Hello friends and welcome to another Sunday morning ritual that some of you are going to

apparently enjoy your coffee too because that's a review I just got on iTunes

that this is part of a very friendly Hawaiian and his morning ritual on Sundays,

listening to the impossible podcast and I found out about that because he left to review on iTunes.

So I am overwhelmed with joy about that.

But what is this subject today?

Well, I'm on the YouTube channel

of a fellow friend, an astrofoil by the name of Fraser Kane and you can find his channel just by searching. friend and

astrofoil by the name of Fraser Kane and you can find his channel just by searching for that

or universe today he's got a huge following 400,000 followers and that he

has inspired me to kind of up my game as a podcaster, as a producer of content,

and he actually claims, you know, someday in the future he sees me doing this full time as a business and I don't

disagree I might do this full time as a business when I retire and you know who knows

when that'll be we have some professors who are down the hall for me that are in their late 80s.

So you know physicist, experimental physicist, astronomers, we don't really go gracefully

into retirement, you know, playing golf with our friends. Instead, we tend to really try to enjoy as long

as we can the career we're blessed to do, and that's the subject of today's conversation

on Fraser's podcast.

We talked about the controversy still brewing and roiling about whether or not the Big Bang happen.

We talked about inflation and alternatives to inflation in the early universe's cosmogenic phase.

No necessarily photogenic but cosmogenic and we also talked about what he calls my great moderation

He thinks I've mellowed out and become more ambivalent and kind of

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