Episode #450
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Alice gets angry about 'one simple thing they don't want you to know about maxing', which pushes simple answers to problems which may or may not exist. Meanwhile, Marsh tries hard to dismantle a bed.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 5th of February 26 and you are listening to Skeptics with a K80 podcast for |
| 0:13.1 | science, reason and critical thinking. Skeptics with a K is produced by skeptic media in |
| 0:17.9 | association with the Merseyside Skeptic Society, 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 I sat down to write today's piece. I sat down to write it today, didn't I? Because I was doing. I was right it on the day. |
| 0:39.5 | I honestly don't know how you both can do it. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm lying by the seat of my pants, Mike. |
| 0:46.9 | I planned to write it yesterday, but I came down with a really bad migraine. |
| 0:50.9 | And so I didn't write it yesterday thinking, well, my migraine will be better by tomorrow. |
| 0:54.9 | It is not. So I flipped through like a range of different topics that I've been meaning to get around to. I'm trying to be a bit more organized and put them in like a spreadsheet of things that I can cover at some point on the show when people make suggestions or I come across things. I know. I've got my next four stories planned. I've got a little little note in my thing of saying I do this and this and this, I know exactly what they are. My only problem with it is I have ADHD person's motivation, which means I can only |
| 1:17.2 | write something if I'm properly feeling it on the day that I'm sitting down to write it. And if I'm |
| 1:22.3 | not, if you can't get motivated about that specific thing on that specific day, then I have to find |
| 1:27.2 | something else because I can't just beat my brain into specific day, then I have to find something else |
| 1:27.8 | because I can't just beat my brain into doing it. So I have to be enthusiastic about it in |
| 1:33.3 | that exact moment, which I can't predict a few weeks in advance. I think I'd planned, |
| 1:38.1 | I had planned out the next four stories I was going to do, but then I didn't write that down. |
| 1:43.2 | I planned it all. I was, oh, I'll do that and okay, that's fine. And I was, but I was, I was going to do, but then I didn't write that down. I planned it all. I was, oh, I'll do that. |
| 1:45.6 | And, okay, that's fine. And I was, but I was, I was either driving or in the middle of something. |
| 1:49.6 | So you planned to plan the stories. I did. I did all the planning. I just hadn't delivered the |
| 1:53.7 | plan properly enough. So I was flipping through my range of potential topics. I've got acupressure |
| 2:00.0 | mats, okay. I've got fiberupressure mats, like those shakti mats. |
| 2:01.6 | I've got fibre maxing, functional medicine, longevity retreats. |
| 2:06.2 | Warren had sent me an article on super ages. |
| 2:08.5 | Nicola had sent an article on sleep coaches. |
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