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It is Thursday the 29th of September 2022 and you're listening to Skeptics with the Kay, the podcast for science reason and critical thinking. Skeptics with the K is a production of the Merseys

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

skepticism on Merseys around the UK and internationally. I'm your host

Mike Hall with me today is Marsh. Hello special guest host it's Mark hello. Hello Mark. Hi

So Alice can't join us this one because she is out of the country. She is swanning around

Swaning around she has one rub swand off she to the country. She is swanning around. She has swan rub.

Swand off she has. And so Mark you're joining us instead. So give us the

load down. Who is Mark? Mark is a man who works at a university fundraising for scholarships and medical research and nice things and then in his spare time

Mark who now is referring to himself.

I did wonder why he went straight into third person

and then you opened with Mark is a man who

has like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've never been asked

to use the feller.

I know, terrible. So I, yeah yeah my day job is fundraising for nice things and my

spare time thing is looking at weird stuff particularly like the sort of

conspiracy theory end of skepticism and the weird and that stuff.

Yeah and you've been writing for the Skeptic mag since we relaunched pretty much?

I have written for the Skeptic mag. Yeah absolutely and it meant to be an article a month. It hasn't been an article a month. It's been about one every two.

Yeah, I mean, I got you on this so I could talk to you about your production levels. We do need to have more out of you. I just thought this whole thing was a pretext to get you in the room so I can berate you as your editor for producing two people.

I'm obviously, shoddy performance and shoddy never keeping to the deadline. I even asked you to set me some deadlines and then I completely failed to adhere to them the whole time.

It's by everyone does that it's absolutely fine.

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