It is a

Thursday the 7th of January 2021 and you're listening to Skeptics with the K

the podcast for science reason and critical thinking.

Skeptics with the K is a production of the thinking. Skeptics with the case a production of

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

on Merseys around the UK and internationally. I'm your host Mike Hall with me today is Marsh. Hello and Alice.

Hello. Happy New Year to you both. Happy New Year. That is the first time I've heard

anybody read out the date including the 2021

including saying 2020 it sounds odd saying 2021 is the future

it always sounds odd 2020 was the future it turns out it's a horrible future but it was the future.

2021 feels weird. It just feels like a weird thing to say. We're into the roaring 20s.

Mm. Probably into the 20s now, isn't it? Yeah. Probably so. It also means you don't have that thing there where you have to write the full date on a check in

case someone else changes it by adding extra digits to the end of your 20.

No, but they could change the one into the start of a zero.

And it was a fucking stupid thing that people were going around saying that anyway.

It was rucking ridiculous.

But yeah, so it was Christmas, it was holidays.

How did you guys have fun? Was it a nice time?

And it was hard to have fun at the current climate.

Well, I, for the first time in the 37 years I've been alive I didn't see any of my family at Christmas.

I stayed in my house in Liverpool and we had Nicholas mom who's isolated in Blackpool so

was able to come and retire and she never goes out and see anyone anyway so she was

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