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Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.

Today is Wednesday July 18th 2007 and this is your host, Stephen Novella, president of the

New England Skeptical Society.

This evening we're going to have a shorter than usual episode.

We have an interview scheduled with Brian Trent coming up in just a moment and that interview

will be the entire show for this week.

Unfortunately this was unavoidable.

There were a combination of personal events this week.

Skeptical Rogue, Jane Novella is getting married in a few days.

This we were planning on, we were planning on Jay's wedding and we were going to try to

work around it.

However, unfortunately there was also a death in the family.

So the combination of those things did not leave us time to do a full episode.

But we're still going to bring you the interview that we had scheduled with Brian Trent.

So let's go to that interview now.

Joining us now is Brian Trent.

Brian welcome back to the Skeptics Guide.

Thank you very much.

It's great to be back.

Brian is a professional essayist, screenwriter and novelist and we interviewed you actually

a little over a year ago about your book remembering high-pacia and now we invited you back

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