In is Thursday the 26th of May, 2022 and you're listening to Skeptics for the K, the podcast for Science Reason and Critical Thinking.

Skeptics for the K is a production of the Mercy

Side Skeptic Society, a nonprofit organization for the promotion of

scientific skepticism on Mercy Side around UK and internationally. I'm

your host Mike Hall with me today is Marsh. Hello?

And Alice.

So normally at this point in the show, it'd be like, hey, what you've been doing

the last couple of weeks?

Tell some funny stories, what you've been up to in your life.

We're actually recording this back to back with the previous show so I'm very tired.

Don not there. We've done for full. Today I spent the entire day sat in a conference with

15 speakers talking conspiracy theories and then we drove back to

Liverpool, went to a gig and then we're doing two episodes of the show back to back to talk about it all.

Yeah, I'm exhausted and in a lot of pain right now.

Normally we save our complaining for offer.

But no, it's fine, it's fine, let's open a show. This is the first

thing people are going to hear on this show is you complaining at them for

this show existing that they didn't do it. We have done this for our listeners. We put ourselves through yeah and so they get they

should have to be suffering you complaining at them at the start of a show before

they even know how about all the all of it was so since the last show it's been my birthday it has been

your birthday I don't if it was good or not because it hasn't happened yet but it has

been my birthday since I turned 43 43 years old which just makes me feel old by the time Jesus was my age you've

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