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

webcast and by podcast, my name is Howard Hughes and this is the return of the unexplained.

What do I listen to recently asked me why do you always say my name is Howard Hughes rather

than my name is Howard Hughes and the simple reason for that is that many of my American

listeners, and I know it's a bizarre name that I have, simply don't believe that my name

really is Howard Hughes when I was Chris and Howard Hughes I have said that before and

I'm kind of proud of the name too.

Howard Hughes, the millionaire, I think he was actually an eccentric billionaire, I was

a man of many, many talents, he was a great golfer and filmmaker and many other things

apart from being enormously accomplished in business.

So even though he was eccentric, especially in his later years and died in secrecy as

a recluse, the man was pretty special, read about him.

I've spent a lot of my life reading about this man whose name I share, so yes I am Howard

Hughes.

His life is finding you well, it's pretty much autumn now here in the northern hemisphere

and spring is dawning in the southern hemisphere so the world is continuing to turn.

But of course these are tense times with the action in Iraq against the group calling

itself ISIL, ISIS, whatever it happens to be calling itself this week and the West efforts

to defeat them.

There are many conspiracy theories about this and at the moment I'm not going to get into

any of that stuff because nothing is clear yet.

But we'll watch this situation.

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