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Hello and welcome to the skeptics guide to the universe. Today is Wednesday, September 20th, 2017, and this is your host, Stephen Novella.

Joining me in the week are Bob Novella.

Hey everybody!

Cara Santa Maria.

Hi!

Hey, Novella. Hey guys, and Evan Bernstein. Evening folks. So Cara, I understand you were in Moscow last week.

I was. I was in Moscow yesterday. Actually, it's a whirlwind right now. I'm home for less than 24 hours.

But first, I was in Madison, Wisconsin. It was a lot of fun. I got an award, the Freethod Heroin Award, from the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

Yes, Heroin with an E. They etched my face on it, so I have no idea what to do with it.

I also, while I was there, got to meet a life-sized Charles Darwin. It was the creepiest but most amazing thing I'd ever seen.

Like, fleshy skin, some artist made it for them, and apparently it's life-size. He was very tall.

What?

Apparently so, that is. Now you flew to Russia.

And then I flew, yeah, to the different Moscow.

Why?

They pronounce it Moscow. It is spelled Moscow, but it is actually Idaho.

Oh, Moscow, Idaho.

I'm going to go by Idaho. Yeah. And I gave a talk on GMOs. It was sponsored by the Ag School there at the University of Idaho.

And there were some fans in the audience, so I had to... There's a really funny picture. I'm going to describe it for people listening.

But you guys check this out. Look at the t-shirts that this group of people who came to see me talk or wearing.

They're all wearing black t-shirts that they made themselves with Steve's giant face on them.

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