Episode #448
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Mike looks at the modern days myths surrounding the Betamax format, and Alice has to tackle an infestation of spider mites. Meanwhile, Marsh recounts his efforts to interview Erich von Däniken.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday, the 22nd of January, 26, and you are listening to Skeptics with a K, |
| 0:12.2 | the podcast for Science, Reason, and Critical Thinking. |
| 0:15.5 | Skeptics with a K is produced by Skeptic Media in association with the Merseyside Skeptic Society, |
| 0:20.2 | a non-profit organization 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. So, 2026, this is now 2020, which is ridiculous. It is now, now 20206. Now 2026. |
| 0:37.6 | The far-fling future of 2026. |
| 0:39.0 | Weirdly, I don't feel like 2026 is as weird as 2025 felt. |
| 0:44.0 | Really? |
| 0:44.4 | In terms of clicking over, I've clicked over very seamlessly. |
| 0:47.5 | Like, I've barely missed a beat on this one. |
| 0:49.6 | I've gone smoothly into 20-26ing it. |
| 0:52.9 | 2026 feels like the far-fling future to me in a way. |
| 0:55.6 | 2025 didn't. |
| 0:56.7 | I haven't mistakenly written 2025 once. |
| 0:59.2 | How many times have you written the date? |
| 1:01.2 | Well, I've used Excel a lot. |
| 1:03.4 | Excel is kind of inferred for me. |
| 1:05.7 | But in my head, I've gone straight into, yes, 2026. |
| 1:10.2 | I have actually done the opposite as I've written 2026 when I meant to write 2025. Right. Which is when I've been doing the books for our production company and I've been entering, doing the books for the invoices from December. Yeah, yeah. And I've been putting the wrong date on them because I've been putting 26. Gotcha. My brain tried to write 2023 the other day, so I'm completely... Wow. Blitty hell. Jesus. Okay. But 2026 marks the 30th anniversary of the DVD. Is that really? Okay. 30 years of DVDs in 2020. Hang on, when did Matrix come out? 99. |
| 1:44.8 | 99. |
| 1:47.6 | But I thought Matrix was the film that everyone got DVDs for |
| 1:49.3 | because it was like, oh, that's the film |
| 1:50.3 | you have to watch on DVD. |
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