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

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

Thank you very much for staying in touch with me. We are still in the grips of a heat wave

here with temperatures in the high 80s, in the low 30s depending on how you measure your

temperatures. So it is certainly going to be one of those years, whether it's going

to equate with years like the Longhot Summer they keep talking about of 1976, I don't

know. But it's certainly warm and of course our homes here in the UK are not really equipped

for dealing with heat. So if you live on an upper floor which I do, then the heat tends

to rise and just hang there and it makes it a little bit uncomfortable. So you know,

I'll be sipping water, I think as I read and do this. I think, but you know, we'll

be fine and eventually we'll probably be complaining at the back end of the year that the weather

is too cold. It's part of being British. I'm doing this show with a little bit of Americana.

I've dug out my famed Sure 545 microphone. This is one of the great microphones. Beloved

of Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. The one that I'm using here I think was probably

made in the early 70s, very well preserved and obtained obtained obtained very cheaply

on eBay. But I just thought I want to I want to try my microphone again. So this is

the legendary Sure 545 which is the earlier version of the the famous SM57 if you know

about these things. Just a let you know. I know some of my listeners are interested in

the equipment that I use to do these shows. Sometimes it's very simple. Okay, shoutouts

before the guest and on this edition, the guest will be something from my radio show

that I've had so many requests to put here on the podcast to preserve it. So that's

what we're going to do. Tony Healy expert on the Australian phenomenon of yowee, the Australian

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