Episode #432
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Mike looks at the 'small boat' crossings and what it means for the asylum system in the UK, before being accosted by an Australian man in Wales.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 18th of September 2025, and you're listening to Skeptics with a K, the podcast for science, reason, and critical thinking. |
| 0:15.7 | Skeptics with the K is produced by Skeptic Media in association with the Merseyside Skeptic Society, |
| 0:20.2 | a non-profit organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseyside Skeptic Society, a non-profit |
| 0:21.0 | organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseyside, Iran, UK and internationally. |
| 0:26.5 | I'm your host, my call with me today is Marsh. |
| 0:28.9 | Hello. |
| 0:29.5 | And Alice. |
| 0:30.3 | Hello. |
| 0:31.5 | So my wife is named Katie. |
| 0:34.4 | One of my wives is named Katie. |
| 0:37.1 | Before listeners get into a panic, I am polyamorous, |
| 0:39.8 | which means I have more than one long-term romantic partner, two of which I have married, |
| 0:43.9 | although obviously not legally, because that is a crime. Yes. Good to clarify that on this show |
| 0:49.7 | and not last week. And not the previous show. I thought it might be worth bringing it up |
| 0:53.3 | given the, because people might have listened to the last... You thought, what are worth bringing it up. Yeah. Given the, because people |
| 0:55.2 | might listen to the last, I thought, on a bell end, which is what they thought at the hotel. |
| 0:58.5 | Openly admitting it on a live podcast as well. So one of my wives is named Katie. And Katie is |
| 1:04.6 | American. She is from Texas. She moved to the UK in 2011. She became a British citizen in |
| 1:10.2 | 2019. And she's British citizen in 2019. |
| 1:11.8 | And she's also ethnically Mexican. |
| 1:14.8 | So her grandparents on her father's side were Mexican immigrants who moved from Mexico to the United States. |
| 1:20.8 | Her dad was born in the United States. |
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