It is a Thursday the 9th of May 2024 and you're listening to Skeptics with the K the podcast for science reason and critical thinking.

Skeptics with the K is a production of the Mercy

Side Skeptic Society a nonprofit organization for the promotion of

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

host Michael with me today is Marsh hello and Alice so nothing has

happened in my life I have done we can mixed feedback on this segment right

we get a lot of people write in and tell us that this

bit of chat at the start is their favorite bit of the show. Yes. And they love it and it

makes them feel like they're just sitting around with friends and just having a

good time and hearing the kind of

silly stories you would tell down the pub and also a lot of people not as

many but also a lot of people write in and say why do you give all this

bollocks we don't care just skip to the skipsism stuff and it's

so how do we please all other people all I've heard you can't do that I've heard you

can't do that it is not do. I mean we could help by making this bit

skippable but we haven't done that. Yeah you can do that on podcast these days can't you like

put in chapters. You can put in chapters. Yeah, chapter points. Maybe I should look at it. I should look at I did look at

chapter point at some point but maybe I should look at in chapter points again so you

could just you could just skip through and find just skip through the various bits of

stories as well just you know go go all the way through maybe I should look at

skip skip al as a story every time no one needs to hear it it's fine what slammed

I'm quite popular with the listeners I'll have you know yeah Yeah that's true, that is true, that is fair.

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