Episode #241
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Quitting cheese, Qikipedia, hormonal stew, and contract research. Plus COMT, broken cafetières, air beds, and oscilloscopes. Happy New Year from Skeptics with a K.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 10th of January 2019 and you're listening to Skeptics with a Kay, the |
| 0:17.1 | podcast for science, reason and critical thinking. |
| 0:19.8 | Skeptics for the K is a production of the Mercyseys Skeptic Society, a non-profit |
| 0:24.2 | organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys |
| 0:27.4 | around the UK and internationally. I am your host Mike Hall with me today is Marsh |
| 0:31.8 | Hello and Alice and happy new year to the Our host, Mike Hall, with me today is Marsh. Hello. |
| 0:33.0 | And, happy new year to the two of you. |
| 0:36.0 | Well, yeah, happy year to you as well. |
| 0:38.0 | It's for 2019. |
| 0:39.0 | It is, but it's a bit ridiculous. |
| 0:40.0 | This is the problem with our four nightly production schedule having gone on for so many years as well |
| 0:45.0 | is that we are recording this like 9, 10 days into the new year. |
| 0:48.0 | This goes out on the 10th day of the new year. |
| 0:51.0 | It's barely New Year anymore, because it's about as far away from a |
| 0:54.6 | recording session as we could have possibly get at this point. It feels |
| 0:58.2 | sarcastic to say happy new year at this point. When everyone just forgotten that it was a |
| 1:02.2 | new year and then now sort of solidly's just forgotten that it was a new year and |
| 1:02.8 | then I'm sort of solidly into the darkness that is January. Well we have this |
| 1:05.6 | conversation at work the other day as to how long is it appropriate to say |
| 1:08.9 | happy new year? How far into the year is it appropriate to say happy new year and I decided it was |
| 1:13.7 | appropriate the first time you see somebody in a new year it is appropriate no |
| 1:18.0 | matter what time of year it is. No, no, no. No, no. |
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