Episode #180
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2016
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
In this very unusual episode of Skeptics with a K, Mike, Marsh, and Alice talk about the Edinburgh Festival, cell signalling pathways, acupuncture, The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy, Doctor Who, and the latest from QED.
It’s a golden bat hitting a golden ball out of the park, from Skeptics with a K.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 25th of August 2016 again. It is again and you're listening |
| 0:19.1 | the Skeptics with the K, the Podcasts for Science Reason and Critical Thinking. |
| 0:22.2 | Skeptics with the K is a production of the |
| 0:24.2 | Mercy Society, a non-profit organisation run by a bellend. |
| 0:28.6 | I am your host, Mike Hall. with me today is Marsh. |
| 0:32.9 | Hello again at Mike and Alice. |
| 0:35.6 | So this is the second bash we've had it taping this episode. |
| 0:39.1 | It is the second mash. |
| 0:40.6 | The reason for that is we, you know did we did a recording we did a recording on our usual day which is Monday evening we did a recording |
| 0:48.2 | And it was it was a great show. It was a good show. It was a long show we put a heart and soul into it Put all our energy into it it was a good show. It was a long show. We put our heart and soul into it. |
| 0:54.6 | It was a quality show. There was rum. There were hats. There was rum. There was |
| 0:58.0 | was rum. There was like comedy. There was gluten. There was gluten. |
| 1:07.3 | We talked about televisions and Wi-Fi it was it was a fucking classic episode stuff brilliant show I can't be the story that I wrote had to get cut. |
| 1:13.2 | We just didn't have the time. We just did not have the time. |
| 1:17.6 | That's how good it was. And it turns out that what happened was is that I set the recorder up wrong? |
| 1:26.6 | Well, that's not quite right. |
| 1:28.2 | That's not, there's more to the story than that. |
| 1:29.9 | It's not that you set the recorder wrong. |
| 1:31.4 | You set the recorder right. Yeah, I set the recorder up right. I set it up right in |
| 1:35.8 | 2012. Yeah four years ago and accidentally literally as you guys were sitting down to do the recording, usually what I do is I format the memory card on the recorder and then start the recording. |
| 1:50.0 | And instead of saying format card, I accidentally did factory reset. Yeah and thought oh shit I factory |
| 1:55.1 | reset the desk oh never mind I'll just set it up again. Of course I'd forgotten |
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