How To Be A Skeptic

How To Be A Skeptic

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Listener Mail: META Glasses, the United Kingdom is in Trouble, AI Kidnappings and More

In tonight's listener mail segment: a professional NHS investigator responds to the Ben, Matt and Noel's earlier interview segment about the Lucy Letby case. Frog Daddy prompts a conversation about surveillance and META glasses. One Eyed Cyclops shares a terrifying experence with ...  Show more

Exercise Tiger: The Slapton Sands Cover-up

As one of the most high-stakes, ambitious operations in all of military history, the D-Day invasion of World War II remains a thrilling -- and terrifying -- tale, constantly retold and reexamined by Hollywood and historians. But there's another strange, oft-ignored story in the D ...  Show more

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