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Hello and welcome to the skeptics guide to the universe. Today is Wednesday September 9th, 2015. This is your host, Stephen Novella. Join me this week, our Bob Novella.

Hey everybody, Cara Santa Maria.

Well hello.

And Evan Burstein.

Yes, this is my real voice. Evan is not in some synthesized thing going through a mix and bored. This is my...

Evan has conference prep from Dragon.

Nerd plague.

Nerd plague is my favorite one, Cara.

We have a lot to talk about actually just in the opening banter of the show before we get to our regular segments.

You may have noticed that Jay is not with us this week and that is because at this very moment, Jay's wife Courtney is in labor.

Last we heard she was seven centimeters dilated.

I thought Monday was labor.

Yeah, right.

And when I told Steve seven centimeters his quote was,

that kid is going to be out before we're done recording the show. We'll see Jay's going to text us updates.

If there's any updates before we're done recording the show, we'll let you know. But obviously Jay Jay's engaged at the moment couldn't be honest.

He's going to get his priority straight.

All right.

I guess he gets a pass this week.

So offended.

Bob and Evan, you were both a Dragon Con. You were sort of soloing this this year because Jay obviously couldn't be there.

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