It is Thursday the 22nd of May 2025 in your listening to Skeptics with AK, the podcast for

science, reason and critical thinking.

Skeptics with A K is produced by Skeptic Media in association with the Merseyside

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I'm your host, Mike Hall. With me today is Marsh. Hello. And Alice. Hello. So I'm currently

having my bathroom redone. Well, that's exciting. As we sit in my office recording here.

We've had a year collectively of just renovations.

A lot of renovations going on.

Yes, we have, that is very too.

But we're sat here in my office.

We're sometimes recording in my living room.

Yeah.

We're currently recording in my office.

My office is the wall adjacent to the bathroom. So I've spent the entire day with men doing things about a foot and a half from my head

with loud various implements and things.

This wasn't meant to be a what I've been up to, by the way.

It's just, this is what I've been up to.

But it is also what my story is going to be about.

As I was actually writing this,

there was a man using a significantly sized drill

to chip and chisel away.

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