300K SUBSCRIBERS SPECIAL: Your Questions Answered + BIG Announcement [Ep. 476]

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Five years ago, I started this podcast from scratch. My idea was simple: create a platform to interview the world’s most brilliant scientists and make their genius known to as many people as possible. Since then, I’ve released nearly 500 episodes, interviewed some of the world’s brightest minds, and gained over 300K subscribers! I never thought it was possible, and I’m incredibly grateful to all of my guests and to every single one of you. Without you, this wouldn’t be possible. To celebrate this incredible milestone, I’m answering all the questions you left for me across different platforms and reflecting on this journey and the lessons I’ve learned. P.S. I also share a BIG announcement in this episode, so don’t miss out! — Key Takeaways: 00:00 Intro 00:42 The beginning of my podcasting journey 04:55 Reflecting on community building and limited reach 09:26 Why you should join me on Web 3.0 11:00 Pleasing the algorithm 14:13 On theories of everything and publishing your ideas 20:20 The existence of higher dimensions 23:31 Thoughts on the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics 25:59 What happens when things overlap? 28:20 Big announcement!! 31:37 My biggest lesson on YouTube 35:43 My favorite topics to discuss 41:52 Appreciation comments 43:44 Biology and astrobiology 48:02 Roman Goddess of the CMB? 49:43 Balancing fatherhood with having a podcast 54:01 Outro — Additional resources: ➡️ Check out the videos mentioned: 🪄 Felix Flicker: The Magic of Physics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJJGv-5Rk4I 🧵 Brian Greene: The Truth About String Theory & TOEs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpsxH7mOopM 📚 What Is A Theory of Everything? Featuring Sabine Hossenfelder, Lee Smolin, & Eric Weinstein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saamEkrBZfM 🤯 Stephen Wolfram: My Discovery Changes Everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-RO3vM10Ok 🧬 The mRNA Breakthrough That Changed Medicine Forever with Nobel Laureate Katalin Karikó: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCq__JpieNQ 🔬 Life's Catalyst: RNA with Nobel Prize Winner Tom Cech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y2knbUnpN0 👽 Is Earth Unique? Mario Livio and Jack Szostak on the Odds of Alien Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPUS-V6XX8E 🛸 Aliens Existed (Now They’re Dead): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl8N_aK_q0Y ➡️ Follow me on your fav platforms: ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list: https://briankeating.com/list ✍️ Check out my blog: https://briankeating.com/cosmic-musings/ 🎙️ Follow my podcast: https://briankeating.com/podcast — Into the Impossible with Brian Keating is a podcast dedicated to all those who want to explore the universe within and beyond the known. Make sure to follow/subscribe so you never miss an episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody to an episode with my favorite guest of all time.
0:04.0	Me.
0:05.0	It's a wild ride and I can't believe in just five years of doing Into the Impossible.
0:12.0	I've actually accumulated close to 500 episodes and over 300,000 subscribers as of early January 2025. It's insane. Plus, I've got another 75,000 or so,
0:27.4	plus of you that follow on the audio-only formats. And this is just an incredible accomplishment.
0:33.2	I never thought it was possible. I never thought I'd be staring at an audience of nearly
0:36.8	400,000
0:38.0	of the most magnificent minds in the known multiverse. When I started this podcast, my first
0:44.2	guest in the real kind of incarnation of the podcast was Sean Carroll. We recorded live and in person.
0:50.9	The audio was horrible in late 2019, released it in 2020.
0:55.6	And then some sort of something that rhymes with Randremic occurred.
1:01.4	Belovid, I think is what it was called.
1:03.5	If you can remember back to those dark days of early 2020,
1:06.2	and it really caused a title shift in my life because I realized that it was basically impossible for my fellow authors to go out on book tours.
1:17.1	I had been advised to start a podcast, and I had been running the podcast for years before, but it was audio only.
1:23.2	And it was kind of catch as catch can with random brilliant people guests coming on, including my first guest, Freeman Dyson.
1:31.7	Can't ask for a big or better guest than the late great Freeman Dyson.
1:35.1	But at the time, it was sort of, you know, when these guests were available, when they're coming through San Diego as part of the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination.
1:43.3	And I wanted to make their
1:44.5	brilliance known to the wider world. I felt it wasn't fair to just listen to them live and
1:49.5	whoever happened to be in San Diego at the time at the events that we would host and not
1:53.8	share their brilliance with the wider world. And so we started to record these and I would invite
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