Episode #228
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2018
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Walking on the beach, grounding rods, hot ankles, and the Monkey. Plus electric blankets, cheap shirts, screen recordings, and plane wi-fi. Covertly listening through your phone, it’s Skeptics with a K.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 12th of July 2018 and you're listening to Skeptics with the K |
| 0:17.8 | the podcast for science reason and critical thinking. |
| 0:20.3 | Skeptics with the K is a production of the Merseys Skeptic Society, a non-profit |
| 0:24.8 | organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys around the UK and |
| 0:28.6 | internationally. |
| 0:29.6 | I'm your host, Michael. |
| 0:30.9 | With me today is Marsh. |
| 0:32.3 | Hello and Alice. So Marsh I'm given to |
| 0:36.2 | understand that football is coming home. Well football's coming home just as I'm |
| 0:40.3 | fucking off. This is the slight number. It's been very, very surreal this whole World Cup business. |
| 0:46.1 | Yeah. Because England traditionally, A, traditionally not that good. B, this team in particular, |
| 0:51.8 | no one give them a whole, but no one give the manager a whole but we're doing pretty well |
| 0:55.1 | But I have been very excited about this whole world cup business the whole way through the tournament and four weeks ahead of the tournament have watched almost all of the games with the |
| 1:04.6 | exception of the England games. Right you've missed those because I saw the first |
| 1:09.5 | single game. Yeah some sort of protest? No it's just, it's life protesting my happiness. |
| 1:14.6 | Bring back Sven Gore and Eric's. |
| 1:17.6 | Is that what that was about? |
| 1:18.8 | First England game I wanted to watch. |
| 1:20.4 | Yeah, me. |
| 1:21.0 | Well done. |
| 1:21.9 | Second England game was England Panama. We were doing a QED meeting at the hotel, |
| 1:25.5 | and the match was on in the background, but not even in the background. It was on about 20 foot to my right, |
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