Skeptics' Guide - Episode #42
Recording Date: May 10th, 2006
Link to the Official Episode Notes
Official Episode #42 thread on the forums
Download Episode #42 MP3
Panelists (in order of appearance)
- Steven Novella
- Bob Novella
- Rebecca Watson
- Perry DeAngelis
- Jay Novella
Interesting Facts
- 1 year anniversary episode
- The SGU Forums were officially announced in this episode
- Theme for this week's Science or Fiction is Animal Speech
- Very first instance of the monkey/bird debate - Download it here (or below in the Funny Quotes section)
- This episode ends with a great Steve montage from the 200 Steves for evolution - Download here
Interviewee
Eugenie Scott
Science or Fiction**
- Rebecca* (3/8)
- Jay (2/9)
- Perry (9/30)
- Bob* (15/27)
Funny Quotes
1. Bob (after the announcement of the 1 year anniversary): "And, also, we've been renewed for a second season."
2. Jay (after Perry makes a bad joke and tries to explain it): "We didn't miss is Perry, it just wasn't funny."
3. Steve (about scientologists having super powers): "Do you have to wear tights to get into this?"
4. Steve: "I am the master of salinity! All tremble..."
5. Rebecca (about the scientology power of feeling one's own appetite): "Care for an apple scientology man? 'No thanks'"
6. Jay: "Somewhere Tom Cruise is sitting on a mountain of money, he's been with some of the prettiest women on the planet, he is amazingly famous and everything and he is one of the dumbest people that walks the face of the Earth." Download
7. Rebecca: "That's fascinating Steve, now I can't wait to go look at my pee."
8. Jay (talking about eating lime ice from an ice cream parlour): "...and the food colouring he used did not metabolize. And I thought that I was really sick!"
9. Rebecca (about the 200 scientists named Steve): "I am seething with non-Steve jealousy. I have Steve envy."
10. Perry: "Yeah, dolphins and monkeys basically could play chess together. Those are brilliant animals."
11. Jay: "You know I'm getting hungry for this bacon, I'm ready for it" Download
12. Perry: "Oh will you stop with the birds..." Download
13. Perry: "Also, any monkey could whip any bird's ass."
Jay: "That's not true"
Perry: "What do you mean that's not true?!"
Jay: "What you think a little spider-monkey could kick an ostrich's ass?
Perry: "He could trip him on his long, skankly neck!"
Rebecca: "Wait, wait is the monkey allowed to hold a shank of some sort?"
Perry: "He can jump right up on his neck and give him a nostril flip.... ostriches are such chumps."
Steve: "Perry you're just an avian bigot. Face it."
Rebecca: "You're a birdist."
Steve: "You're ostracizing the ostriches."
Bob: "Perry did you know that an ostrich can kill a man with one kick?"
Perry: "Oh please, did you ever see Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds'? I mean COME ON! It's really terrifying. Watch out we gotta tiptoe amongst the seagulls! Get away from me. I'd give those birds a drop-kick."
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