Deconstructing urban legends is fraught with peril, because you're nearly always going

to rub someone the wrong way.

Making this podcast is often like walking on thin ice.

And since I do sometimes get things wrong and crash through, I have to pay the piper.

Today is another show where I'm going to do just that.

Point out and correct some mistakes I've made, and you're going to love every minute

of watching me crawl out of that icy lake.

That's coming right up UnSkeptoid.

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Into thin error.

In the immortal words of Victor Hugo, to rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

And so let it not be said that Skeptoid is not both of those things.

For today we're going back to previous episodes which contained, shall we say, statements

that fell outside the margin of error.

Delay, said Thomas Jefferson, is preferable to error.

But he was probably not referring to shows with a weekly broadcast schedule.

Once each week I'm forced to strike the gavel and declare an episode as factual as I have

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