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Hello and welcome to the skeptics guide to the universe. Today is Thursday, July 30th, 2015, and this is your host, Steven Novella.

Joining me this week are Bob Novella. Hey everybody, Kara Santa Maria. Hey guys.

Jay Novella. And Evan Bernstein. Oh my god, I've been shot. You're busting out over there, Jay. What's going on?

The Star Wars movie is coming out. I'm not going to pretend that I'm not celebrating and getting super excited. Only 130 something days.

Yep, I bought a blaster a few weeks ago. That means I have three super awesome high end blasters.

Jay, that sound effect was awesome. Where'd you get that?

Actually, Bob bought me a little sound effect machine for my birthday. Check this out.

That sound is embedded in my DNA. Yeah. Does it only make spacey sounds?

It's all the blaster sounds from Star Wars, Kara. Gotcha.

Which you clearly don't know and I will have to educate you. Yeah.

Wait, you can like identify each of those sounds. Oh, yeah. Here's such a nerd. I love it.

He knows if it's left handed or right handed. No, but I swear to God when Bob gave it to me, me, Bob and Steve were together.

And I was told Bob, like I know all of them and I'm like, I click it and I named it. I clicked it and I named it.

And I clicked it and I named it and Steve's like, oh no, no, that one was this one. He was like, oh yeah, yeah, you're right. We had to make a minor edit.

I was right, but it was slightly off. So the details are incredible. I mean, I could picture the thing shooting it.

Like one of them is the eye on Canon. One of them is a Stormtrooper blaster. One of them is the sound that a snow walker, the snow walker's gun.

Yeah, I didn't have them all memorized. You're like one of those guys who can say what the hot rod is when he just hears it on the road.

Exactly, except much cooler. I can identify blaster. No, it's funny. We were at the, we went to see Ant-Man over the weekend.

And George, George Trabber was with us. And we saw our first in the theater Star Wars preview.

Oh, yes.

George was sitting between Bob and I and when like the Lucasfilm thing came on the screen and we realized that it was a Star Wars preview. Bob and I both gasped at the same time.

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