Well, hello everybody. We're going to do a different kind of science mic thing this week.

If this is your first time listening, this podcast is called Ask Science Mike,

and it's a weekly podcast where I answer questions about

science faith and life and we generally have a theme song and a format for

questions per show submitted by the audience via

Ask Science Mike.com or the hashtag

ask Science Mike.

But this week I thought we would just

have a chat.

I'm just going to talk about some things

that are in fact based on questions

but aren't in the usual format.

And here's why my travel schedule is nuts. And I don't want to take breaks

from putting the show out there because I enjoy our time together I enjoy this kind of weekly ritual but even this show

is being recorded at six o'clock in the evening on the Monday that it usually comes out

so here's here's what we're going the Monday that it usually comes out.

So here's what we're going to do.

From now until December, we're going to change the Ask Science Mike schedule.

Ask Science Mike comes out every Monday.

And now Ask Science Mike is going to come out most Mondays, usually in the morning.

And I think that's the only way we can do this.

I just have too many stops on the book tour and this

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