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It is Thursday the 26th of November 2020 and you're listening to Skeptics with a Kay, the podcast for science reason and critical thinking.

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I am your host, Mike Hall, with me today is Marsh Hello and Alice and as of the day of recording

it's it is Dr. Who's 57th birthday. The show I thought he was older than that.

No, the 50th anniversary was seven years ago and thus mathematics dictates that today is

Dr. who's 57th birthday.

I was doing a hilarious joke about the character also being called Doctor Who and he looked

older than 50.

Except one, the character is not called Dr. Who.

And two, the character who was called Dr. Who who was played by Peter Cushing,

actually probably would have been old on that, although Peter Cushing wasn't when he played him.

So a complex set of circumstances.

And that purely, that is the reason the joke fell flat. Yeah not not at all that I missed it.

Absolutely well happy birthday too Doctor who if you are listening and exist and if that is your real name, which it isn't. On any level.

How you guys doing you're right?

It's been a trying old decade and it shows signs of perking up actually with, you know, several different pharmaceutical companies now have said we've got vaccines and it's like more on that later.

Oh, that looks okay. I hope maybe. I did see the vaccine that came out of Oxford which is much cheaper than everyone's vaccine

But the stood that they're quoting the figures of it not being as effective which as far as I can see a slightly misleading figures and

Oh, it's all very complicated but yeah terrible

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