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Hello and welcome to the skeptics guide to the universe. Today is Wednesday May 5, 2010 and this is your host, Steven novella.

Joining me this week are Bob novella. Hey everybody. Rebecca Watson. Hello everyone.

Jane novella. Hey guys. And Evan Bernstein. Yes folks. Hello. Hello.

Hey. Well, what have you guys been doing for the last five years? It's Cinco de Mayo. Right?

Evan, today is Cinco de Mayo. And some countries. Yes.

Everywhere and actually more so outside of Mexico than inside of it. I'll play it up. Is that right? Yeah.

I'm pretty sure the Cinco de Mayo is primarily celebrated in the United States more so than in Mexico. I could be wrong about that.

Why? Why would that be? I thought we did it because they did. Well, it's to celebrate the Mexicans beating the French.

But Americans are always looking for an excuse to drink margaritas.

I mean, that there's no good holidays in June. Let's make margarita day. Like June 15th.

Isn't that father's day? I'll bet you're nickel is already a margarita day. I bet I can look that up. Margarita day.

February 22nd. National margarita. February 22nd. That's the day we do it.

But there's a lot of five today. It's maybe five five two thousand and ten. But it's also the SGU 50 year anniversary.

Five years of the SGU. Wow. And 251 episodes. That's like a sixth of my life.

Would you guys like a little flashback? A flashback? We were all doing five years ago.

Oh, I don't want to. Just five years ago. Here we go.

Oh, yeah. I forgot about that. That's a legal.

We're all going to use eight seconds of it. Thomas Dove is going to pass does.

Hello and welcome to this week's show the skeptics guide to the universe today is May 4th, 2005.

I'm your host, Stephen Novella, president of the New England skeptical society.

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