Skeptics' Guide - Episode #84
Recording Date: February 28th, 2007
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Panelists (in order of appearance)
- Steven Novella
- Bob Novella
- Rebecca Watson
- Perry DeAngelis
- Jay Novella
- Evan Bernstein
Interesting Facts
- Bob and Steve went to a private Jesuite school, Cantebury
- Jay also went but only for 2 and a half years
- Perry and Steve went to see a Mary sighting on a tree
- SGU Uncut #1 was announced in this episode which includes unedited TAM5 interviews with John Rennie and Phil Plait
- Viking054 was announced as the winner of the Skeptical Puzzle from last week
Interviewee
Ken Feder
Science or Fiction**
- Rebecca (27/44)
- Bob (33/62)
- Perry (18/56)
- Evan (21/53)
- Jay (12/40)
Funny Quotes
1. Jay: (about leaving Cantebury, a private school) "I went for 2 and a half years and then I decided that I needed to have sex with girls so I left."
Evan: "You were tired of the sausage fest."
Rebecca: "You know deciding that you want to have sex with girls and actually having sex with girls are two different concepts."
2. Perry: "Is this the one where all the chimpanzees kill all the birds in the zoo?"
Steve: "No no no Perry that was the one in Fantasy Land."
Perry: "It happens every time I play Zoo Tycoon."
3. Perry (about chimps and humans interbreeding): "My first girlfriend is evidence of that."
Steve: "Jay's entire love life is evidence of that."
4. Evan (about Mary appearing on a pizza pan): "Mama mia!"
Jay: "She showed up next to two meatballs and a sausage, you know what I'm talking about?"
5. Perry: "It's not easy to carve in mootz!"
6. Jay (quoting a believer): "This is a sign that something in the world is going to happen. We don't know what but we have to keep our faith very strong on her."
Steve: "Talk about open-ended criteria. Something is going to happen sometime."
7. Rebecca (answering a listener saying that all people hear on the SGU is insults and negativism): "Oh go to hell."
8. Steve: "I challenge my panel of chimps. I mean skeptics to figure out which one is the fake."
9. Evan: "Or the Greeks had minotaurs helping them row."
Steve: "They did not account for the possibility of the mechanical minotaurs doing the rowing. That's one of the weaknesses in the study."
10. Jay (about medication being delivered through teeth): "I was gonna say that my tooth was gonna be filled with xanax, now I want it filled with science news."
11. Steve: "Always good to be surrounded by my little roguies."
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