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Welcome to Skeptical Sunday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. Today I'm here with Skeptical Sunday co-host, Professor Dave Farina. You get so much crap for that online, by the way, Dave. Your professor name. I mean, you had to see that coming, though, right?
No, I didn't. I was teaching organic chemistry at a university, and when I started the channel, it was just my university organic chemistry tutorial, so it seemed apropos at the time.
Yeah, no, I mean, it seems fair, but whenever people are like, fake Professor Dave thinks the Earth is round, I'm like, well, you can't really say anything about that.
Yeah, as though you trust any astronomy or geology or physics professor in the entire world, you hypocrite.
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