It is Thursday the 2nd of April, 26, and you're listening to Skeptics with AK,

the podcast for science, reason, and critical thinking.

Skeptics with the K is produced by Skeptic Media in 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. And it's Easter time. It is. It is

Easter time. It is Easter this weekend. I never know when Easter is. Tomorrow is Good Friday.

Well, that's why we've never given away free burgers on Good Friday in the park.

That's true.

That's been your idea for the last like 17 years.

And we still haven't got round to it because you forget when Easter is.

Just a meat-only barbecue on Good Friday.

I don't have to abide by those rules and neither do you. Yeah. I grew up drinking milk. I was a milk drinker. You're a milk drinker. Were you a milk drinker? Yes. Okay. So, like, we always had an actual pint bottle of whole milk on the doorstep delivered by the milkman all year round, except for the times when the crows would then, like, peck foil lids to steal the cream that rose to the top. And we had to kind of throw those ones away, little buggers. I forgot milkmen were a thing, or milk people were a thing. Milk people sounds very weird. Because I grew up in the countryside, we had milk delivered to the doorstep, a very classic thing.

And I've lived in Liverpool for so long now that I forgot that was a thing people did

until not that long ago. I was lying in bed in the early hours of the morning hearing

jingling glass bottles thinking, is somebody like stealing the recycling? No, it's the milk person delivering the milk. Well, I was thinking this, you know, I'm not, I wasn't even sure if there are milkmen these days because you don't see pint of milk on doorsteps hardly at all. My mum still has a milkman. Really? My parents do as well, yeah, but they're plastic milk bottles, but milk cartons now, I think. So, like, there were always milk bottles in the village where I grew up, and I don't know if they still are. You walked around there.

I've been a while since. but they're plastic milk bottles, milk cartons now, I think. So, like, there were always milk bottles in the village where I grew up,

and I don't know if they're still alive.

You walked around there.

I mean, it's been a while since I've been there in the morning,

but you don't see a lot of milk on the doorstep. I've never seen milk on the doorsteps of the streets of Liverpool. So Liverpool doesn't have? No, they do, because I've heard neighbours have it delivered.

I've heard it.

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