Episode #295
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Podcast advertising, WhatsApp, and digital privacy. Plus raving about the cereal, the European Region, Record Breakers, and recommending mattresses. Fighting jet lag with bees, it’s Skeptics with a K.
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| 0:00.0 | It is a |
| 0:19.2 | It is Thursday the 4th of February 2021 and you're listening to Skeptics with the K The podcast for Science Reason and Critical Thinking. |
| 0:22.0 | Skeptics to the K is a production of the Merseys Skeptic Society, |
| 0:25.4 | a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys around the UK and |
| 0:29.9 | internationally. I am your host Mike Hall Hall. With me today is Marsh. Hello? |
| 0:34.6 | And Alice. Hello? I've just had a thought as you read the date there. Yes. So it's |
| 0:39.3 | Thursday the fourth. Fourth of February? Which means Friday the 5th and Saturday is the 6th and |
| 0:46.2 | the 6th Saturday the 6th of February was the date we did the second 1023 campaign |
| 0:51.1 | I think wasn't it it was it was 602 on a Saturday. It was the reason actually that |
| 0:56.5 | QED the first QED was on the date it was on was because we wanted the Sunday to land on 602 for the on was the first QED and the second 1023 campaign the one we did internationally right down to |
| 1:15.6 | Saturday the 6th of February. Yeah awesome that's good that was a long time ago wasn't it? |
| 1:21.1 | It was a long time ago and And it's funny with a 1023 campaign |
| 1:25.4 | as well because there were people at the time who argued that it was just us doing a |
| 1:29.1 | silly publicity stunt and we're like, yeah, yeah it was. We were under no illusions about that one. But it's kind of continued to |
| 1:37.0 | rumble on from that point onwards. Eventually, you know, you took what we've been doing with 1023, |
| 1:41.9 | took that to good thinking society went more on the NHS regulatory route with it |
| 1:48.8 | But it all started from 1023 that's that it all started from from that place and it |
| 1:54.7 | fucking got somewhere did you know it's it taken 10 years but it fucking got |
| 1:58.6 | somewhere which is amazing you know weird old decade really persistent perseverance and other P words |
| 2:05.0 | wasn't that the theme tune to record breakers no dedication dedication that was that |
| 2:09.3 | was the theme tune to record breakers what I like is we've gone from talking about the first |
| 2:13.5 | QED and the the first and second 1023 which were all pre-Alice so Alice can't |
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