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Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe. Today is Wednesday, February 3, 2016. This is your host, Stephen Novella.

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

Jane Novella, I'm back and Evan Bernstein. Jays back. My bad is back. I feel like I haven't done a podcast in a month.

I don't think you have. I don't. Yeah, hasn't it been? Happy February. So how was Sweden? Sweden was very good. I was away for two weeks and it was very long time to be away from my family and my two children.

My wife and I were FaceTiming every night. It just made it worse. I just felt bad whenever we talked because I just needed to get home to see them.

But the trip was great and I had a great, great experience with the local Skeptics. I didn't really get a chance to tell you guys much about this.

I happened to be friends with a Skeptic in Malmo, Sweden, named Leonard Forsberg. Malmo? Malmo.

I have to think about when Julia. Yeah, I think one of my daughters was young. Elmo was very popular and they would call him Melmo.

I think it was Julia. Melmo. Was this before he was a pedophile?

Oh gosh, yes. Elmo's a pedophile? Well, the actor got the, yeah, the ex. The original voice actor was Kevin Clash.

Oh, God. You mean the subway spokesperson, Chair? No, no, no, no, no, the Fugelgormay.

Oh, yeah, Jeffrey Jones or now Jeff Jones, although he had indosence. Oh my God, you guys so many pedophiles.

The free-court man. Yeah, Jeff Smith. Was it Jeff Smith? Yeah, I love the love-dress piece.

Wait, weren't we talking about Sweden? Yeah, oh gosh. We don't have a pedophile teacher.

I honestly guys, I cannot name names right now after this pedophile list. Like I'm serious. Oh yeah, let me get back to telling you about my friend. His name is in a list of pedophiles.

Oh, she is. All right, we'll give you a clean break. Go tell us about Melmo, Sweden.

Well, first it's pronounced Malmo. Okay. All right. So I have a friend, Leonard Forsberg, who we met at a hotel that he works at.

I stayed in the hotel. He was a listener of the show. He and I became friends. So I had been, you know, I used to go quite often.

I went back this year and he was asking me if I'd like to meet some local skeptics and I was saying, yes, I have nothing to do.

You know, I'm going to have a whole weekend to myself. And it turned out that I ended up giving a talk at an event that Leonard and Pontis Bachman put together with, they have, you know, a governing body of skeptics there.

I met, oh God, I think there was like 30 plus people that ended up showing up. Pontis interviewed me for his podcast, which is the European skeptics podcast.

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