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Hello and welcome to the skeptic's guide to the universe.

Today is Wednesday, August 6th, 2025, and this is your host, Stephen Novella.

Joining me this week are Bob Novella.

Hey, everybody.

Kara Santa Maria.

Howdy. And Evan Bernstein. Good evening, folks. Jay is still on vacay in Alaska. He'll be back next week. 49th state. Has he been like checking in with anyone? Yeah, sending pictures, you know. Oh, nice. He sent us the link so we could record this podcast tonight. True. He keeps the keys to this recording device.

So it's the 80th anniversary of dropping the bomb on Hiroshima.

It's amazing.

80 years, literally a lifetime ago.

I was born in 1969, which in a way always fascinated me because that was only 24 years

removed from the end of World War II.

24 years, that's nothing.

24 years ago was 2001.

I mean, it's, you know, right?

And it's amazing how much, like, so people who are born around, you know, 9-11, that's like a lifetime ago to them, obviously, or people who are born after that.

It's amazing how much when you're not alive during a time period, it seems really far away.

Like, anything that happened before you were born is like ancient history.

And then the things that happened while you were alive were like, not that long ago.

Right.

But then you back up, you take a little closer look at it and you realize, wow, it really was not that long ago.

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