So by now you should know that I kind of sort of wrote a book and it's going to be published

on November 20th, 2018.

And I'm going to do a reading from the book from one of the chapters.

I don't know if I'm even allowed to do that.

I didn't exactly check.

So this episode may be up for like a day.

And then my publisher will say,

you're not supposed to do that. And it will go away. But we'll live in this moment.

We'll do it while we can. We'll be renegades together. And I will do a reading. But first,

I got to do some bids. And if you don't want to hear about any of the business,

just skip ahead five minutes or so. And we'll get to the bookie parts. Because I want to hear about any of the business, just skip ahead five minutes or so, and we'll get to

the booky parts. Because I want to tell you about the stuff surrounding the book itself, because

the book exists, and it will be out there, it will be published, and there's other things

associated with the book. You don't understand exactly what I mean. One, the book itself

is about our universe. Surprisingly short, considering the topic is 13.8 billion years and 90 billion

light years across. But there it is. It's also the story of our relationship

with the universe. It's the story of how we came to know the universe scientifically, how we

grappled with it, how we made advances in technology that unlocked more and more mysteries and wonders about the

universe of how for every question answered, 10 more were raised.

And it's something that I loved and I still do.

I chose to be an astrophysicist and a cosmologist because I love these

topics and it was so so fun to like write down these stories. These are almost like my

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