It is Thursday the 20th of November 2025.

In your listening to Skeptics with the K, the podcast for Science, reason and critical thinking.

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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. Today is Warren's mom's birthday.

Oh, how lovely. Which is such a niche thing to mention, because I don't know how when we last

mentioned Warren on the show. No. So like real long-time listeners, we'll have a vision of Warren at How lovely. Which is such a niche thing to mention, because I don't know how, when we last mentioned

Warren on the show.

No.

So, like, real long-time listeners will have a vision of Warren in the corner, and now I'm referencing his lovely, lovely mom. Yes. Who I haven't mentioned on the show for a long time either. I'm not sure I have. I'm sure I have. She's not a listener. She's not a listener. So you're bringing up the birth of someone who is peripherally mentioned maybe three or four times

who's never listened to the show.

Some niche stuff.

We don't have one on the show at one point. He did record an episode for us. He has done a little bit on the show, yeah? I met his mum. And it was one of the most complained about episodes we did because everyone wrote it said, I can't understand a fucking word about that. He's not even that scouse. He's no idea what anyone has said. He was more scouse then. He's Melodd in his old age.

Sorry. everyone wrote it. I said, can't understand a fucking word of that. Right. He's not even that scouse. He's not that scouse.

He was more scouse then. He's Melord in his old age. Sorry, I'll get into my story now. So last week, I gave my women and wellness talk at Bristol Skeptics. It's been a while since I've given it. I had the best time Bristol Skeptics are brilliant. They're a really thriving group who are super inclusive

and they have a really thriving group who are super

inclusive and they have a really fun venue in the wardrobe theatre in Bristol, which is just

nice and fun, like a fun place to give a talk. They were getting set up for their Christmas

shows. So I gave my entire talk in front of a big cardboard elephant set thing. Okay. Cool. Is that an elephant Christmassy? I don't know what their Christmas show was, but there was an elephant involved. How did it was a Christmas show? Because they were in there still putting bits of it together when we arrived to set up. Maybe they were lying to you. They were trying to justify the presence of an elephant.

Maybe what they were actually doing was so much weirder that, oh yeah, it's an elephant because Christmas was a better excuse than the reality. I don't know what their Christmas show is, but they're doing a Christmas show and it involves an elephant on the set. Highly recommended by Ellis Out. Do you remember the song, Nilly the Elephant? Of course I remember the song, nearly the elephant.

Packed a trunk.

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