I'm going to It is a Thursday the 10th of December 2020 and you're listening to Skeptics with

Kaye the podcast for science reason and critical thinking. Skeptics to the case, a production of the Merseys

Skeptics Society, a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys

around the UK and internationally. I am your host, Mike Hall me today is Marsh. Hello and Alice.

Hello. And here we are barreling towards the end of 2020 when all our troubles will be over

because of course problems cannot cross the date line.

That's how that works. The virus can't get to the other side of, you know, it gets the end of 2020.

It just goes, ah, shucks, like a monster that can't get through your duvet, it just stops arbitrarily at the end of the year

and everything will be fine again because that's how that works. We all know that's how that works.

Yes, although we will have the monster of 2021 to deal with, which will be a very, very specific

monster here in the UK and a monster that we foreshadowed in 2016. Yeah. A monster in the duvet. We never saw that one coming. We did. We all saw that coming. We all saw that coming. It's still here. But there we go. So how are you folks getting on?

How's life been treating you?

I mean, rubbish, isn't it, really?

I mean, it's absolute height is the only possible answer to that. Although we have been trying to get into a Christmas spirit

which is involved a couple of different things one of which being putting up the Christmas tree the decorations which you've had

had up for a couple of weeks now, thought,

go early, go early, go early, go,

I'll say go early, go early, go often,

but that's not quite what we did.

We went early and went once.

Do three, four times a year,

do the Christmas decorations now.

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