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Oh Thank you. I'm Astronomycast Episode 772, our 2025 gift guide. Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos, where we help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know. I'm Fraser Kane. I'm the publisher of the universe today. With me, as always, is Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the director of Cosmo Quest. Hey, Pamela, how are you doing? I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, we're recording this. Who knows how we're doing?

Yeah. Yeah. So in the moment, um, I've been recording a lot today and I can hear my voice starting to go.

So I'm a little raspy now, but I can feel my brain starting to go, so trade.

Yeah.

So I think this is...

I did, like, finished off the patrons question show that I do every month.

So that was like a couple of hours, and then we've already recorded another episode,

and I'm going to do this one, and then I'm going to go, anyway.

Yeah. A lot of using my voice in the last couple of days, and it've already recorded another episode and I'm going to do this one and I'm going to go anyway. Yeah.

A lot of using my voice in the last couple of days and it's definitely feeling like it's had enough.

But that's okay because I will be on vacation-ish and let my voice rest.

You just get to sit on an airplane tomorrow and yeah, you just get to be quiet for, what, 28 hours?

It's something like that.

Yeah, it's ridiculous.

I forget.

Carlo was saying we're like 24 hours of 22 hours of flight time.

Yeah, something like that.

Yeah.

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