Episode #270
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Mistletoe in the papers, auricular acupuncture, splitting your jeans, and a giant cock and balls. Plus travelling by train, talking to teenagers, and David Mitchell. Sitting on a toilet floor, it’s Skeptics with a K.
Note: This episode contains a brief reference to self-harm.
Mixed and edited byMorgan Clarke.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the |
| 0:18.0 | It is Thursday the 20th of February 2020 and you're listening to Skeptics with Kay, the podcast for science reason and critical thinking. Skeptics with |
| 0:21.8 | Okay is a production of the Merseys dog kennels home, |
| 0:25.6 | a non-profit organization for the re-homing of Alice's dogs. |
| 0:30.5 | Alice, what's happened to your dogs? |
| 0:34.0 | We are recording in my living room with two dogs, which is the first time we've done this. |
| 0:38.0 | We've done it with Lupin in the room before. |
| 0:40.0 | We have never done it with both dogs in the room before. |
| 0:43.2 | We'll often shun them away in a side room, or in a look after them or whatever, but |
| 0:48.4 | poor Lupin's not being well. |
| 0:49.9 | Lupin has broken his claw. We came home yesterday and he had like snapped his claw basically in half. |
| 0:58.4 | The top half is hanging off. I can see the quick and a load of blood and it's still attached and too strongly |
| 1:06.0 | attached that I can't kind of ease it off. He's not happy about it. He spent all of Saturday night |
| 1:12.4 | clingy and snugly and not wanting to be on his own and being all |
| 1:16.4 | he's dramatic when he's in pain he talks so we kept an eye on it we went to bed We slept overnight and this morning Monday morning it was in a |
| 1:27.8 | terrible state so I've had to take him to the vet. Little fella. |
| 1:33.0 | He's been to the vet. They've sedated him. |
| 1:34.0 | He seems sedated. |
| 1:36.0 | He has been sedated. |
| 1:37.0 | They have taken the nail off. |
| 1:38.0 | They have cleaned the nail, |
| 1:40.0 | they have woken him up from sedation. |
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