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Hello and welcome to the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe.

Today is Saturday, October 11, 2008, and I am your host, Stephen Novella, President

of the New England Skeptical Society. Joining me today are, as always, Bob Novella,

everybody. Rebecca Watson. Hello everyone.

Jane Ovella. Hey guys. Evan Bernstein. Hi everyone.

And we have two special guests before we get to our, this day in Skepticism.

Come down Evan. Joining us again, who is with us on our live show last year, Steve

Mursekie from Scientific American. Hi everybody. And Terence Hines.

And this is our first annual Perry DeAngelo's Memorial Live event. So thanks everyone for coming.

And this event was made possible entirely by the generous donations of our listeners who

donated to the Perry DeAngelo's Memorial Fund so that we could do this sort of thing.

And we definitely plan on making this an annual event.

Pense the name. Pense the name. That's right. And the Grymerian in me has to say that,

you know, first annual is, you should never say that, you know, it's the first annual.

No, it's the second one gets there. That's the second annual. But the first one's just the first.

But we are going to have one next year. So just say it.

Hey, if the ignoble's can have the 10th first annual. That's sure.

You can have the first first day. Here here.

I did want to start off just talking a little bit about Perry, of course. Perry DeAngelo's the sixth row,

who's no longer with us, unfortunately. He passed away last August, actually just a week or so after our first live event last year.

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