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It is Thursday the 16th of September 2021 and you're listening to Skeptics with the K the podcast for science reason and critical thinking.

Skeptics with the K case a production of the Merseys

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

mercy side around the UK and internationally. I'm your host Mike Hall with me today is Marsh.

Hello and Alice.

Hello and hooray it's September. It is September. Is that a horrible thing?

No, it's a dreadfully depressing thing.

But I thought as a change is something that was a

little bit different rather than going in on oh my god the years going so

quickly isn't it terrible the world is ending which is what we've done for the

last two years yes in fact arguably the last five years.

Yes. Maybe beyond. I thought well let's let's kick off with a bit of joy and a listener question.

A listener question. Let's do a listener question. Well I think it's a very apropore

listener question given how we often start the shore because this is from

Andrew Hansford in New Hampshire USA. Andrew asks dear Swack thank you for your

continued series on British language food and culture for those not in the UK.

He's absolutely right. That is the entire remit of the shore. That is all all we do on the

shore. You completely correct there. It is our most popular thing that we do on the

show. I would say it is simultaneously our most

popular thing and our most divisive thing. It's quite divisive but it's

divisive like listeners who listen regularly quite like it. People who've just

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