Skeptics' Guide - Episode #80
Recording Date: January 31st, 2007
Link to the Official Episode Notes
Official Episode #80 thread on the forums
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Panelists (in order of appearance)
- Steven Novella
- Bob Novella
- Rebecca Watson
- Perry DeAngelis
- Jay Novella
- Evan Bernstein
Interesting Facts
- Julia Sweeney recorded a short promo for the SGU - Download here
- The NESS co-hosted a cult-awareness conference 5-6 years prior with a group known as Cult Info. Randi was the keynote speaker
- IRON MAN was announced as the winner to last week's Skeptical Puzzle
Interviewees
- John Rennie
- Teller
- Jim Underdown
Science or Fiction**
- Jay (10/36)
- Evan* (20/49)
- Perry (17/52)
- Bob* (32/59)
- Rebecca* (25/40)
Funny Quotes
1. Evan: "It was me, I'm sorry. I psychically stepped on your foot."
Rebecca: "It psychically hurt."
2. Steve: "So some quick follow-up on Sylvia Browne. I know we've really been beating on her recently."
Jay: "Never enough Steve."
3. Steve (about homo floresiensis): "You guys remember the hobbit?"
Evan: "Oh yeah, it's a book."
4. Steve: "Yeah basically a small stature overall and a small brain."
Evan: "I know some people like that."
Rebecca: "Yeah take the easy joke."
5. Rebecca (about which emails they pick to read on the show): "Here's a hint, it's usually the ones that are complimentary."
6. Evan: "Maybe if we talk about it with a British accent it'll seem wittier."
7. Steve: "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe. Witty but weighty."
8. Bob: "How does an argument like that even come into existence."
Rebecca: "Well you conceive it, and then it is."
9. Rebecca (about scientology): "Lets go to the sliding scale of insanity"
10. Jay: "Rebecca later you and I will practice therapeutic punching ok?"
11. Jay (choosing Science or Fiction): "Uh well ok one of these rings a bell but I don't remember. Uh that's part of my problem."
12. Perry: "Monkeys clearly perfume themselves, it's one of their higher order functions. Unlike birds by the way, who always smell like bird shit."
13. Bob: "If it increases your chance of being selected for some uh...little monkey noogie then sure why wouldn't, you know."
Steve: "Bob what are you saying?!"
14. Jay (in a funny Sylvia Browne/hag voice): "The kid's dead."
15. Rebecca: "Of course monkeys use perfume everybody knows that."
Evan: "Feces No. 5"
16. Steve: "Actually Rebecca you are right for the wrong reasons."
Rebecca: "Story of my life."
17 Evan: "That's called the 'yes dear' effect."
16. Jay: "Steve am I missing something or am I the only one who got it right this week?"
Steve: "No Jay those three got it right."
Jay: "I got it wrong. My Jedi trick did not work. God dammit."
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** - As of the conclusion of this episode's game. (wins/times played)
* - won this week's game