Across the UK, across Continental North America, had around the world on the internet completely

independently by webcast and podcast, my name is Howard Hughes, and this is the unexplained.

Thank you for returning to my show, and thank you for making this the most amazing month

that I think we've had on the site, and with downloads of the show, my webmaster Adam

Cornwell and I sat together in a little cafe in London yesterday, going through some statistics

looking at what they call the analytics for the site, and also details of downloads, and

it seems that we have amazing response now to the show, and that's all down to you, telling

your friends. To those of you who've linked to the site, thank you very much, and thank

you for the continuing feedback. It now seems that we've achieved something that I wanted

to achieve with this show right from the start. We seem to have made, boy, should I call

it a breakthrough? Maybe it isn't a breakthrough in the United States. I've always felt all

my life being born in Liverpool, and because it's a maritime place with connections to

the sea, and I had relatives who went across the ocean to work, I even had my goodness,

my grandfather, who the story goes, jumped ship in New York, was working at sea like so many

people in Liverpool did, so many people had to. Liverpool is still a great maritime city,

but the word is that as a boy of 18, this is a long, long time ago, many decades back,

he jumped ship in the U.S. and disappeared for a while, experiencing life there. And I

think I got my love of America from him. But I always had this kind of affinity with California

that I've never quite understood, and I don't think it's anything to do with watching

lots of movies made there. That's not it, I don't think. But ever since I was a small

child, maybe three years of age, I seem to know things about California that I couldn't

possibly have known. And when I went to California for the first time in my life, what, ten

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