Across the UK, across continental North America and around the world on the internet, my webcast

and podcast, my name is Howard Hughes, and this is The Unexplained.

While thank you very much for giving this show a great couple of weeks, the traffic on

the internet site has more than doubled lately.

I am reaching places that I never thought it would be possible to reach so many cities

in North America with us now.

Now I love America and I love American radio always have.

In fact, as I was growing up, I used to take my cue from the great American broadcasters

that I would hear, and I would try and be like them because I believe that they gave

passion and dynamism and real goodness to their delivery and those were the people I tried

to be like.

And of course I've got a British accent, I can't avoid that, and sometimes accused of

being mid-Atlantic, but I love that I even used to stay up at my parents' home until

three o'clock in the morning and try to hear.

And did, on many occasions, through the Crackle and the Static, 77 WABC out of New York

City.

And I got very recently the chance to visit that station, and I actually sat behind the

great Sean Hannity, as he was on air across America, and it was just an incredible experience

to visit that radio station that I had revered as a boy when it was a music station, and

then as I got interested in talk radio, well, WABC, the powerhouse became a talk radio

station.

One of the great places that inspired me, one of many, in fact, radio stations like

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