Greetings. This is your host, Brian Dunning, who has recently survived the Skeptoid Adventures

trip to Death Valley. Fifty of you joined me as we went to such places as Badwater Basin,

the Devil's Hole, the mysterious sliding stones of racetrack playa, mining and petroglyph sites, and much more.

We ate military MREs in the desert, survived rattlesnakes, tarantulas, and scorpions.

It was an adventure like no other.

And, as with all skeptoid adventures, everyone got their official mission patch in their swag to commemorate

the trip.

So next time you go to a conference, look for adventurers sporting the Death Valley

2024 mission patch.

Fifty skeptoid listeners strung out across the desert is a large group, and we were fortunate

not to lose anyone.

We think. We're not really too sure. There were fortunate not to lose anyone. We think.

We're not really too sure.

There were only a few unclaimed suitcases left over, but no matter.

We even had special guest experts along.

Longtime author and skeptical inquirer editor at large, Ben Radford, was there entertaining

all with local legends and cryptids and even took a group out

one night to recreate an alleged alien video. We also had along an astrophysicist to give

Star Talks and Starwalks. She's one of only 15 people in history to have discovered a

circumbinary exoplanet, and you may recognize her name, Erica Dunning.

And of course, every Death Valley trip needs a geologist. So we brought along a Paleo-Sysmologist

and Death Valley historian, whose name you might also recognize, Andrew Dunning, and he kept

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