It is a Christmas Eve 2020 and you're listening to Skeptics with a K,

the podcast for science reason and critical thinking. Skeptics with a case

a production of the Mercy Science Skeptics with a case a production of the Mercy

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scientific skepticism on Mercy Side around the UK and Christmas. I am your

host Mike Hall with me today is Marsh.

Hello and Alice.

Hello.

And it's Christmas Eve.

It is. What's on everyone's Christmas list?

Is it number one, Pfizer two after Zenica number three modern

so yeah many Christmas guys how are you both I mean those two those are two very

separate state that's fair we're all gonna have a lovely you'll tide Those are two very separate states. Merry Christmas.

We're all going to have a lovely Ulltide.

We're all shit, we're all fucked, we're all miserable,

things are terrible.

But you know, Christmas in it.

2020 is nearly over. That January 1st 2021 everything will be brilliant.

I know I'm getting really sick of all the like end of year roundups people are doing

where they seem to be like all optimistic about next year. It's like no it's just more of the same.

In fact it's worse, it's worse because we're out of fucking the EU by then.

Yeah, yeah, well it's not even necessarily worse because we're out of the EU because that shows a political bias that we on this podcast all share that being out of the EU is a really bad idea.

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