Episode #460
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Mike looks at ball lightning, why there is so little evidence of it, and asks whether it exists at all.
The next event for Liverpool Skeptics in the Pub is this evening, but will not be taking place in the regular venue. Instead that will be in the Denbigh Castle on Hackins Hey in central Liverpool.
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Mixed and edited by Morgan Clarke.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 16th of April, 2026, and you're listening to Skeptics with a K, |
| 0:12.0 | the podcast for Science, Reason, and Critical Thinking. Skeptics for the K is produced by |
| 0:16.4 | Skeptic Media in association with the Merseyside Skeptic Society, a non-profit organization for the |
| 0:21.5 | 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. You know that I'm so prone to fiddling with stuff during the shore. I've got this little stopper from a wine bottle. I was fiddling with that. |
| 0:36.9 | I was fiddling with a couple of little places. |
| 0:39.0 | I almost, I looked down was fiddling with that. I was fiddling with a couple of little places. |
| 0:38.5 | I almost, I looked down and I saw the cables that connect my headset. And I saw those little button on the cable and I wanted to fiddle with that. That's a bad idea. I'm just going to unplug myself from the show. So I'm going to not fiddle with that. Ridiculous. |
| 0:58.6 | So way back, way back, in the early run of this show, |
| 1:02.1 | we had a very popular feature on the giant book of fantastic facts. |
| 1:03.0 | Very popular. |
| 1:05.0 | Everyone loved the book of facts feature. |
| 1:07.8 | We wrapped that up, I think, shortly before you joined the show, Alice. |
| 1:10.0 | It was very shortly, I think. |
| 1:11.1 | Very, very shortly show. And that shows how long ago it was, because you've been with the show, Alice? It was very shortly, I think. Very, very short the show. |
| 1:13.3 | Well, that shows how long ago it was because you've been with the show |
| 1:14.2 | for fucking ever now, right? I know. Some listeners will be listening going, what, Alice was once not on this show? Yeah. Have you been on for like 10 years now? More than, I think. Yeah, it's going to be in that. The pandemic was like six years. |
| 1:25.2 | Jesus Christ. |
| 1:26.3 | And I think we did one or two revisits in the Alice era. |
| 1:29.4 | We have touched on it, yeah. |
| 1:30.7 | Especially on life. The pandemic was like six years. Jesus Christ. And I think we did one or two revisits in the Alice era to the book effect. |
| 1:30.7 | Especially on life. |
| 1:31.5 | Yeah. |
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