Episode #283

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Science

4.8 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Missing breakfast, Eric Pickles, Mother-die, and giant hogweed. Plus telling lies, conferred legitimacy, and disguised advertorial. Cheating at dice, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Note this episode contains discussion of fatphobic language and attitudes.

Mixed and edited by Morgan Clarke.

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0:00.0	It is a the 20th of August 2020 and you're listening to Skeptics with the K
0:18.6	the podcast for science reason and critical thinking.
0:20.8	Skeptics with the K is a production of the Mercy
0:23.4	Side, Skeptics Society, a non-profit organization for the promotion of
0:26.9	scientific skepticism on mercy side around the UK and internationally. I am your
0:30.8	host, my call with me today is Marsh. Hello and Alice. Hello. So today we're
0:36.7	going out it's August 20th and the thing about August 20th is it is Sylvester McCoy's
0:41.4	birthday. Lovely.
0:43.0	It was my Nana's birthday, August 20th.
0:45.0	My Nana was not Sylvester McCoy, just to be clear.
0:48.0	Was your Nana Sophie Aldred?
0:50.0	Probably it is also her birthday today as well.
0:52.0	She may have been, who's Sophie Aldred. She was in
0:54.8	Dr. Who with Sylvester McCoy. It's also... It's also Anthony Aeneley's
0:59.3	birthday who played the master in Dr. Who with Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred. So it was a fun day on set,
1:05.6	August 20th, 1989. I don't think they were shooting at that point. Well, they might have been.
1:10.3	Well, no, it wasn't a fun day on set because they were all in at the same time. One thing we know about actors, love a bit of attention. One thing you know about birthdays is you get the attention unless you share the birthday with somebody else.
1:23.2	So sharing it with two other actors who were on set they'd have been bloody livid.
1:27.2	Sylvester McCoy would have walked around being miserable and grumpy.
1:30.7	Totally miserable.
1:31.6	So yeah it's a big big Doctor Who birthday. I
1:36.7	imagine there's Doctor Who birthdays most days been going on for a while now.
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