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Hello and welcome to The Skeptics Guide to the Universe.

Today is Wednesday, October 25th, 2023, and this is your host, Steven Novella.

Jordan and this week are Cara Santa Maria, Jenovela, and Evan Bernstein.

Good evening everyone.

Bob had an emergency, he can't be with us at the moment.

You might join us later, or you might record his bit tomorrow.

So you still may hear him in the show, but he's not starting to show with us unfortunately.

It's especially unfortunate because this is the last episode we're recording before Halloween.

I know.

It's a special day.

Yeah, Bob is peak Halloween right now.

Yeah, we went to Jay and I, and our family went to his haunt on the weekend.

This was like the best year for his haunt, they did a super good job.

Does it get better and better every year?

Yeah, but I mean, it's, I would say, some years are a lateral move.

You know what I mean?

It's just different every year.

And the overall production quality is pretty high, but this year there was definitely a jump I think in the production quality from prior years.

There was some really good, one thing that I've never seen at a previous haunt.

I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but I just, I've personally never seen it.

Is they managed to bring in an old school bus, right?

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