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Thursday the 12th of September 2024 and you're listening to Skeptics with a K the podcast for science reason and critical thinking. Skeptics with a case of production of the Mercy

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

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

your host Mike Hall with me today is Marsh. Hello and Alice. Hello.

And here we are in September. It doesn't feel like 2024 started yet.

Yeah, we're really flying through this. It's hurtling to it. There is that theory that time just moves

faster and faster and faster. It makes sense that time would feel like it moves faster

the later in your life because it's a smaller proportion of your life so far.

So that will be true, but it shouldn't make a difference between 40 and 41.

Because each year, like a 40th of my life and a 41th of my life isn't appreciably different by that point you think yeah but you're also adding like more

experience and like all the things are impacting your perception of how that yeah yeah but I could understand it like as a five year old a year in your

life. Yeah, but I could understand it like as a five-year-old a year is a lot of your life.

Yeah, like 140th of my life and 141th of my life.

I currently can't listen to what you're saying I think about anything because I'm hungry.

Just notice that I'm really hungry and for insight into

for listeners into me as a person like when I have a new status update on my internal and

I think it was probably typical for a lot of neurodivergent people this is now an

all-consuming sensory input is my own hunger which means I will re-notice that I'm

hungry over and over and over again which means I will then keep repeating to people

that I'm hungry over and over again.

I'm afraid the best we could do is a cup of tea and a Stanley cup,

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