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Hello and welcome to the skeptics guide to the universe.

Today is Thursday, April 9th, 2026, and this is your host, Stephen Novella.

Joining me this week, or Bob Novella.

Hey, everybody.

Kara Santa Maria.

Howdy? Jay Novella. Hey, everybody. Kara Santa Maria. Howdy?

Jay Novella. Hey, guys. And Evan Bernstein. Good evening, everyone. How's everyone doing? Pretty good. You know, I did something. Proudy earlier today. So I was, you know, I'm always trying to come up with, you know, things to talk about in the SGEU. And I'm particularly trying to come up with ideas that we could use on all of our

traveling, right?

We're going to do a bunch of shows, and we don't know when those shows are going to drop.

So we have to come up with content that isn't time sensitive, right?

So I stumbled on these two top leading flat earthers watching the launch of Artemis 2.

Oh, God.

And it was actually so bad that it would only come off as me making fun of them.

Do you know what I mean?

Like they were trying their absolute hardest to shoot holes in everything that they saw.

For example, the engines of the SLS are covered in this ablative material that is like a

sound dampening thing and it protects the engines from all the water that comes down, right?

And the typical thing that they would say is they would say something derogatory about it

in a way where you could tell that

they have absolutely zero prior knowledge of anything that they're talking about.

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