Hey, hey, this is Ali Ward here with allergies. Now a few things up top. If you like allergies, I personally myself would love it.

If you took a second to rate and or review it on iTunes, have you done that yet? It doesn't cost any money, you just do it.

This week we were in the top 20 of Science Podcast, which gets the show seen by so many people. It was nestled between literally four shows about ghost crimes, which is like, okay.

But I think theologist I've gotten to talk to you, deserved to be heard, and I would love to see allergies climb up. And I also totally read all of your reviews. I'm thrilled by them.

Today someone named Smile-ness, there are six S's in that, said the actual best. Yep, the actual best. When things get all jargony, Ali fills in the gaps. Great guests, great topics. And a genuinely lovable host, which by the way I read that while walking into the post office, and I almost started crying or skipping.

So thank you everyone for these when you leave reviews and you rate it. Other people say, hey, what's this thing? No, cosmology part two.

If you listen to the very, very end of part one last week with the just phenomenal Dr. Katie Mac aka Astro Katie, then you learned a lot about particle physics and the large heart on collider,

um, string cheese, black holes, the world's most expensive selfie, and your own aching insignificance, all of ours. If you haven't listened, give it a go.

I also tell you a somewhat embarrassing secret at the very end of the podcast. Maybe I'll do that again. So part two with Dr. Mac means getting right into the nitty-gritty, your questions. And trust me, I had a million.

Um, but Katie and I were late to meet up with friends to see murder on the ornic express. So I could only ask about half an hour's worth of questions.

So I may have to nab her in the future to ask the rest because there's so many good questions.

I have so many questions for you. It's like a rapid fire round. Sure. Yeah. I'm just throwing. I'm here for it. Okay. I'm going to throw a bunch of questions at you. If you want to skip any of them, you can just pass.

First questions I'm going to ask you from the patron page. So people are patrons. We appreciate them very much. They're great people.

They are great people. Fantastic. And we want them to continue and ask lots of questions, which are all very good questions.

Yes, exactly. Yes. You can be a patron for 25 cents an episode. So which is an amazing deal. Is that a good deal?

People should totally do that. I want to make it accessible. Yeah.

If you did feel like tossing a dollar a month to keep this podcast continuing free of obnoxious ads, then get yourself over to patreon.com slash allergies.

I post calls for questions, some behind the scene photos, there's some patron-only videos. And for $25 a month, I'll be your emergency contact, which I hope you can.

Which I hope you never need. And also I may not be reliable. So for a dollar a month, your questions get bumped to the top.

This is a question. I'm just going to say one of the questions, but three different people asked a variation of it. Aaron Hirdman and Alex Intrini.

Did I do that right? I'm sorry. Both wanted to know. Is there a name for the disorientation and panic one feels when considering the vastness of the universe?

Also, do you know how to get past it? There is a name. So, so there are a couple of names. One is cosmic vertigo.

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