Episode #318
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Mike exploits a captive Christmas audience to tell the story of the unknown actor who claims to have secretly played the lead in Doctor Who.
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| 0:00.0 | It is a |
| 0:18.4 | It is Thursday the 23rd of December 2021 and you're listening to Skeptics with a K the podcast for science reason and critical thinking |
| 0:21.0 | Skeptics with a case of production of the Merseys |
| 0:23.2 | Skeptic Society, a non-profit organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on |
| 0:27.3 | Merseys and the UK and internationally. I am your host Mike Hall with me today |
| 0:30.9 | is Marsh. Hello. And Alice. Hello. You slept on the exact same word |
| 0:35.4 | introducing the last show, which I know because we just recorded it. |
| 0:38.6 | So, Peep behind the curtain. Alice and I talked for so long about our traumatic experience that |
| 0:45.1 | Mike's story got pushed into a Christmas special episode just for Mike. |
| 0:50.6 | It is a Christmas special. And something of a... |
| 0:53.0 | It's a Doctor Who Christmas special. |
| 0:54.0 | Something of a change of pace, because it's a Christmas episode, |
| 0:57.0 | because we want something a little bit lighter, a little bit fluffier and a little bit |
| 0:59.7 | sillier. |
| 1:00.7 | What, lighter and fluffery and sillier than our previous episode talking about the traumatic vaccine denial experience? |
| 1:06.2 | So a little bit of a change of pace, I mean not that big of a change of pace because I'm going to talk about Dr. Who, but at least |
| 1:11.4 | it's not talking about it's not talking about antivexes it's not talking about |
| 1:14.4 | placebo effects and it's not talking about the usual doctor who ridiculous fan |
| 1:18.3 | boing that I that I said to do on this show there is some controversy and hostility in Doctor Who at the minute. |
| 1:24.3 | Seeing a lot of people don't like the latest, the new season. |
| 1:28.0 | The flux? |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah, but you know they're wrong. |
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