Hello, friends, and welcome to the Friday episode of Stand Up. Sorry, I'm a little bit late, but you had me up late at last night's hangout where listeners, subscribers, who have paid as little as $5, and often a lot more, join me for a weekly hangout.

And as I was reminded by our friend Kerry Williams last night, we are approaching the sixth

anniversary of these Thursday night hangouts.

And I couldn't have had a better time, a better ride over these past six years with a better

group of people than I have with you.

If you've never come to a hangout, you ought to join us.

They really are very special and magical, as Carrie said last night, and as many have also said in so many ways over the years that we've been doing them. So I hope you will stop by. Patreon.com slash Pete Domic. Also hope that you will come to Podjam. April 9th through 12th in Vegas, our third gathering in three years and very much

looking forward to seeing you there. You can get tickets at the top of the show notes. It's

there every day between now and Podjam 3. Joining me on today's show for the first time is

the correspondent, science correspondent for Economist magazine, The Economist, and he has written a new book.

It's fascinating and important. It's called, I Told You So, Scientists who are ridiculed,

exiled, and imprisoned for being right, an energetic and impassioned work of popular science,

but scientists who have had to fight for their revolutionary ideas to be accepted from Darwin to

Louis Pasteur to modern day

Nobel Prize winners. It's a very good book, interesting book, and an interesting conversation.

Matt Kaplan is my guest. He joins me for the first time today. And if you want to jump to it,

skip right over the headlines and clips that I've worked so hard to produce for you today,

then you can. It starts at 32 minutes.

But right now, I've got your headlines from the past 24 hours and several clips as well.

Let's start with what the hell is happening in the Middle East via the potential for an invasion,

a bombing of Iran, because the latest story I read is that the U.S.

ambassador to Israel, Mike Hockaby, has urged U.S. staff wishing to leave Israel, go ahead and do so

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