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Neil, the grass-ticing here, your personal astrophysicist.

And it's a Cosmic Query's edition on a subject that I don't know a damn thing about.

Blockchain, cryptocurrency, we've heard about it, we've seen it, and I count myself among the profound ignorant.

I didn't have subject.

So we have to do a show on it.

I have a new coast.

Oh my gosh.

Marsha Balsky, Marsha, welcome to Star Talk.

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm excited to be here.

I am also very ignorant of cryptocurrency.

Oh, okay.

And when people have tried to explain it, I mean, I'm not even good at the basic finance stuff.

So this is like next level.

This is, I'm an I'm an PhD and I haven't gotten my undergrad, but I'm going to try.

Actually, so you're a stand-up comedian, a musician, a writer, and you had a hit song recently that's just completely crazy.

It's completely, it's called a hundred tampons.

We'll get you to explain it later, but with its title song like that, you know, we need, we're going to need an explanation.

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