Skeptics' Guide - Episode #64
Recording Date: October 11th, 2006
Link to the Official Episode Notes
Official Episode #64 thread on the forums
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Panelists (in order of appearance)
- Steven Novella
- Bob Novella
- Rebecca Watson
- Jay Novella
Interesting Facts
- The NESS used to have Friday the 13th parties
- Rebecca is a poker player
- Theme for Science or Fiction is Robots and Computers
Interviewee
Stuart Vyse
Randi Speaks - Topic
Aromatherapy
Science or Fiction**
- Bob* (24/44)
- Rebecca (13/25)
- Jay* (7/24)
Funny Quotes
1. Rebecca (about a news story claiming an asteroid is coming toward Earth): "I heard its travelling at 'top speed'."
2. Jay (about Rebecca's birthday): "The godess ages."
3. Rebecca (about NASA's plans for ELE asteroids): "I also heard a theory about sending Bruce Willis to it and having him detonate it."
4. Jay (about the Bruce Willis plan): "I want Tom Cruise taped to the front of the ship." Download
5. Bob (about the approval of curriculum guidelines that support evolution but not ID): "Somebody pinch me!"
6. Rebecca (about ID proponents): "Next thing you know they're gonna be in court arguing against gravity holding a bunch of helium balloons and saying 'See? Explain that.'"
7. Steve: "I gotta admit, if I saw that line 'I have monkeys in my pants' I would have worked it into the show somehow."
Rebecca: "Hell I work that into my everyday conversation whenever I can."
8. Rebecca (about Gould saying birds deserve to be their own class): "Obviously Gould was some dirty kind of bird lover then. Too bad Perry's not here to say that."
9. Jay: "You know Bob, I'm working on my own system, which is which animal can kick which other animal's ass."
Steve: "Yeah, the throw-down system?"
Rebecca: "Jay isn't it sad to be at the bottom of your own system?"
10. Jay (about land being sold on the moon): "How you gonna enforce it? Lets say the US government or the Soviet Union goes up and they start building structures on the moon and so just by coincidence happens to be on some of your property. What are you gonna do about it?"
Rebecca: "You go up there with a shotgun!"
Jay: "Yeah, you get off my land!"
11. Bob (about the number of stars in the known universe): "Seven with twenty-two zeroes after it."
Steve: "Is that all?"
Bob: "Yeah, that's it."
Jay: "That's in the known universe Bob. I'm talking the multi-verse baby!"
12. Rebecca (about ID proponents using the bacterial flagellum in their argument and comparing it to an engine): "I'm guessing they think that when you build a car you go to a field and pluck an engine out of the ground."
13. Jay: "So Bob and I are wrong then."
Rebecca: "No. You're right. But you get a point taken away just for saying that."
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* - won this week's game