It is Thursday the 27th of June 2019 and you're listening to Skeptics with

the K, the podcast for Science Reason and Critical Thinking. Skeptics with

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

organization 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 I got a parcel in the post. I got a parcel through the office reception, called me up and said, you've got a parcel it's been a

reception for a couple of days we just forgot to mention it to you should come down

you should come down and get the parcel okay and it's it's it's weird's like, is it a piece of car or something like that?

And I thought, what on earth is going on?

I'm not, I'm not old anything, I'm not expecting anything.

And what is this parcel?

So I thought maybe it's probably something I've ordered

and I've just forgotten about it.

Okay.

So I went down to the postroom downstairs

to pick up the parcel. I picked up this thing and did not

recognize the shape of the parcel I looked at the label I didn't make sense of the

label it had my name on it was it handwritten no printed out okay I thought

this is really hard what on earth is going on so I'm scrutinizing the label

it's got a customs label on it as well so it's it's come from China.

It's come from China okay I'm scrutinizing the label and written on it it says

hat and I was like I mean this isn't a hat you bought a hat this definitely isn't a hat. You bought a hat. This definitely isn't a hat. So I opened the

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