It is Thursday the 20th of January, 2022 and you're listening to Skeptics with the K,

the podcast for Science, Reason and Critical Thinking. Skeptics for the case, a production of the Mercy

Side Skeptic Society,

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I'm your host, Mike Hall, with me today is Marsh.

Hello.

And Alice. And I've got myself peculiarly, strangely, oddly obsessed recently

with the musical Hamilton.

Okay, have you got yourself obsessed with that or has someone else got you obsessed with that?

It was Emma who got me obsessed with that.

Who is prone to peculiar odd obsession with things?

So Emma just mentioned it to me, she mentioned that she was annoyed that the

ticket she had to go and see it live had been cancelled because of COVID.

And that got into a conversation about how much she really

liked Hamilton I was like oh I've never seen it she's what's on Disney Plus so I

thought I've got nothing else to do sit down and I'll watch it on Disney Plus so I

watch it on Disney Plus by three hours long I think it is and then

watched it again I've watched it six seven times at this point now

I've also gone out and bought the album okay And I'm just listened to the album repeatedly.

And I've just got bizarrely obsessed with Hamilton. What is it about it that you think you're

you're into? Well, the frustrating thing about it, given the general theme of

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