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Skeptoid #300: The Secret of the Gypsy Queen

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

Skeptic, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Paranormal, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Science, History

4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2012

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

A little girl saves her kingdom when she is the only one who does not fall for the pop pseudoscience of the day.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's episode number 300 is a 50th show, and you know what that means.

0:08.7

It's time for a special lavish musical.

0:12.2

Today's fairy tale features Rachel Bloom singing the role of Ilsa, a little girl in a Bavarian

0:18.0

village, who ends up saving the day when she turns out to be the only one who doesn't

0:23.2

fall for the pop pseudoscience of the day.

0:26.5

Please enjoy the secret of the Gypsy Queen.

0:30.4

That's coming up now, Unscuptoid.

0:33.5

Hey everyone, Brian here.

0:40.9

A quick favor.

0:42.1

We're conducting an audience survey.

0:44.6

We'd be really grateful if you could take just a few minutes and answer our survey.

0:48.5

This is the kind of thing that's sort of an engineering and marketing necessity to make

0:52.3

the whole free podcast ecosystem flourish.

0:55.9

So please check it out.

0:57.6

Also surveys are fun.

0:58.8

You get to talk about yourself.

1:00.8

Please visit survey.prx.org slash scaptoid to take the survey today.

1:08.1

That's survey.prx.org slash SKEPTOID.

1:15.8

Thanks.

1:21.6

You're listening to scaptoid.

1:23.1

I'm Brian Dunning from scaptoid.com, the secret of the Gypsy Queen.

1:38.0

I'd like to take you far away, far up into the hills, and introduce you to a girl whose

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