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Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe. Today is Wednesday, December 5, 2018, and this is your host, even novella.

Joining me to speak are Bob novella.

Hey everybody, Kaira Santa Maria.

Howdy.

Jenovella.

Hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.

Hello friends.

Hi.

Hi.

So guys, this is a bit of a hybrid episode. Right? It's a hybrid.

We're going to record some of the usual segments live.

Like we are, I mean, recorded in the studio like we do every week.

But instead of the news section and the interview, we're going to use a show that we did at the Smithsonian last Friday.

So that'll be like in the middle of the show will be that live show that we recorded.

Yeah, but it'll be bookended by Studio Recording stuff to.

Yeah, so when you hear sort of that, when you hear sort of that change in the sound and the audio,

you're not hallucinating.

That's right. There will be actually two changes in the audio quality because of a brief segment of the live show,

we actually had to use our backup recording because we had to switch cards because we ran out of memory.

Now isn't it good though that I take a backup recording?

Yeah, but you didn't take a backup recording.

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