Episode #335
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Mike, Marsh and Alice are joined by returning guest Emma to talk about the reasons behind the UK Barristers’ strike. Meanwhile, Marsh looks into a recent job posting for an NHS reiki practitioner, and Mike spills his drink on someone’s arse at the theatre.
Mixed and edited by Morgan Clarke.
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| 0:00.0 | It is a |
| 0:18.2 | It is Thursday the 18th of August 2022 when you're listening to Skeptics with a K the podcast for science reason and critical thinking. |
| 0:20.8 | Skeptics with a K is a production of the Merseys |
| 0:23.3 | Skeptic Society, a nonprofit organization for the promotion of scientific |
| 0:26.8 | skepticism on Merseys around the UK and internationally. I'm your host |
| 0:30.6 | Michael. With me today is Marsh. Hello Marsh hello Alice and special guest it's Emma. |
| 0:35.3 | I've decided that we're going to give up doing content warnings on the show and we're just going to put |
| 0:39.3 | with special guest Emma as a justification for not having to although I don't know if you're |
| 0:46.5 | talking about massively problematic you might not be two content warning |
| 0:49.4 | you today okay with special guest Emma with the Okay, so it's a bad stuff in here. |
| 0:53.4 | With special guest Emma, |
| 0:54.7 | with the usual caveats that apply to that. |
| 0:57.2 | So fun. |
| 0:58.2 | So I went to see Booker Mormon. |
| 0:59.8 | Okay, again. |
| 1:00.8 | How long did you have the tickets? I have the tickets for two years. So I |
| 1:04.8 | went to see, but I think I went to see Book of Mormon in 2019 and I want to |
| 1:08.6 | see in Manchester when he was playing in Manchester. I think I want to see it then as |
| 1:11.4 | well. Yeah, Not with you but just |
| 1:13.6 | it's the same run. Right across the street from where we used to do QED as well. |
| 1:17.8 | Oh was it? Okay. I think I saw it twice but both times in London. |
| 1:21.2 | You've got the Palace Hotel and the Palace Theatre |
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