It is Thursday the 26th of July 2018 and you're listening to Skeptics with the K

the Podcasts for Science, Reason and Critical Thinking.

Skeptics for the K is a production of the Merseys Skeptic Society, a non-profit

organisation 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, So Marsh how was New York?

Well I got back a week ago as of this going out but only a few days ago as of us recording

this. Yes getting back from New York is tricky, isn't it?

Overnight transit anti flights I despise. They're harder than Australia to come to and go from? See I don't think your flight sounded that bad but that's because I seem to have discovered I have a bit of a superpower for as soon as I get on a plane I immediately fall asleep.

No, there was no sleeping on this. It was all it was all from where I was sat it was impossible to sleep in the plane.

Oh trust me I can sleep anywhere.

I was sat right next to the bit where the air crew come in and out with all the food and stuff,

which means as they darken all the lights to make it all sort of,

sh, everyone sleep, sleep, sleep, everyone sleep sleep sleep all I get is the curtain

coming back constantly and a fluorescent light shone in my face periodically

throughout the course of the flight so I spent the whole time with like hand over my like oh

fucking now leave me alone pulling the curtain back. I mean I can drink I've been able to

drink two cups of tea in my sleep before so yeah that's ridiculous. Were they hot? Who made them? My mom. Oh okay. So

once when I had a particularly intensive physiotherapy session and was on particularly

strong painkillers.

I came back and fell asleep on the sofa and my mum offered me a cup of tea and I answered her in my sleep and then she gave me my tea in my sleep and then she gave me another tea. And then I woke up and I was the tea in my sleep and she made me another tea and then I woke up and was like,

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