The Skeptics Guide #609 - Mar 11 2017
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
Dr. Steven Novella MD
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🗓️ 11 March 2017
⏱️ 100 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 Wednesday, March 8, 2017, |
| 0:16.0 | and this is your host, even novella. Joining me this week are Bob novella. |
| 0:20.0 | Hey everybody, Cara Santa Maria. |
| 0:22.0 | Howdy. And Jane novella. Hello folks. |
| 0:25.0 | It's new. Evan, Evan. Evan can't join us this week because Evan is knee deep or maybe he's neck deep. |
| 0:33.0 | I didn't get a body part from him. In taxes, he's an accountant and this is, you know, |
| 0:39.0 | lead up to the Iads of April. So this is his crazy, crazy time of year. |
| 0:43.0 | But maybe he'll join us later. So I don't, you know, I can't imagine like I do my taxes and I'm |
| 0:49.0 | sweating it the whole time. I'm white knuckling it the whole time, you know, making guesses and, you know, I don't know. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm trying to do my best, but you know, you got to get that thing in. Evan is like, you know, he does like hundreds of these. |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah, that's his job. Yeah, but he like knows what he's doing. So I don't think he's white knuckling it like we are. |
| 1:07.0 | I hope not, right? |
| 1:09.0 | So Jay, I was at your house the other day. Yeah. You were spent, you spent like 15 minutes making one cup of coffee. |
| 1:17.0 | Well, I mean, you know, if you want good coffee, you got to do what you got to do to get there, Steve. |
| 1:23.0 | What can I tell you? No, it's funny. It's actually got my wife in you. I don't drink coffee, but my wife does. |
| 1:27.0 | I bought her a coffee maker that grinds the thing of the beans and it's a little bit more of an involved process. |
| 1:32.0 | Not nearly what you're doing. But what's funny is what I've noticed is a few years ago, every one I know who drinks coffee, |
| 1:39.0 | loved the single cup, curry kind of makers because it was so convenient. Yeah. |
| 1:44.0 | Everyone was using it and everyone loved it. And then it seems that everyone realized that the coffee tasted like crap. |
| 1:50.0 | It's swill. Yeah. You know why, Steve, right? It's the temperature. Well, it's everything. It's everything. |
| 1:56.0 | It's everything. It starts with you have no idea like the quality of the coffee grind. |
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