Hello, and welcome to the Showtangents. I was kind of ghostly, wasn't it? The lightly

competitive science knowledge showcase. I'm your host, Sam Schultz, and joining me this

week, as always, your friend and my friend, science expert, Sarah Gryly. Hello. You got the

friend of your friend. My friend now. I mean, after what has it been four years of podcasting?

Something like that. Yeah. Or finally friends. I'm keeping you at arm's length, but I think it's

time to bring it in. I saw Fast and the Furious 10, and I learned a lot about family. You know what?

Sarah, you're part of the family now. You went from friends to family so fast. That's true. It's

it's an olive garden in here. Well, I better also introduce our our special guests today. Our

other resident science expert and tangents editorial director assistant. I give you a give you a

approach. We're all getting promoted. Yeah. Yeah. I got promoted to friend then family, and you

got promoted to editorial director. Love that for us. It's a real assistant to book you talk of

already. Do okay. What's going on in the microscopic world these days? Oh, that's great question. Probably

lots. I mean, I think they're they're eating each other. They're traveling around. They're swimming.

Sometimes they're bumping into each other because I can't see. So, you know, a lot of the same old

stuff. They're kind of just like you and me, aren't they? They they really are. Can microscopic

creatures walk? I never really thought I got it. I bet tardigrades can, huh? They waddle. They

sure like they have their little legs and like you'll see them kind of like waddling along like on

leaves and stuff. So I feel like that definitely feels like walking to me. And I feel like it

depending on kind of how big you're going to let your microscopic things be like there's going to

be legs wiggling. So what does that mean? How big you're going to let them be? Well, like if you can

see like how how small does something have to be for you to consider it microscopic or to consider it

a micro by guess like we're we're pretty generous over on journey to the micro cosmos about how big

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