Skeptics’ Guide uncut

At The Amaz!ng Meeting 6, I sat with the crew of Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe and we had a fun hour chatting away. Eventually that made it to a podcast, edited way down. But I found out recently they offer the whole hour uncut at, well, SGU Uncut (scroll down to Episode 4). To help keep SGU operating, they charge a small amount for those uncut episodes, but it’s only three bucks.

I downloaded the episode and listened to it the other day, and I had to admit I laughed a lot; My Close Personal Friend™ Adam Savage dropped by — twice! — and we had a lot of fun. If you like puns, you’ll love this episode. And if you don’t like puns, um, well, there aren’t any. Yeah. So go show SGU some skeptical love.

January 29th, 2009 2:47 PM by Phil Plait in Astronomy, Cool stuff, Humor, Skepticism | 8 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

8 Responses to “Skeptics’ Guide uncut”

1. Davidlpf Says:
January 29th, 2009 at 3:13 pm

Heard myself already too, great interview.
2. andrew Says:
January 29th, 2009 at 3:39 pm

just dl’d. id pay for every normal episode if i had to. dr. novella and the crew are amazing
3. Thomas Siefert Says:
January 29th, 2009 at 11:32 pm

We can say SGU here? I thought it was a non-swearing site…
4. Radwaste Says:
January 30th, 2009 at 5:17 am

So, this Skeptic’s Guide — does it have the words, “Don’t Panic” reassuringly printed on the cover?
5. Cheyenne Says:
January 30th, 2009 at 7:53 am

Did you talk about the UK hospital that just paid to have an Exorcist come in to banish a ghost? Oh boy, write up in the best paper ever – The Sun.

Homeopathy, vaccinations, etc all effecting health standards. And now apparently hospitals themselves are doing stuff like this?!

“Experts said the spirit could be the ghost of a Roman soldier killed on the spot where the original hospital was built in the 1920s.” If I get hurt and go to hospital the absolute last thing I would ever want to see is a guy sprinkling me with holy water and chanting.
6. Knurl Says:
January 30th, 2009 at 10:09 am

You’re in half of the uncut episodes? Yeah, I guess you are that good.
7. Jeremy Says:
January 30th, 2009 at 12:54 pm

Ordered – thanks for the heads-up!

Been meaning to order that since I heard about it on one of the SGU casts from a few weeks ago.
8. I wan't to listen to Phil Says:
February 4th, 2009 at 1:23 pm

Has it been removed. I can’t find it, there are only 3 episodes there. Perhaps a government cover up?

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