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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb. And hey, on today's episode, I'm welcoming back to the show, Daniel Weidson, co-host of the new podcast, Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe.

Daniel's been on the show, I believe twice before.

It's always a fun chat talking about, you know, the nature of the universe, human science, and everything in between.

So without further ado, let's just jump right in to this fun conversation.

Hi, Daniel. Welcome back to the show. Hey, thanks so much for having me on. So excited to be here to talk to you.

Absolutely. So when we last spoke, and I guess it's been probably a couple years now, the podcast was Daniel and Jorge

Explained the Universe,

but we're on to a new chapter. Can you tell us a little bit about Daniel and Kelly's

extraordinary universe? Yeah, this new podcast, The Extraordinary Universe, is with an old friend of

mine, Kelly Wiener-Smith. She's a very well-known and highly awarded author of popular science books like

a city on Mars and also an old friend of mine and wife of Zach Weiner-Smith of Saturday

morning breakfast cereal. And together we have this podcast about everything we find amazing and

wonderful and mysterious and delightful in the universe, which is basically

the whole universe from tiny particles to big black holes, to the mysteries of the Big Bang,

to leeches and all sorts of crazy mysteries in biology. We basically just have a lot of fun

gazing in awe at the universe and wondering how it all works.

So would you say this kind of like opens up the concept a bit into more of like the general

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