Episode #364a - Fantastic Fact Cutaway
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
With QED behind them, the team take a well deserved rest. Instead, we have this rare archive segment originally recorded for episode 200, when Mike, Marsh and Alice were joined by Colin to tackle a new Fantastic Fact.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 12th of October 2023 and you're listening to Skeptics with |
| 0:16.2 | Kay, the podcast for Science, Reason and Critical Thinking. |
| 0:19.8 | Skeptics with the Kay is a production of the Merseys Skeptic Society, a non-profit |
| 0:23.5 | organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys around the UK and internationally. |
| 0:28.8 | I'm your host, Mike Hall, with me today is nobody. |
| 0:32.3 | Yes, QED has been and gone and what a fantastic weekend it was. |
| 0:36.5 | If you were one of the listeners who came to QED came to the live show, thank you so much. |
| 0:40.4 | If you didn't come to the live show thank you so much for coming to |
| 0:43.2 | QED anyway it was really a brilliant weekend and we hope that you had as much |
| 0:46.9 | fun there as we had organizing it but in the post QED, Marsh is currently away on holiday. |
| 0:53.6 | Alice is away on holiday. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm still absolutely shattered after QED. |
| 0:57.1 | So unfortunately, we're not going to be able to bring you a full show. |
| 1:00.1 | This one of those rare occasions where we're not going to bring you a full show this week. |
| 1:03.7 | But what we have done is we have dug out some archive footage and recorded back in 2017, |
| 1:09.6 | so footage recorded originally for episode 200 featuring myself and Marsh and Alice and |
| 1:16.2 | special guest Colin former host Colin where we tackled a fantastic fact. Now for listeners who aren't aware because this is a very old segment |
| 1:25.6 | the giant book of Fantastic Facts was a book that I had as a child which was |
| 1:29.2 | purported to be full of amazing and interesting facts and but then when I reread it as an adult it |
| 1:33.8 | turned out it was actually full of bullshit and so a very long running segment on |
| 1:37.4 | the show was just fact-checking and the supposed facts that were in that book. |
| 1:40.8 | This episode was was in fact a throwback to that. |
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