There was a whole roller coaster ride that I just went on with Beetlejuice from not knowing what it was.

So feeling like a fool for not knowing it was Orion's armpit to thinking that we are all going to possibly be obliterated at any moment to being like, it's all gonna be okay.

Probably okay.

Are we yes? Where are we here? Why are we here not entirely clear?

We are misfits thrust into existence by random chance with no hints at all as to how we're supposed to make sense of it all.

It's immensely bizarre. Here we are.

Hello everybody and welcome to the here we are podcast. I am so excited. I am here in Las Vegas and I had such a wonderful time.

The first leg of my Vegas residency at area 15 and getting ready to launch a big national tour and everything and a lot of fun opportunities have come up along the way.

I've met some cool people since being here and one of them is Andrew Kerr, who is the head of the Las Vegas Planetarium.

Yep. We're the Dale Atheridge Planetarium. We just got renamed last year for the first and only other manager of the Planetarium.

It's been 46 years or something like that and I'm only the second manager of the Planetarium.

Really?

Yep. So my predecessor was there for 38 years.

What were Planetariums like 46 years ago?

Well actually very similar to what we have today with one big exception.

Don't tell customers that.

No, it's actually okay because the major difference of course is the idea of the digital Planetarium versus the old starball.

So the old star projectors which everybody tends to think of as being in the Planetarium, you know, the two spheres, one on each side and the stars being projected on the dome that way.

That's one of the biggest differences and it's not even a difference in some Planetariums because some Planetariums still maintain their starballs.

There are some Planetarium folks who absolutely prefer the starball look for the stars in the sky.

No one decided to call them Spaceballs?

No, no.

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