Episode #439
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In the aftermath of QED, Marsh talks about the communities skepticism and built and ways they can be used to make a difference. Meanwhile, Mike visits a water park and Marsh goes to Hadrian's Wall.
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Mixed and edited by Morgan Clarke.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 6th of November 2025, and you are listening to Skeptics with a K, |
| 0:12.7 | the podcast for science, reason and critical thinking. |
| 0:16.2 | Skeptics with A K is produced by skeptic media in association with the Merseyside Skeptic Society, a non-profit organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseyside around the UK and internationally. I'm your host, Mike Hall. With me today is Marsh. Hello. And Alice. Hello. And we're back from QED. We are back from QED. This is the first time we're recording since QED. |
| 0:37.7 | Since QED. |
| 0:38.3 | We recorded at QED. |
| 0:39.4 | To be fair, was only a week ago. |
| 0:41.3 | Was it? |
| 0:42.0 | QED was, QED was like, as of recording, it was a week ago, as of this going out, it was |
| 0:47.2 | a week and a half ago. |
| 0:48.3 | Yeah, it feels like quite a long time ago. |
| 0:50.5 | It was only a week ago. |
| 0:51.5 | It does feel like forever. I agree. We were back from the hotel today a week ago. We were. We were back from the hotel. We sat down for a couple of hours and then we went for a meal with Heath and Anne at Hope Street. We did. And from then, the problem is from then I didn't stop. I went the next day, we went to Scotland and I stayed in a castle for a couple of days. And then I went to Edinburgh for a day. |
| 1:11.8 | And then I drove back from Edinburgh and it took fucking forever. You stayed in a castle. Why did you stay in a castle? So Heath and Anne really wanted to check out a castle called Dalhousie Castle. Oh, okay. And they asked whether Nicol and I would want to come with them. And so I said yes, and I draw them up there. It's got no little drive. |
| 1:26.6 | We went to Roslyn Chapel, |
| 1:28.0 | the chapel where the end scenes of the Da Vinci Code are filmed. You're not allowed to film in it, rather annoyingly. You can't film or take photos in it. So you had to like secretly... Didn't fucking tell Warner Brothers that, didn't they? Well, exactly. Tom Angin, or would we tour to, ruined it for the rest of us. Apparently, there's one, |
| 1:45.1 | as so they say, |
| 1:46.1 | one American tourist was taking a photograph |
| 1:47.0 | and wasn't looking |
| 1:48.4 | at our surroundings |
| 1:49.0 | and stepped back |
| 1:49.8 | and fell over |
| 1:50.4 | and then now |
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