It is Thursday the 27th of February 2025, and you're listening to Skeptics with a K,

the podcast for Science, reason, and critical thinking.

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I'm your host, Mike Hall. With me today is Marsh. Hello. And Alice. Hello. So we're sitting here

with a nice cup of tea. We have. You've arrived. I've made a cup of tea. I offered you short bread.

You both accepted the shortbread.

We both had a bit of shortbread and then smashed through the shortbreads before we came on air because people get really upset if we eat on it.

Yeah. And then slammed shortbread as a biscuit choice of like, oh, it's fine, but I'd never choose it.

I mean, that's the opposite of slamming it is. It's very much just a shortbread is kind of met. It's like, it's nice

enough. It's a safe option. But it's not, it's not the most exciting biscuit in the world.

This sounds like slamming. This is textbook slamming. But I wanted to ask, what is your

favourite tea? We'll only have a Yorkshire tea. You're a Yorkshire tea. Obviously a Yorkshire

tea person. Yorkshire tea person, Alice. Soshire tea. Obviously a Yorkshire tea. Person. Yorkshire tea personality.

So I'm slightly weird because I do like tea, but I drink my tea quite weak.

And Yorkshire tea is a very nice tea, but it is a very strong tea bag, which is why a lot of people

prefer it.

Yes.

And it can make for an overly strong tea for me. So we drink Yorkshire tea at home because Warren would

obviously prefer Yorkshire tea. If I were to pick, I quite like, so English breakfast tea, which is

what Yorkshire tea and most other tea that we drink is a mixture of salon and Assam or something.

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