Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, September 30th, 2019. I'm the host of the show Kara Santa Maria and this week we're going to be speaking with physicist Dr.

Sean Carroll but before we dive into that I want to thank those of you who continue

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support. All right, so let's talk a little bit about the show this week. This was a really exciting one. I got to do this in person.

I got to record with an old friend. He was actually one of my first guests on the podcast, like I think within the first five guests years ago.

Dr. Sean Carroll's a theoretical physicist at Caltech, the California Institute of Technology.

He's also the host of the Mindscape Podcast. You have check it out it's so good and he's the

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