Across the UK, across continental North America,

head around the world on the internet by webcast and by podcast.

My name is Howard Hughes and this is the Return of the Unexplained.

Thank you very much for keeping the faith with my show.

Thank you for the stream of emails and for your ongoing support.

You can always find out more about this show or link up with me at www.theunexplained.tv

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by the incredible Adam Cornwell at Creative Hotspot in Liverpool.

Lovely weather in the UK as I record this at the front end of June.

It is very nearly my birthday and I'm recording this show with a little piece of Americana.

I don't know if you can hear the difference at all but I've found a classic American microphone.

Not an expensive one at all but one that is becoming increasingly rare.

It's an American made sure SM58 has seen on many a stage and used by many artists and speakers over the years.

These days and for many years they've been made in Mexico very hard to find the ones that were made in Evanston, Illinois.

And I have got one of those that I managed to find quite recently, quite inexpensively.

Now, the connoisseurs say that the ones made in America sound better than the ones made in Mexico.

Well, I don't know, I've heard and used both.

I think they're different but I don't think one is better than the other.

But at the moment I'm using the American one made in Illinois just for this edition of the show

just to see what you think of that little piece of Americana here.

And I've always loved this microphone when I used to do outside broadcasts and travel around the world.

We used to take these with us because they can take an awful lot of abuse and punishment which they have to do on stage.

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