Skeptics' Guide - Episode #65
Recording Date: October 18th, 2006
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Panelists (in order of appearance)
- Steven Novella
- Bob Novella
- Rebecca Watson
- Evan Bernstein
- Jay Novella
Interesting Facts
- Rebecca's birthday is October 18th, 1980
- Bob watches Star Trek
- 7000 listeners as of this episode
- Science or Fiction theme is Morden Medicine
- Steve stumps everyone at science fiction for the 11th time.
Randi Speaks - Topic
Homeopathy
Science or Fiction**
- Bob (24/45)
- Rebecca (13/26)
- Evan (14/38)
- Jay (7/25)
Funny Quotes
1. Bob (about Rebecca's age): "You're a fetus."
2. Evan (reading Rebecca's horoscope): "Keep positive thoughts today. And fortune moves in your favor."
3. Steve (about Uri Geller): "And if you don't believe him, he'll sue you."
4. Rebecca (about Perry's fan Luna): "He's Perry's only fan."
5. Rebecca (the classic): "I won't mate with any of the true believers." Download
6. Rebecca (about the evolution of humans to the year 3000): "The men would have um, giant um, you know, you know what I'm talking about, they would have huge wangs."
Evan: "That's a computer everyone. "
7. Jay: "I love how they pick round numbers 'In the year 3000'. Yeah ok exactly."
Rebecca: "I bet, 2999 they're all just gonna be waiting around, you know crossing their fingers."
Evan: "Crossing their beautiful fingers, perfectly tanned fingers."
8. Rebecca (referencing The HitchHicker's Guide to the Galaxy): "See I can out-geek all of you."
Bob: "No I can out-geek you even more I'll give you the exact quote. 'God disappears in a puff of logic'"
9. Bob (after Rebecca receives a happy birthday note from a man in the 7th fleet): "Rebecca what I wanna know is when did you diss the 6th fleet? What happened to them?"
10. Rebecca (about android heads on the moon looking like rocks): "Maybe they're transformers that are rocks and then you get close and they go 'transform'! And they jump up and they..."
11. Jay: "I'm gonna find, I'm gonna look at some pictures of Mars, of the rocks. And I'm gonna find something that looks like a human ass. And I'm gonna start a website."
Steve: "Mars ass dot com?"
12. Jay (about the duck and rabbit symbols on children's scotch tape found at the Roswell crash site being interpreted as alien hieroglyphs): "Steve he busts out with 'bunny rabbit hops over hill. Bunny rabbit says hi to little wolf guy.'" Download
13. Jay (about vegetarians): "Yeah then you have the ones where all they eat is tree bark."
14. Jay: "Steve is it bad that I've exclusively eaten for the past three days spaghetti and meatballs?"
Steve: "You are a spaghetti-and-meatballarian."
Rebecca: "That's a pretty good diet, it has all the food groups right?"
Steve: "Except vegetables"
Rebecca: "Meatball's a vegetable right?"
15. Steve: "Women who menstruate and who are a little anemic probably need some extra iron. That's perfectly reasonable."
Jay (in a Schwarzenegger accent): "But real men can pump iron!"
16. Jay (about children overdosing on vitamins): "Yeah so limit your Barney Rubble intake."
17. Rebecca: "It seems like a lot of the elderly people I've met are over-medicated."
Jay: "These are people you're dating right?"
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