Episode #251

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Science

4.8 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Lie detectors, HPV, pregnancy, and llamas. Plus Earth Domes, Frank Spencer, and seven-day creation. Cracking the Crystal Maze, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Get your tickets for MSSX today. Featuring Simon Singh, Britt Hermes, Emma McClure, Chris French, Meirion Jones, Dave Alnwick, and our own Dr Alice Howarth! July 6th. Liner Hotel, Liverpool. Be there!

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0:00.0	It is Thursday the 30th of May 2019 and you're listening to Skeptics with
0:16.9	Kay the podcast for science reason and critical thinking. Skeptics with
0:20.6	the Kay is a production of the Mercy Side Skeptic Society,
0:23.3	a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys
0:27.2	around the UK and internationally. I am your host Mike Hall. With me today is Marsh.
0:31.7	Hello. And Alice. So Alice you and I went to the
0:35.5	Crystal Maze. We did we went went to the live Crystal Maze experience which is in in
0:41.6	Manchester. It was interesting. I thought it was
0:44.9	great. It was really really good. I really enjoyed it. It was great fun. I thought
0:48.6	it was going to be there was a high chance it was going to be terrible. Yeah.
0:52.4	Things like that always are going to be terrible. Yeah.
0:53.3	Things like that always are going to be.
0:54.6	Would you have preferred it to have been terrible or to be as it was?
0:58.0	No, we paid a lot of money to go.
0:59.2	Oh, okay.
1:00.2	Yeah, fair enough.
1:01.3	But it was very, they went in heavy on the nostalgia.
1:04.3	Like they pushed heavy hard like if you weren't into the crystal maze in the 90s
1:09.2	You wouldn't have got as much out of the day.
1:11.6	Yeah. Except they had zero, but at the beginning they made us take a photo,
1:17.0	which they took the first one on one of our phones, which was quite nice,
1:20.0	after that any other photo that was taken was taken for them to sell back to you.
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