It is Thursday the 18th of April 2019 and you're listening to Skeptics with a K

the podcast for science reason and critical thinking.

Skeptics with a 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 what a what a week that was

Feels like ages since I've seen you for some reason. I know I've no idea but yeah it does seem it does seem

a while I'm all right I've been traveling a fair bit although well not so much

in the last kind of week but it's something I meant to mention on the last

episode but I never had the it never came up and I've got the chance to talk

about it but I've been

traveling a fair bit and I so I've been doing my flat earth talk and I'm still I've got a

couple more I'm actually this week I'm off to to Prague as of the day of recording I did

my flat earth talk yesterday in Prague in fact which is lovely for the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Very fancy. So I was under the impression that the Czech Republic has renamed itself to Checheer. of the the Czech Republic has named itself too. But we recently were

Alice and I and Nickle were recently in a taxi driven by a check driver.

Okay. And so I was, oh the Cheatier thing, you said yeah it's fucking ridiculous it's going to be cheat it's always Czech Republic

so the reason according to this feller I think I heard this before that the Czech Republic changed the name of their country

was because there was the terrorist incident, the Boston bombing with the Chechnyan.

Was it Chechnyan? Yeah, sounds right, yeah. Yeah, so there was a terrorist who was Chechnyan and

Americans were getting confused and had regularly been

confused between Chechnya and Czech Republic. So they changed from the Czech Republic to avoid the

American confusion, but they changed from Czech Republic versus Chechnya. to I don't know whether that's something to do so he was like it's ridiculous he said if we were going to change our names we should have only gone back to being called Bohemia which was like an original name for that area which I have been totally on board with them calling themselves Bohemia.

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