You're in the Paracast. You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.

And now, here's Gene Steinberg.

We welcome back Tilly Treadwell, who's giggling as I speak.

She's one of the rare people who giggle want to speak.

Most people cough, but she giggles.

Is that better?

Okay, so we're starting a good stead.

As you probably notice, if you saw our forum question bank segment, which contained the announcement

on Tilly's appearance on the power cast, that she is there chewing gum and blowing up the bubble.

What kind of gum is this?

Oh, goodness. Well, for that photo shoot particularly, I went through about five different types of bubble gum, and I settled on the good old-fashioned double bubble.

Mm-hmm. It took, I want to say, somewhere around seven pieces, though, to get that particular photo.

So now you're suffering from bubblegum disease.

You know, probably, but I'm not going to let that get me down, to be honest, because it was a good photo shoot, a good photo, and I hope you all enjoy it because there's a special meaning behind it.

What pre-tale is the meaning?

Well, I was taking these photos around the time that our good friend Tim invited me to write

for the weird time book.

And I wanted to have a more unique photograph that had something to do with quantum science and quantum theory in general.

This was about the time where I was writing the quantum bubbles, blowing bubbles chapter.

Me blowing the bubble, of course, on camera was a nod to that quantum theory.

Ah, yes. All in the bubble. We live in the bubble, folks. And the bubble's about to burst.

Sometimes our bubbles happen to bump into each other. Sometimes they overlap, and I think that's part of the weird and

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