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Warning! The following episode contains strong language, bizarre theories, unexplainable experiences, and a time-traveling human statue.

It may not be suitable for younger weirdos.

Are there like weird little animals, something floating about in the skies of Venus, farting out phosphine?

That's genuinely like, no one really knows at the minute.

So it's still kind of batshit. Hey, Oh, Oh, Oh, We Can Be Weirdos.

My name is Dan Schreiber.

I'm coming to you today from The Haunted Studios in Leicester Square.

I'm back in the studio, haven't been here for ages.

Got to sit down with one of my favorite popular science writers, Dr. Robin George Andrews, to talk

about all things batshit. Robin came on the rough corner quite a while ago

to talk about his new book, which is out this Tuesday, by the way, October the 1st, How to Kill an

asteroid. I've got a copy of it at home. It's so good. As you'll hear in this episode,

Robin is an incredible science communicator, incredibly funny, very, very interesting, always got something to say on every single topic.

And off the back of that rough corner where we were talking about his book and we were talking about asteroids and his general hinterland of science knowledge, I thought I really need to get him to sit down, fill in the bad shit list so that we can talk about the scientific side of a lot of

things like ghosts and UFO encounters and so on. But quickly, for those who haven't heard that

initial rough corner, Dr. Robin George Andrews, he's a popular science writer. He's also a doctor of

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