The Skeptics Guide #420 - Aug 3 2013
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
Dr. Steven Novella MD
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🗓️ 2 August 2013
⏱️ 78 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the skeptics guide to the universe. Your escape to reality. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to the skeptics guide to the universe. Today is Tuesday, July 30, 2013, |
| 0:15.6 | and this is your host, Stephen Novela. Joining me this week are Bob Novela. Hey everybody, |
| 0:20.1 | Rebecca Watson. Hello everyone. And Evan Bernstein. Good evening my friends, how are you? |
| 0:25.7 | Good, thank you. Hey wait, where's Jay? Jay is not able to join us this week because he's |
| 0:32.0 | heavily into pre-production for octaskeptical caveman and then he'll be doing production on those |
| 0:38.4 | four episodes over the rest of the week. Understandable. We miss you Jay. Yeah, but we're really looking |
| 0:44.5 | forward to finishing the episodes. Hopefully they'll be ready to go up on YouTube in September. |
| 0:49.5 | Make sure there's film in the camera. Film. What is film? So Steve had the hell with your birthday |
| 0:55.2 | yesterday. It was fine. Thanks for asking. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. How old are you? |
| 1:01.6 | A younger than Bob. And older than Jay. And older than Jay. And older than dirt. Still in your |
| 1:10.0 | parties. Still in my forties. Absolutely. 364 days left. Did you do anything special? |
| 1:19.5 | Yeah, I had a good evening with my family. And over the weekend we went to see the day before |
| 1:24.1 | was my daughter's birthday. We went to see Matilda. Oh, how was it? Yeah. By our friend Tim mentioned. |
| 1:30.4 | The score. He wrote music for it. Very good. Oh, that's right. That's right. Awesome. |
| 1:34.7 | Tim rocks. Yeah, you could really tell his style in the music, but it was excellent. Love the |
| 1:38.7 | whole show. Tim actually got us a ticket for that show. Otherwise, it's really hard to get. |
| 1:42.6 | Yeah, it was really awesome of him. He did. All right. So Steve, you answered me a quick, |
| 1:46.4 | answered me a question. I remember watching that movie with my daughter and reading the book. |
| 1:51.0 | Now, did they play up more than her real intelligence? Or did they really play up also her silly |
| 1:57.6 | ESP baloney at the very end type of thing? So she definitely had the magical powers at the end. |
| 2:03.2 | And that was an element of the plot. Okay. However, they did emphasize, I think, through the majority |
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