Hey there outside-in listeners. This is Sam. We are coming to you this week with something slightly different

We've got a bunch of more traditional outside-in episodes that we're very excited to be sending your way in the very near future

But frankly that pandemic life has made everything a little more complicated

for us too, and some of them are taking a tiny bit longer to finish than we had originally

planned.

But the team that is outside in contains multitudes. We also

produce a broadcast show every week for the honest to goodness terrestrial radio and

there's some pretty great stuff that gets onto the airwaves too.

So this week we are bringing you a special treat.

Some of our favorite broadcast extras from recent months.

Now for starters, the last episode in our feed was about a kind of scary

possibility the idea that a huge solar storm might lead to catastrophic blackouts

of the world's electricity grids.

Yes, hit me with it.

20 to 40 million Americans without power.

Okay.

For somewhere between, and this is a big range here,

16 days to one or two years.

Two years, Taylor?

I'm not finished.

Now to me, this was actually a pretty hopeful episode, because while it would be a disaster if we didn't plan for this possibility, it's also a pretty easy problem to solve with a little foresight.

It's the equivalent of an extra 50 cents per year, you know, about the cost of a postage stamp.

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