Skeptics' Guide - Episode #103
Recording Date: July 11th, 2007
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Official Episode #103 Skeptical Puzzle thread
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Panelists (in order of appearance)
- Steven Novella
- Bob Novella
- Rebecca Watson
- Jay Novella
- Evan Bernstein
Interesting Facts
- Steve, Jay and Bob's mother's birthday is July 11th, 1937
- Science or Fiction theme this week is Weird Delicacies
- Fernanda (aka a3maniac) was announced as the winner of episode 102's Skeptical Puzzle
Interviewee
Scott Lilienfield
Science or Fiction**
- Rebecca* (39/60)
- Evan* (31/72)
- Bob (45/81)
- Jay (24/58)
Funny Quotes
1. Evan (after Steve announces that July 11th is his mother's birthday): "Steve that's not in Wikipedia so I'm not sure that's really true."
2. Jay (about the perpetual motion machine needing all the lights off to work); "Yeah, there's a perpetual motion machine in that pitch black room over there, you see it?"
3. Steve: "The one that I saw that was the most subtle, and I'm like 'gee, I'm not sure I would have picked up on that.' Was a, I think it was a perpetual clock. A clock that didn't need apparent energy source, didn't need to be wound or whatever. And actually it was being powered by..."
Rebecca: "A hamster running in a wheel."
4. Evan (about the perpetual motion machine): "Ok Steve I think that that one is the fiction."
5. Jay (about the guy who claims salt water fuel): "So this guy needs a smack in the mouth."
6. Bob (about the guy who wants to cure cancer and save us from our energy crisis): "What does he do in his spare time, save babies?"
7. Jay: "I want Scientology to call me up and start messing with me and then I'll lose my mind on em."
8. Jay (after hearing weird delicacies is the theme for science or fiction): "Wow this is a Science or Fiction I can really sink my teeth into."
9. Jay (about boiled lion hair): "That sounds like something that people in Asia would do to get a boner or something."
10. Steve: "It gives it a chocolaty nutty flavor."
Jay: "Yeah cuz it usually gets chocolaty and nutty after it's passed through some animal's ass. Good to the last nugget, you know?"
11. Jay (about the hippies who tried to turn the pentagon orange): "I bet a lot of those hippies were shit-coffee drinkers."
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* - won this week's game