It is Thursday the 13th of December 2018 and you're listening to Skeptics with the Kay, the podcast for science, reason and critical thinking

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I am your host, Mike Hall, with me today is Marsh hello and Alice so we had our

Skeptic Christmas party we did I thought that was good I enjoyed the

Skeptic Christmas party we did our annual Secret Center, which is the highlight of the Skeptics

party for me. I don't know whether you guys kind of agree. I love the secret center. It's always amazing. The rules of our Skeptic Secret Santa are you've already got five pounds to spend and you've got to get something shit. But yeah, it's not it's got to be the right sort of shit.

It's not just like boring shit. It's not shit shit, it's got to be like witty shit.

Yeah, yeah, or just kind of like obscure shit or weird shit or why the hell would you give somebody this kind of

shit? Yes.

So that normally raises the bar pretty well.

There's a good chance that Sarah might bring some actual shit.

She does have some one back poo.

She has got one but you mentioned on the last show. But there was some good secret Santa presence knocking out.

What did you get for the secret Santa Alice? What did I receive? What did you receive?

I can't even remember now. What did I receive? You got an oil burner. I did get an oil burner.

Yeah. Which is actually genuinely useful.

It's got Ylang Ylang and another centered oil in it which for my new home will actually

be useful. But it did have an entirely useless candle in it

which was one of those little battery operated an electric candle

an electric teal like to not gonna heat up the boiler it not going to burn the oil or diffuse it.

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