I'm making.

And the other thing is a

very hard to come in on a little bit so you kind of like give yourself space.

I mean it wouldn't stop you.

Yeah, no, Nick, it does actually because Nicola does it all the time.

Oh does she?

The word before all of her breath is either like and but it's all

conjunctions she goes conjunction breath and then like after the 17th

sentence in a row if you say something she goes will you stop interrupting

me but the last time I'm sure do was yesterday when you started the sentence.

Yesterday was Sunday and I worked from 1.30 in the afternoon till 5 o'clock in the morning.

I mean that wasn't very wise.

What I needed doing? You could have worked some of that time on Saturday.

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