It is a

Thursday the 29th of June 2017 and you're listening to Skeptics with a Kay, the podcast for science, reason and critical thinking. Skeptics with a Kay is a production of the Merseys Skeptic Society, a non-profit

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.

Hello. So for various reasons we had to record this week's episode in Marsh's

kitchen which means the sound quality is not quite up to the standards that we otherwise might have hoped for.

But I hope you'll join us as we gather around some patio furniture with a cup of tea and a chocolate hobnob. The woo world is full of wearable bollocks.

Wearable bollocks?

Not those like really cool silicon,

wearable actual bollocks that you can get for people who've lost their testicles to stick your cancer.

Rather, things like the magnets we discussed last week or the sports bands with magic vibrating chips that unclump your blood or even

insertable crystal yonie eggs that you're supposed to carry around with you for

some vagaries. Have you seen the have you seen the the bollocks that you get to

put on your car? Yeah, truck nuts.

Truck nuts.

Why is that a thing?

You know you get that metal thing

on the back of your car for attaching a tow truck to.

And you can buy these things, which is just a scrotum with a couple of testicles in it like cast in silicon that you hang on that thing.

You can get them for a push bike. Can you light up? You squeeze them and the light comes on. Why? Why any of this? I don't understand why any of this.

Also I'm not sure if the cool ones for guys who've like lost the tentacles to a

titic at cancer I'm not sure you're wearing them at that point because they become

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