The Skeptics Guide #1057 - Oct 11 2025
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
Dr. Steven Novella MD
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🗓️ 11 October 2025
⏱️ 107 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the skeptics guide to the universe. |
| 0:06.4 | Your escape to reality. |
| 0:09.7 | Hello and welcome to the skeptics guide to the universe. |
| 0:12.7 | Today is Thursday, October 9th, 2025, and this is your host, Stephen Novella. |
| 0:17.4 | Joining me this week are Bob Novella. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:19.6 | Kara Santa Maria. |
| 0:20.8 | Howdy? And Jaynevella. Hey, everybody. Kara Santa Maria. Howdy. |
| 0:21.5 | And Jaynevalla. |
| 0:22.5 | Hey, guys. |
| 0:37.2 | Evan is in phase two of tax hell. He has the late deadline in mid-October. So he's doing it. Which, like, let's be honest. I think they just furloughed like half the IRS staffs. Right? Well, yeah. No, it's true. Iris is like woefully under staff now. It's crazy. |
| 0:39.5 | Yeah, so he's doing that. So you might notice |
| 0:41.4 | we've Well, yeah. No, it's true. IRS is like, woefully under staff now. It's crazy. Yeah, so he's doing that. So you might notice we started recording on Thursday instead of Wednesdays. I think the second week we're doing that. This is going to be our new normal. And it's just a scheduling thing, mainly because Kara is starting a new job. And Thursday is going to be a lot easier for her than Wednesday. Yeah, and I'm three hours behind you guys. Yeah. So it's different. We're recording in the afternoon instead of the evening. So Jay's awake, right, Jay? Yeah, I mean, we go till like 1030 at night. A lot of times at Eastern time. And I'm just, you know, a million times sharper at one in the afternoon. I love to that you guys are like, we're recording in the afternoon. |
| 1:12.5 | And I'm like, it's 9 a.m. |
| 1:15.6 | Are you a morning person or an evening person, Kara? |
| 1:19.2 | Well, I used to be an evening person. |
| 1:21.4 | I still am technically an evening person. |
| 1:23.3 | But we've talked about this before. |
| 1:24.7 | Because I have a sleep disorder that makes me a very sleepy girl, |
| 1:28.4 | I take this really intense medication and now I just wake up in the morning. It's like the minute |
| 1:35.2 | that the meds are done doing their thing. I'm just awake. Yeah, it's how they work. It's amazing. |
| 1:40.2 | Yeah. So I wouldn't still call myself a morning person, but I'm much more of one than I ever was before. |
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