Welcome. This is the 2006 year-end special of the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe.

Hello and welcome to the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe. This is your host, Steven

Avella, president of the New England Skeptical Society, and this is our 2006 year-end review

special episode. Joining me from this evening we have the full complement of Skeptical

Roads, Bob Novella, everybody, Rebecca Watson, Happy New Year. Evan Bernstein?

Yes, everyone. Hello. Jane Novella. Hey guys, and Perry DeAngeloos.

Oh, the quaint dance bee. Forget. Good. Thanks for joining me, everyone.

Thank you, Steve. Pleasure to be here. So this is our special episode to close out 2006.

This has been a great year for the Skeptic's Guide and we'd like to start off by thanking

all of our wonderful listeners out there because obviously we are nothing without all of

the guys. 10,000 of them. Guys, we love the emails and we love the posts on the bulletin

board. Definitely worth it. Thank you very much. Definitely the show has been made this year

by all of the tremendous emails that we get. We've had a very vibrant message board. A

lot of good things happen this year. I've took the liberty of jotting down some milestones.

As Rebecca just said, we have peaked over the psychological 10,000 download barriers.

Five figures. We actually have our most downloaded episode was the November 1st episode where

we interviewed Richard Weisman. It was a great interview. We currently stand at 10,100

and 22 downloads. We are on the way to 20,000. We have a couple of episodes of peaked over

10,000. We have an active audience of over 9,000 but that's a little bit of variability

there. But most downloads of a single episode is over 10,000. We began the year. We began

at 9,600 listeners. We've had a 10-fold increase in our listenership. On a five-star scale,

the vast majority of our reviews on iTunes are five stars. Four were at four last

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