It is Thursday the 18th of May 2017 and you're listening to Skeptics with a K the podcast for science reason and critical thinking

Skeptics with a K is a production of the Merseys Skeptic Society a

nonprofit organization for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys

around the UK and internationally I am your host Mike Hall with me today is Marsh

Hello and Alice.

So Marsh, we've had problems recently with people emailing new stories about placebo and

emailing me stories about PR.

Have we had those?

I don't understand, because I don different. I think we sound vastly different. I think people know the difference. They just like to piss us off. You think they're just trolling. Yeah I think they're just trolling because we I think we've got quite different voices.

So I think so. I'm Mike. Yeah, I'm Marsh. Hello. And I do the placebo stuff and I like Doctor Who.

Yes, and your voice stays at almost the same range at all times.

You've got a very narrow band range of, uh, of, of, of, of, of, these are things I don't know about myself I would say your voice

true Mike squeaks quite a lot I don't think he squeaks as much as I do I think my

resting voice is slightly lower than Mike so I have a little bit more base than

mics but I got very high all the time while I'm talking.

I get all exciting and go very high.

You do get quite high when you get excited.

So I think I I think I range a bit more than Mike, whereas Mike is in a narrower less expressive band of vocalization.

But also, you've got a clear Northeastern accent.

I don't know, I've just got it. I'm not sure I've still got a clear Northeastern accent. accent it's still there but it's not clear it's not sure it's pretty clear.

It's obvious to it. You're sitting there going, well you're sitting there going, well you're

I'm not.

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