Hello Tandents listeners this is Sam popping in to let you know that we have a special treat

for you this week our friends over at Crash Course have just launched a brand

new podcast called Crash Course Pods, The Universe. The show is a conversation between

author John Green and astrophysicist Dr. Katie Mack and in it they learn about and

contemplate the whole history of the whole universe from the impossibly short stretches of time that chronicle its beginnings to all the possible ways the universe might end.

And if that sounds like a lot to take in, you know, literally everything.

It is, it's a lot to take in.

But John and Dr. Mack, they make it easy to understand and they approach these really big questions

with a lot of grace and humor.

In their first episode, Dr. Mack walks John through the big bang and the very first micro moments of the universe and some of the ways that the ancient event is still actually connected to us here today. Anyway, it's great. We really like it. We're

really proud of the Crash Course team and we thought you guys would also enjoy the

show. So to make it easy, we put the entire first episode right here. Right after I'm done talking, it'll start, you can listen to it.

And then if you want to keep listening to the rest of John and Dr. Max conversations,

you can get new episodes of the universe by looking up crash course pods, the universe,

everywhere you get your podcasts. That's crash course pods, the universe. Give it a

listen and we hope you enjoy.

So, we live in a universe. Yes.

How big is it? is it?

That's a great question.

It depends on what you mean by universe.

So already, already it's complicated.

Oh no.

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