During the past years, methods of finding and treating cancer have advanced considerably; however many of the sufferers either don't get diagnosed in time or don't stick to the warnings of an age when everything gives you cancer. However, unexpected help could be found in man's best friend The Dog. This type of animal has demonstrated, in many cases, the ability to smell the malady immediately after the first cancer cells started developing inside the body. By far the most talented cancer smelling dog of our times is Marine, a Labrador pooch which can identify any form of cancer with success. Unfortunately Marine cannot reproduce because of a surgical procedure she had gone through at age 4. (editor: further research has shown that the dog is to be cloned!)

I'm seriously gutted about this, George Carlin, one of the greatest stand-up comedians of all time, sadly died (he would have hated me to say 'passed away') on Sunday of heart failure. Carlin was not afraid to speak his mind and, like a fine wine, got better and better with time. Carlin's website forum has crashed due to the vast amount of people paying their respects, but I managed to get around it and found this message from his daughter: "I can't get on the forum right now to read your posts. Know that your thoughts and prayers are heard. Thank you all for loving my dad as much as you do. Best, Kelly Carlin-McCall" Everyone at Right Where you are Sitting Now sends their deepest sympathies and love to Carlin's family, he will be SORELY missed!

This weeks guest, Dean Haglund, is probably best known for his character 'Langly' from the hit Fox show The X Files. He also starred in the spin-off show 'The Lone Gunman' which ended in mysterious circumstances. We ask Dean about this mystery, as well as chatting to him about crazy serial killer software, medical conspiracies, being an inventor, what he knows about the new X Files movie and a slew of other cool stuff! I am joined this week by the latest edition to the Sittingnow staff, Jacob 'JW' Williams as we mourn the temporary loss of Paul as well as revealing JW's previous experience with our last guest Nick Pope! Music this week comes in the shape of Estradaphere and their brilliant track Mekapses Yitonisa from the album Quadropus available from our friends over at Mimicry Records You can buy one of Dean's excellent Lone Gunmen comics, as well as a Chill Pak from deanhaglund.com

Earlier this week, icy "bright white crumbs" were discovered in the pits of a trench found in Mars' north pole by The Phoenix spacecraft. Since the crumbs vanished in more recent photos, taken as evidence of the ice being melted by sun exposure, scientists have been considering the possibility of human habitability. Though water is crucial to human survival, some scientists argue that without an energy source like the sun, and an organic carbon source, Mars is still not hospitable. There has been previous evidence of the existence of water, but as Bruce Jakosky, an astrobiologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder puts it: "It's not unexpected, but finding it is different than predicting it." To further this, Mars' soil and ice are being tested for minerals which contain traces of carbonates and sulfates which are formed by liquid water. Links: nasa.gov phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu photo credits: ESA, NASA

This weeks guest, Nick Pope, used to run the British Government's UFO project at the Ministry of Defence. Initially sceptical, his research and investigation into the UFO phenomenon and access to formerly classified government files on the subject soon convinced him that the phenomenon raised important defence and national security issues, especially when the witnesses were military pilots or where UFOs were tracked on radar. Nick also looked into other mysteries such as alien abductions, crop circles and ghosts. He now continues his research in a private capacity and is recognised as a leading authority on UFOs and the unexplained. He does extensive media work, lectures all around the world and has acted as consultant on numerous television documentaries. Background music this week comes in the shape of Four Tet. Featured Song this week is 'No Tech!' by Unwound Check out Nick Pope on the web here and the National Archives UFO documents here

This weeks guest, R U Sirius, is a cyber-culture icon and former editor of the amazing Mondo 2000 magazine. He's has written regular columns for Wired Magazine and the San Francisco Examiner. Sirius is also a fellow podcaster, with his semi-regular shows 'The R U Sirius Show' and 'The Neo Files'. He has contributed to the public discourse of emerging cyber-cultures extensively as well as authoring several books on topics like Counterculture and Revolution. We talk to RU about Counterculture, virtual reality, Timothy leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Comic Books...and Paul takes AGES to, boringly, ask a pretty simple question...*sigh*...enjoy. Background music this week comes in the shape of Mothboy and Ennio Morricone Featured song this week is Chop Shop by Craw Check R U Sirius on the web here and buy back issues (trust me it's worth it!) here

The next episode will up later today, and will be an interview with R U Sirius! We figured out a cool way of doing the music episodes and we need to figure out some permissions and so forth first! SO, instead we got you one of the worlds greatest thinkers on the subject of CyberCulture and Consciousness! Next weeks interview will be with the mighty Nick Pope, who used to work for the Ministry of Defence researching UFO's (see post by Claire below for a video of Nick) So don't say we don't spoil you!

The British artist Pollyanna Pickering was exploring the Bhutan area when she was shown by the Brokpas people at their monastery, the scalp of what was considered a once live yeti. She claims the scalp still had a bone intact and was larger than any skull of a human or ape and "had tufts of reddish-black fur coming out of it and was mounted on a pole and seen as a holy relic." Unfortunately, while photography is prohibited in the monastery, Pollyanna sat with the native people who described the 'migoi' or yeti, to her, and gave her suggestions to alterations in her drawing of the timid, roughly 2.4 meter (8 ft.) creature. The photo to the left is the result of this "photofit." Yeti expert from the UK, Johnathan Downes, of the Centre of Fortean Zoology, claimed, "This is potentially explosive. If this scalp is authentic and has bone still attached, it will be probably the single most important zoological find since the discovery of the coelacanth in the late 1930s." He continued, "If it does exists, we now think it a likely descendant from a giant ape called Gigantopithecus blackii which lived in India and ...

The next episode (recording tomorrow), will be a departure from the norm in that we will be playing you some of our favorite strange, but cool, music. We have been granted permission from the labels in question to play you substantial clips of their stuff (clips bare in mind) and we can't wait to share our messed up tastes with you :) Hopefully our MySpace master, and king of doom Paul SC will be treating us to a slice of his excellent band, The Sontaran Experiment's new album as well!   Episode 8 will be an interview with the amazing R U Sirius, of Mondo 2000 fame, followed by episode 9 which will be an interview with the man who used to investigate UFO reports for the Minstry of Defence, Nick Pope. We have some awesome guests in the pipeline as well, so keep em peeled!

In this weeks episode we go deep into the roots of the Western Esoteric Tradition with our returning guest Raymond Wiley. Raymond is the former host of the amazing Out There Radio, and has recently graduated University with a BA in History where he specialised in the scholarly study of the Western Occultism. Raymond has a wealth of knowledge in the area we are discussing today, and presents it in his usual fun and highly interesting way. There is no me and Paul banter this week due to me having an infected tooth, which has made me not only look...but sound like The Godfather! We will be back, I hope, as normal next week with another great guest. Enjoy the show. Music this week comes from the amazing Secret Chiefs 3 in the shape of a cover of John Carpenters 'Halloween' score. It is a live recording, and i'm unsure as to it's source, but it's great!